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PART FIRST. 





OF 



Washington County, Vt. 

1783-1889. 



EDITED BY WILLIAM ADAMS. 



COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY 

HAMILTON CHILD, 

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AUTHOR OF WAYNE, ONTARIO, SENECA, CAYUGA, TOMPKINS, ONONDAGA, MADI- 
SON, CORTLAND, CHEMUNG, SCHUYLER, STEUBEN, ORLEANS, HERKIMER, 
CHENANGO, NIAGARA, ONEIDA, MONROE, GENESEE, SARATOGA, MONTGOM- 
ERY AND FULTON, ALBANY AND SCHENECTADY, RENSSELAER, WASH- 
INGTON, WYOMING. LEWIS, COLUMBIA, SULLIVAN, SCHOHARIE, 
OTSEGO, ULSTER, CHAUTAUQUA, ST. LAWRENCE, BROOME AND 
TIOGA, CATTARA(;US, ALLEGANY, AND OTHER COUNTY DI- 
RECTORIES IN NEW YORK STATE, AND ERIE AND CRAW- 
FORD COUNTIES, THE BRADFORD OIL DISTRICT IN 
PENNSYLVANIA, BENNINGTON, RUTLAND, ADDI- 
SON, CHITTENDEN, FRANKLIN AND GRAND 
ISLE, LAMOILLE AND ORLEANS,WINDSOR, 
WINDHAM, CALEDONIA AND ESSEX, 
AND ORANGE COUNTIES IN 
VERMONT, BERKSHIRE 
COUNTY, MASS., AND 
CHESHIRE AND 
GRAFTON COUN- 
TIES, X. H. 



PERMANENT OFFICE, 



SYRACUSE, N. Y. 



ESTABLISHED 1866. 



" He that hath much to do, will do something wrong, and of that wrong must suffer the 
consequences ; and if it were possible that he should always act rightly, yet when such num- 
bers are to judge of his conduct, the bad will censure and obstruct him by malevolence, and 
the good sometimes by mistake!" — Samuel Johnson. 



SYRACUSE, N. Y.: 

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL COMPANY, PRINTERS AND BINDERS. 

April, 1889. 



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Explanation. — Find the Year and observe the Letter above it; then look for ths Month, and in aline 
with It find the Letter of the Year; above the Letter find the Day and the figures on the left, in the same 
line, are the days of the same name in the month. 

Leap Years have two letters; the first is used till the end of F'ebruary, the second during the remainder 
of the year. 



INTRODUCTION 



In presenting to the public the " Gazetteer and Business Directory of 
Washington County," we desire to return our sincere thanks to all who 
have kindly aided in obtaining the information it contains, and thus rendered 
it possible to present it in the brief space of time in which it is essential 
such work should be completed. Especially are our thanks due to the 
editors and managers of the local papers for the uniform kindness they have 
evinced in calling public attention to our efforts, and for essential aid in 
furnishing material for the work. We have also found valuable aid in the 
writings of the various authors in Miss Hemen way's " Historical Magazine"; 
"Thompson's Vermont"; " Deming's Vermont Officers"; Hall's "Early 
History of Vermont "; the " Documentary History of New York "; in the 
reports of the Adjutant-General and State School Superintendent; F. W. 
Beers & Go's " Atlas of Washington County "; and also the geological 
reports of Hitchcock & Hagar. Our thanks are also due to the clergy 
throughout the county, and to Hon. E. P. Walton, Charles H. Heath, Esq., 
C. De T. Bancroft, and Hon. William A. Huse, of Montpelier ; Mr. J. K. 
Egerton, of Northfield ; Hon. William Chapin, of Middlesex, and to many 
others throughout the county, who have rendered valuable aid. 

That errors have occurred in so great a number of names, dates, and 
statements, is probable, and that names have been omitted which should 
have been inserted, is quite certain. VVe can only say that we have exer- 
cised more than ordinary diligence and care in this difficult and complicated 
feature of book-making. Of such as feel aggrieved in consequence of errors 
or omissions, we beg pardon, and ask the indulgence of the reader in noting 
such as have been observed in the subsequent reading of the proofs, and 
which are found corrected in the Errata at the close of this volume. 



INTRODUCTION. 



It was designed to give a brief account of all the churches and other 
societies in the county, but owing in some cases to the negligence of those 
who were able to give the necessary information, and in others to the ina- 
bility of any one to do so, we have been obliged to omit special notices of a 
few. 

We would suggest that our patrons observe and become familiar with the 
explanations at the commencement of the directory, on page 3, part 2d. The 
names it embraces, and the information connected therewith, were obtained 
by actual canvass, and are as correct and reliable as the judgment of those 
from whom they were solicited renders possible. Each agent is furnished 
with a map of the town he is expected to canvass, and he is required to pass 
over every road and call at every dwelling and place of business in the town 
in order to obtain the facts from the individuals concerned whenever possible. 

The margins have been left broad to enable any one to note changes 
opposite the names. 

The map inside the back cover will be found, in connection with the direc- 
tory, very valuable. 

As the whole county is in north latitude, and longitude is reckoned east 
from Washington, the words north and east are omitted when giving the lat- 
itude and longitude of the various towns. 

We take this occasion to express the hope that the information found in 
the book will not prove devoid of interest and value, though we are fully 
conscious that the brief description of the county the scope of the work 
enables us to give, is by no means an exhaustive one, and can only hope 
that it may prove an aid to future historians, who will be better able to do 
full justice to the subject. 

While thanking our patrons and friends generally, for the cordiality with 
which our efforts have been seconded, we leave the work to secure that favor 
which earnest endeavor ever wins from a discriminating public, hoping they 
will bear in mind, should errors be noted, that " he who expects a perfect 
work to see, expects what ne'er was, is, nor yet shall be." 

HAMILTON CHILD. 



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TrTE beginning of the fifteenth century was an era of great changes in 
all Europe. It was the end of the darkness of the middle ages, the re- 
vival of learning and science, and the birth of many useful arts, pre- 
eminent among which was that of printing. The invention of the mariner's 
compass in the preceding century had enabled sailors to go out of sight of 
land with impunity, and a thirst for exploring unknown seas was awakened ; 
long voyages were undertaken and important discoveries made. 

It was during this age of mental activity and growing knowledge that 
Christopher Columbus undertook the most memorable enterprise that human 
genius ever planned, and which renders his name immortal. On the third 
of August, 1492, a little before sunrise, he set sail from Spain for the dis- 
covery of the western world. A little before midnight, on the thirteenth of 
October, he descried a light on the island of San Salvador. From this mo- 
ment properly dites the history of America. From this time forward its 
progress bears date from a definite period, and is not shrouded in darkness 
nor the mists of tradition. 

Two years after the discoveries of Columbus became known in England, 
Henry VII. engaged John Cabot, a Venetian merchant, to sail in quest of 
discoveries in the West, and this navigator, in 1497, reached the coast of Lab- 
rador, which he named Prima- Vista, thus making, probably, the first visit to 
the coast by Europeans since the day of the Norsemen. This voyage was 
succeeded by others under Sebastian Cabot, son of John, in 1498, and by 
Caspar Cortreal, from Portugal, to whom the discovery of the St. Lawrence 
some authorities claim is due. This adventurer returned to Lisbon in Oc- 
tober of that year, laden with timber and slaves, seized from among the na- 
tives of the coasts he had visited. On a second voyage he perished at sea. 



WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



In 1504 the French first attempted a voyage to the New World ; and in that 
year some Basque and Breton fishermen began to ply their calling on the 
banks of Newfoundland and along its adjacent coasts. From these the island 
of Cape Breton derived its name. In 1525 Stefano Gomez sailed from 
Spain and is supposed to have entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and to have 
traded upon its shores. A Castilian tradition relates that, finding neither 
gold nor silver upon the coasts, nor anything that conveyed to these sordid 
adventurers an idea of wealth of any kind, they frequently exclaimed " aca- 
nada," signifying ''here is nothing," and that the natives caught up the sound, 
which was repeated by them when other Europeans arrived, and thus gave 
origin to the designation of Canada. 

In 1534 Francis I,, king of France, listening to the urgent advice of 
Philip Chabot, admiral of France, who partrayed to him in glowing colors 
the riches and growing power of Spain, derived from her trans-Atlantic colo- 
nies, dispatched Jacques Cartier, an able navigator of St. Malo, who sailed 
April 20, 1534, with two ships of only sixty tons each and one hundred and 
twenty men, reaching Newfoundland in May. After coasting along for some- 
time, without knowing it was an island, he at length passed the straits of Bell- 
isle and traversed the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Having spent part of the sum- 
mer on these coasts, he sailed on the 25th of July, highly pleased with the 
hospitable reception he had received from the natives, with whom he traded 
for furs and provisions. His report induced the French king to attempt a 
colony in the newly-discovered regions; and in May, 1535, Cartier sailed 
with three small ships, with a numerous company of adventurers, and arrived 
on the coast of Newfoundland much scattered and weakened by a disastrous 
storm of July 26th. Here they took in wood and water, and proceeded to ex- 
plore the gulf, but were overtaken, August ist, by a storm which obliged them 
to seek a port, difficult of access, but with a safe anchorage, near the mouth of 
the " Great River." They left this harbor on the 7th, and on the loth came to 
a "gulf filled with numerous islands." Cartier gave to this gulf the name of 
St. Lawrence, having discovered it on that saint's festival day. Proceeding 
on this voyage he explored both shores of the St. Lawrence. Pleased with 
the friendly disposition of the natives, and the comfortable prospects of a 
winter's sojourn, Cartier moved his vessels where a little river flowed into a 
"goodly and pleasant sound," which stream he named St. Croix, near the 
Indian village of Stacona, the site of the present city of Quebec. Subse- 
quently, October 2d, he ascended the river to a populous Indian village 
called Hochelaga, on the site of which the city of Montreal now stands. Here 
Donnacona, an Algonquin chief, conducted Cartier to the summit of a mount- 
ain about two miles from the village, and to which he gave the name of 
Mount Royal, or Montreal, and showed him, " in that bright October sun," 
the country for many miles south and east, and told him of great rivers and 
inland seas, and of smaller rivers and lakes penetrating a beautiful country 
belonging to the war-like Iroquois. This beautiful country, which the chief 



EARLY EXPLORATIONS. 



called Iroquoisia, included the present state of Vermont. Thus, to Jacques 
Cartier, a French navigator and explorer, is due the honor of having been the 
first European to gaze upon the Green Mountains of Vermont. In May 
Cartier returned to France, taking with him the Indian chief Donnacona, and 
two other prominent natives of the village, as prisoners; and they, who had 
treated the Frenchmen with such uniform kindness, died in a strange land, 
exiled from their homes and friends. 

During each succeeding year, for sometime after, expeditions were sent 
out to the newly-discovered river; but misfortunes attended them all, and no 
efficient attempt at colonizing the country was made until 1608, when De 
Monts, a Calvinist, who had obtained from the king the freedom of religious 
faith for himself and followers in America, though under the engagement that 
the Catholic worship should be established among the natives, after several 
perilous voyages and much opposition, dispatched Champlain and Pontgrave, 
two experienced adventurers, to establish the fur trade and begin a settlement. 
Samuel Champlain reached Quebec, where Cartier had spent the winter 
nearly three-quarters of a century before, on the third of July. On the i8th 
of the following April, 1609, in company with two other Frenchmen and a 
number of the natives, he started up the St. Lawrence, and, after a time, 
"turned southward up a tributary " and soon entered upon the lake which 
perpetuates his «ame. Thus came the first European upon the territory now- 
included within the limits of Vermont. 

The early explorations and discoveries we have mentioned led to much 
litigation and controversy on the part of the several European countries under 
whose auspices they had been conducted. The English, on the grounds of 
the discoveries of the Cabots, claimed all the country from Labrador to 
Florida, to which they gave the name Virginia ; but their explorations were 
confined principally to the coast between Maine and Albemarle Sound. The 
French confined their explorations principally to the country bordering on 
the St. Lawrence and its tributaries, which they named New France; while 
the Dutch, by the discoveries of Henry Hudson, afterwards laid claim to the 
country between Cape Cod and the Delaware river, which they called New 
Netherlands. 

Attempts at colonization were made by England during the reign of Eliza- 
beth, but they proved abortive, and it was not until the Tudor dynasty had 
passed away and several years of the reign of James I., the first of the 
Stuarts, had elapsed, before the Anglo-Saxon gained any permanent foothold. 
Stimulated by the spirit of rivalry with France, England pushed her explora- 
tions and discoveries, while France, from her first colony on the St. Lawrence, 
explored the vast region from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and 
established among the savages missions and trading posts, spreading from 
Canada through the West, and finally through New York and Vermont. 

The rivalries and jealousies that had made France and England so long 
enemies in the Old World were transplanted to the New Continent. The 



S WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



French made allies of the savages and waged war against the English, and 
years of bloodshed followed. The first of these hostilities, which are now 
known as the old French and Indian wars, began with William's accession to 
the throne of England, in 1690, and was terminated in the peace of Ryswic, 
in 1697. Queen Anne's war, so-called, came next, commencing in 1702, and 
terminating in the peace of Utrecht, in 17 13. The third controversy was 
declared by George II., in 1744. and continued until the preliminaries of 
•peace were signed at Aux-la-Chapelle, in 1748. The final great conflict was 
declared by Great Britain, in 1756, and terminated in the capture of Montreal, 
in September, 1760, when the whole of New France, or Canada, was sur- 
rendered to Great Britain. 

During the progress of these wars the territory of Vermont was often 
crossed and recrossed by portions of both armies, and a few military settle- 
ments sprang up. The first of these, however, was even before the wars, in 
1665, on Isle La Motte, where a fort was erected by Captain De La Motte, 
under command of M. De Tracy, governor of New France. In 1690 Capt. 
Jacobus De Narm, with a party from Albany, N. Y., established an outpost 
in the present town of Addison, at Chimney Point, where he erected a small 
stone fort. The first permanent settlement, however, and the first of any 
Icind by Anglo-Saxons, was begun within the limits of Windham county, in 
the town of Brattleboro, in 1724, when Fort Dummer was built. For six or 
seven years the garrison of this fort were the only white inhabitants. In 
1730 the French built a fort at Chimney Point, and a considerable popula- 
tion settled in the vicinity. In 1739 ^ f*^^ persons settled in Westmmster, 
and about the same time a small French settlement was begun at Alburgh, on 
what is now called Windmill Point, but was soon abandoned. The colony at 
Westminster increased but slowly, and in 1754 the whole population, alarmed 
by the Indian attack upon Charlestown, N. H., deserted their homes. Forts 
were erected and small settlements were commenced in several other places, 
but fear of the Indians prevented any large emigration till after the last 
French war, when, the Province of Canada being then ceded to Great Brit- 
ain, the fear of hostile incursions subsided and the population rapidly in- 
creased. 

During these wars, also, grants of land lying within the present limits of 
the state had been made by the Dutch at Albany, by the French, and by the 
colonies of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York, and each claimed 
jurisdiction over them. All of these claims, except that of New York, how- 
ever, were relinquished without much controversy, of which more will be said 
on another page. But at the close of hostilities the lands were sought so 
eagerly by adventurers, speculators, and settlers, that in a single year, sub- 
sequent to 1760, Gov. Wentworth, of New Hampshire, granted in the name 
of King George III. not less than sixty townships of six miles square, and 
two years later the number of such grants amounted to 138. The territory 
now began to be known by the name of the New Hampshire Grants, and 



INDEPENDENCE OF VERMONT. 



the number of actual settlers soon became quite large. The affairs of these 
settlers were managed by committees in the several towns, who met in 
general convention, when occasion required, to provide for their common 
defense and welfare. The decrees of these conventions were regarded as 
law, and violations of them were punished with extreme severity. While the 
Revolutionary war was in progress the land title controversy was in a degree 
suspended ; but soon after the war broke out it became apparent that the 
settlers of the grants needed some better organization than was possible by 
means of committees and conventions. Accordingly, in 1776, a convention 
was held at Dorset, and an address to Congress prepared, declaring the un- 
willingness of the settlers to be regarded as subjects of New York. This was 
not favorably received by Congress, whereupon the more resolute of the 
people determined to assume the powers of an independent state, " and risk 
the consequences." Another convention was held at Dorset, in June, and 
met again by adjournment in September, when such measures were taken 
that, at a convention held in Westminster, it was decided, on the i6th of 
January, 1777, that the following declaration should be adopted: — 

"This convention, whose members are duly chosen by the free voice of 
their constituents, in the several towns on the New Hampshire Grants, in 
public meeting assembled, in our names, and in behalf of our constituents, 
do hereby proclaim and publicly declare, that the district of territory compre- 
hending and usually known by the name and description of the New Hamp- 
shire Grants, of right ought to be, and is hereby declared forever hereafter 
tu be considered as a free and independent jurisdiction or State, by the name 
and forever hereafter to be called, known and distinguished by the name of 
New Connecticut, alias Vermont ; and that the inhabitants that at present 
are or may hereafter become residents, by procreation or emigration, within 
said territory, shall be entitled to the same privileges, immunities and enfran- 
chisements as are allowed ; and on such conditions, and in the same manner, 
as the present inhabitants, in future, shall or may enjoy; which are and for- 
ever shall be, such privileges and nnmunities to the free citizens and denizens 
as are, or, at any time hereafter, may be allowed, to any such inhabitants, or 
any of the free and independent States of America; and that such privileges 
and immunities shall be regulated in a bill of rights and by a form of govern- 
ment, to be established at the next adjourned session of this convention." 

On the 4th of June the committee met at Windsor, there being present 
seventy-two members, representing fifty towns. A committee was appointed 
to prepare a draft of a constitution for the new state, and recommended to 
the town to choose delegates on the 23d of June, to meet at Windsor, July 
2d, to discuss and adopt said constitution. The newly-elected convention met 
July 2d, and continued in session six days. It received from the committee 
appointed for that purpose a copy of a constitution very similar to that of 
Pennsylvania, which was read and discussed. Before it was wholly adopted, 
however, alarming news of the British army in the western part of the state 
was received. It was proposed at first to adjourn and leave the work in 
hand unfinished ; but this was providentially prevented by the sudden occur- 
rence of a thunder-storm. Some who were less agitated by the news from ^ 



WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



the west side of the state suggested the great importance of finishing the 
work in hand. This advice was followed, the constitution adopted, an elec- 
tion ordered, and a Council of Safety appointed to manage the affairs of the 
state until the government should go into operation under the constitu- 
tion. 

This independence Vermont pursued, asking no favors, enjoying no bene- 
fits of the Union, and sharing none of its burdens, until March 4, 1791, 
when she was admitted as one of the Federal states, with the full rights and 
immunities belonging thereto. Thus Vermont exists to-day — so may she 
always exist I 

The constitution has remained without very material alterations, the chief 
being the substitution of a Senate of thirty members, appointed to the sev- 
eral counties, according to population, and chosen by a plurality of the free- 
men of the several counties, in lieu of a council of twelve members chosen 
by a plurality of the voters of the state at large ; and in 1870 a change from 
annual to biennial state elections and meetings of the legislature. The frame 
of government now provides for, ist, The executive, the chief officers of 
which are the governor, lieutenant-governor, and treasurer, all of whom are 
elected biennially, by the freemen of the state. 2d, A Senate of thirty 
members elected as before mentioned. 3d, A House of Representatives, 
consisting of one member from each organized town, elected by the freemen 
thereof. 4th, A judiciary, the officers of which are elective, the judges of 
the Supreme Court (who are also chancellors) by the Senate and the House 
of Representatives, in joint assembly, the assistant judges of county courts 
(a judge of the Supreme Court presides in each County Court), judges of the 
probate courts, sheriffs, state's attorneys, and high bailiffs by the freemen of 
the respective counties ; and justices of the peace by the freemen of the sev- 
eral towns. The state election is held in September, biennially, and a ma- 
jority of all the votes cast is required to elect every officer, except senators 
and other county officers, including in the latter justices of the peace elected 
by the several towns ; but in March the freemen of each town meet for the 
transaction of public business of the town, and the election of town officers. 
Every term of town office is limited to one year, or until others are elected, 
and all town elections are therefore annual. The governor's power of ap- 
pointment is very limited, embracing, ordinarily, his secretary and military 
staff only ; but he has power to fill any office created by law, where the ap- 
pointment is not fixed by the constitution or statute, a case which has rarely 
occurred ; and also to fill any vacancy occurring by deatli, or otherwise, un- 
til the office can be filled in the manner required by constitution or laws. 
By recent statutes the governor may nominate, subject to approval by the 
Senate, various officers. The heads of the various state bureaus (except 
treasurer) and generals of divisions and brigades are elected by the Senate 
and House in joint assembly, — the former officers biennially and generals 
when vacancies occur. The General Assembly meets in the even years, on 



TOPOGRAPHY. 



the first Wednesday of October. The first ofiicials elected, in 1788, were as 
follows : Thomas Chittenden, governor ; Joseph Marsh, lieutenant-gov- 
ernor ; Ira Allen, treasurer ; T. Chandler, secretary of state ; Nathan Clarke, 
speaker ; and Benjamin Baldwin, clerk. 

The division of the state into counties, and the formation of Washington 
county, is described in the " Bench and Bar," following the roster of offi- 
cers in the civil war. 

TOPOGRAPHY. 

The surface of Washington county is varied by high mountains^ gentle hill 
slopes, and charming picturesque valleys. Camel's Hump lies on the western 
border, and rears its rocky crest more than 4,000 feet above the sea — the 
highest except Mt. Mansfield in the state. It is the best defined and most 
conspicuous peak of the Green Mountains. It is conspicuous from most parts 
of the county and the whole valley of Lake Champlain. It is accessible from 
Huntington, but is usually ascended from Duxbury. The views obtained at 
the summit in extent and "scenic beauty " are unsurpassed, and amply re- 
ward the tourist for his labor in making the ascension. 

Other heights from which magnificent views are obtained are Mt. Hun- 
ger, 3,648 feet above " Old Ocean," on the line between Middlesex and 
Worcester, and Bald Mountain in Northfield, 2,636 feet high. The Wi- 
nooski, or Onion, river and its numerous branches contribute their utility and 
beauty to the territory, and the eastern part of the county is adorned with 
numerous gems of lakes and ponds. The town of Woodbury alone has twenty- 
three. The Winooski, the longest river in the state, rises in Cabot, receives 
an important tributary in Marshfield, flows in a southwesterly direction to 
Montpelier, and thence nearly northwest, which course it continues until it 
discharges its waters into Lake Champlain about five miles north of Burling- 
ton, and drains an area of about one thousand square miles. Its principal 
tributaries in Washington county are Kingsbury Branch, Stevens Branch, 
Dog river, Worcester or North Branch, Mad river, and Waterbury river. 

There is indubitable evidence that the valley of the Winooski, from Mont- 
pelier to Bolton falls, was once the bed of a lake all along this valley between 
the places named. The rapid mountain streams would deposite a sediment 
in the still waters of this lake, which would settle and form terraces, as at 
Waterbury village. Mr. C. N. Arms informed the writer that in digging his 
well in that village he encountered a birch tree about twenty inches-in diame- 
ter and well preserved, nineteen feet below the surface of the ground. The 
question is, how came it there? The region of Bolton falls "is an excava- 
tion through the back-bone of the Green Mountains," says Professor Hagar. 
In Zadoc Thompson's Gazetteer of Vermont, Part III., page 197, is the fol- 
lowing description : " The channels which have been worn in the rocks by 
this river are a great curiosity. One of these between Middlesex and More- 



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town is about eighty rods in length, sixty feet in width, and thirty feet deep ; 
the rock appearing Uke a wall on each side. Another of these channels is be- 
tween Waterbury and Duxbury, four miles below Waterbury village. Its 
depth is about one hundred feet, and the rocks on the south side are perpen- 
dicular. The rocks have here fallen into the chasm and form a natural bridge, 
which is crossed by footmen at low water. Among the rocks here are also 
several curious caverns. Holes also of cylindrical form are here worn into the 
solid rocks several feet in depth. There is abundant evidence existing that 
above this place a large pond formerly existed, whose waters were drained off 
by the wearing down of the channel." 

GEOLOGICAL. 

The science of geology is ever an interesting study, and as related to this 
county it is exceedingly so ; for here the record of the changes, or " foot- 
prints," that time has left in the succeeding ages since the earth was created, 
are numerous and well developed. Before mentioning the several rocks that 
enter into the formation of the territory, however, it may not be considered 
superfluous to briefly note the fundemental principles of the science. 

Among men of science it has become the common, if not prevailing, opin- 
ion that in the beginning all the elements with which we meet were in an 
ethereal or gaseous state — that they slowly condensed, existing for ages as a 
heated fluid, by degrees becoming more consistent — that the whole earth was 
once an immense ball of fiery matter — that, in the course of time, it was ren- 
dered very compact, and at last became crusted over, as the process of cool- 
ing gradually advanced, and that its interior is still in a molten condition". 
Thus, if the view suggested be correct, the entire planet in its earlier phases, 
as well as the larger part now beneath and within its solid crust, was a mass 
of molten fire, and is known to geologists as elementary or 77iolien. Following 
this came another age, in which the molten mass began to cool and a crust 
\.o{ox\x\^ cs}\tdi\hQ igneous period. Contemporaneous with the beginning of 
the igneous period came another epoch. The crust thus formed would natur- 
ally become surrounded by an atmosphere heavily charged with minerals in 
a gaseous or vaporous condition. As the cooling advanced this etherealized 
matter would condense and seek a lower level, thus coating the earth with an- 
other rock. This is named the vaporous period. At last, however, another 
age was ushered in, one altogether different from those that had preceded it. 
The moist vapor which must of necessity have pervaded the atmosphere 
began to condense and settle, gathering into the hollows and crevices of the 
rocks, until nearly the whole surface of the earth was covered with water. 
This is called the aqueous period. As these waters began to recede and the 
"firmament to appear," the long winter that intervened, while the sun was 
obscured by the heavy clouds, would cover the earth with mighty ice-floes 
and glaciers, forming a drift or glacial period. 



CLIMATE, SOIL, AND STAPLE PRODUCTIONS. 



A great difference also exists in the consolidation and structure of the 
rocks thus formed. The very newest consist of unconsolidated gravel, sand, 
and clay, forming alluvium. A little farther down we come to the tertiary 
strata, where are some hardened rocks and others more or less soft. Next 
below the tertiary is found thick deposits, mostly consolidated, but showing a 
mechanical structure along with the crystalline arrangements of the ingredi- 
ents. These are called secondary and transition. Lowest of all are found 
rocks having a decidedly crystalline structure, looking as if the different min- 
erals of which they are composed crowded hard upon one another. These 
rocks are called 7netamorphic, /lypozoic, and azoic. 

The principal portion of the rocks of this territory is azoic, and known as 
talcose schist and calciferous mica schist, though there are several beds and 
veins of other formations. Talcose schist proper consists of quartz and talc, 
though it has associated with it, as integral parts of its formation, clay slate., 
gneiss, quartz rock, sandstones, and conglomerates, limestones and dolomites. 
Talcose schist nndexWts a large portion of the towns of Worcester, Middlesex, 
Montpelier, Duxbury, Waterbury. Moretown, Fayston, VVaitsfield, Northfield, 
Roxbury, Warren, and the west part of Berlin, Barre, and East Montpelier. 
Calciferous mica schist underlies a large part of the eastern portion of the 
county. Granite abounds in Berlin, Barre, Plainfield, Marshfield, Cabot, and 
Woodbury. A broad belt o( clay slate extends through Roxbury, Northfield, 
Berhn, Montpelier, East Montpelier, Calais, and Woodbury. Be^ilsoi serpen- 
tine and steatite exist in Roxbury. Warren, Waitsfield, Moretown, North- 
field, Duxbury, and Waterbury, also beds of copper and iron pyrites in 
Waterbury. 

CLIMATE, SOIL, AND STAPLE PRODUCTIONS. 

Washington county is fortunate in having a clear and bracing atmosphere, 
and is classed as one of the healthiest locations in the state. But like other 
northern locations, it is subject to extremes of heat and cold. Snow suffi- 
cient for sleighing frequently falls in November and remains until April. We 
append from information furnished by Mr. B. I. Wheeler, of East Montpelier, 
who has made accurate measurement of the snow-fall for more than forty 
years, the following reliable statistics. The first record is for the winter of 
1846, when the snow fall was nine feet. \x\ the winter of 1887 it was twelve 
feet two inches. The least depth of any year was in 1877, when it was five 
feet eight inches. The greatest depth was in 1873, twelve feet seven inches. 
We also have Mr. Wheeler's report of the temperature at East Montpelier 
for thirty-seven years. The warmest weather was August 2t, 1884, when the 
thermometer registered 10 1" above zero. The coldest weather was Decem- 
ber 25, 1872, January 6, 1884, and January 19, 1887, wlien it registered 40" 
below zero. 

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it is Strong and fertile. The intervales along the streams are the best lands 
in the county. An idea of the resources of the county is obtained from the 
following s:atistics shown by the census report of 1880. The county then 
had 3,229 farms, valued at $9,048,622, while its total debt, bonded and 
floating, was $261,030. These farms contained live stock valued at $1,320,- 
474, and produced farm products valued at $[,819,724. A very good show- 
ing for a small county containing a population of only 25,404 souls. 

MANUFACTURES. 

Washington county is not what may be called a manufacturing district ; 
yet, while it has many fine water-powers that are utilized, it has many more 
that await the hand of enterprise. As sketches of the resources and history 
of manufactories are generally given in the towns wherein they are located, we 
will dismiss the subject at this point with the following statistics from the 
census report of 1880. There were then 271 manufacturing establishments 
in the county, representing an invested capital of $1,245,997, and giving 
employment to 865 hands, to whom was paid $271,217 in wages. The 
total value of the material used was $1,243,992, and the total amount of 
manufactured goods was $3,920,210. 

THE POOR. 

Those who from age, infirmity, or otherwise become unable to support 
themselves, and are so unfortunate as to be obliged to rely upon public char- 
ity for support, are cared for, in conformity with the laws of the state, by the 
inhabitants of the town wherein they reside. 

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 

Just as far back as we have any history, or tradition, the VVinooski river 
was an Indian highway, from Lake Champlain to Montpelier, over which 
these "Lords of the forests" traveled to meet at their feasts, sent their 
ministers plenipotentiary to the august assemblies of their Confederation, or 
perhaps sent their braves to chastise some recreant tribe. From Montpelier 
there were, as there is to-day, two routes to the Connecticut river : one by 
way of Dog river, dver the height of land at Roxbury. and down the White 
river to the Connecticut at White River Junction ; the other led the way by 
the head waters of the Winooski, and down Wells river, to its confluence 
with the Connecticut at the village of the same name. Their pale faced 
brothers, with all their boasted knowledge of the " fine art " of topographical 
engineering, have been compelled to imitate the " untutored savage " by 
locating their thoroughfares on precisely these old routes. 

The Winooski turnpike, chartered November 7, 1805, and the Paine turn- 
pike were among the first enterprises of public interest in Washington 



INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 



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county. These, in connection with others, formed a stage line and mail route 
extending from Boston by way of Burlington to Montreal. Later Mr. Ira 
Day, of Barre, made an improvement of the route by building a turnpike bv 
way of the celebrated '• Gulf route." This line was traversed by Cottrill and 
Day's famous stage lines, with their elegant coaches drawn by six and eight 
superb horses. At one time they carried the British mail to Montreal, which 
then came by way of Boston. A British soldier accompanied each mail, 
armed with a musket. These lines flourished until the advent of the railroads. 

The Vermont Central Railroad Company, subsequently changed to the 
Central Vermont Railroad Company, was incorporated November i, 18.^3, 
for the purpose, and with the right, of building a railroad " from some point 
on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, up the valley of Onion river and 
extending to a point on Connecticut river most convenient to meet a railroad 
either from Concord, N. H., or Fitchburgh, Mass." The route decided upon 
was up the Connecticut river from Windsor to the mouth of White river, 
thence up that stream to the source of its third branch, passing through the 
towns of Randolph and Braintree, in Orange county, thence reaching the 
summit in Roxbury, and passing doAm the valley of Dog river, it enters the 
Winooski valley near Montp^lier, and thence, continuing in the Winooski 
valley, its terminus is reached at Burlington, a distance of 1 17 miles. Charles 
Paine was chosen president of the company, and ground was broken at 
Windsor, December 15, 1845, ^"^ ^^'^^ farm formerly occupied by Judge Elijah 
Paine, father of Charles Paine, where the latter was born, the first ground 
broken for a railroad in Vermont. Regular passenger trains first passed over 
the road from White River Junction to Bethel, a distance of twenty-seven 
miles, the first train, and the first regular passenger train in Vermont, run- 
ning over the route Monday, June 26, 1848. June 20, 1849, the road was 
opened through for business. The company also operate a branch from 
Montpelier to Williamstown, in Orange county, which it is expected will 
eventually connect with the main road in Royalton. The following are the 
present officers of the Central Vermont Company, with their offices at St. Al- 
bans : Hon. J. G. Smith, president ; J. W. Hobart, general manager; J. M. 
Foss, general superintendent ; I. B. Futvoi, superintendent Northern divis- 
ion ; Jesse Burdett, superintendent Rutland division ; E. A. Chittenden, 
superintendent of local freight traffic ; S. W. Cummings, general passenger 
agent. 

Granite Railroad Company was chartered April 9, 1888. It is proposed to 
extend from Barre village to the granite quarries, and is to be operated by the 
Central Vermont Railroad Company. 

In 1849 a charter was obtained for a railroad from Montpelier to Con- 
necticut river, in the town of Newbury, under the name of the " Montpelier 
& Connecticut River R. R. Co." Prominent names in the act of incorpora- 
tion were R. R. Keith, J. A. Wing, I. N. Hall, Joseph Potts, Daniel Baldwin, 
O. H. Smith, Jacob Kent, Jr., and others. A preliminary survey, called 



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the " Kennedy survey," was made in 1850, with the maxioiunn grade not to 
exceed sixty-five feet to the mile. To follow this grade would have ruined 
all the incorporators and their friends, and the charter failed by default. In 
1S67 another charter was obtained under the natne of the " Montpelier & 
Wells River Railroad Co." Prominent men named in this act of incorpora- 
tion were Roderick Richardson, J. R. Langdon, E. P. Walton, David Bald- 
win, of Montpelier, I. N. Hall and J. R. Darling, of Groton, and including 
names from the towns of East Montpelier, Plainfield, Marshfield, Cabot, Rye- 
gate, and Newbury. The incorporators met and partially organized in 1868, 
completing the organization in 1869 and 1870. The organization when com- 
pleted was as follows : Directors, Roderick Richardson, I. N. Hall, C. H. 
Heath, George B Fesenden, J. G. French, Jacob Smith, Joel Foster, Jr., 
George Wooster, and I. W. Brown. Roderick Richardson was elected presi- 
dent. In 1872 I. N. Hall was elected president, and a change in four of the 
directors was made. N. C. Munson built the road by contract. The first 
through mail train passed over the line November 30, 1873. The company 
became embarrassed, and January i, 1877, the stockholders surrendered the 
road and the franchise to the bondholders with the conditions that they (the 
bondholders) pay the debts of the company, and it was so arranged. The 
bondholders, organizing as the " Montpelier & Wells River railroad," 
elected for their first directors D. R. Sortwell, of Cambridge, Mass.; S. S. 
Thompson, Lyndonville, Vt.; W. H. H. Bingham, Stowe. Vt.; E. C. Sher- 
man, Boston; and Joel Foster, Montpelier, Vt. Daniel R. Sortwell was 
elected president, and Joel Foster, treasurer and clerk. The present officers 
of the company are D. R. Sortwell, president ; S. S. Thompson, vice-pres- 
ident ; Joel Foster, secretary and treasurer ; W. A. Stowell, general superin- 
tendent ; F. W. Morse, cashier and general freight and passenger agent. 

The Birre Railroad Company was chartered .^pril 9, 1888. The road 
extends from Barre village to the granite quarries. It is already nearly com- 
pleted and is hauling granite down the mountain. It connects at Barre with 
the Barre Branch railroad. 

The Barre Branch railroad, chartered July 6, 1888, extends from the 
track of the Montpelier & Wells River railroad near " The Coffee House " 
to the Barre railroad at Barre, and is operated by the " Montpelier & Wells 
River railroad." 

NEWSPAPERS. 

The following sketch of the newspaper enterprises that have been estab- 
lished in the county are arranged by towns, in alphabetical order, the names 
of live papers being in small capitals. 

Barre. — The first newspaper printed in Barre was The Barre limes, a 
spicy monthly, literary in character, published during tie year 1871, by Still- 
man Wood, Esq. 



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The Barre Herald had a short existence of about nine months, in 1879. 
E. N. Hyzer, pubhsher. 

The Barre Enterprise was first issued December 11, 1880, by Lewis P. 
Thayer, of Randolph, who was its editor until W. F. Scott came into pos- 
session of it in the spring of 1881. Mr. Scott issued his first number of the 
paper April 16, 1881, and still continues its pubhcation every week. It is a 
bright, newsy, eight-page, six column paper, has a liberal patronage, and looks 
well after the interests of the thriving village of Barre and vicinity. 

Montpelier. — The Vermont Watchman. — The Vermont Precursor, \.\\e: 
first newspaper published in Montpelier, was commenced in 1806, by Rev„ 
Clark Brown, a Unitarian minister. Mr. Brown was not fortunate in Mont- 
pelier, either as a preacher or publisher, and sometime in 1807 he sold his 
paper to Samuel Goss, who was then publishing the Green Mountain Tree- 
man, at Peacham, Vt. Mr. Goss removed to Montpelier and the two papers 
were the germ of the Watchman. Mr. Goss issued his first number of the 
Precursor in March, 1S07. About December i, 1807, he changed the name 
to The Watchman, and increased the size of the pages to twelve inches Vv-ide 
by eighteen inches long. He continued in charge as editor until October, 
1810, when he transferred it to Ezekiel P. Walton and his brother, Mark 
Goss. This company continued its publication until 18 16, when it became 
the sole property of Mr. Walton. In June, 1826, Mr. Walton gave it the 
new name of The Vermont Watchman and State Gazette. In 1836 an Anti- 
Mason paper. The State Journal, established in 183 1, was absorbed by the 
Vermont Watchman and State Gazette, and the paper received its fourth 
christening — The Vermont Watchman and State Journal. Mr. Walton con- 
tinued its publication until 1830. From that time to 1853 he was assisted 
by his brother, Joseph S. Walton, for awhile, and by his son, Hon. Eliakim P. 
Walton. From that time until 1868 the last named gentleman was its editor 
and proprietor. Then Mr. Walton transferred it to Joseph and J. Monroe 
Poland, and in 1880 Joseph Poland owned it alone. April i, 1882, Mr. 
Poland sold the paper to W. W. Prescott, who engaged Mr. Arthur Ropes 
as editor. The paper was then in folio form, pages twenty-one by thirty 
inches. It was then changed to quarto form, pages pasted and trimmed, and 
paper folded by special machinery. Mr. Prescott sold to D. W. Dixon, July 
22, 1885, who continued its publication until July 5, 1888. The Watchman 
Publishing Compiny, organized for the purpose of buying The Watchman 
and the Rural V\'rmonter, newspapers and printing establishments; com- 
pleted the purchase and consolidated the two papers, and retain the old 
name of The Watchman. Both were journals of high character, and each 
had a large circulation. The Watchman now prints 4,000 copies, and the 
number of its subscribers is steadily growing. Mr. Ropes's connection with 
the Watchman began in January, 1880, during the proprietorship of 
Joseph Poland. The connection then contemplated related to business 
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affairs and was of a temporary character, but Mr. Ropes soon began to 
assist in work on the newspaper, and, besides keeping the accounts and 
making the collections, did a large part of the editorial writing and the 
general work on the Watchman. When Mr. Prescott bought the Watchman 
property, in April, 1882, Mr. Ropes was made editor. His connection 

with the paper ended upon its purchase by 
Mr. Dixon in July, 1885. In May, 1886, he 
began the publication oi Xht Rural Vermotiter 
at Montpelier. In the summer of 1888 Mr. 
Dixon made a proposition to the Vermon/er 
company to sell the Watchman, and nego- 
tiations finally ended in the formation of the 
Watchman Publishing Company, composed 
of a number of the leading men of Montpe- 
lier, and the consolidation in July, under that 
title, of the Veruumter and the Watchman 
establishments. The paper retained the name 
of The Watchman. Mr. Ropes was made 
editor of the united journals and manager of 
the publishing company. Col. Fred E. Smith 
is president, and T. J. Deavitt is treasurer 
of the company. Dr. Hoskins, of Newport, 
Vt., a practical farmer, and one of the most 
eminent writers on agricultural and economic 
subjects in New England, is editor of the 
agricultural department of the paper. From 
A this office are also published the Vermont 
Chronicle and the New Hampshire Jour- 




Watchman Building. 

is'AL, the organs of the Congregational churches of Vermont and New 
Hampshire. 

The Free mail s Press, Derick Sibley, or Wright & Sibley, was commenced 
•about 1813. This was the organ of the Jeffersonian Republicans as the 
Watchman was of the Federalists. The paper was discontinued about 1816 
or 181 7. Mr. Sibley, an estimable gentleman, emigrated to Rochester, N. Y. 
Vermont Patriot and State Gazette was first issued by George Washington 
Hill & Co., January 17, 1826, Jacksonian Democrat in politics. The Ver- 
mont Patriot was published some years by its founders. From 1834 to 1854 
successively it was owned by William Clark, Jeremiah T. Marston, and East- 
man & Danforth. and then was conducted by C. G. Eastman until his death 
in September, i860. Mr. Marston was an able editor, and Mr. Eastman was 
both an able editor and the favorite of his party. In his hands the Patriot 
had a powerful influence. In 1863 Mr. Hiram Atkins, then editor and pro- 
prietor of the Argus, which he had established at Bellows Falls in 1853, 



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"bought the Patriot and removed to Montpelier, consolidated the two papers, 
.and gave it the name it now bears, Argus and Patriot. 

The Argus and Patriot, as were its predecessors, the Patriot of Mont- 
pelier and Argus of Belluws Falls, is unmistakably Democratic in politics. 
The character of the paper is so aggressive that its editor, Mr. Atkins, is 
denominated the " War Horse " of his party, and his power as a leader is not 
only felt and acknowledged by his own party, but by his opponents as well. 
This printing establishment is one 
of the largest in New England out- 
rside the large cities, and besides 
printing the Argus and Patriot 
Mr. Atkins does a large amount of 
job work. The subscription list 
numbers more than 6,000 names. 
To be assured that the Argus and 
Patriot has present success one 
need only to make a tour through 
its own large three-story building, 
which is furnished with improved 
presses, an automatic paper folder, \r a 1 w building 

and other accessories for successfully conducting the printing business Mr 
Atkins also deals largely in paper, pens, pencils, envelopes, blank books, legal 
blanks, wrapping paper, etc. 

The State Journal, published by Knapp & Jevvett, was first issued Novem- 
ber I, 1 83 I. This was an Anti- Masonic organ, and continued until Decem- 
ber, 1836, when it was merged in the Watchman. 

The Voice of Freedom, regarded as the organ of the Anti-Slavery society 
of the state, was really an individual enterprise, commenced January i, 1839, 
by Emery Allen and Joseph Poland (firm name Allen & Poland), Hon. 
Chauncey L. Knapp, editor. At the beginning of the second volume the State 
Anti-Slavery society became its owner and Mr. Knapp remained its editor. 
In a few months the paper passed into the hands of Jedediah Holcomb, of 
Brandon, who removed it to that place, and later it was discontinued. 

The Harrisonian, a campaign paper issued in 1840 from the Watchman 
office, was edited by E. P. Walton, Jr. 

The Green Mountain Freeman was established by Joseph Poland, in Jan- 
uary, 1844, with Rev. J. C. Aspinwall, a Methodist preacher, as editor. This 
was the organ of the Liberty party. Mr. Aspinwall retired from the edito- 
rial chair the ensuing fall. A few months later Rev. C. C. Briggs, a Congre- 
gational preacher and anti-slavery lecturer, became joint editor and publisher. 
In May, 1846, Mr. Briggs retired. Mr. Poland, on account of ill health, sold 
the paper to Hon. Jacob Scott, of Barre, in 1849, and during that year Hon. 
Daniel P. Thompson associated with Mr. Scott, and at the beginning of the 
next volume he was sole editor and proprietor. In 1856 the paper was pur- 



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chased by S. S. Boyce. In 1861 the paper was sold to Hon. Charles Wil- 
lard, who was its editor the ensuing twelve years, and its proprietor until 
1869, when he sold a half-interest to J. W. Wheelock, and the other half 
in 1873. Mr. Wheelock remained sole editor and proprietor until his death, 
in 1876, when he was succeeded by his son, Mr. Herbert R. Wheelock, and 
Hon. H.'A. Huse had charge of its editorial work. It is proper to remark 
that after the organization of the Republican party thenceforward the 
Green Mountain Freeman was out and out Republican in politics. In March, 
1884, Mr. Wheelock sold it to W. W. Prescott, then editor aid proprietor of 
the Watchman, to be merged in the latter, when it ceased to exist. 

The Vermont Christian Messenger, the organ of the M. E. church in Ver- 
mont, as near as can be ascertained from material now at hand, was first pub- 
lished in Newbury in 1846. Walton's Register for 1848 reports it published 
in Montpelier in 1847. In 1854 it was removed to Northfield, and in 1859 
again returned to Montpelier. Daring its existence it has been published by 
Rev. Elisha J. Scott, R. M. Manly, Rev. Alonzo Webster, C. W. Willard 
(commencing in 1861), J. W. Wheelock, from 1869 to 1874, and then by 
his son, H. R. Wheelock, until he sold it to Rev. J. R. Bartlett in the spring 
of 1884, who took it to Northfield. In September, 1885, Mr. Bartlett sold 
it to C. C. Morse, who removed it to Swanton, Vt., and it was finally merged 
in Zion's Herald oi Boston. 

The Universalist Watchman, first published at Woodstock and then proba- 
bly at Lebanon, N. H , was removed to Montpelier in about the year 1836, 
and there published by Rev. Rii Billou, who after some years changed its 
name to the Christian Repository. 

The Green Mountain Emporium, a literary and religious monthly magazine, 
was commenced in Montpelier about 1838, by John Milton Stearns, published 
about one year, and removed to Middlebury. 

The Temperance Star was commenced m Montpelier in 1841, under the 
auspices of the State Temjjerance society and the editorial care of George B. 
Manser. It was published about two years, and gave place to another tem- 
perance and moral reform paper, entitled The Reformed Drunkard, and pub- 
lished by F. A. McDjvvell. This also, after taking the name of Reformer.^ 
was in a year or two discontinued. 

The Vermont Chronicle is the organ of the " General Convention of Con- 
gregational Ministers and Churches of Vermont." It was removed from 
Windsor, Vt., to Montpelier, in 1875, by Mr. Poland, and published by him 
and his successors. It is now owned and published by the Watchman Pub- 
lishing Company, and issued every week in quarto form. Rev. Charles S. 
Smith, editor. 

The New Hampshire Journal, established by Joseph Poland, January i, 
1 88 1, is the organ of the Congregational churches of New Hampshire, has 
been published since it was started, at the Watchman office, and is owned; 



ABORIGINAL OCCUPANCY. 



and continued by the Watch.nan Publishing Company, This weekly is also 

issued in neat quarto form. 

The Rural Vermonier was estabh'shed by Arthur Ropes, May 21, 18S6. It 

was Republican in politics, devoted to the general interests of the state, and 

to agriculture. This was a journal of fine appearance and high character, 

edited by Mr. Ropes until July 5, 1888, when it was merged in The Ver- 
mont Watchman. 

NORTHFIELD. — The Vermont Christian Messenger was removed from Mont- 

pelier and published in Nortlifield from 1854 to 1857, by R. M. Manly, who 

sold it to Rev. Alonzo Webster, who continued it here several years, when it 

was returned to Montpelier. (See Montpelier.) 

The Northfield Star was founded by Wilbur Woodworth and issued from 

the Messenger office a short time betvveen the years 1854 and 1857. 

The Vermont Far?nerwdiS removed to Northfield from Montpelier in 1881. 

It was published by George H. Richmond until 1885, when it was sold to 

L. P. Thayer and removed to Randolph. 

The Northfield News was established in November, 1879, by George H. 

Richmond. It was then an eight-column folio, and continued to be published 
by him until March 12, 1885, when Fred N. Whitney took possession. The 

News then had a very small list, but under the efficient management of Mr. 

Whitney it increased largely. In August, 1885, the paper was enlarged to a 
six-column quarto. It was purchased by E. Gerry & Co., in November, 1888, 

with Rev. E. Gerry as editor, and Frank W. Sault as business manager, by 
whom it is now conducted. The subscription list is increasing rapidly — a just 
reward of enterprising eftort. 

The Reveille, established several years ago by students of Lewis College, 
is published monthly by the students of Norwich University, and its editors, 
who are chosen from the corps of cadets, hold their offices during one col- 
lege year. The object of The Reveille is to give the students experience 
in journalism, and to furnish the Alumni a means of knowing the condition of 
their Alma Mater. F. E. Lamb is now business manager. 

Waterbury. — The Waterbury News made its appearance Dec. 13,1888, 
issued by C. C. Clough, editor and proprietor. It is independent Republi- 
can in politics, and is especially devoted to the rights of farmers. It is an 
eight-page quarto and is issued every Thursday. This is the first paper issued 
in Waterbury paying particular attention to local interests. 

ABORIGINAL OCCUPANCY. 

Jacques Cartier, a distinguished French explorer and navigator, in the ser- 
vice of France, in 1535 entered the great gulf of Canada, to which he gave 
the name of Sr. Lawrence, sailed through it and up the river of the same 
name which he called the " River of Hochelaga," and explored the country 
as far as the city of Montreal, ascended Mt. Royal, from which he was the 



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first white roan to gaze upon the magnificient prospect which continues to 
delight the tourist, and was the first to behold in the panorama stretched be- 
fore him a part of the territory of the Green Mountain state. In 1540 
Cartier again visited Canada and made an abortive attempt to found a colony. 
No further attempt was made to establish a settlement for more than half a 
century. 

In 1608 Samuel Champlain, a French nobleman, with others, founded a 
colony at Quebec. Champlain, restless for adventures, and equally anxious 
to make further discoveries in the new world, waited only for spring, and an 
opportunity, to enter upon a long cherished plan of explorations with the 
high hope of finding a way to China. 

The French had made friends with the native tribes of Indians that dwelt 
along the St. Lawrence, and in the adjacent country, and had astonished 
them with the deadly execution of fire-arms, and were regarded by them as a 
superior order of beings. 

In the last part of the autumn he was visited by an ambitious young chief 
from the vicinity of Ottawa (then unknown), who prevailed upon Champlain 
to join him in the spring in an expedition against his enemies, the Iroquois, 
"The Five Nations," composed of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas,. 
Cayugas, and Senecas, who were their deadly enemies, and of whom all the 
other Indian tribes stood in mortal fear. Impatient of waiting for his west- 
ern allies, he set out a little past the middle of May with only a band of the 
tribe of the Montagnais, but as he moved up the St. Lawrence he was joined 
by his more powerful allies, the Hurons and Algonquins, with a chief from 
each nation. Few of them had ever seen a white man, and they viewed the 
steel-clad strangers in speechless wonder. After the ceremony of smoking, 
feasting, and speech making Champlain was obliged to return with them to 
Quebec, as they were determined to see the wonders of their architecture, 
the fame of which had penetrated the whole region. 

On the 28th day of May the expedition set off, Champlain in a small 
shallop carrying himself and ten others, armed with guns similar to modern 
carbines. They passed up the St. Lawrence, entered the mouth of the 
" River of the Iroquois," so-named by Cartier sixty years before, now the 
Richelieu. Here his ease-loving warriors encamped for two days, hunted, 
fished, and again feasted, and regaled their French allies with fresh venison 
and wild fowl — and quarreled, too. About three-fourths took to their canoes 
and paddled towards home. 

Champlain and the remnant of the party pushed on until they reached 
impassable rapids. Here he learned the value of an Indian's word. He 
had been promised that his shallop would pass without obstruction. But 
nothing daunted he sent back the shallop, and all but two of his men, who 
volunteered to go with him, and proceeded with the Indians, who lifted the 
canoes to their shoulders and carried them to the smooth stream above. 
Their forces consisted of sixty warriors with twenty canoes. 



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The Indians observed something of military system ; some were in front 
as a van-guard of the main body, and as they were proceeding up the river a 
party was in the forest hunting for the subsistence of the whole, so as to husband 
their supply of parched corn, until they were in the vicinity of their enemies, 
when hunting would be impracticable. Thus they proceeded; camped on 
the shore at night, until they passed the islands composing Grand Isle 
county, when they became sensible that they had entered the enemy's 
country and were on dangerous ground. They now moved only in the 
night, and lay all day concealed in the thick forest. If they did not fall in 
with their enemy on the lake to which Champlain gave his name, then 
known as the lake of the Iroquois, their destination was by way of Lake 
George and across the country to some Indian settlement on the Hudson 
river. But they were spared so long a journey. The night of June 29th 
they embarked at twilight from the west shore of the lake, near the site of 
Crown Point ; they descried a flotilla of Iroquois canoes about ten o'clock 
in the evening. Each recognized his mortal enemy, and their mingled war- 
whoops made " night hideous." 

By common consent the battle was deferred until daylight, when the allies, 
confident of their success, marched with steadiness to the conflict. They 
opened their ranks, and Champlain and his two friends passed to the fronts 
with their carbines. The astonished Iroquois stared at the unwonted sight 
in amazement. The guns were leveled and discharged; two of the chiefs 
fell dead. The brave Iroquois stood firm, and filled the air with their arrows ; 
but the fire-arms continued their deadly work ; their terrific reports quailed 
their stout hearts; they broke and ran, and the victory was won. Thus the 
French foolishly rushed into war with the mightiest and most powerful In- 
dian confederacy the world ever beheld, and engendered a hatred on the 
part of the Iroquois that descended to generations then unborn, and event- 
ually led to the annihilation of many of the Canadian tribes, and the weak- 
ening and dissolution of the Iroquois as the great confederation of the Six 
Nations. This deplorable expedition was the first exploration and discovery 
by white men of the Iroquois country and their lake of the same name, now 
the beautiful Champlain. 

In their passage up the Champlain lake the Indians, representing the Hu- 
ron and Algonquin nations, informed Champlain that not only the lake but 
the country both sides of it belonged to their enemy, the powerful and 
dreaded Iroquois, and especially pointed out the country at the east as hav- 
ing rich valleys where the Indians raised good corn. There is indubitable 
evidence that the Iroquois lived here, besides the testimony of their enemies,, 
and their often-repeated claims for compensation for their domain, urged 
upon the legislature of Vermont. The resources of this "goodly heritage," 
Western Vermont, which these Indians claim was "given to their forefathers 
by the Supreme Spirit forever," were such as to make it desirable. The 
moose and deer abounded, the mountains' rocky caverns were the homes of 



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numberless bears, and the lakes and ponds were the honnes of the otter and 
beaver. The shimmering lakes, sinuous rivers, and sparkling mountain 
streams swarmed with the speckled trout; and the mountains stood like 
giant sentinels to protect their winter homes in the thick wooded .valleys 
from the fierce piercing wind. 

It is admitted by the local historians who have mentioned the subject 
that at that time all of that part of Vermort west of the eastern range of 
the Green Mountains was in the possession of the Iroquois, but not perma- 
nently inhabited by them. Yet we find that they were so permanent that 
they built villages and cultivated its rich valleys; and we conclude they 
were as permanent as their Indian habits ever make them. Temporarily, 
and for short periods only, they may have moved across the country if on a 
thoroughfare, to escape the devastation incidental to a war of hostile tribes; 
but were back again as soon as the cause was removed. 

The further evidences that they were here at as late a date as 1735 o^ 174° 
are the facts that the location of their villages, corn fields, and other signs 
were the undeniable testimonials that they left behind them. To be sure 
this was an outpost on their territory, and in all probability not so densely 
populated as the more central portion of the nation. The same occurs with 
the whole of the civilized world. 

There was an Indian village in East Montpelier, on the Winooski, oppo- 
site the mouth of Kingsbury Branch, that contained as many as twelve fire- 
places, which were distinctly marked. These consisted of pavements made 
of small stones driven into the ground, and from one to two yards in diam- 
eter. Above, on Kingsbury Branch, about half a mile, was a corn field of an 
acre. Near this corn field an iron axe was found, of prehistoric manufac- 
ture, so far as we know. This curious relic is deposited in the state cabi- 
net of antiquities. This field in the primeval forest was found when Mont- 
pelier was first settled, overgrown with poplar trees about thirty or forty feet 
high, that were estimated to have been growing from thirty to thirty-five 
years. 

Down the Winooski at the confluence of a small brook that flows through the 
" Norcross " far.n was another Indian village, butonly the sites of very few 
lodges could be distinguished, but relics were found. The village was on the 
east side of the Winooski. Opposite there was an Indian corn field of about 
three-quarters of an acre, with unmistakable signs that it had been culti- 
vated at no remote period. I'his ground was also covered with such a growth 
of poplar as before described, and surrounded by primeval forest. 

Down the Winooski, about half a mile, at a location known as " Light- 
ning Ridge," was a " Kitchen Midden," (the Dutch name for a location for a 
clam-bake,) which contained a cart-load of clam shells. And by the way, 
Winooski river abounds in large pearl-bearing, edible clams. The above 
place was clearly a feasting place of the Indians. 

Still down the Winooski about seventy-five rods, on its northerly bank, 



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is a sandy hillock about twenty feet high, surroundeJ by swamp, and 
contains an area of one-third of an acre, which shows signs of having 
been a fortification. On this were found Indian relics, and boiling-stones 
which were heated by the squaws and alternately thrown into their wooden 
vessels to boil the succotash, meat, etc. Between this hillock and Lightning 
Ridge an earthen urn was found, which was preserved by Arthur Daggett, 
but is lost. Its counterpart may be seen in the state cabinet. And forty 
rods below, at the confluence of Corliss brook, on the north side of the 
river and west side of the brook, is a little promontory, the site of another 
"Kitchen Midden," with a pile of clam shells as large as a hay-cock. On 
the farm of Hon. S. S. Kelton, on the river, were other Indian relics, (boiling- 
stones, etc.) A mile further down, near a venerable old elm tree, which bears 
the mark, nearly overgrown, of the old canal survey, is another " Kitchen 
Midden." Just in the edge of Middlesex, on the Winooski, are still evidences 
of another Indian village, corn field, and burial-place, where Indian weapons 
were found. 

In Woodbury numerous Indian relics have been found, and the site of 
their present cemetery is the location of an Indian corn field. This town 
contains over twenty natural pands, and consequently was famous hunting- 
ground. This was the home of the beaver and otter. That " Prince of the 
Red Men," Captain Joe, and his wife, Molly, frequented these lakes. 

On the farm of Willard Cutler, late of East Montpelier, in the near vicinity 
of a pure spring, in a sheltered nook, several Indian hatchets, and a small 
cannon ball, of three or four pounds weight, were found. The ball and one 
of the hatchets are in the state cabinet for preservation. 

On the farm now occupied by Mr. Parker, in East Montpelier, a neighbor 
of George Davis, was a well defined Indian clearing, near the brook, and 
beaver meadow. On the brook just named v/as the scene of an unwitnessed 
tragedy, probably about 1790. The pioneer and hunter of Berlin, Jacob 
Fowler, had a line of traps on this brook, and on visiting them on several 
occasions he found that some one had plundered his fur. At his next visit 
an Indian was on the ground just in advance of him, and Fowler discovered 
him in the act of robbery. They discovered each other simultaneously, and 
each took shelter behind a huge pine tree ; the situation resolved into a case 
of the death of one of the parties. Suffice it to say, Fowler was the victor. 

From what is conceded, (that the Indians owned the territory known as 
Western Vermont,) and the facts herein presented, we conclude that the 
Indians not only owned the territory, but that it was also their home.* 

* This conclusion is strengtiiened, incur opinion, by the researches of Mr. Charles H. 
Heath, of Montpelier, who has devoted considerable time and attention to the study of the 
Indian occupancy of this region. 



26 WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



LAND TITLE CONTROVERSY. 

For a period of sixteen years there was a controversy between the authori- 
ties of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, relative to tl>e boundary Hne 
between the provinces, and a contest kept up in regard to the control of the 
territory in the vicinity of Fort Dumraer and that on the opposite side of 
the river in Hinsdale. Finally, on the 5th of March, 1740, George IL de- 
creed that the line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts should be 
surveyed in accordance with certain special instructions, and in 1741 the line 
was run by Richard Hazen, and found to leave Hinsdale and Fort Dummer 
to the north ; whereupon the king recommended the Assembly of New 
Hampshire to care for and protect the settlers about Fort Dummer. PVom 
this royal recommend Gov. Wentworth, of New Hampshire, naturally sup- 
posed that the king recognized the jurisdiction of New Hampshire as ex- 
tending to the same point west as Massachusetts, namely, a point twenty 
miles east of the Hudson river ; and accordingly, on the application of 
William Williams and sixty-one others, January 3, 1749, he chartered a town- 
ship six miles square, in what he conceived to be the southwestern corner of 
New Hampshire. This town was named Bennington, after Gov. Benning 
Wentworth, the first town in Vermont to receive a royal charter. 

As early as 1763 Gov. Wentworth had granted as many as 138 townships 
of six miles square, lying west of the Connecticut, and the population in the 
territory, which had now come to be known as the New Hampshire Grants, 
had become quite large. This prosperity and growing power New York 
could not quietly brook. So, during that year, Lieut-Gov. Tryon, of that 
province, laid claim to the territory, by virtue of a grant made by Charles IL 
to the Duke of York, in 1664, which included "all the land from the west 
side of Connecticut river to the east side of Delaware bay." Finally, on 
application of the government of New York, it was decided by George III.,, 
in council of July 10, 1764, that the "western bank of the Connecticut 
river should thereafter be regarded as the boundary Hne between the Province 
of New York and Province of New Hampshire." The colonists were sur- 
prised and displeased at this decision, but peaceably submitted to it, sup- 
posing that it merely effected a change of the jurisdiction to which they were 
subject ; and the government of New Hampshire, which at first remonstrated, 
soon acquiesced in the decision. Bat on the loth of April, 1765, Gov. Col- 
den issued a proclamation, giving a copy of the order of the king, changing 
the boundary of the territory, and notifying " His Majesty's subjects to gov- 
ern themselves accordingly." He also at once proceeded to grant the lands 
to others than the New Hampshire claimants, and when the latter applied to 
the New York government for a confirmation of the grants they already held, 
such enormous patent fees were demanded as to make it impossible for thenv 
to comply. It was well known in New York that these lands had long beer^ 



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granted by New Hampshire, that they were actually occupied under such 
grants, and that the new patents were procured in utter disregard of the rights 
and claims of the settlers. It was also well known by them that the king, 
in commissioning Benning Wentworth governor of New Hampshire, had de- 
scribed his province as reaching westward " until it met his other government," 
thus bounding it westerly by New York ; and that the eastern boundary of 
New York was a line twenty miles easterly from Hudson river, extending 
from Lake Cham plain south to the western line of Massachusetts, was proven 
by statements in the charter of the Duke of York, upon his accession to the 
throne of England, in 1685. But notwithstanding all this. New York insisted 
that not only was the jurisdiction changed thenceforward, but also that the 
grants made were vacated, and the titles acquired under them were made 
void. The settlers were required to repurchase their lands, which some of 
them did, though the majority of them peremptorily refused. The lands of 
such were granted to others, who brought actions of ejectment in the New 
York courts, where they invariably obtained judgments against the original 
proprietors. It was found, however, that it was easier to obtain judgments 
than it was to enforce them. The officers who attempted to serve the writs 
of possession were forcibly resisted, and sometimes roughly handled. 

In 1769 the king prohibited the governor of New York from issuing any 
more grants "until His Majesty's further pleasure should be made known." 
Meanwhile civil disturbances and open defiance to the New York authorities 
continued to such an extent that, in 1774, a law was passed by that province, 
ordering the surrender of all offenders, under the penalty of death. In reply, 
the people of the grants returned a public letter, threatening death to any 
who should aid in arresting any of her citizens. About this time a plan was 
made for the formation of a royal province, but the Revolutionary war soon 
joined the two provinces in a common cause, so that their personal quarrel 
gradually raged less furiously. In 1789 New York acknowledged the inde- 
pendence of Vermont, and endeavored to adjust all matters of dispute, having 
previously made grants to those who had suffered by adhering to her alle- 
giance, while Vermont, in turn, paid into the treasury of New York thirty 
thousand dollars. 

REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 

With Vermont the Revolutionary contest possessed a double interest, and 
while she lent her aid to redress national grievances, she also maintained a 
spirited contest on her own account, resolving to secure her independence 
from New York. The territory treated of in this work, however, has none of 
the romantic stories and traditions of this period that grace the annals of 
localities earlier settled. The people of the New Hampshire Grants, as may 
well be suppossed, entered with an especially hearty zeal into this contest. 
Their schooling had been such as to render them an exceedingly undesirable 
foe to meet, as a large portion of the settlers had served in the French and 



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Indian war, and during the twelve or fifteen years that had intervened had 
been almost continuously at strife with New York, and entertained a feeling 
of deadly hatred against King George and the British Parliament. It is not 
strange, then, that the " Green Mountain Boys " were soon both feared and 
respected by their adversaries. 

Washington county took no part in this struggle, as the war ended about 
t?ie time the first settlement was made within its territory.* The names of 
the Revolutionary soldiers and the pirt each took in the common cause, who 
resided here afterward, we have mentioned, so far as known to us, in their re- 
spective town sketches. 

The surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktovvn, October 17, 1781, virtually 
put an end to all these troubles, and the " Green Mountain Boys" were soon 
again enjoying the privileges of peace. 

WAR OF 18 1 2. 

The yoke of the motlier country having been thrown off, the American 
colonies rapidly advanced in material prosperity and wealth. Vermont ex- 
panded into a free and independent state, and was finally received into the 
sisterhood of the Union, March 4, 1791. In the meantime the French 
nation, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, had arrived at the zenith of miUtary glory, 
and was giving England great cause for fear and trembling. England, in 
turn, seeming to forget that her American offspring had arrived at maturity 
and was able to protect its own institutions, continued her acts of tyranny. 
Looking upon herself as mistress of the ocean, during her wars with Napoleon, 
she utterly disregarded the rights of the United States as a neutral nation. 
Her cruisers would stop and search American vessels, and seize such able- 
bodied seamen as were needed, on the pretext that they were British subjects. 
An American frigate, not in a condition to resist, having been subjected to 
this indignity, almost within sight of an American port, after receiving several 
broadsides for denying the right of such search, the President issued a proc- 
lamation ordering all British ships of war to quit the waters of the United 
States. Congress also laid an embargo on American vessels, detaining them 
at home, but afterwards substituted a non-intercourse act, prohibiting trade 
with Great Britain. All intercourse between this state and the people of 
Canada was prohibited, without a permit from the governor, under a penalty 
of $1,000 fine and imprisonment at hard labor in the state penitentiary for a 
term of seven years. 

Notwithstanding all this, England persisted in her offensive course. All 
hopes of obtaining concessions on the impressment question from her were 
at length abandoned. George III., who was still on the throne, had become 

*The first settler in the territory now included in Washington county was Thomas Mead, 
from Massachusetts, in the spring of 17S3. 



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insane, and the men who had managed affairs were as short siglited a.s his 
advisors had been forty years before, whose folly had provoked the Revolu- 
tion. Longer submission to their arrogant claims was deeaied unworthy of 
a free nation, and war was therefore formally declared by the United States, 
June 18, 1812. 

Vermont, thinking that the difficulties of the times required its sentiments 
to be known by the other states, adopted the following resolution : " We 
therefore pledge ourselves to each other to our government, that with our 
individual exertions, our examples and influence, we will support our govern- 
ment and country in the present contest, and rely on the Great Arbiter of 
events for a favorable result." This resolution Washington county sustained 
to the letter. Suffice it to say, two years the storm of war raged, after which 
the victorious soldiers again returned to their quiet and peaceable avoca- 
tions. 

WAR FOR THE UNION. 

For nearly half a century after the War of 18 r 2 peaci brooded over the 
green hills and fertile valleys of Vermont. Youths had grown to manhood 
and old age; the gray-haired grandsire, as he trotted the children upon his 
knee, rehearsed to them the tales they best loved to hear — ^tales of the deeds 
of the brave McDonough and " Oltl Ethan." Prosperity asserted itself in 
the hum of busy machinery, telling of the increase of manufacturing inter- 
ests in the silver threads that were branching in all directions, proclaim- 
ing the route of the ''iron horse " as it CDnveyed to prosperous marts the 
harvest surplus. The sun rose each morn on a prosperous, happy, contented 
people ; but alas 1 as its rays gilded the Green Mountain summits on the 
morning of April 21, 1861, it awakened n) answering smile in the hearts of 
the people. The first shot upon Sumter had frightened away the angel 
Peace, and grim War reigned in her stead. The hearts of the "Green 
Mountain Boys " were again touched with the old fire of patriotism and 
burned with martial ard.ir ; the dreams of peace were forgotten ; naught 
was remembered but their insulted flag — the flag purchased with the blood 
of their fathers — to which they owed their liberties, hofues, and the plenty 
that surrounded them. 

Side by side with her sister states Vermont endured the weary marches 
and bore the brunt of battles, and side by side their sons sleep the long sleep 
— some 'neath the sun-kissed plains of the willful South, and some rocked 
in the bosom of the broad Atlantic, "held in the hollow of His hand." 
Others have been borne to rest among their kindred by sympathizing friends, 
who, year by year, to muffled drum-beat, wend their way to their consecrated 
tombs to deck their graves with beautiful spring flowers — a national tribute 
to the gallant dead, 5,128 of whom Vermont sacrificed as her share towards 
the preservation of the nation's unity, freed from the curse of slavery, so- 
long a foul blot upon her fair fame. Vermont promptly filled every quota,. 



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and every dollar needed was furnished with alacrity. Of her treasure, 
$9,087,352.40 was expended in furnishing the 34,238 loyal sons and repre- 
sentatives who went out to fight the battles of their country, 5,022 of whom 
were discharged from the service with shattered constitutions, or maimed in 
body, to renew the peaceful avocations of life as circumstances would per- 
mit. The following complete roster of men who went from Washington 
county as commissioned officers, and of those who, enlisting in the ranks, 
were subsequently promoted to a commission, is compiled from the State 
Adjutant and Inspector-General's report of 1866, and from other sources. 
For convenience the names are arranged in alphabetical order, the dates 
referring to commissions, the date of muster being omitted ; — 

TERMS OF ENLISTMENT. 

First Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service May 2, 1861, and mus- 
tered out August 15, 1861. 

Second Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service June 20, 186 r. Origi- 
nal members, not veterans, mustered out June 29, 1864. Recruits for one 
year, and recruits whose term of service would expire previous to October i, 
1865, mustered out June 19. 1865. Remaining officers and men mustered 
out of service July 15, 1865. 

Third Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service July 16, 1861. Orig- 
inal members, not veterans mustered out July 27, 1864. Veterans and 
recruits consolidated into six companies July 25, 1864. Recruits for one 
year, and recruits whose term of service would expire previous to October i, 
1865, mustered out June 16, 1865. Remainder of regiment mustered out 
July I T, 1865. 

Fourth Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service September 21, 186 r. 
Original members, not veterans, mustered out September 30, 1864. First, 
Second, and Third Companies of Sharp Shooters transferred to Fourth Reg- 
iment, February 25, 1865. Veterans, recruits, and men transferred from 
Sharp Shooters, consolidated into eight companies, February 25, 1865. Re- 
cruits for one year, and recruits whose term of service would expire previous 
to October i, 1865, mustered out June 19, 1865. Remainder of regiment 
mustered ont July 13, 1865. 

Fifth Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service September 16, 1861. 
Original members, not veterans, mustered out September 15, 1864. Recruits 
for one year, and recruits whose term of service would expire previous to 
October i, 1865, mustered out June 19, 1865. Remainder of regiment mus- 
tered out June 19, 1865. 

Sixth Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service October 15, 1861. 
Original members, not veterans, mustered out of service October 28, 1864. 
Veterans and recruits consolidated into six companies October t6, 1864. 
Recruits for one year, and recruits whose term of service would expire previ- 



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ous to October i, 1865, mustered out June 19, 1865. Remainder of regi- 
ment mustered out June 26, 1865. 

Seventh Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service February 12, 1862. 
Original members, not veterans, mustered out August 3, 1864. Regiment 
mustered out March 14, 1866. 

Eighth Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service February 18, 1862. 
Original members, not veterans, mustered out June 22, 1864. Recruits for 
one year, and recruits whose term of service would expire previous to Octo- 
ber I, 1865, mustered out July 21, 1865. Remainder of regiment mustered 
out of service June 28, 1865. 

Ninth Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service July g, 1862. Original 
members and recruits whose term of service would expire previous to Octo- 
ber I, 1865, mustered out June 13, 1865. Remaining officers and men con- 
soUdated into battalion of four companies. Battalion mustered out Decem- 
ber I, 1865. 

Tenth Regimeni-, Infantry, mustered into service September i, 1862. 
Original members and recruits whose term of service would expire previous 
to October i, 1865, mustered out June 22, 1865. Remainder of regiment 
mustered out June 29, 1865. 

Eleventh Regiment, Infantry, (First Regiment Heavy Artillery, from 
December 10, 1863,) mustered into service September i, 1862. Original 
members, recruits for one year, and recruits whose term of service would ex- 
pire previous to October i, 1865, mustered out of service June 24, 1865. 
Remaining officers and men consolidated into battalion of four companies, 
June 24, 1865. Battalion mustered out August 25, 1865. 

Twelfth Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service October 4, 1862. 
Mustered out July 14, 1863. 

Thirteenth Regiment, (nine months,) mustered into service October 10, 
1862. Mustered out of service July 21, 1863, 

Fifteenth Regiment, (nine months,) mustered into service October 22, 
1862. Mustered out of service August 5, 1863. 

Seventeenth Regiment, Infantry, mustered into service by companies, 
in 1864. Mustered out July 14, 1865. 

First Battery Light Artillery, mustered into service February 18, 
1862. Original members mustered out of service August 10, 1864. Recruits 
transferred to Second Vermont Battery Light Artillery August 10, 1864. 

Second Battery Light Artillery, mustered into service December 16 
and 24, 1861. Original members, not veterans, mustered out of service Sep- 
tember 20, 1864. Excess of recruits organized as First Company Heavy Ar- 
tillery, Vermont Volunteers, March i, 1865. Battery mustered out of service 
July 31, 1865. 

Third Battery Light Artillery, mustered into service January i, 1864. 
Mustered out of service June 15, 1865. 



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First Regiment Cavalry, mustered into service November 19, 1861. 
Original members, not veterans, mustered out of service November 18, 1864, 
Recruits for one year, and recruits whose term of service would expire previous 
to October i, 1865, mustered out of service June 21, 1865. Remaining 
officers and men consolidated into battalion of six companies. Battalion 
mustered out of service August 9, 1865. 

Frontier Cavalry, (one year,) mustered into service January 10, 1865. 
Mustered out of service June 27, 1865. 

roster of field, staff, and company officers. 

Abbott Lemuel A., of Birre, age 21, private Co. B, loth Regt., July 28, '62; 

ist Sergt., Sept. i, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. D, Jan. 26, '63 ; ist Lieut. Co. 

E, June 17, '64; wounded severely Sept. 19. '64; Capt. Co. G, Dec. 19, 

'64; mustered out of service June 22, '65. 
Ainsworth Luther, of Waitsfield, age 31, 2d Lieut. Co. H, 6th Regt., Oct. 4, 

'61 ; ist Lieut. Co. H, Feb. 18, '62; Capt. Co. H, Sept. 20, '62; killed 

in action at Bank's Ford, Va., May 4, '63. 
Aldrich Leonard F., of Barre, age 38, Qaartermaster, 13th Regt., Sept. 

24, '62 ; resigned Dec. 4, '62. 
Anson Charles H., of Montpelier, age 21, Qr.-M. -Sergt., nth Regt, Sept. 

I, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. E, Aug. 1 1, '63 ; ist Lieut. Co. E, Dec. 28, '63 ; 

Brevet Capt., April 2, '65, for gallantry in the assault on Petersburg, 

Va. ; mustered out of service June 24, '65. 
Ayers Jerome, of Waterbury, age t8, private Co. B, loth Regt., July 14, '62; 

Corp., March 27, '64; Sergt., July 5, '64; wounded June 1, '64, July 9, 

'64, and Sept. 19, '64; ist Sergt., May 20, '65 ; ist Lieut., June 15, '65 ; 

mustered out of service as 1st Sergt., June 22, 1865. 
Bancroft Charles E., of Waterbury, age 32, Capt. Co. I, 13th Regt , Sept. 23, 

'62 ; resigned Jan. 8, '63. 
Barber David P., of Northfield, age 34, Capt. Co. K, 7th Regt., Feb. i, '62 ; 

mustered out of service Aug. 30, '64. 
Bardett John D , of Montpelier, age 31, Capt. Co. C, ist Regt., Oct. 14, '61 ; 

Maj -)r, Nov. 18, '61 ; resigned April 25, '62. 
Bass John T., of Moretown, age 20, private Co. D, 2d Regt., May 7, '61 ; 

Sergt., June 20, '61; rst Sergt., Jan. 28, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. D, Aug. 9, '62 ; 

ist Lieut. Co. D, Nov. 3, '63; Capt. Co. H, June 20, '64; honorably 

discharged May 15, '65, for disability; re-appointed Capt. Co. H, June 

7, '65, but not mustered into service. 
Benson Charles S, of Worcester, age 22. private Co. I, nth Regt., July 14, 

'62; Regt. -Qr.-M. -Sergt., Jan. 17, '64; Sergt. -Major, Sept. f,'64; 2d 

Lieut. Co. L June 4, '65 ; mustered out of service as Sergt.-Major, June 

24/65. 
Blake .Miranda R., of Woodbury, age 25, pri.vate 2d Battery Light Artillery, 

Nov. 12, '61 ; Corp., Nov. i, '62 ; Sergt., Feb. i, '63 ; Sergt. Major, Oct. 

I, '63 ; 2d Lieut., June 20, '64; re enlisted Jan. i, '64; resigned March 

3- "65- 
BHss Sidney, of Northfield, age 19, private Co. I, nth Regt., Aug. 5, '62; 
Corp., Dec. 26, '63; Sergt., Sept. 27, '64; wounded Oct. 19, '64; 2d 
Lieut. Co. I, Dec. i, '64; ist Lieut. Co. K, June 4, '65 ; mustered out 
of service as 2d Lieut. Co. I, June 24, '65. 



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Bradford Philander D., of Northfield, Surgeon, 5th Regt., Dec. 3, '62 ; re- 
signed March i, '63. 

Boynton William H., of Northfield, age 19, Capt. Co. F, ist Regt., April 23, 
'61 ; mustered out of service Aug. 15, '61. 

Brown Andrew C, of iVTontpelier, age 34, Lieut. -Col., 13th Regt., Sept. 24, 
'62; resigned May 5, '63. 

Brown Edward M., of Montpelier, age 40, Adjutant, 5th Regt., Aug. 24, '6r ; 
Lieut-Col., 8th Regt., Jan. 9, '62; resigned Dec. 23, '62. 

Burbank William B., of Montpelier, age 24, 2d Lieut. Co. E, x7th Regt., 
April 9. '64; I St Lieut. Co. E, Aug. 22, '64; mustered out of service 
July 14, '65. 

Burnham Denison S., of Northfield, age 32, private Co.C, 15th Regt., Sept. 
II, '62; ist Sergt., Oct. 22, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. H, Nov. 18, '62; trans- 
ferred to Co. C, Jan. 9, '63 ; mustered out of service Aug. 5, '63. 

Burnham William T., of Montpelier, age 43, Capt. Co. H, 2d Regt., May 
23, '61; resigned Oct. 25, '61. 

Bushnell Henry N., of Waitsfield, age 23, private Co. H, 6th Regt., Aug. 14, 
'61 ; Sergt., Oct 15, '61 ; ist Sergt., Feb. 19, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. H, May 
4, '63; ist Lieut. Co. C, May 15, '64; Capt. Co. H, Oct. 19, '64; mus- 
tered out of service June 26, '65. 

Campbell Oliver C, of Waitsfield, age 29, 2d Lieut. Co. I, 9th Regt., June 
30, '62 ; resigned Dec. 24, '62. 

Canning Charles C, of Northfield, age 32, private Co. D, 2d Regt., May 7, 
'6r ; ist Sergt, June 20, '61 ; ist Lieut. Co. I, Jan. 28, '62 ; resigned 
Feb. 8, '63. 

Carlton Alfred S., of Montpelier, age ,33, Qr-M., nth Regt., Aug. 14, '62 ; 
2d Lieut., Aug 14, '62 ; transferred to Co. C, as 2d Lieut., Dec. 12, '62 ; 
promoted Capt. and Com. of Subsistence, U. S. Vols., March 11, '63. 

Carpenter Cornelius N., of Northfield, age 36, Capt. Co. C, 15th Regt., 
Sept. II, '62 ; resigned Jan. 15, '63. 

Carpenter George N., of Northfield, age 22, Sergt. -Maj., 8th Regt., Feb. 18, 
'62 ; ist Lieut. Co. C, June i, '62 ; Capt. Co. C, Aug. 15, '63 ; resigned 
July 2, '64, to accept appointment as Capt. and A. C. S. U. S. Vols. 

Carter Justin, of Waterbury, age 23, private Co. B, loth Regt., July 12, '62 ; 
Sergt., Sept. i, '62 ; 2d Lieut., Jan. 19, '63 ; resigned Feb. 24, '64. 

Chamberlin Russell T., of Montpelier, age 19, private Co. G, 4th Regt., 
Aug. 27, '61; Corp., March r, 63; re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63; Sergt., 
June 10, '64; Regt. -Com. -Sergt., Jan. i, '65 ; 2d Lieut. Co. A, Feb. 22, 
'65 ; ist Lieut., June 4, '65 ; mustered out of service July 13, '65. 

Chandler Charles M., of Montpelier, age 34, Assistant Surgeon 6th Regt., 
Oct. 10, '61 ; Surgeon, Oct. 29, '61 ; resigned Oct. 7, '63. 

Clark Albert, of Montpelier, age 22, private Co. I, 13th Regt., Aug 25, '62 ; 
ist Sergt., Oct. 10, '62; ist Lieut. Co. G, Jan. 22, '63 ; mustered out 
of service July 21, '63. 

Clark Amon, of Barre, age 21, Assistant Surgeon, loth Regt., Aug. 11, '62; 
Surgeon, ist Vt. Cavalry, March 6, '65 ; mustered out of service Aug. 

9, '65- 

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Clark Charles W., of Montpelier, age 24, Com.-Sergt., i ith Regt., Sept. r, '62 ; 

2d Lieut. Co. G, March 29, '63 ; ist Lieut. Co. G, Nov. 2, '63 ; mus- 
tered out of service June 34, '65. 
Clark Dayton P., of Montpelier, age 21, private Co. F, 2d Regt., May 7, 

'61 ; Sergt., June 20, '61 ; ist Lieut. Co. B, Jan. 29, '62 ; Capt. Co. 

F, Nov. 3, '63 ; mustered out of service June 29, '64. 
Clark John W., of Montpelier, age ^;i, Quartermaster, 6th Regt., Sept. 28, 

'61 ; promoted Capt. and A.-Qr.-M. U. S. Vols., April 7, '64. 
Clark Stephen A., of Northfield, age 22, private Co. F, ist Cavalry, Sept. 15, 

'61 ; ist Sergt., Nov. 19/61 ; 2d Lieut. Co. F, Oct. 4, '62 ; ist Lieut. 

Co. F, April 14, '65 ; Capt. Co. M, June 4, '65 ; not mustered as Capt.; 

transferred to Co. D, as 1st Lieut., June 21, '65, by reason of consolida- 
tion of regiment ; mustered out of service Aug. 9, '65. 
Coburn Lewis L., of East Montpelier, age 28, Capt. Co. C, 13th Rept., Aug. 

29, '62 ; mustered out of service July 21, '63. 
Collins Hartwell L., of Cabot, age 26, private Co. G, 3d Regt, June i, '61 ; 

ist Sergt., July 16, '61 ; re-enlisted Jan. 22, '64; 2d Lieut., Aug. 4, '64; 

wounded Sept. 19, '64; honorably discharged Dec. 28, '64, for wounds. 
Cooper Aaron K., of Worcester, age 20, private Co. A, 8th Regt., Sept. 26, 

'61 ; Corp., Feb. 18, '62 ; Sergt.; 2d Lieut., Dec. 24, '62 ; killed in 

action at Cedar Creek, Va , Oct. 19, '64. 
Crandall John B , of Berlin, age 23, Hospital Steward, 6th Regt., Oct. 15, '61; 

Assistant Surgeon, Oct. 2, '62 ; mustered out of service July 21, '63. 
Crandall Richard B., of Berlin, age 24, Adjutant, 6th Regt., Oct. 10, '61 ; 

Capt. Co. K, Nov. i, '62; Major, March 18, '63; killed in action near 

Cold Harbor, Va., June 7, '64. 
Grossman Horace F., of Montpelier, age 24, 2d Lieut. Co. F, 2d Regt., May 

20, '61 ; ist Lieut. Co. F, June 24, '62 ; Capt. Co. F, Oct. i, '62; hon- 
orably discharged Oct. 30, '63, for wounds received in action May 

3, '63- 
Davenport David B., of Roxbury, age 39, Capt. Co. H, 6th Regt., Oct. 4, 

'61 ; wounded April 16, '62 ; died Sept. 20, '62, at Alexandria, Va., of 

disease. 
Dewey Edward, of Montpelier, age 34, Quartermaster, 8th Regt., Jan. 12, '64 ; 

promoted Capt. and A.-Qr.-M. U. S. Vols., Feb. 11, '65. 
Dillingham Charles, of Waterbury, age 24, Capt. Co. D, 2d Regt., May 22, 

'61 ; Major, 8th Regt., Jan. 19, '62 ; Lieut.-Col., Dec. 24, '62 ; resigned 

Dec. 12, '63. 
Dillingham Edwin, of Waterbury, age 23, Capt. Co. B., loth Regt., Aug. 4, 

'62; Major, June 17, '64; killed at Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, '63. 
Ditty Eri L., of Roxbury, age 22, private Co. H, 6th Regt., Aug. 14, '61 ; 

Corp., Nov. I, '61 ; Sergt.; re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63; Sergt. -Maj., June 

6, '64; 2d Lieut. Co. H, Nov. 12, '64; ist Lieut. Co. H, June 4, 

'65 ; mustered out of service June 26, '65. 
Drennar John S , of Woodbury, age 22, private Co. I, nth Regt., Aug. 11, 

'62 ; Corp., Sept. i, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. L, July 11, '63 ; wounded June 

I, '64; paroled prisoner: honorably discharged May 15, '65. 
Dudley Andrew J., of Calais, age 22, private Co. I, nth Regt., July 15, '62; 

Corp.. Aug. 5, '63; Sergt., Aug. 11, '63; ist Sergt., Jan, i, '64; 2d 

Lieut. Co. I, Sept. 2, '64; ist Lieut., Dec. 2, '64; honorably discharged 

May 15, '65, for disability. 



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Edson John H., of Montpelier, age 32, Lieut.-Col., loth Regt., Aug. 27, '62 ; 

resigned Oct. 16, '62. 
Eldridge James E., of Warren, age 21, private Co. F, 3d Regt., May 10, '61 ; 

2d Lieut. Co. H., nth Regt., Aug. 13, '62 ; ist Lieut. Co. H., Sept. 5, 

'62; Capt. Co. H., Aug. II, '63; wounded June i, '64, and Sept 19, 

'64 ; Brevet Maj., Sept. 19, '64, for gallantry at the battle of Winches- 
ter, Va.; honorably discharged Jan. 10, '65, for wounds. 
Ferry Amasa W., of Roxbury, age 25, private Co. F., 2d Regt., May 7, '6r ; 

Corp., June 20, '61 ; Sergt., Feb. i, '62 ; ist Sergt.; re-enlisted Jan. 

23, '64; ist Lieut. Co. F, Sept. 15, '64; wounded May 5, '64, and Oct. 

19, '64; honorably discharged Jan. 4, '65, for wounds. 
Fisher Charles G., of Northfield, age 26, private Co. K, 4th Regt., Aug. 

26, '61 ; Sergt., Sept. 21, '61 ; 2d Lieut. Co. F, Dec. 14, '62 ; ist Lieut. 

Co. I, April 19, '64; Capt. Co. I, June 12, '64; wounded June 23, '64; 

transferred to Co. F, by reason of consolidation of regiment, Feb. 25, 

'65 ; mustered out of service July 13, '65. 
Foster Edward L., of Calais, age 22, private Co. I, nth Regt., Aug. 2, '62 ; 

Regt.-Coin. -Sergt., May 16, '63; 2d Lieut. Co. I, Dec. 28, '63; ist 

Lieut. Co. I, Sept. 2, '64; mustered out of service June 2, '65. 
Foster Daniel, of Waitsfield, private Co. B, loth Regt., July 14, '62 ; Sergt., 

Sept. I, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. B, June 6, '64; wounded Sept. 19, '64; ist 

Lieut. Co. B, Dec. 19, '64; Capt. Co. B, March 22, '65 ; mustered out 

of service June 29, '65. 
F'oster Henry E., of Waitsfield, age 23, Capt. Co. C, 8th Regt., Dec. 23, 

'61 ; wounded May 27, '63 ; resigned Aug. 15, '63. 
Foster Sidney H., of Calais, age 34, private Co. I, nth Regt., July 22, '62 ; 

ist Sergt., Sept. 1, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. I, July 11, '63 ; ist Lieut. Co. I, 

Dec. 28, '63 ; honorably discharged Nov. 22, '64, for disability. 
French Charles G., of Barre, age 22, Capt. Co. D, 15th Regt., Sept. 15, '62 ; 

musteied out of service Aug. 5, '63. 
Goodwin David M., of Cabot, age 27, Assistant Surgeon, 3d Regt., June 20, 

'61 ; Surgeon, April 29, '63; mustered out of service July 27, '64. 
Gove Francis B., of Northfield, age 29, 2d Lieut. Co. F, ist Regt., April 

23, '61 ; mustered out of service Aug. 15, '61. 
Green Charles B.,of Berlin, age 22, private Co. K, 7th Regt., Dec. 15, '61 ; 

Sergt., Feb. 12, '62 ; ist Sergt, March i, '63 ; re-enlisted Feb. 15, '64 ; 

Sergt. -Major, May r, '64; ist Lieut. Co. K, July 13, '65; mustered out 

of service as Sergt. -Major. March 14, '66. 
Gregg Charles C, of Waterbury, age 29, 2d Lieut. Co. D, 2d Regt., May 22, 

'62 ; dismissed the service July 22, '62. 
Hall Edward, of Worcester, age 43, Capt. Co. E, 8th Regt.. fan. i, '62 ; 

wounded June 14. '63 ; died Oct. 28, '64, of wounds received in action 

at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, '64. 
Hall William H. H., of Warren, age 38, Capt. Co. G, 6th Regt., Oct. 9, '61 ; 

resigned April 18, '62. 
Hammond Elon O., of Montpelier, age 45, Capt. Co. K, 3d Regt., July 11, 

'61 ; discharged Aug. 16, '61, for disability. 



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Hatch Jerome B., of Cabot, age 24, private Co. C, ist Cavalry, Oct. 26, '61 ; 

Co.-Qr.-M.-Sergt., Dec. 25, '62; re-enlisted Feb. 24, '64; Regt.-Qr.-M.- 

Sergt., Nov. 19, '64; ist Lieut. Co. C, April 14, '65 ; transferred to Co. 

B, June 21, '65, by reason of consolidation of regiments; mustered out 

of service Aug. 9, '65. 
Henry J. Edwin, of VVaterbury, age 19, ist Lieut. Co. K, 17th Regt., Sept- 

22, '64; killed in action before Petersburg, Va., April 2, '65. 
Henry Wilbur E., of Berlin, age 20, private Co. K, 17th Regt., July 15, '64: 

ist Sergt., Aug. 22, '64; ist Lieut. Co. K, July 10, '65; mustered out 

of service as ist Sergt. Co. K, July 14, '65. 
Henry William W., of Waterbury, age 30, ist Lieut. Co. D, 2d Regt., May 

22, '61 ; resigned Nov. 5, '6i ; Major loth Regt., Aug. 26, '62 ; Lieut.- 

Col., Oct. 17, '62; Col., April 26, '64; wounded May, '64; resigned 

Dec. 17, '64; Brevet Brig.-Gen., March 7, '65. 
Hill Henry H , of East Montpelier, age 21, ist Lieut. Co. G, 4th Regt., 

Sept. 1 1, '61; died May 19/62, in general hospital, Washington, D. C... 

of disease. 
Holden Eli, of Barre, age 26, private Co. C, ist Cavalry, Sept. 17, '61 ; ist 

Sergt., Nov. 18, '61 ; 2d Lieut. Co. C, Nov. 18, '61 ; 1st Lieut. Co. C,. 

Oct. 30, '61 ; taken prisoner Sept. 26, '63 ; paroled ; mustered out of 

service March 15, '65. 
Hopkins William C, of Northfield, age 28, Chaplain, 7th Regt., Sept. 25, '62 ;. 

resigned Oct. 19, '65. 
Howard George D., of Montpelier, age 22, 1st Lieut, ist Co. Frontier Cav- 
alry, Jan. 10, '65 ; resigned March 16, '65. 
Howes Wesley C, of Northfield, age 21, private Co. K, 7th Regt., Dec. 6,. 

'61 ; ist Sergt., Feb. 12, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. E, March i, '63 ; 1st Lieut. 

Co. E, Feb. 28, '65 ; Capt. Co. D, March i,'66 ; mustered as ist Lieut. 

Co. E, March 14, '66. 
Hutchinson Lemuel M., of Worcester, age 22, private Co. A, 8th Regt., Oct. 

I, '61; ist Sergt., Feb. 18, '62; 2d Lieut. Co. A, July 23, '62; ist 

Lieut. Co. A, Dec. 24, '62; Capt. Co. E, Nov. 24, '64; mustered out of 

service June 28, '65. 

Janes Henry, of Waterbury, age 29, Surgeon, 3d Regt., June 24, '61; promoted' 

Surgeon U. S. Vols., May 9, '63. 
Jones Nathaniel, Jr., of Moretown, age 39, ist Lieut. Co. B, 13th Regt., 

Aug. 25, '62; died Oct. 30, '62, of disease. 
Joyce Charles H., of Northfield, aged 30, Major, 2d Regt., June 6, '61; 

Lieut. -Col., May 21, '62 ; resigned Jan. 6, '63. 
Joyce William C, of Northfield, age 21, private Co. F, ist Cavalry, Sept. 15, 

'61; re-enlisted Dec. 30, '63 ; Co. -Qr.-M. -Sergt., Nov. 19, '64 ; 2d Lieut. 

Co. F, June 4, '65; transferred to Non. Com. staff as Regt. -Qr.-M. - 

Sergt., June 21, '65 ; mustered out of service as Regt. -Qr.-M. -Sergt., 

Aug. 9, '65. 
Kellogg Truman C, of Worcester, age 38, ist Lieut. Co. E, 8th Regt., Jan. 

1, '62; died July 23, '62, of disease, at Algiers, La. 
King Lorentio H., of Northfield, age 25, private Co. C, ist Cavalry, Sept. 

17, '61; Co. -Qr.-M. -Sergt., Nov. 19, '61; Regt. -Com. -Sergt., Dec. 6,. 

'62, and July 7, '64; died March 11, '65, at Northfield, of disease. 



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Lamb James C, of Montpelier, age 27, private Co. E, 17th Regt., Dec. 23, 

'63; Qr.-M.-Sergt., Oct. 17, '64; ist Lieut. Co. B, July 10, '65; mus- 
tered out of service as Qr.-M.-Sergt., July 14, '65. 
Leonard Joseph VV., of Calais, age 33, ist Lieut. Co. I, nth Regt., Aug. 

13, '62 ; resigned Nov. 11, '62. 
Lessor Alphonso, of Marshfield, age 23, private Co. D, 2d Regt., May 7, '61; 

Corp., June 20, '6 r; Sergt., Jan. 8, '63; re-enlisted Jan. i, '64; ist 

Sergt., Nov. r, '64; wounded July 21, '61, May 5, '64, and Sept. 19, '64; 

ist Lieut., Dec. 24, '64; mustered out of service July 15, '65. 
Lewis Charles J., of Middlesex, age 25, 2d Lieut., Co. D, nth Regt., Aug. 

12, '62; ist Lieut. Co. D, July 11, '63; Capt. Co. D, June 28, '64; 

honorably discharged May 15, '65, for disability. 
Lewis Edwin C, of Northfield, age 20, 2d Lieut. Co. G, 6th Regt., Oct. g, 

'61 ; resigned June 4, '62. 
Livingston Josiah O., of Marshfield, age 24, ist Lieut. Co. I, 9th Regt., 

June 30, '62 ; Adjutant, 9th Regt., June 4, '63 ; promoted Capt. Co. G, 

Oct. 19, '64; mustered out of service June 13, '65. 
Lord Nathan, Jr., of Montpelier, age 30, Lieut. -Col., 5th Regt., Sept. 16, '61; 

Col., 6th Regt., Sept. 16, '61; resigned Dec. 18, '62. 
Martin William E., of Marshfield, age 21, 2d Lieut. Co. C, 13th Regt., 

Aug. 29, '62; ist Lieut. Co. C, Feb. 23, '63 ; mustered out of service 

July 21, '63. 
McElroy Clesson R., of Middlesex, age 35, 2d Lieut. Co. B, 13th Regt., 

Aug. 25, '62 ; ist Lieut., Nov. 4, '62 ; mustered out of service July 

21, '63. 

Morrill Abel, of Cabot, aged 21, private Co. E, 3d Regt., June i, '61; Corp., 

July 16, '61; 2d Lieut. Co. K, Sept. 22, '62 ; ist Lieut. Co. K, Jan. 15, 

'63; Adjutant, April 18, '64; killed in action at Wilderness, May 

6, '64. 
Moseley John L., of Northfield, age 22, ist Lieut. Co. K, 7th Regt., Feb. i, 

'62; Capt., Nov. 23, '63; mustered out of service March 14, '66. 
Moore Winslov/ S., of Warren, age 33, private Co. H, 6th Regt., Aug. 14, 

'61 ; Corp.; re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63 ; Sergt., June 5, '64; wounded Sept. 

19, '64; 2d Lieut. Co. H, June 4, '6=5; mustered out of service Tune 

26, '65. 
Mower Albion J., of Calais, age ^^, Capt. Co. I, 9th Regt., June 30, '62 ; 

resigned July 8, '63. 
Murphy Patrick H., of Roxbury, age 23, private Co. H, 6th Regt., Aug. 14, 

'61; Corp., Oct. 15, '61; Regt. -Com. -Sergt., Dec. i, '62 ; re-enlisted 

Dec. 15, '63; ist Lieut. Co. E, Aug. 8, '64; transferred to Co. A, Oct. 

16, '64, by reason of consolidation of regiment; Capt. Co. G, June 4, 

'65 ; mustered out of service as ist Lieut. Co. A, June 26, 1865. 
Nevins Alfred M., of Moretown, age 39, ist Lieut. Co. G, 6th Regt., 

Oct. 19, '61 ; died April 29, '62, of wounds received in action at Lee's 

Mills, Va., April 16, '62. 

Newton Charles H., of Cabot, age 22, private Co, G, 4th Regt., Aug. 27, '61 ; 
Corp., Dec. i, '61; Sergt., July 5, '62; re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63; 
wounded May 5, '64; ist Lieut. Co. E, Oct. i, '64 ; mustered out of 
service July 13, '65. 



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Nichols George, of Northfield, age 35, Surgeon, 13th Regt., Sept. 24, '62 ; 

mustered out of service July 21, '63. 
Paige Henry M., of Cabot, age 25, 2d Lieut. Co. C, ist Cav., Oct. 14, '61 ; 

ist Lieut. Co. C, Nov. 18, '6r ; Capt. Co. C, Oct. 30, '62; wounded 

July 3, '63 ; Major, July 7, '64; mustered out of service as Capt. Co. C, 

Nov, 18, '64. 
Parker Brainard M., of Northfield, age 23, private Co. C, ist Cav., Sept. 23, 

'61 ; Corp., Nov. 19, '61 ; Sergt. -Major, March x, '63; 3d Lieut. Co. C, 

July 7, '64; mustered out of service Nov. 18, '64. 
Pearce Alonzo E., of Calais, age 23, 2d Lieut. Co. K, 3d Regt., July 11, '61 ; 

ist Lieut. Co. A, Sept. 22, '62 ; Capt. Co. A, Mty 8, '63 ; honorably dis- 
charged Dec. 14, '63, for disability. 
Peck James S., of Montpelier, age 23, 2d Lieut. Co. L 13th, Regt., Sept. 23, 

'62 ; Adjutant, Jan. 22, '63 ; mustered out of service July 21, '63. 
Peck William V., of Calais, age 28, Capt. Co. H., Sept. 23, '62 ; resigned 

Jan. 2, '63. 
Perkins Hiram, of Cabot, age 40, 2d Lieut. Co. H, 13th Regt., Sept. 23, '63 ; 

ist Lieut. Co. H, June 4, '63 ; mustered out of service July 21, '63. 
Perrin William B., of Berlin, age 24, private, 3d Battery Light Artillery, Oct. 

30, '63; Corp., Jan. 1, '64; Sergt., Jan. 31, '64; 2d Lieut., Jan. 2, '65 ; 

ist Lieut., Tune 13, '61;; mustered out of service as 2d Lieut., June 15, 

'65. 
Phillips Walter A., of Calais, age 20, private Co. H, 13th Regt., Aug. 19, 

'62 ; ist Sergt., Oct. 10, '62; 2d Lieut. Co. H, June 4, '63 ; mustered 

out of service July 21, '63; 2d Lieut., 3d Battery Light Artillery, Dec. 

12, '63; ist Lieut., Jan. 2, '64; honorably discharged Feb. 3, '65, for 

disability. 
Pitkin Parley P., of Montpelier, age 35, Qr.-M., 2d Regt., June 6, '61; pro- 
moted Capt. and A.-Qr.-M. U. S. Vols., April 3, '62. 
Poland Joseph M., of Montpelier, age 21, Adjutant, 15th Regt., Oct. 2, '62 ; 

mustered out of service Aug. 5, '63. 
Prentiss Samuel E., of Montpelier, age 20, private Co. I, 13th Regt., Aug. 

25, '62 ; ist Lieut. Co. I, Feb. 23, '6^ ; mustered out of service 

July 2 1, '63. 
Putnam Isaac A., of East Montpelier, age 24, private Co. G, 4th Regt., Aug. 

24, '61 : ist Sergt., Sept. 21, '61 ; 2d Lieut. Co. H, Jan. 19, '62; ist 

Lieut. Co. C, Oct. 20, '6^; killed in action at Wilderness, Va., May 

Randall Charles W., of Montpelier, age 18, Sergt. -Maj., T3th Regt., Oct. 10, 

'62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. G, Jan. 22, '63 ; mustered out of service July 21, '63. 
Randall Francis V., of Montpelier, age 37, Capt. Co. F, 2d Regt., May 20, 

'61 ; Col., 13th Regt., Sept. 24, '62; mustered out of service July 21, 

'63 ; Col., 17th Regt., Feb. 10, '64; mustered out of service July 14, '65. 
Rice James, of Montpelier, age 32, Capt. Co. F, nth Regt., Aug. 12, '62 ; 

honorably discharged April 28, '65, for disability. 
Riker James B., of Montpelier, age 19, private 1st Bat. Lt. Art., Dec. 31, '61 ; 

Qr.-M. -Sergt., Sept. 20, '62; Sergt. -Major, Sept. i, '63 ; 2d Lieut., Feb. 

14, '64; mustered out of service Aug. 10, '64. 
Robinson George S., of Barre, age 32, Capt. Co. E, 17th Regt., April 12. 

'64; wounded April 2, '65 ; mustered out of service July 14, '65. 



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Shaw Henry C, of Waitsfield, Assistant Surgeon, 5th Regt., Aug. 15. '6t ; 

died Sept. 7, '62, of disease, at Alexandria, Va. 
Scott Luther B., of Cabot, age 26, private Co. G, 4th Regt., Sept. 4, '61 ; 

Sergt., Sept. 21, '61 ; ist Sergt.; 2d Lieut. Co. E, Aug. i, '62 ; wounded 

May 5, '64; killed in action at Charlestown, Va., Aug. 21, '64. 
Smith Amasa T., of Calais, age 20, ist Lieut. Co. K, 3d Regt., July 11, '61 ; 

Capt. Co. K, Jan, 15, '63; resigned Feb. 13, '63. 
Smith Coridon D., of Calais, age 23, ist Lieut., zd Bat. Lt. Art., Dec. 13, 

'61 ; dismissed the service July 30, '62. 
Spaulding Allen, of Roxbury, age 45, 2d Lieut. Co. K, 7th Regt., Feb. t, '62 ; 

ist Lieut. Co. K, Nov. 3, '63 ; resigned July 13, '64. 
Spaulding Charles C, of Montpelier, age 36, Sergt.- Major, 5th Regt., Sept. 

16, '6r ; ist Lieut. Co. D, Nov. 5, '61 ; discharged Oct. to, '62, for 

disability. 
Stetson Ezra, of Montpelier, age 37, ist Lieut. Co. B, loth Regt., Aug. 4, 

'62; killed at Cold Harbor, Va., June i, '64. 
Stickney Edward J., of Montpelier, age 19, private Co. B, loth Regt., July 

30, '62; Corp., Sept. I, '62 ; Sergt., March 27, '64; 1st Sergt., Sept. i, 

'64; 2d Lieut. Co. B, Dec. 19, '64 ; ist Lieut., March 22, '65; mus- 
tered out of service June 29, '65. 
Stone Edward P., of Berlin, age 31, Chaplain, 6th Regt., Oct. 10, '61 ; re- 
signed Aug. 23, '63. 
Stone Levi H., of Northfield, Chaplain, ist Regt., April 26, '61 ; mustered 

out of service Aug. 15, '61. 
Taplin Eben, of Montpelier, age 25, private 3d Bat. Lt. Art., Dec. 16, '63; 

Corp., Jan. (, '64; wounded Aug. 8, '64; Qr.-M. -Sergt., Au'j;. 23, '64; 

2d Lieut., Feb. 28, '65 ; mustered out of service as Qr.-M. -Sergt., June 

15- '65- 
Taylor Nelson A., of Montpelier, age 30, Qr.-M.-Sergt., 13th Regt., Oct. 10, 

'62; Qr.-M., Nov. 28, '62; mustered out of service July 21, '63. 
Templeton Robinson, of Worcester, age 31, ist Lieut. Co. H, 6th Regt., 

Oct. 4, '61; resigned Feb. 17, '62. 
Thacher John M., of Barre, age 26, Capt. Co. I, r3th Regt., Sept. 23, '62; 

mustered out of service July 21, '63. 
Thompson Lucian D., of VVaterbury, age 31, 2d Lieut. Co. B, loth Regt., 

Aug. 4. '62 ; ist Lieut. Co. G, Dec. 27, '62 ; Capt. Co. D, June 17, '64 ; 

killed at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, '64. 
Thompson Ozias H., of Barre, age 27, private Co. K, 3d Regt., June 20, 

'61 ; ist Sergt., July 16, '61 ; re-enlisted Dec. 21, '63 ; 2d Lieut. Co. K, 

Aug. 4, '64; ist Lieut., June 4, '65; mustered out of service as 2d 

Lieut., July 1 1, '65. 
Tilden Eldon A., of Barre, age 22, private Co. D, 2d Regt., May 7, '61 ; 

Sergt., May 20, '61 ; ist Sergt.; 2d Lieut, Co. D, Nov. 20, '63; mus- 
tered out of service June 29, '64. 
Thomas Darius, of Northfield, age 35, Cipt. Co, F, 12th, Regt., Sept. ii, 

'62 ; mustered out of service July 14, '63. 
Trask Frank A., of Warren, age 27, private Co. G, 6th Regt., Sept 12, '61 ; 

Corp.; ist Sergt., June 1, '64 ; re-enlisted Sept. 14, '64; 2d Lieut. Co. 

G, Nov. 12, '64; ist Lieut. Co. G, March 10, '65 ; mustered out of 

service June 26, '65. 



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Tucker Silas B., of Northfield, age 28, 2d Lieut. Co. I, nth Regt., Aug. 13, 

'62; ist Lieut. Co. C, July 11, '63; wounded Sept. 19, '64; Capt. Co. 

C, Dec. 2, '64; mustered out of service July 24, '65. 
Turner Orlando T., of Moretown, age 21, private Co. D, 2d Regt., March 

7, '6r ; Corp., Oct. i, '6r ; re-enlisted Jan. 31, '64; Sergt., July 19, '64 : 

ist Sergt, Feb. 7, '65 ; 2d Lieut. Co. D, June 7, '65 ; mustered out of 

service as ist Sergt., July 15, '65. 
Vaughan Alvan P., of Woodbury, age 23, private Co. I, 9th Regt., June 18, 

'62; ist Sergt., July 9, '62; 2d Lieut. Co. I, Jan. 6, '63; ist Lieut., 

June 4, '63; resigned May 2, '65. 
Vincent Walter S., of Plainfield, age 25, appointed Assistant Surgeon, 9th 

Regt., April 20, '63; Surgeon, Nov. 15, '64; mustered out of service 

June 13, '65. 
Webb Charles A., of Northfield, age 22, ist Lieut. Co. F, rst Regt., April 

22, '61 ; mustered out of service Aug. 15, '61. 
Wells Ransom A., of Northfield, age 21, private Co. I, nth Regt., July 15, 

'62; Corp., Sept. I, '62; Sergt., Dec. 26, '63; ist Sergt., Jan. i, '65 ; 

2d Lieut. Co. M., May 23, '65 ; mustered out of service as ist Sergt. 

Co. I, June 24, '65. 
Wells William, of Waterbury, age 31, ist Lieut. Co. C, ist Cav., Oct. 

14, '61 ; Capt. Co. C, Nov. 18, '61 ; Maj., Oct. 3, '62 ; wounded July 

6 and Sept. 13, '63 ; Col., June 4, '64 ; Brevet Brig. -Gen., Feb. 22, '65 ; 

promoted Brig. -Gen. U. S. Vols., May 19, '65. 
Whitney Elijah, of Middlesex, age 31, ist Lieut. Co. F, 6th Regt., Oct. 8, 

'61 ; resigned June 19, '62. 
WiUiams Carlos D., of Northfield, age 19, private Co. F, 12th Regt., Aug. 191 

'62 ; ist Sergt., Oct. 4, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. F, Dec. 4, '62 ; ist Lieut- 
Co. F, March lo, '63; mustered out of service July 14, '63. 
Wilder Orcas C, of Waitsfield, age 34, Capt. Co. B, 13th Regt., Aug. 25, 

'62 ; mustered out of service July 21, '63. 
Worcester Almond, Jr., of Warren, age 21, private Co. F, 2d Regt., May 20, 

'61 ; ist Sergt., June 20, '61 ; 2d Lieut. Co. F, Aug. 4, '62; ist Lieut., 

Oct. I, '62; wounded May 12, '64; mustered out of service June 

24, '64. 

WASHINGTON COUNTY BENCH AND BAR. 
By Hon. Hiram A. Huse. 

COUNTY LIMITS. 

The Indians exercised practical jurisdiction overall the lands now included 
in Washington county till 1781 or 1782, when Thomas Mead made the first 
permanent white settlement in Middlesex, a mile or more below Montpeiier. 
White men had, however, before that taken to themselves paper or parch- 
ment title — what Col. Orange Fifield would call " a paper front " if describ- 
ing their invasion — to a good many acres. 

The following charters had been granted by New Hampshire : Berlin, 



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June 7, 1763. to Chauncey Grayham and others : Duxbury, June 7, 1763, 
to Isaac Brown and others; Middlesex, June 8, 1763; Moretown, June 7, 
1763, to Jonah Foster and others; Waterbury, June 7, 1763, to John Stiles 
and others; and WorcestCi", June 8, 1763, to Joshua Mason and others. 

Grants of other towns had been given by Vermont : In 1780, Barre (under 
name of Wildersburgh, changed to Barre in 1793), Cabot, Calais, Montpelier, 
Northfield, Roxbury, Warren, and Woodbury (name changed to Monroe in 
1838 and back to Woodbury in 1843); and in 1782 Vermont granted Fays- 
ton, Marshfield, and Waitsfield, and in 1788 Plainfield (called St. Andrews 
Gore till 1797). 

New York had also granted, under the name of Kilby, a township of land 
including a part of Montpelier, Berlin, and Barre. No attention seems to 
have been paid to this grant except that knowledge of it angered still more 
the Aliens and others who were resisting the New York claims. 

New Hampshire began granting towns in 1749, and in 1764 had granted 
138 towns in what is now Vermont territory. In 1764 an order of the King 
in Council made the western bank of the Connecticut river the boundary 
between New Hampshire and New York, and New York began granting not 
only lands not before granted by New Hampshire, but also regranting such 
granted lands on which settlements had been made. This granting by New 
York was forbidden by the king in 1767, but the New York authorities con- 
strued the order to apply only to lands already granted by New Hampshire. 

The jurisdiction of New Hampshire courts may at some time have been 
exercised over Vermont lands or persons, but where and when does not 
clearly appear. In fact, till about 1769 or 1771, New Hampshire was not 
divided into counties, and between 1749 and 1764 her courts appear to have 
been held wholly at Portsmouth. So the grantees of the six Washington county 
towns chartered by New Hampshire in 1763 would have had to repair to the 
shores of the Atlantic to find legal adjudication in respect of their Vermont 
property. The order of the king in 1764 put Vermont territory under con- 
trol of New York, although it may have left the New Hampshire charters 
valid, and then all Vermont was (on paper) in Albany county, and her inhab- 
itants would (on paper again) have to " 'tend court " at Albany on the banks 
of the Hudson instead of at Portsmouth. As a matter of fact they settled 
land titles and administered justice nearer home with the " beech seal." 

New York soon took measures for the administration of her laws in the 
territory thus declared within her jurisdiction, and beginning in 1766 took 
measures to establish the county of Cumberland, and effected this finally by 
a charter of March 17 or 19, 1768, — the boundaries were the west bank of 
the Connecticut, thence twenty-six miles to the southeast corner of Stamford, 
thence north fifty-six miles to the northeast corner of Socialborough (Clar- 
endon), thence north fifty-three degrees east thirty miles to the south corner 
of Tunbridge, thence by the south line of Tunbridge, Strafford, and Thetford 
to the Connecticut. The county seat was first Chester, then Westminster. 



42 WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



By a New York ordinance of March i6, 1770, Gloucester county was 
established out of that part of Albany county lying north of Cumberland 
county and east of the Green Mountains, and May 29 of that year, at Kings- 
land (or Kingsborough), now Washington, the first court for Gloucester 
county was held. A full account of this may be found in Child's Gazetteer 
of Orange County. The next winter the judges and sheriff going to hold 
this court found themselves "far in the woods," and court ''opened on the 
spot," and court, " if one," was adjourned till May. Some courts were after- 
ward held for Gloucester county at Newbury, and Washington county was in- 
cluded in Gloucester's territory, but it had no white inhabitants. Charlotte 
county was established. west of the Green Mountains, March 12, 1772, but its 
doings do not concern the east side. In fact, the New York jurisdiction was 
so hated by a large portion of the inhabitants that it had a hard time of it 
generally. 

When Vermont came into her own, and, as one old niapmaker has it, her 
inhabitants held their lands " by the triple title of honest purchase, of in- 
dustry in settling, and now lately that of conquest," she organized the new- 
state into two counties, on the 17th day of March, 1778, and called them 
Bennington and Unity. The name of Unity was changed to that of Cum- 
berland, March 21, 1778. Cumberland included the territory east of the 
Green Mountains, and was divided into two shires by '"the ancient county 
line." The "shire of Newbury" had, by act of March 24, 1778, for its 
judges : Gen. Jacob Bailey, ist judge; Mr. Jacob Burton, 2d; Mr. William 
Heaton,3d; Mr. Reuben Foster, 4th; and Capt. John French, 5th; — so 
these were the first Vermont judges over territory that is now Washington 
county, and the reader is referred to the Gazetteer above named for some 
account of them. But as yet Washington county had no white folks within, 
its borders, and it was indeed more than two years after this that the Indians,, 
returning from the burning of Royalton, camped with their prisoners near 
Dog river in Berlin. The Westminster shire was sometimes called the 
Cumberland shire, and the Newbury shire sometimes called the Gloucester 
shire. 

February 11, 1779, Bennington county and Cumberland county had their 
dividing line rearranged, Bennington county gaining some territory by the 
new bounds. Some of what is now Washington county fell to Bennington 
county, and some remained in Cumberland county, as the line between the 
counties ran in the northerly half of the state from " fifty miles east of Lake 
Champlain's center channel south to the northeast corner of Worcester and 
along the easterly lines of Worcester, Middlesex, and Berlin, to the southwest 
corner of Berlin and then to the northwest corner of Tunbridge." Not an easily 
traceable line, but there was nobody within the present limits of Washington 
county to quarrel about it. 

It may be here observed that the present Washington county is not the 
first Washington county that Vermont has had. When the new state was 



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annexing parts of New Hampshire and New York at its April session of 
1 781, the Vermont legislature established a county by the name of Washing- 
ton from the towns it had annexed east of the Connecticut river : that Wash- 
ington county had for its northerly towns Claremont, Newport, (N. H.,) 
Unity, and Wendal ; but when the forty-five New Hampshire towns were re- 
stored, February 21, 1782, to their own state, of course the earlier Washington 
county ceased to exist, but its even temporary establishment was a very timely 
compliment to Gen. Washington. 

At the February session, 1781, Bennington county was divided into two 
counties — Bennington substantially as now existing, and Rutland embracing 
the territory to the north that was formerly in Bennington county; and Cum- 
berland county was divided into three counties — Windham and Windsor 
substantially as now existing, and Orange comprising all territory to the 
north of Windsor and east of Rutland counties to the Canada line. Thet- 
ford and Newbury were constituted "half shires " for the county of Orange, 
and that county, by the way, till 1787, had for one of its towns Kingston, now 
Granville. October 18, 1785, the county of Addison was established, and 
the western part of Washington county was included therein. This lasted 
till the act of October 22, 1787, establishing Chittenden county, went into 
effect, after which the western towns of Washington county were part in Addi- 
son and part in Chittenden county. November 5, 1792, the counties of Frank- 
lin, Caledonia, Orleans, and Essex were established, but all the original terri- 
tory belonging to Orange county was to " continue to be annexed " to Orange 
county till October i, 1796. After Caledonia county was in running order 
its courts were held at Danville till after the organization of Washington 
county under the name of Jefferson, in iSri. So from the organization of 
Chittenden county to December i, 1796, (when Caledonia county became a 
working entity,) Washington county towns were divided between three coun- 
ties, and from December i, 1796, to December i, 181 1, our present territory 
was in four counties ; the towns of Barre, Berlin, Northfield, and Roxbury 
being in Orange county — Cabot, Calais, Marshfield, Montpelier, Plainfield 
(till 1797 called St. Andrews), and Woodbury being in Caledonia county — 
Duxbury, Fayston, Middlesex, Moretown, Waitsfield, Waterbury, and Wood- 
bury being in Chittenden county, and Warren in Addison county. 

November i, 18 10, — a couple of years after Montpelier had become the 
capital of the state, — Jefferson county was incorporated after ineffectual 
attempts to amend the bill and to refer it to the next session, which last pro- 
posal was defeated by a vote of 90 yeas to loi nays. John Peck, Gershom 
Palmer, and Nicholas Baylies were appointed a committee to designate the 
place of building a jail and court-house, and to procure subscriptions and 
build. The new county was set going by acts of the session of 181 1. One, 
passed October 16, of that year, fixed the place of holding courts at Mont- 
pelier ; the term of the Supreme Court to be held on the 5th Tuesday after 
the 4th Tuesday of August, and the terms of the County Court to be on the 



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first Mondays of December and June. By an act of October 30, 181 1, Ezra 
Butler, justice of the peace, was authorized to issue a venire, directed to the 
sheriff of Chittenden county, to summon fifteen jurymen, being freeholders, 
from Waterbury, Moretown, Duxbury, Stowe, and Middlesex, to serve as 
petit jurors for the first term of court beginning the first Monday of Decem- 
ber, 181 1. 

The territory embraced in the county of Jefferson was nearly that of the 
present county of Washington. The territorial changes since made are as 
-follows: Stowe remained in this county till 1836, when it was set to the new 
county of Lamoille; Elmore was annexed to this county in 1821, and re- 
mained a part of it till 1836, when Lamoille county was established; Rox- 
bury was annexed (from Orange county) in 1820; Warren (from Addison 
county) in 1829 ; and Woodbury (in 1835) and Cabot (in 1855) from Cale- 
donia county. Montpelier's division into Montpelier and East Montpelier, 
in 1849, gave the county another town without increase of territory. Goshen 
Gore by Plainfield (annexed to Plainfield in 1874) and Harris Gore were 
annexed (from Caledonia county) August i, 1863. 

November 8, 18 14, an act was passed changing the name of Jefferson 
county to Washington county, and on the ist day of December following this 
act took effect. 

CoURT-HoUSES. 

A lawyer's successes are written on the shifting sands of tradition. The 
place where they are won soon knows them no more; and is often itself 
speedily forgotten. But as long as the tradition lasts the setting of the legal 
drama has an interest. 

The dramatic possibilities of a trial receive full recognition by playwrights 
and actors in their frequent attempts to reach what seems curiously unattain- 
able — a realistic court scene. How they succeed in getting up so many 
variations of failure is a mystery — but they do it all the same, and all the time. 
I have seen, when Edwin Booth was on the stage, one of the "attendants 
with "torches " actively open the scene by setting Othello's plume on fire, and 
have heard, when Joseph Jefferson was " Rip " in the Catskill Mountains, the 
stage thunder get out of repair to that degree that better could have been 
made on an average sap pan — but never anything so unreal with stranger, new 
forms, " both horrible and awfu', " of unreality as a stage trial. 

The school-house in the shadow of Camel's Hump, where George F. Fld- 
munds and Matt Carpenter had their night contest, when they were students, 
before a justice jury, was a sample " temple of justice," in the like of which 
many of the best lawyers say they got their best training. These justice jury 
trials are pretty much gone by — and the habit of having them was better for 
the training of lawyers than for the business progress of the communities ; 
•but all is not lost, for the justice courts — and the Supreme Court for that 



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4s; 



matter — are still "on wheels," and shed more or less benignant judgments 
here and there as the convenience of the plaintiff's lawyer and the supposed 
convenience of the parties and witnesses dictate. 

There are compensations in other directions, too, in the changes that time 
has made. When Judge Poland, who was in the legislature ten years ago,, 
had procured the passage of a law providing for the appointment of " masters 
to find and report the facts" in chancery cases, Judge Peck gave him a 
Scotch blessing for having " destroyed the Court of Chancery — the growth of 
and the product of the wisdom of hundreds of years." Judge Poland's law 
seems to work well, however, as his new pauper law may if the Supreme 
Court's period of incubation over its interpretation is ever determined — 
and besides we have efforts toward an assumption of chancery powers 
in unexpected quarters — the late equitable judgment of a Washington 
county justice of the peace for the plaintiff to ''recover eighty-five 
dollars and a gigg " having been within a few days equalled if not excelled 
bya Rutland County Court jury, which m a tiowage case added to their ver- 
dict for damages an order that the defendant should remove from his dam 
" within ten days " the boards causing the flowage. 

But this hardly describes our Montpelier court-houses ; and indeed, were 
it not for one of our profession whose memory goes back to its days, I could 
hardly describe the first one at all. The committee at first appointed to build 
a court-house do not seem to have made progress, for November 9, 181 2, 
the use of the hall of the State House was granted for the holding of courts for 
the year ensuing. And upon such grants, or without them, the courts for 
this county were held, till the latter part of 1818, in the old State House 
which, first occupied in 1808, was upon the completion of the second State 
House, about 1837, moved away and its timbers were bought by A. A. Sweet,. 
and many of them used by him in the construction of the house sometime 
known as the E. M. Brown house, now the property of the estate of Capt. 
A. A. Mead. 

November 6, 1 8 1 7 , Chapin Keith, George Worthington,and John Peck were 
appointed a committee to build a court-house, and on the 18th of that month 
they contracted with Salvin Collins and David Herrington for its erection. 
The contractors were to build and did build " near the northwest corner of 
the State House common." That common at that time did not extend as 
far west as now, so that the old courthouse was nearly in front of the present 
State House. At that time the turnpike to Burlington ran along pretty near 
where the State House now is, and State street, at least below the Pavilion, 
did not exist. The court-house was thirty-four '"eet wide and forty eight feet 
long, and there were by the contract to be " three door steps twelve feet 
long and hewed of the Barre ledge stones." Our Barre neighbors — they of 
the booming town of Vermont — can see that even then their product was 
prized, but think of calling the now famous " Barre granite " just " the Barre 
ledge stones !" 



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The court-room was 33 by 34 feet, "arched above," and "21 feet between 
joints." There were four "jury-rooms '" in the front of the building, two on 
the first and two on the second floor; back of these was the court-room 
reaching to the roof. There were in the court-room " nine windows of forty 
lights each," and in other parts of the house "seventeen windows of twenty- 
four lights each" — all the lights to be of "good 8 by 10 glass." The building 
was to be completed September i, 18 18, and was occupied the fall of that 
year, though the contractors and the committee had a falling out about the 
amount due, as it was claimed and so decided that in some points they had 
failed to build according to the contract, though in others they had builded 
better than required by its terms. 

This court-house remained where erected till about 1837, when it was 
moved to where it now stands. It continued to be used as a court-house 
till the fall of 1843, after which it was for a time used by the Catholics as a 
church, and of late years has been the residence of the priest in charge of 
St. Augustine's church. 

The first trial for a capital crime ever had in this county was in the days 
of this old wooden court-house, but was not held in it, but in the hall of the 
old State House. This trial began April 21, 1836, and was that of Michael 
Moricey (or Morrisey) for the murder of John Corrigan, at Montplier, April 
2, 1836. The crime was committed at Moricey's house near the lower end 
of Barre street, and was by hitting Corrigan with a club so that he died in a 
few hours from the efi^ects of the blow. The trial was concluded the day 
after it began, and the accused was found guilty of manslaughter and sen- 
tenced to ten years imprisonment. Paul Dillingham was state's attorney, 
and Miller and Upham were counsel for the respondent. 

In 1843 a new brick court-house was erected, at a cost of about $3,500, 
on Elm street and partly on the site of the present court-house. At the first 
term of court held in the new building it caught fire and was burned about 
3 o'clock in the morning of Tuesday, November 28, 1843. The files in 
pending cases were burned and one volume of old records. Court was con- 
tinued in Masonic hall, and nobody seemed to regret the,loss of the house, as 
it was very unsatisfactory in both location and construction. 

The property on the corner of State and Elm streets was procured by sub- 
scription, and when a new court-house was erected it was made to front 
State street, and proved a very satisfactory building. The judge's desk was 
in the west part of the court-room and had a very resonant top which Judge 
Peck now and then used to strike with vigor. That desk top was, as Judge 
Peck used to say some old lawyer told him the statement of a legal proposi- 
tion ought to be, "as hard and dry as a pine knot. " It was this he struck 
when he commanded Col. Randall to "stop !" — and the same that resounded 
to his blow when he roared out at the witness Rockwell, " answer his 
questions or I '11 commit you to jail," and Rockwell shrunk down in his chair 
saying, " Lord, have mercy!" The jury box was in the northwest corner, 



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the jury facing the south and so unable to see the " Goddess on the State 
House " that caught the eye of the excited advocate who was painting the 
heartlessness of the persecutor of his client ; waving his hand toward the 
window from which he but not the jury could see the statue, the climax came, 
" heartless as the brozen image that now stands before you." 

In 1878 an addition to this court-house was authorized, and in 1879 i* 
was built and the old part of the house remodeled at a cost of $10,000. 
The courtroom then obtained was never surpassed in acoustic properties. 
May 25, 1880, the court-house was burned, but the walls left standing. The 
same year it was rebuilt in its present shape, the building now being twenty- 
two feet longer than before the addition made in 1879. 

The Supreme Court has, beginning with May, 1887, held its term for 
Washington county and its General Term in the court-room of the library 
annex to the State House, which was built in 1885-86. 

There is now building just west of the county court-house a large and 
elegant postoffice and court-house for the United States government — a 
structure that will be largely a monument to the untiring industry of Senator 
Morrill, and to the great esteem in which he is held by his fellow legislators 
in the national capital. 

The Early Courts. 

From the organization of the county till the third Tuesday of October, 
1825, the Supreme Court consisted of one chief judge and two assistant 
judges, chosen by the legislature each year. This court had only appellate 
jurisdiction in civil cases (except where the state was a party) ; in criminal 
cases it had both appellate and original jurisdiction, the latter in the graver 
crimes, such as treason, murder, arson, rape, burglary, robbery, perjury, adul- 
tery, forgery, horse stealing, counterfeiting, &c., &c. The judges of this 
court did not, till 1825, preside in County Court. 

The county courts, up to October, 1825, consisted of one chief judge and 
two assistants, chosen yearly by the legislature — from 1825 the present law, 
by which a judge of the Supreme Court presides in County Court, has been 
in force, except during the Circuit Court experiment, which lasted from 1850 
to 1857. The Circuit Court was helped out of existence, or into it, I have 
been told, by Stephen Herrick, of Middlesex, who had a lawsuit about a 
railroad contract and was persistent in litigation as in all other things. The 
County Court, as it existed at the organization of the county, had cognizance 
of such criminal and civil matters as was not given to the Supreme Court or 
justices of the peace. The jurisdiction of justices of the peace was limited 
in criminal cases to those where the fine did not exceed seven dollars, and 
where the corporal punishment did not exceed ten stripes, and in civil cases 
(except for slander, replevin, trespass on the freehold, and some others) 
where the matter was less than thirty- three dollars, and in some cases (on 



48 WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



note, settled account, etc.) up to fifty-three dollars. The pillory and whip- 
ping were, it is true, not used as late as 181 1, but they were on the statute 
book, if not as usable punishments, yet as jurisdictional lines. They went out 
of use by the act of November 9, 1808, which enacted that whenever a con- 
viction should be had for a crime in which part of the punishment was pillory 
or whipping, the courts " may in their discretion dispense with the pillory 
and whipping, and in case of crimes hereafter committed against the statute 
last aforesaid, said court shall omit the pillory and whipping." The county 
courts were entirely distinct from the supreme courts. 

When the county was organized John Marshall was chief justice of the 
United States Supreme Court. Joseph Story was a member of that court, 
and Elijah Paine was United States district judge for the district of Ver- 
mont. Royal Tyler, who had written a novel and a drama, was chief judge 
of the Vermont Supreme Court, and his assistants were Tlieophilus Harring- 
ton (who would not hold one man could own another without the " produc- 
tion of a bill of sale from Almighty God "), and David Fay, who was the 
youngest son of Stephen Fay, and a brother of Jonas and Joseph Fay, and 
who himself, when fifteen years old, served as a fifer in Capt. Robinson's 
company at the battle of Bennington. Nathaniel Chipman, Asa Aldis, Rich- 
ard Skinner, Dudley Chase, C. P. Van Ness, and Richard Skinner again 
followed in pretty quick succession as chief judges before the court was in- 
creased to four judges in 1825, and to five judges in 1828. Within twenty 
years after the organization of this county three members of its bar had been 
upon the Supreme Court bench — James Fisk, of Bxrre, and Samuel Prentiss 
and Nicholas Baylies, of Montpelier, 

The Firs'J" Term. 

Monday, December 2, 181 1, the first term of County Court for Washington 
county was convened. Ezra Butler, of Waterbury, afterwards governor, was 
chief judge, and his assistants were Salvin Collins and Bradford Kinne. 
Clark Stevens, the good Quaker of Montpelier, had been elected judge by the 
legislature of 1811, but he did not wish to be a judge, and Mr. Collins was 
elected upon his declining to accept the office. With Judge Butler, hovvever, 
it was not a case of '• nolo episcopari," for he was a Baptist clergyman, and was 
willing to overlook and judge things both temporal and eternal. 

The jurors summoned were Richard Kneeland, Chester Marshall, and 
Joseph Darling, of VVaterbury ; John L. Kenedy, Adonijah Atherton, and 
fason Crossett, of Duxbury ; Nathan Benton, Jr., Ebenezer Mayo, and Elia- 
kim Hawkes, of Moretown ; Samuel Mann, Samuel Montague, and Lovel 
Warren, of Middlesex; and Joseph Churchill, Simeon Burke, and Reuben 
Wells, of Stowe. The first jury trial was on the second day of the term, and 
was in the case of Jonathan F. Gibson vs. Charles Huntoon, and the jury 
was composed of the above named jurors, with the exception of Kenedy, who 



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was absent, and Burke and Wells, who were excused. Timothy Merrill was 
for the plaintifif, and Prentiss & Vail for the defendant. The jury did not 
agree and the " papers were taken back," and the case continued. 

The number of cases on the "old docket " was 138, and the new entries 
were 140. The old docket was made up of cases sent from Orange, Caledo- 
nia, and Chittenden counties. There were eight cases on the old docket and 
five cases of the new entries tried by jury. There were agreements in all the 
other cases tried by jury; these were on the old docket : No. 8, Prentiss & 
Vail and Dudley Chase for plaintiff, and Merrill and Cyrus Ware for de- 
fendant, verdict for plaintiff $41.37 and costs ($40); No. 20, Denison Smitb 
for plaintiff, and Dudley Chase for defendant, verdict for defendant to recover 
his costs ($35.39); No. 65. Nicliolas Baylies for plaintiff, and Bulkeley & Loomis 
for defendant, verdict for plaintiff for $198.17 and costs ($41.95); No. 70^ 
Prentiss & Vail for plaintiff, and Dudley Chase for defendent. verdict for 
plaintiff for $139 00 and costs ($42.62) ; No. 74, Prentiss & Viil for plaintiff,, 
and Bulkeley & Loomis for defendant, verdict for plaintiff for $76.58 and 
costs ($30.87); No. 87, Dan Carpenter for plaintiff, and Bulkeley & Loomis 
for defendant, verdict for plaintiff for $12.50 and costs ($10.33); ^^- 57» 
Bulkeley & Loomis for plaintiff, and Prentiss & Vail for defendant, verdict for 
plaintiff for $2,573,42 and costs ($30.42). The new entry cases tried by jury 
were No. 17, Prentiss & Vail for plaintiff, and Cyrus Ware for defendant, 
verdict for defendant to recover his costs ($15.90); No. 28, Cyrus Ware for 
plaintiff, and Prentiss & Vail for defendant, verdict for plaintiff for $ro 65 
and costs ($29.90); No. 71, Bulkeley & Loomis for plaintiff, and Prentiss & 
Vail for defendant, verdict for plaintiff for $56.00 damages and defendant- 
appealed ; No. 80, Bulkeley & Loomis for plaintiff, and Cyrus Ware for de- 
fendant, verdict for plaintiff for $40.00 damages and defendant appealed ; 
and No. 86, Bulkeley & Loomis for plaintiff, and Prentiss & Vail for defend- 
ant, verdict for $47.37 and costs ($20.60). 

Of the 138 cases on the old docket there appear, by the docket on the 
plaintiffs' side, to have been entered forty-nine by Dan Carpenter, of 
Waterbury ; one by Dan Carpenter and G. Robinson ; (I find the 
name of no such lawyer as G. Robinson in any county in 181 1 — per- 
haps he was "empowered" by the plaintiff under the 23d section of 
the judiciary act of 1797, and had "filed his power with the clerk,"" 
in which case he could appear for a party, doubtless " without the bar," a» 
will be seen in Judge Kinne's case hereafter.) twenty by Denison Smith, of 
Barre ; three by Denison Smith and Bulkeley & Loomis ; twenty-six by Bulke- 
ley & Loomis ; eleven by Prentiss & Vail ; five by T. Merrill ; one by S, 
Prentiss, Jr.; three by Nicholas Baylies ; three by Cyrus Ware ; and other 
scattering names from other counties including Dudley Chase, of Randolph, 
Horace Everett, of Windsor, Roger G. Bulkeley, of Williamstown, Moses 
Chase, of Bradford, Keyes, Foot, and Adams, of Burlington, and some others. 
The principal entries for defendants were Bulkeley & Loomis in twenty-eight 
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•cases, Prentiss & Vail in twenty one cases, Din Carpenter in seven cases, 
T. Merrill in eiglit cases, Denison S nith in five cases, C. Adams in four 
cases, Dudley Chase in four cases, and C. P. Van Ness in two cases. 

Of the 140 cases on the ne^r docket —or the "new entries" — Dan Car- 
penter entered twenty- )ne, Bu keley & L )Oinis fifty-one, Prentiss & Vail fif- 
teen, D^nison S:Tiith sixteen, Merrill nine, N Baylies thirteen, Cyrus Ware 
two, and other scattering entries. Prent'ss & Vail appeared for the defense in 
forty-seven cases, Merrill in sixteen cises, Balkeley & Loomis in ten cases, 
Cyrus Ware in nine case-^, Denison Smith in five cases, and Dan Carpenter 
in one case, with other scattering entries of other attorneys. 

The jury this term were paid $160.58, and talesmen received $4.50. 
Tudge Butler received for his libors for the term $10490, Judge Collins and 
Judge Kinne $83.93 each. The state received cash for entries $65.25, cash 
for jury fees $93.00. cash for revieArs and appeals $33.50, and cash for 
licenses $72 50. The June term, 181 2, was not as costly, the jury receiv- 
ing then $ 105.90, Judge Butler $101.93, and Judges Collins and Kinne $81 54 
each. The first term had about two weeks' work in it, the court sitting on 
the 2d, 3d, and 4th of December, then adj )uriiing to the i6th and sitting till 
the 28th. Imprisonment for debt continued till 1839, and at the first term 
the entry of "defendant committed" is found on the docket in seven 
cases. 

The first year's licenses " to keep a tavern " were to Ziba Hall, Lovel 
Kelton, Thomas Davis, Obadiah Eaton, Sally Hutchins, Jonathan Snow, and 
Michael Hammett, at Montpelier ; to William F. Meeds, John Farrar, and 
Ludowick Luce, at Moretown ; to Samuel Jones and Mehitabel Woodbury, 
•at Berlin ; to Joshua Hill, Lib'^eus Shermin, and Stiles Sherman, at Water- 
bury ; Silas Williams, at Plainfietd ; and Gideon Wheelock, at his house in 
Calais. Licenses "to sell foreign and distilled spirits " were granted to va- 
tIous parties in Montpelier and Barre, also to sell wines and to " retail for- 
-eign and distilled spirits and wines" The licensing of peddlers does not 
appear at this early day, however, nor do the county clerk's records of that 
time show as now, under the beneficent provisions of No. 104 of the laws 
■of 1888, the pedigrees of stallions. Truly the law is a growth. 

The Early F 1 eld. 

The field of operations of the earlier lawyers is worth a moment's atten- 
tion. The towns that went to make up the county had, in 1800, a popula- 
tion of 5,651, and in 1810 of 10.524. Birre increased in those ten years 
from 919 to 1,669 ; Berlin, 685 to 1,067; Calais, 443 to 841 ; Daxbury, 
15310326; Faystoi, 18 to 149; Marshfteld, 172 to 513; Middlesex, 262 
to 401 ; Montpelier, 890 to 1,877 J Moretown, 191 to 405 ; Northfield, 
204 to 426; Pliinfield, 256 to 543; Stowe, 316 to 650; Waitsfield, 
473 to 647; Waterbury, 644 to 966; and Worcester, 25 to 41. Cabot, 



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then in Caledonia county, increased in the same time from 349 to 886 ; 
Woodbury, also in Caledonia county, from 23 to 258 ; Roxbury, then 
in Orange county, from 113 to 361; and Warren, then in Ad lison county, 
from 58 to 229. The comparative wealth of the counties is shown by their 
grand lists for 181 r, when the grand list of Washington, then Jefferson, 
county was about one fourth that of Wmds:)r county, oie-third that of Wi id- 
ham county, two-fifths that of Orange county and of Addison county, and 
one-half that of Bennington county and of Chittenden county. 

Law-breakers were "loungin' rou id and sufferin' " in those days after 
pretty much the same fashion as now. In the first two or three years we 
find respondents ansvering to charges of theft, blasphemy, perjury, not pro- 
curing standard weights and measures, passing counterfeit mo.iey, breaking 
jail, riot, and "keeping a nuisance." 

A great source of income to lawyers in those days was from collection suits 
that came from the general custom of the people of buying on credit and 
paying when sued. Sheriff Keith used to go out with his saddle-bag full of 
writs about every year — justice writs that were principilly in mere collection 
suits. And the County Court docket was also amizingly full, containing, as 
we have seen at the first term, 138 old cases and 140 new ones. June term, 
1812, it had 138 old cases and 169 new entries; December term, 18 [3, 108 
old cases and 1 90 new entries. But as the '* War of 1 8 1 2 " went on, law and 
possibly the lawyers became somewhat silent amid arms. June term, 1814, 
there were eighty old cases and 103 new entries; December term, 1814, 
showed fifty-four cases on the old docket and ninety five new entries ; and 
June term, 1815, there were but fifty-three old cases, while 124 new ones ap- 
peared, business starting up after the war was over. And soon after it started 
up with a vengeance, for the March term, 18 17, showed 131 old cases and 
274 new entries. It is very likely that the hard times following the war were 
intensified by the fearful weather of the summer of 1816. That summer was 
so severe that it drove the inhabitants out of Worcester, but one or two fam- 
ilies remaining, and for two or three years broke up the work of settlement 
there. The writing in an old almanac before me shows the reasons why the 
farmers "got left " in i8i6. The minutes were evidently made by Divid M. 
Camp, who afterwards became lieutenant-governor. They are : "May 14, 
snow; May 29, snow ; May 30, very cold; May 31, hard frost; June 5, 
warm, sultry, thunder, etc.; June 6, snow and hail in the morning, continued 
snowing all day ; June 7, frost, snow all day, water froze an inch thick ; June 
8, snow all day; June 9, more moderate; June 10, cold in the morning, 
ground considerably frozen ; very dry season ; August 22, frost seen in some 
places ; August 24, frost somewhat harder." Mr. Camp's old almanacs also 
show that in September, 1815, a "frost killed everything," and that in 1817 
there was "snow, 16 June ; hard frost, 17 June." It must have been rather 
a cold June term, that of 1816. Up to 1817 county courts began the first 
Mondays of June and December; in 18 17 the time was changed to the 



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second Mondays of March and September, and there have since been various 
changes, till now the second Tuesdays of March and September are for a 
long time settled upon. Many years the terms began in April and November. 

When the county was organized the old Vermont Register and Almanac 
for i8[2 gives eight practicing attorneys and four clergymen as the number 
in its borders. Two attorneys and two clergymen were omitted in that enu- 
meration, however. There were then ten lawyers in Washington county and 
179 in the state ; there were six clergymen in this county and 131 in the state. 
Of the 131 clergymen two were Presbyterians, two Episcopalians, forty-three 
were Baptists, and eighty-four were Congregationalists, and one of the latter 
was the Rev. Publius V. Booge. The six Washington county clergymen were 
Judge Butler, of Waterbury, and Rev. Mr. Perry, of Barre, Baptists ; and 
Aaron Palmer, of Birre, James Hobart, of Berlin, Chester Wright, of Mont- 
pelier, and Amariah Jh in Her, of Waitsfield, Congregationalists. James Fisk, 
of Barre, then in Congress, had preached universal salvation, but had got 
into politics and out of the practice of law if not of gospel. 

Spotted fever, typhus fever, and politics were contagious and flagrant in the 
early history of the county. The first named disease was very fatal in other 
parts of the county in the winter of i8(o-ii, but found but three victims in 
Montpelier, the physicians of the town being very successful in treating their 
many patients. The second was very fatal at the county seat, seventy-eight per- 
sons dying in Montpelier in 18 13, one of them being the wifeofCapt. Jeduthun 
Loomis, a leading lawyer. Tne funeral sermon preached on the occasion of 
her death, by Rev. Chester Wright, is extant, as well as one on the death of 
Sibyl Brown, a little girl who suddenly died of the spotted fever. While Mr. 
Wright was " improving " these occasions to call the minds of the people 
from things temporal to things eternal, the minds aforesaid pretty lar^^ely 
" stuck in the bark " of the war. And Mr. Wright got himself prayed for 
by Elder Ziba Woodworth, who had served in the Revolution, and who was 
called on to pray at a war meeting which Mr. Wright had not seen his way 
clear to pray at when invited. " Uncle Ziba " prayed temporal damnation 
on the heads of opponents of the war as heartily as the other good parson 
preached eternal woe to the unregenerate. Curiously enough Mr. Wright's 
grandson has for years been pastor of the Unitarian church in Montpelier, a 
good man, liberal as his good grandfather was orthodox, while just now his 
grandfather's old church has called to its still orthodox pulpit an eloquent 
clergyman who was a few years ago a Unitarian preacher. The uncertainties 
of the law are still subject-matter of discourse, however. 

In February, 181 2, there was a meeting, described in Thompsons History 
of Montpelier, of interest to lawyers. It was a mass meeting to consider the 
poUcy of the government then aiming at war. The Democrats first obtained 
control and chose Ezra Butler, the preacher and the judge, to preside ; the 
Federalists came in soon in strength and reorganized and put Charles Bulke- 
ley, a lawyer, in the chair. The Democrats rallied and finally controlled the 



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53 



meeting, their cause being championed by James Fisk, and the Federalist 
side by Nicholas Biylies, both afterwards judjjes of the Saprems Court. 
Jeduthun Loomis, another lawyer, was captain of the Montpelier Light In- 
fantry, and although a Federalist was earnest that the company shouUl do good 
service when war was once declared. J. Y. Vail, another lawyer, was an 
earnest Democrat. Two students in his office appear on the master roll of 
the company that went from the village at the time of the bittle of Platts- 
burgh, Alanson Allen and Henry F. Janes. On the roll of the same com- 
pany is the name of George Rich, the first clerk of the court, and of Cyrus 
Ware, then a lawyer of mature years, and of Thomas Reed, Jr., who was 
then a boy who had not even begun the study of law. Joseph Howes, soon 
after a judge of the County Court, was second lieutenant ; Rich was a 
sergeant ; Allen, the law student, was a corporal ; Janes, the other law stu- 
dent who was afterwards a member of Congress, was among the privates, as 
were Judge Ware and young Reed. Tho nas Brooks, grandfather of Gen- 
W. H. H. Brooks, of the war of the Rebellion, was also a private in this com- 
pany. The old muster roll throws an illuminating side-light on the men of 
that day, and it rather suits the mind's eye to see Judge Ware and young 
Reed plodding together toward the lake and the sound of battle. Another 
coming Montpelier lawyer was on the same journey in the Randolph com 
pany — J. P. Miller, who also served in the Greek revolution. 

Lest Mr. Camp's old diary of the cold June of 1816 should discourage im- 
migration, and cause a dearth of laborers in the granite harvest time, it is well 
to note that he lived "clean up in the north part of the state, e'enamost to 
the Canada line." It was n't in this neighborhood at all — but even if it had 
been, what then ? " Why, there 't is !" as Charles Davis used to say to the 
Supreme Court. Every time and clime has its own worries and its compen- 
sations. If we haven't iron mines or marble we have granite quarries, and if, 
for one year, the " perfect day in June " was not found in its perfection in 
Vermont, it has since taken up its regular abode here and is only surpassed by 
one of our October days with its mountain forests dyed from the paint pot 
of the Gods. Horace Greeley's " go west, young man " has been acted on — 
long before he said it, too — by many of our county people and in high degree 
by our lawyers. There they flourish and after a time return in glory, and the 
consolation of those that remain is that those who go are good fellows and 
deserve their success, together with a sense of safety from cyclones and fire 
blizzards. The Vermonter disgusted with the West forty years ago may have 
been a Washington county emigrant. 

" Great Western waste of bottom land ! 

Flat as a pancake, rich as grease, 
Where gnats are full as big 's your hand 

And ' skeeters ' are as big as geese ! 
I 'd rather live on Camel's Hump 

And be a Yankee Doodle beggar, 
Than never see a tree or stump 

And shake to death with ' fever 'n' agur.' " 



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But pretty quick after those lugubrious lines appeared Matt Carpenter 
struck out from the very shadow of the Hump and got along rather well out 
West— though he had to get rid of some of the impediments of his name to 
make the race. 

The Early Judges. 

None of the lawyers who occupied the bench will be described under this- 
head, but only some laymen who from their good sense were chosen to ad- 
minister the law. The system appears to have worked well, and indeed 
being a county judge appears to have become quite a profession by itself. 
Now and then a lawyer was elected, but ordinarily in this county the lawyers 
kept within the bar. 

Ezra Butler, of Waterbury, was the first chief judge of the County Court- 
He was born in Lancaster, Mass., September 24, 1763. At six years of age 
his father moved to West Windsor, Vt., where Mrs. Butler, whose maiden 
name was McAllister, soon died. Ezra remained in West Windsor till he was 
fourteen, most of the time living with an older brother, Joel. Then he went 
to Claremont, N. H., where he lived with Dr. Stearns for seven years and had 
the management of the Doctor's farm. He served six months in the army 
when he was seventeen. In 1784 he went to Weathersfield for a few months, 
and in the spring of 1785, with his next older brother, Asaph, came to 
Waterbury. They came as far as Judge Paine's in Williamstown with an ox- 
team, and the rest of the way (some over twenty miles) they traveled on 
snow-shoes drawing their effects on a hand sled. They went to the house of 
the only settler who had preceded them, James Marsh. No other settler 
came to that town for a year and a half after Butler's arrival. The Butlers 
" made their pitch," cleared a little land, planted some corn, and returned to 
Weathersfield, where, in June, Ezra married Tryphena Diggins. They soon, 
went to Waterbury, where Ezra changed his pitch and built a log house on 
what has lately been known as the Reform School farm, just below the village, 
and into this residence the young couple moved in September, 1786. The 
pair " moved " from Weathersfield on horseback. Ezra was the first town 
clerk (1790); was town representative, 1794 to 1805 (except in 1798); was 
a member of the council from 1807 to 1825, inclusive, except when in Congress 
in 1813, 1814. He was elected to Congress in 1812 and served one term. 
He was a member of the Council of Censors in 1806, and of the Constitutional 
Convention of 1822. In 1826 and J 827 he was elected governor of the state, 
and in 1828 declined a reelection. 

He was no novice at the judge business when this county was organized. 
He had been assistant judge of Chittenden County Court by three elections, 
in 1803, 1804, and 1805 ; and had been chief judge of that court from 1806 
till his town was set off to the new county. He was chief judge of this 
county from its organization till the old system of county courts went out of 
existence in 1825, except from December i, 1813, to December i, 1815, the 



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Federalists controlling the legisUtures of 1813 and 1814, and Judge Butler be- 
ing also at that time a member of Congress. 

He was, when he went to Waterbiiry, a vigorous and somewhat profane 
early settler ; in a few years he wis converted and becancie a member of the 
Baptist church, and from about 1800 to within a few years of his death was 
the pastor of that church in W iitrbiry. His early hardships gave him a 
somewhat stooping form, his complexion wis dark and sallow, and his eyes 
black. His character and mind deserved the honors given him, and he gave 
good service in all the positions to which he was called. 

A more extended sketch of Gov. Butler may be found in Hemenway's 
Vermont Historical Gazetteer, vol. 4 p. 816 Po^re's Co'n^ressional Direc- 
tory says he was " born in C )nn.," (he wis n't) ; " in i 762," (he was n't) ; " re- 
ceived a good English education," (he went to school only six months — self- 
educated in manhood he clearly was) ; "stu lied law. " (he did n't, except as he 
helped make it and administer it); "was admitted to the bar," (he never 
was); "and commenced practice in VViterburv, Vermont, in. 1786," (he 
never commenced practice and there was but one other family in VVaterbury 
in 1786) ; " he died July 19, 1838," (he did die, but before that day). This 
historical item from Poore strikes me as a mighty poor historical item. Gov. 
Butler died at VVaterbury, July i3, 1838. 

Clark Stevens, of Montpelier, who was the first assistant judge of this 
county ever elected, declined to serve, and indeed declined all other offices ex- 
cept that he was persuaded to be town clerk one year. He was born in Roch- 
ester, Mass., November 15, 1764. and after coming to Montpelier in 1790 
married Huldah Foster, of Rochester, December 13, 1792, and brought her to 
his log house here. Soon after that he built a log meeting house, and that 
was the first church edifice in the county. He was a Quaker and a minister 
of the gospel. He was full six feet tall, and of noble form and like character- 
Thompson says of him, " he was a prince in appearance, but a child in humil- 
ity " He died December 20, 1853. 

Salvin Collins, the first first assistant judge of the County Court, was born 
in Southboro, Mass., March 6, 1768, and about 1791 came to Berlin, where he 
lived till he removed to Montpelier in i8ri. He was rpelected assistant 
judge in 18 12, and was judge of probate Irom 1815, five years. After that he 
was for many years a trial justice of the peace. His first wife (Rebecca) 
died in 1816, and March 6, 1817, he married Mrs. Lucy Clark. In Thomp- 
sons History of Montpelier (p. 225) is an appreciative sketch of Judge Col- 
lins. He died November 9, 1831. 

Bradford Klmne, of Plainfield, was second assistant judge of the county 
for its first two years. He was born in Preston, Conn., about 1764, and moved 
to Plainfield from Royalton, Vt., in 1795. Judge Kinne went about at times 
to preach — Judge CoUins being the only judge of the first County Court who 
did n't have that habit upon hnn, and he was a zealous member of the Con- 
gregational church. Judge Kinne also practiced law, but not having beerk 



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"admitted to the bar" he had to address the court and the jury from without 
the bar. 

Goshen Gore by Plainfield in his day belonged to Caledonia county, and 
■was separated from the rest of the county by ten miles of impassable forest, 
being a gore no constable had jurisdiction, and a sheriff, to get there, had to 
tnake a long detour. One Games, who lived in the Gore, was poor and fell 
into trouble, and a sheriff finally went to get him on some suit, whereupon 
Carnes knocked him about with an axe helve. Indeed Games confessed 
when sued for the assault that he " did hit the gentleman a wee bit of a tap on 
the sconce with the hoosel of his axe, but had no thought of hurting him at 
all at all." In fact Carnes's plea was about the same as some of the irrever- 
ent of our present bar allege a living lawyer to have made — that his client 
^'struck the plaintiff in good faith." Judge Kinne defended Games, and in 
some way got the whole Games family over to Danville — the wife and six chil- 
dren like the husband clean and poor. Kinne stood without the bar and 
besought the jury to give a verdict for the defendant — "Now, gentlemen of 
the jury, every cent you take from the defendant will be a morsel out of the 
mouths of babes and sucklings " — and Kinne wept aloud — and Games wept 
aloud — and his wife wept alout — and the six " babes and sucklings " lifted up 
their voices and wept — and the jury was moved by the waters upon their 
faces, and Games and his family returned to the Gore unharmed — all having 
gone according to Kinne's programme ; pretty much as the justice of a later 
day, who "was a kind of a plaintiff's justice," once remarked to a famous 
lawyer with whom he rode to the place of trial over in Duxbury, " I suppose 
the cost should be figured as we talked coming over." 

Judge Kinne was not prepossessing in appearance ; he had along nose and 
a long chin, and, being withal somewhat toothless, the two made near acquaint- 
ance as he talked. In the days of his practice imprisonment for debt was 
the rule, and the "liberties of the yard " extended only a mile from jail. 
Judge Kinne defended in a suit brought for an escape, but all the other side 
was able to show towards the escape was that the prisoner lived in Plainfield, 
and that about daylight one morning he was discovered about one rod inside 
the jail limits running down Glay hill towards the jail as for dear life. It 
looked very much as the truth was that he had made a visit home and had 
not got back under cover of darkness. Judge Kinne, from without the bar, 
addressed the jury — " Gentlemen of the jury, the plaintiff in this case has 
taken every method to prove my client within the limits of the jail-yard, and 
I shall take no manner of means to prove him out." And tradition is that the 
law was more severe than the administration of it, and that juries considered 
"all intendments in favor of liberty." At any rate that jury was all right. 
Judge Kinne died in Plainfield in 1828. 

Charles Bulkeley, of Berlin, who was chief judge from December i, 1813, 
to December i, 18 14, was a lawyer, and an account of him will be given 
among the sketches of the lawyers. 



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Denison Smith, of Barre, was chief judge from December i, 1814, to De- 
cember I, 1815, and was a lawyer, and will be sketched among members of 
the bar. 

Both the above named gentlemen I take it were Federalists ; Bulkeley 
certainly was. But it is not certain how much politics had to do with the 
choice of county judges, for we find Stephen Pitkin elected in years when 
opposing parties had control of the legislature. 

Seth Putnam, of Middlesex, succeeded Salvin Collins as assistant judge, 
and served from December r, 1813, to December t, 1814. Judge Putnam 
came with several brothers to Middlesex at a very early day, and was town 
clerk and a colonel ; he was an uncle of C. C. Putnam, of Putnam's Mills. 
There is what purports to be a sketch of the Judge in Hemenv/ay's Gazetteer, 
but on examination it consists so far as-facts are concerned in the statement 
that he had three sons, Holden, Roswell, and George. So it proves to be 
very much like the introduction that made Judge Alfred Conkling so indig- 
nant. After Roscoe had become popular, his father, the Judge, from whom 
the son honestly came by both his brains and haughty bearing, was invited 
to speak at some large meeting. When the time had come the usual com- 
mitteeman introduced to the audience " Judge Conkling, the father of Ros- 
coe Conkling "; whereupon the irate Judge bade the astounded committee- 
man "good evening, sir !" and left, saying he would be ■ if he would 

address a crowd to whose attention his only title was that he was the father 
of somebody. 

Stephen Pitkin, of Marshfield, succeeded Judge Putnam and was assistant 
judge from December i, 1814, to December i, 1820. He represented his 
town thirteen years in the legislature. Removed into Marshfield March i, 
1795, and died there May 22, 1834, aged sixty-two years. Judge Pitkin was 
a man of commanding presence and influence in his town. In the cold sea- 
son of 1 816 and 181 7, when almost no provision was raised, he was of great 
help to his neighbors in procuring food to tide over the evil days — fish it was 
that helped out the hungry people. Gen. P. Pitkin, of Montpelier, is a 
grandson of Judge Pitkin. 

Stephen Pierce, of Waitsfield, succeeded Judge Kinne, December r, 18 14, 
and served one year. I am unable to give account of him further than this, 
and that he was a justice of the peace in Waitsfield. 

Warren Ellis, of Barre, became assistant judge December i, 1815, and 
served the next three years, and again for awhile after the system was 
■changed in 1825. He came to Barre from Claremont, N. H., about 1803 ; 
he was born in Claremont, May 24, 1777. Judge Ellis was a saddler by 
trade, and withal a good musician. He represented Barre seven years. His 
son Warren H. went to Waukegan, III., and a daughter married D. H. 
Sherman, and went West. Judge Ellis died in' Barre, June 10, 1842. 

Joseph Howes, of Montpelier, was assistant judge from December i, 18 18, 
to December i, 1825, and at times thereafter. He was born March 28, 



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1783, in Lebanon, Conn., and came to Montpelier in 1808. In the War of 
1812 he served two years as adjutant. He was second lieutenant of the 
company that started for Plattsburgh. Judge Howes was prominent in all 
town affairs and a justly respected citizen. He died April 26, 1863. 

JosiAH B. Strong, of Northfield, was assistant judge from December i, 
1820, to December i, 1825, but I have found no other account of him, 
except that he was sometime justice of the peace. 

This closes the list of the judges of the old County Court. December i, 
1825, substantially the same system as now exists came into being. 

The Early Bar. 

The Vermont Register for 1812 gives the names of eight " practicing attor- 
neys " in Jefferson county. To these should be added two names to com- 
plete the list of lawyers in the county at that date, James Fisk and Cyrus 
Ware. Mr. Fisk was in Congress and out of practice, and Mr. Ware was a 
judge of Caledonia County Court when the new county was established, and 
he had at once cases on the docket, so his name should have appeared in the 
list. 

In the space allowed and the time at command it is impossible to give in- 
dividual members of the bar such sketches as they deserve. And it will be 
found that many of the most prominent lawyers of the county have little 
space given them — in many cases for the reason that quite full accounts of 
them are elsewhere extant, and that it has been thought better to use these 
pages for material that is for the most part not already in print. Reference 
will be made to Hemenway's Gazetteer of Vermont as Hemenway, to IViomp- 
sons History of Montpelier diS Thompson, to Mr. Baldwin's very praiseworthy 
History of the Orleans County Bar as Baldwin, and to Gov. Farnham's very 
useful work in Child's Gazetteer of Orange County. 

Charles Bulkeley, of Montpelier and Berlin, was the first lawyer to settle 
in Washington county. He lived in Montpelier at least as early as April 8, 1797, 
as he is described in a deed of that date as of Montpelier ; and he had not 
moved into Berlin as late as December 10, 1798, but probably did so soon 
after, and he there remained till his death, April 25, 1836, at the age of 
seventy-two. He was a native of Colchester, Conn. 

He was state's attorney (Berlin then being in Orange county) in 1800, 
1801, and 1802 ; and was chief judge of Jefferson county from December i, 
1813, to December i, 181 4, as heretofore stated. He was one of the trus- 
tees of the Montpelier Academy when it was incorporated, November 7, 1800, 
and I take it that Sally Bulkeley, who attended that school when J. Y. Vail 
taught it in the winter of 1807-08, was his daughter, and from the place her 
name occurs in the list that she was then quite a girl. Judge Bulkeley ceased 
the practice of the law the last ten years of his life. When living in Montpelier 
he occupied the Frye house, the third built in town, on the west side of Main 



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59 



Street, near the arch bridge, and his house in Berlin was about a dozen rods 
above that bridge. He was a respected citizen, and at his death gave Hber- 
ally of his considerable property for public purposes. Very likely Sally was 
dead before that tireie. Mr. and Mrs. Bulkeleyleft an unfortunate son named 
Frank, who was a well-known character for years in all this region. Frank 
was harmless and used to go upon the run — his main pursuit being pushing 
over decayed " stubs " in the woods. He sometimes varied the exercises, 
though, and was once discovered setting adrift a Bible on a board in the 
Winooski. Inquired of as to what he was doing, he explained: "'Spect, 
s'pose, pretty likely, sendin' the word o' God, t' the heathen down to Burling- 
ton, on a shingle." 

James Fisk, of Barre, came into that town about 1796, according to some 
accounts, but probably not till 1798. He was not then a lawyer, and Cyrus 
Ware and Samuel Prentiss were in Montpelier before Fisk was admitted to 
the bar. Mr. Fisk was born in Greenwich, Mass., October 4, 1763. He 
served in the Revolution three years, married Priscilla West, who died August 
19, 1840, served a term in the Massachusetts legislature, and soon began to 
preach as a Universalist minister. He moved to Birre, probably in 1798, 
and began clearing a farm, preaching occasionally. He was, in 1802, 
elected assistant judge of Orange County Court, and admitted to the bar 
of that county June 21, 1803. He represented Barre several years, be- 
ginning in 1800, and was a member of Congress from March 4, 1805, to 
March 4, 1809, and again from March 4, 18 (i, to March 4, 1815. He was 
chief judge of Orange County Court in 1809, and again represented that town 
in 1809, 1810, and 1815. He was nominated by President Madison in 1812 
as judge of Indiana Territory, and was confirmed, but declined to serve. 
In 18 1 5 and 18 16 he was a judge of the Supreme Court, and in 1817 and 
1818 was United States Senator, but resigned to accept the collectorship of 
Vermont, which he held from 1818 to 1826. He was a personal friend of 
President Monroe, and deUvered an address of welcome to him at Montpe- 
lier, July 24, 1817. In January, 1819, he moved from Barre to Swanton? 
where he lived till his death, November 17, 1844. 

He is said to have been kind and genial, and not to have sought the posi- 
tions of trust which he held. Thompson describes him as " small sized, keen- 
eyed, ready-witted, and really talented," when he saw him at the Montpe- 
lier meeting of February, 18 12, to attend which Mr. Fisk had come from 
Washington "to act as the champion speaker of the Democrats." 

Cyrus Ware, of Montpelier, was the second lawyer to settle in the county, 
for though Mr. Fisk had moved in a year or more before him it was as a farmer 
and preacher that he came. Mr. Ware was born in Wrentham. Mass., May 
8, 1769. His father died when Cyrus was three years old, and when he was 
fourteen he came to Hartford, Vt., and learned blacksmithing. After he was 
twenty-one he studied law with Charles Marsh, of Woodstock, and Jacob 



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Smith, of Royalton, was admitted in 1799 to the Windsor County bar, and 
•came at once to Montpelier. He represented the town from 1805 to 1809, 
and it was through his influence and that of David Wing, Jr., then secretary 
of state^ that the act of 1805, making Monlpeher the state capital, was passed. 
He was chief judge of Caledonia county from December i, 1808, to Decem- 
ber I, 18 1 1. He was a man of good ability, and might have risen to higher 
places had it not been for his social disposition and the customs of the time. 
He was in his later life the trial justice of the town, and it was he who held 
Morricey, in 1S36, for trial for the murder of Corrigan. Thompson says he 
was a philosopher and the most perfectly original character of MontpeUer in 
thought, words, and ways, and that his shrewd observations, and quaint and 
witty sayings, were more quoted than those of any other man in this sec- 
tion. He denied that he was poor, for he put a round valuation on his chil- 
dren and thanked Heaven he had them on hand. He died February 17, 
1849. He married Patty Wheeler, of Barre, May 26, 1803, and of their six 
■children Mary, the youngest, is now living in Montpelier, the wife of Joel 
Foster. 

Samuel Prentiss, of Montpelier, when he came to Montpelier, and for 
many years after, was Samuel Prentiss, Jr., his father, Dr. Samuel Prentiss, 
being in the practice of medicine in Northfield, Mass. Young Samuel was 
iborn in Stonington, Conn., March 31, 1782; the next year his father wentto 
Worcester, Mass., and about 1786 to Northfield, Mass., where Samuel went 
to school, and where he studied the classics with Rev. Samuel C. Allen. At 
nineteen he entered the law office of Samuel Vose, and soon left there and 
went into the office of John W. Blake, of Brattleboro, and was, in December, 
1802, admitted to Windham County bar. 

He came to Montpelier and opened an office in May, 1803. He married 
Lucretia Houghton, daughter of Edward Houghton, of Northfield, Mass., 
October 3, 1804. She was born March 6, 1786, and died June 15, 1855, 
nineteen months before her husband, who died January 15, 1857. 

They had twelve children, of whom two died in infancy (Augustus, their 
tenth child, born February 16, 1822, and died May 19, 1822; and Lucretia, 
their eleventh child, born June 13, 1823, and died July 23, 1823). Of the 
ten sons who reached manhood, nine were lawyers. The remaining son 
(their third child, Edward Houghton, born December 28, 1808) was a drug- 
gist, but May 21, 1842, was appointed clerk of the District Court for Ver- 
mont, and held the position till September 20, 1859. Edward H. married 
Laura H. Doane, April 10, 1831. He moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1866. 
Of the seven children of Edward H., two, Charles C. and Samuel F. (who 
will be remembered by the members of the 2d Vermont Brigade as an aide on 
the staffs of Gens. Stoughton and Stannard), are now law partners in New 
York city. 

As several of the nine sons of Judge Prentiss, who became lawyers, were 
mot admitted in Washington county, I have thought best to give notices of 



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this '' Montpelier nine " here, and not in the order of their admission. More 
full accounts of them will be found in Binney's Genealogy of the Prentiss 
Family, and of Charles W., John H., and Henry F. in Baldwin s Orleans 
County Bar. The children of Judge Samuel Prentiss and Lucretia Hough- 
ton Prentiss were : — 

1. George Houghton Prentiss, born June 25, 1805, educated at West Point 
from 1822 to 1827, in which last year he graduated; was second lieutenant 
U. S. Infantry till 1828, when he resigned because of poor health; studied 
law and was admitted at the May term, 1830, of Washington County Court. 
He practiced law in Hyde Park for a couple of years till ill health forbade, 
and died September 3, 1833. 

2. Samuel Blake Prentiss, born January 23, 1807, studied for a time at the 
University of Vermont, then studied law with his father, was admitted, June 
term, 1829, in Montpelier, and there practiced law till 1840, v/hen he went to 
Cleveland, Ohio, and practiced in company with his brother Frederick James. 
He was, from 1867 to 1882, judge of the Common Pleas and district courts 
of the 4th Judicial District of Ohio. He married Jane Atwood Russell, 
April 14, 185 1, and they had two children, one dying in infancy, and the other 
now the wife or J. D. Cox, Jr., a son of Gen. and Gov. Cox, of Ohio. Con- 
gressman Burton, of Cleveland, informed me about March 20, 1889, that 
Judge S. B. Prentiss was still living in Cleveland, respected by all, but in 
failing health. 

3. Edward Houghton Prentiss, not a lawyer, but briefly noticed above. 

4. John Holmes Pre?itiss, born February 10, 181 1, went to Boston, and was- 
in business pursuits seven years, returned to Montpelier and studied law, and 
was admitted, November term, 1835. He practiced here till 1839, when he 
went to Irasburgh, where his brother Charles W. was. He practiced while 
his health permitted, but in 1869 removed to Winona, Minn., where he went 
into the banking business, and died September 28, 1876. 

5. Charles William Prentiss, born October 18, 18 12, was one year in the 
\University of Vermont, then went to Dartmouth College, where he graduated 

in 1832. He studied law first with his father, and afterwards with I. F. Red- 
field, at Derby, from whose office he was admitted to Orleans County bar,. 
June 24, 1835. He practiced law in Irasburgh until 1843, when he came to- 
Montpelier and practiced until 1853, when he went to New York city, and 
about 1867 went to Cleveland, Ohio, and practiced until 1882, when he re- 
tired. He married Caroline Kellogg, of Peacham, October 2, 1838, and 
they had seven children. 

6. Henry Francis Prentiss, born November 27, 1814, studied law first with- 
his father, and then with I. F. Redfield, of Derby, and was admitted to 
Orleans County bar, June term, 1837. He practiced in Derby and Iras- 
burgh until the fall of 1855, when he moved to Milwaukee. In Derby he was- 
a partner of Stoddard B. Colby, and in 1847 and '48 was state's attorney. 
In i860, having been appointed register in bankruptcy, he practically with- 



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drew from practicing law. He died December 2, 1872. He married Ruth 
Colby, and they had three children. 

7. Frederick James Prentiss, born October 18, 1816, studied law, and in 
1839 settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he began practicing law, and where, 
in 1840, he was joined by his brother Samuel B. They were in partnership 
until Febraary, i86r. In i860, his health not being equal to further prac- 
tice, he accepted an election as clerk of the Common Pleas and district 
courts for three years and was ree'ected in 1863. In 1877 he removed to 
New York city, where, and at Greenport, Long Island, he has since resided. 
It is owing to him that the Vermont Historical society has a most excellent 
portrait painted by Thomas VV. Wood of Judge Samuel Prentiss. F. J. mar- 
ried Delia Adeliza Hurd, of Middle Ha<ldam, Conn. They had one child, 
Frederick Charles, who is a manufacturer. Anyone who has known Mr. 
Frederick James Prentiss is ready to believe all the good things that are said 
of the grace and courtesy of both his father and mother. 

8. Theodore Prentiss, born September 10, 181 8, went south for his health 
and remained two years. He studied law with his father and was admitted 
to Washington County bar, April term, 1844. The next fall he went to 
Wisconsin, and in February, 1845, began the practice of law at Watertown. 
He was a member of the conventions to form a state constitution for 
Wisconsin, a member of the legislature, and though never " thrice Lord 
Mayor of London" has been three times mayor of his adopted city. He 
married, December 4, 1855, Martha J. Perry, of Burlington, Vt. They had 
three children. Mr. Prentiss had a very pleasant home in Watertown and 
an office built for his own convenience. He and his brother James had a 
factotum — a veteran of the Mexican war named Field — who, and his violin, 
were of much interest to me when I was a boy. 

9. Joseph Addison Prentiss, born August 31, 1820, studied law and must 
have been admitted to the bar about 1844, as he began practicing in Mont- 
pelier that year, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court in 
Washington county, April term, 1847. He remained here until his removal 
to Winona, Minn., in May, 1869. where he opened a law office with his 
brother John H. He has mainly, however, devoted himself to financial 
matters, and was for some years cashier of the Second National Bank of Wi- 
nona, and has been president of it since January, 1878. He married, Janu- 
ary 7, 1852, Rebecca D. Loomis, daughter of Judge Jeduthun Loomis and 
Sophia Brigham. They had five children. 

10. Augustus Prentiss died in infancy as noted above, 

11. Lucretia Prentiss died in infancy as noted above. 

12. James Prentiss, born July 19, 1824; graduated at the University of 
Vermont and studied law; was admitted to the bar about 1848. He went 
to Watertown, Wis., and was in partnership with his brother Theodore for 
twenty years. I do not find where he was admitted to the bar. James mar- 



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ried Rachel Ann Prentiss. He was elected mayor of Watertown in 1865, 
and died there January 24, 1868. 

Samuel Prentiss was in the full practice of the law when Washington 
county was formed, and so continued for the next fourteen years. In politics 
he was in early days a Federalist and afterwards a Whig. In 1822 he de- 
clined an election as judge of the Supreme Court, and it is said that his 
reason was a modest distrust of his own ability to perform the duties, a dis- 
trust shared by no one else. In 1824 and 1825 he represented his town, and 
in 1825 became a member of the Supreme Court, and in 1829 chief judge of 
that court. In 1830 he was elected to the United States Senate and re- 
elected in 1836. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the United States 
District Court for Vermont, and was judge of that court until he died. 

E. J. Phelps, late Minister to England, in his address in 1882 upon Judge 
Prentiss, refers approvingly to Chancellor Kent's declaration that he regarded 
Judge Prentiss, although Judge Story was then living, as the best jurist in 
New England. Mr. Phelps says of the last time he saw him on the bench : 
"He was as charming to look at as a beautiful woman, old as he was. His 
hair was snow white, his eyes had a gentleness of expression that no painter 
could do justice to ; his face carried on every line of it the impression of 
thought, of study, of culture, and complete attainment. His cheek had the 
glow of youth. His figure was as erect and almost as slender as that of a 
young man's. His whole fine attire, the snowy ruffle and white cravat, the 
black velvet waistcoat, and the blue coat with brass buttons was complete in 
its neatness and elegance, and the graciousness of his presence, so gentle, so 
courteous, so dignified, so kindly, was like a benediction to those who came 
unto him." 

Of Mrs. Prentiss, Thompson says that '' she was one of earth's angels " ; 
and Rev. Dr. Lord that she was " of remarkable sweetness and gentleness 
of dispositon. She never forgot a favor. She never remembered an injury. 
The one never escaped her acknowledgment and gratitude ; the other never 
stirred her spirit." Of her Judge Prentiss said, after her death, that in all 
his married life of more that fifty years he had never known or heard of an 
instance in which she had spoken an unkind word or lost the perfect control 
of her temper. 

Rare lives, those of the Judge and his wife, but not lived without a strug- 
gle ! Mr. Prentiss, "inheriting from his father existence and poverty," had 
not the stolid nature that goes its way untouched by temptation. As he 
neared middle life he became intemperate. " Mrs. Prentiss was very judi- 
cious." She judged him not, and her presence and her voice shielded him 



" I will attend my husband, be his nurse, 

Diet his sickness, for it is my office, 

And will have no attorney but myself ; 

And therefore let me have him home with me." 



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The influence of her .daily life at last triumphed and the good husband was 
regained to and by the good wife. His restoration to mastery over himself, 
once returned, was never lost. It came some years before his public career 
began. And all through the after years that brought honors to him, honors 
that he worthily bore, his neighbors saw in the wife his "guardian angel" 
who had made the wearing of those honors possible, and who had preserved 
him to be the statesman and the judge. 

Dan Carpenter, of VVaterbury, son of Simeon Carpenter and Anna 
Burton, was born November 21, 1776, in Norwich, Vt.; was admitted to 
Windsor County bar in the spring of 1804, and the following summer settled 
in Waterbury. He was the fifth lawyer to come into this county. He was 
married at Norwich, January 27, 1B05, to Betsey Partridge. They had eight 
children, one of whom still survives, the wife of ex-Gov. Dillingham. 

Mr. Carpenter was tall, lithe, and graceful ; a gentleman of the old school. 
He represented his town some ten years, and beginning with 1827 was first 
assistant judge of the County Court for eight years. He was also for many 
years a merchant. In 1823 Paul Dillingham, Jr., became his law partner, 
and in 1827 Mr, Carpenter retired from practice. He died December 2^ 
1852. 

Jeduthun Loomis, of Montpelier, was the sixth lawyer in the county. He 
was born in Tolland, Conn., January 5, 1779. He studied law with Oramel 
Hinckley, of Thetford, Vt., and after admission to the bar came to Mont- 
pelier, Thompson says in 1805 ; he was certainly here in 1806, as December 
6, 1806, he was summoned by the constable to depart the town. Many like 
hospitable invitations to depart are on record, one having been served on 
J. Y. Vail, Nicholas Baylies, Timothy Merrill, and others at a later date. It 
was the custom in those days to " warn out " all new comers; the voters wanted 
immigrants to settle, but were not anxious they should " gain a settlement." 
Mr. Loomis married Hannah Hinckley, of Thetford, March 11, 1807 ; she 
died December 24, 1813, and October 10, 1814, he married Charity Scott^ 
of Peacham, who died June 13, 1821, and October 8, 1822, he married 
Sophia Brigham, of Salem, Mass., who died in 1855. In 1820 he was elected 
judge of probate and served ten years. He was a tall, dark man, of grave 
countenance, " rather set," Thompson says, but at heart charitable and of 
known good motives. He died November 12, 1843. 

Charles Loomis, the son of Judge Loomis by his third wife, studied law 
and was admitted to Washington County bar, September term, 1853. He 
went very soon to Cincinnati, where he was living in i860, and has since 
died. 

Denison Smith, of Barre, the seventh lawyer in the county, graduated at 
Dartmouth College in 1805, and was admitted to Orange County bar at its 
December term, 1808, and settled about that time in Barre. He was the son 
of Joseph and Ruth Smith, and was born at Plainfield, N. H., January 8, 
1784, and died at Barre, February 8, 1836. He was one year chief judge of 



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the County Court, and was six years state's attorney. He had a good prac- 
tice and was a sound lawyer. He married Fannie Kimball, of Cornish, N. H. 

Denison Kimball Smith, their son, was born at South Barre, October i6, 
1822; read law, was admitted to the Washington County bar, November 
term, 1S47, the same term that Matt Carpenter was admitted. He began 
practice in Barre in 1847, was state's attorney about 1858, and died March 
4, i860. He married Maria B. Follett, June 24, 1854. 

Timothy Merrill, the eighth lawyer of the county, was born in Farm- 
ington, Conn., March 26, 1781, and when of age went to Bennington, where 
his brother, Orsamus C. Merrill, was practicing law. He read law, was ad- 
mitted, and then went to Rutland, where he began practice with Robert 
Temple. He came to Montpelier in 1809 and opened an office. He was 
the first state's attorney of the new county and held that office in all nme 
years, longer than any other man. In 181 1 and 181 2 he represented Mont- 
pelier. He was seven years engrossing clerk of the General Assembly and 
nine years clerk of the House of Representatives. In 1831 he was elected 
secretary of state and held that office until his death in 1836. In 1812 he 
married Clara Fassett, of Bennington. They had five children, a son who 
died in infancy; Ferrand F.; Edwin S.; Clara Augusta ; and Timothy R., 
who was for ten years judge of probate and has for many years been and 
now is town clerk of Montpelier. Mr. Merrill was a sound lawyer, and had 
the confidence of the community as the early dockets show, and as the fact 
that such men as Gov. Van Ness sent their business to him testifies. His 
fellow citizens kept him in public life, and that they did not send him to 
Washington was owing to his own reluctance to undertake that service. He 
advised settlements rather than litigation, and partly as the result of this, and 
partly because his political service took his time from his profession, he had 
not attained such financial success as he thought would permit him to under- 
take service in the National legislature. He therefore declined to have his 
name used when the prospects of an election to the United States Senate 
were very flattering, had he consented. 

Ferrand Fassett Merrill, son of Timothy and Clara, was born in Montpe- 
lier, October 24, 181 4. He read law and was admitted to Washington 
County bar, November term, 1836. He was clerk of the House of Repre- 
sentatives from 1838 to 1849, and was secretary of state from 1849 to 1853. 
He represented Montpelier in 1856 and 1857, and the latter year had the 
responsibility of conducting " the State House fight," in which he was op- 
posed by George F. Edmunds among others. Mr. Merrill possessed marked 
ability as a lawyer and as a legislator. He was both scholarly and practical. 
He died of apoplexy, May 2, 1859, ^" the noon of his life, and when its after- 
noon promised to be one of domestic happiness, of high professional success, 
and of increased public honors. He married Eliza Maria Wright, who with 
three children, one son and two daughters, survived him. 

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Chester Wright Merrill, son of Ferrand F. and grandson of Timothy Mer- 
rill, was born in Montpelier, April 23, 1846. He graduated at Dartmouth 
College in 1866; read law and was admitted to the Washington County bar 
at the September term, 1870. He soon afterwards went to Cincinnati, where 
he for many years held the important position of librarian of the Cincinnati 
Public Library. He now lives in Cincinnati in the practice of his profession. 

Joshua Youngs Vail, of Montpelier, was the son of Abraham and Betty 
(Lee) Vail, and was born in Pomfret, Vt., August 30, 1784. I think he 
came to Montpelier to live before Timothy Merrill did, but that he was not 
admitted to the bar until after Mr. Merrill had opened an office in Montpe- 
lier. Mr. Vail graduated at Middlebury College, August 17, 1808. He 
taught Montpelier Academy the winter preceding his graduation, and I have 
his manuscript copy of the " Conditions of the Academy School " ; they are 
as follows • — 

" Conditions of the Academy School beginning on Thursday the 17th of 
Decbr., 1807. 

" Tuition, for reading and writing, ten shillings and sixpence, and for 
arithmetic, grammar, and other english studies, two dollars per quarter, each 
scholar to be charged 3 shillings for fire wood. For those who study the 
languages 3 dollars per quarter & not to be charged for wood. 

" The strictest attention will be paid to the instruction of the pupils. 
Should the school be so much crowded as to make it necessary to refuse any 
the smallest must be excluded. 

"The above conditions are the same as established by the board of trus- 
tees. Montpelier, Decbr. 15, 1807. 

"Joshua Y. Vail, Preceptor." 

I have, also, kindly furnished me by Mrs. H. H. Deming, his daughter, his 
list of scholars for that term which began December 17, 1807, and closed 
March 10, 1808. On this paper, in a list of "lads" who studied reading 
an 1 writing, the first name is that of Elisha P. Jewett, who came to Mont- 
pelier in February, 1807, and now lives here at the age of nearly eighty-eight 
years, hale, hearty, active, and bright. I met him on the street to-day and 
he told me the history of Samuel Prentiss's first election as representative 
for Montpelier in 1824. 

J. Y. Vail, when the the county was organized, had been admitted to the 
bar and w is a partner of Judge Prentiss. I think he settled in Montpelier 
immediately after graduation. His and Mary Tuthill's intention of marriage 
was published December 31, 1809, and they were married by Rev. Chester 
Wright, January 27, 18 ro. She was a sister of Abraham G. D. Tuthill, a 
portrait painter, who was a pupil of Benjamin West. They had nine chil- 
dren, two of whom are now living in Montpelier : Oscar John Tuthill Vail, 
born March 7, 1824, and Laura Davis Vail, wife of H. H. Deming, Esq, 
Joshua Y. Vail was clerk of the court, beginning in 1819, for about twenty 
years. He was the first secretary and treasurer of the Vermont Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company, which early had its office in a small building which now 
stands back of Mr. Deming's house, and which had formerly been Mr. 



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Vail's law office, on the site of the BiUou bulding near the bridge, but which, 
in the flood of July 27, 1830, floated off and landed near the present Central 
depot, whence it wasdraw.i to the lot where it now stands. Mr. Vail died 
of Inng fever, April 3. 1854. 

Jackson Abram Vail, son of J. Y., was born February 25, 1815, and died 
April 15, iSyt. He married Abbie G. Langdon, October 2, 1837, and after 
her death married Sarah Angier. His daughter Helen M. married William 
H. B'lake, of S vanton, and his daughter Sarah A. married Homer W. Vail, of 
Pomfret. J. A. Vail was admitted to Washington County bar, April term, 
1837. He was a brilliant lawyer, but his habits were such that he threw away 
his great opportunities. He was greatly interested in the Canadian Rebellion 
of 1837. He represented Montpelier in 1849 and 1850. He was as near a 
genius as any man who ever practiced at the Washington County bar, and 
when he was himself was the equal in the court-room of any man who ap- 
peared there in his day. 

Nicholas Baylies, of Montpelier, son of Deacon Nicholas Baylies, of 
Uxbridge, Mass , was born in Uxbridge, graduated at Dartmouth College in 
1794, read law with Charles .Marsh, of Woodstock, was admitted to the bar, 
and practiced in Woodstock a number of years. He moved from Woodstock 
to Montpelier in 1809 (not in 1810 as stated in all printed notices that I 
have seen), for his family was in Woodstock April 9 of that year, and he was 
" warned out " of .Montpelier the 15th of November following. He was a 
scholarly man and was the author of a3-vol. " Digested Index to the Modern 
Reports," published at Montpelier in 1814, which received the approval of 
James Kent and Judge Parker. The "proprietors" of this book were 
Nicholas B lylies, Simuei Prentiss, Jr., and James H. Langdon. Mr. Baylies 
also published a theological work on free agency. He was elected state's 
attorney in 1813, 1814, and 1825, and a judge of the Supreme Court in 1831, 
1832, and 1833. He removed to Lyndon about 1835, where he lived with 
his son-in-law, George C. Cahoon, and practiced law till his death, August 
17, 1847. He was buried in Montpelier, August 22, 1847. Mr. Baylies was 
probably seventy-nine years of age at his death, though some authorities make 
him eighty-two and others only seventy-five. He argued a case in the 
Supreme Court here but a few months before his death. He married Mary 
Ripley, daughter of Prof. Sylvanus Ripley and granddaughter of President 
Eleazer Wtieelock. She was a sister of Gen. Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, 
who commanded at Lundy's Lane after Scott was wounded. Mr. Baylies 's 
only daughter, Mary Ripley Biylies, married George C. Cahoon, of Lyndon, 
October 27, 1825. His son, Horatio N. Baylies, was long a merchant in 
Montpelier and died in Louisiana. Another son was a lawyer of whom I 
am enabled, by a letter from Ripley N. Baylies, to give the following notice: — 

Nicholas Baylies, Jr., of Montpelier, son of Judge Baylies, was born at 
Woodstock, April 9, 1809 ; fitted for college at Montpelier and at Fryeburgh, 
Maine; graduated from^the University ^of Vermont in 1827, studied law in 



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Montpelier, and was admitted to the bar in 1829. I do not find the record 
of this admission, but do find that he was admitted to the Supreme Court bar 
of this county, March term, 1832. He went, in the fall of 1829, to New 
York city, and studied further with Joseph Blunt until the summer of 1830, 
when, under the advice of his physician, he returned to Vermont. He prac- 
ticed in Johnson about a year, and then came to Montpelier and went into 
partnership with J. P. Miller. In 1833 he accompanied his brother to 
Southern Brazil, but returned in 1834, and resumed practice in Montpelier 
till the fall of 1836^ when he went to Washington, where he met his uncle, Gen_ 
E. W. Ripley, then a member of Congress from Louisiana. Acting on his 
uncle's advice he went to Louisiana and located at Greensburgh in St. Helena 
Parish. He was elected a member of the Louisiana legislature in 1840 and 
1842. In 1842 he married Harriet Gaboon, daughter of Hon. William 
Gaboon, of Lyndon, Vt. From 1843 he was for ten years either district 
attorney or district judge of the Eighth Judicial District of Louisiana. In 
1853 he moved to Greggsville, 111., and in 1858 to Polk county, Iowa, having 
bought lands near Des Moines, He was elected a member of the Iowa leg- 
islature in 1863. In August, 1885, he and his wife were living in Des Moines, 
and their eight children were also all living. 

Ripley N. Baylies, son of Nicholas, Jr., furnished me with the above in- 
formation as to his father, and was himself, in August, 1885, a lawyer prac- 
ticing in Des Moines, Iowa. 

Roger Griswold Bulkley, sometime of Montpelier, Duxbury, and More- 
town, had cases on the docket of Jefferson county at its organization, and 
had before that lived in Montpelier though he then resided in Williamstown. 
He was born in Colchester, Conn., May 6, 1786, studied for a time at Yale, 
and began studying law in Connecticut ; in 1806 or 1807 he came to Mont- 
pelier and studied with his uncle, Charles Bulkeley, He was admitted to 
Orleans County bar, August 8, 1809; the same year he married a Miss 
Taylor, daughter of Daniel Taylor, of Berlin, and began practicing in Will- 
iamstown. He enlisted and served throughout the War of 1812, and after 
the war lived in Washington till 181 7, when he moved to a farm in Duxbury,, 
near Moretown village. His name appears in the Registers as a lawyer in 
Duxbury as late as 1845, and as a lawyer in Moretown from 1851 to 1869. 
He lived in Moretown village for the last twenty-five or thirty years of his hfe, 
and died there February 2, 1872. Harry Bulkley and George Bulkley are his 
sons. 

The New Members of the Early Bar. 

Stephen Freeman, of Barre, was the first attorney to be admitted in the 
new county. On the docket of the June term, 1812, is this record : "At this 
term of the court Stephen Freeman, of Barre, in the county of Jefferson, was 
duly admitted and sworn as an attorney before this court. Attest, George 
Rich, Clerk." Mr. Freeman's name appears in the Registers as a practicing. 



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attorney in Barre till 1832. He, at one time, had something of a practice, 
but Denison Smith, Newell Kinsman, and L. B. Peck were too fast legal 
company for him to keep up with, and the last years of his life he was largely 
employed as a trial justice. 

Guy T. a. Holding, of Waterbury, was admitted at the December term, 
1812. He was in Montpelier November 15, 1809, for on that day he was 
"warned out" in company with Nicholas Baylies, Timothy Merrill, and 
others. He was also in Montpelier September 8, 181 1, for on that day the 
intention of marriage of himself and Clarissa Jones, of Richmond, was pub- 
lished. His name appears in the Registers as a practicing attorney in Water- 
bury as late as 181 5. 

William Upham, of Montpelier, was admitted to the Jefferson County bar, 
December term, 181 2. He was born in Leicester, Mass., August 5. 1792. 
His father settled on a farm near Montpelier Center in 1802. William, when 
about fifteen years old, lost his right hand by getting it crushed in the 
machinery of a cider-mill. So he went to the academy in Montpelier and 
studied Latin and Greek with Rev. James Hobart, of Berlin, awhile. About 
1809 he began studying law with Mr. Prentiss, and after his admission to the 
bar practiced in company with Mr. Baylies, and afterwards alone. He was 
town representative in 1827, 1828, and 1830, and was elected state's attorney 
in 1829. He was a famous jury lawyer and a man of very bright intellect 
and eloquent speech. He stumped the state for Harrison in 1840, and in 
1842 was elected to the United States Senate, of which he was a member from 
March 4, 1843, to January 14, 1853, when he died of small-pox in Washing- 
ton after a ten days' illness. He married Sarah Keyes, who was born in 
Ashford, Conn., and was a sister of Mrs. Thomas Brooks, of Montpelier, the 
grandmother of Daniel Brooks, of the Vermont Brigade. Their children 
were William K., Charles C, and Sarah Sumner, wife of George Langdon, all 
now deceased \ and Mary Annette, their youngest daughter, now living in 
Montpelier. 

Williatn Keyes Upham^ oldest son of the Senator, was born in Montpelier, 
April 3, 1817, studied law and began practice in Montpelier in 1838, and was 
there admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court at its March term, 1841 ; 
and about 1845 moved to Ohio, where he died March 22, 1865. He at- 
tained a high position in the profession in Ohio. 

Hemenway's Gazetteer says there was a lawyer by the name of Charles 
Roby in Plainfield for a short time about 18 12. I find nothing to sustain 
this statement. Whether Roby was a reality, or a myth as I found one 
" Charles Robbins " to be, I do not know. 

Thomas Heald, of Waitsfield and Montpelier, was admitted to the Jeffer- 
son County bar, December term, 1813. He was a son of Col. Thomas and 
Sibyl Heald, and was born at New Ipswich, N. H., March 31, 1768, and 
graduated at Dartmouth College in 1794. He read law with Jonathan Fay, 
of Concord, Mass., and became a lieutenant in the United States army in 



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179S. When Nicholas Baylies was practicing in Windsor county I find from 
Dana's History of Woodstock that there was a lawyer by the name of Heald 
at that bar; whether he was Baylies's classmate, Thomas Heald, or not, I 
do not know. Thomas Heald practiced in Waitsfield from 1813 to 1817, 
when he moved to Montpelier, and in 1818 moved to Alabama, where he 
died at Blakely, in July, 182 1. He married Betsey, daughter of Jonathan 
Locke, of Ashbury, Mass., in December, 1800. 

George Wheeler, of Montpelier, was admitted""at the December term,. 
1813 ; but I have no further information concerning him. 

James Lynde, of Montpelier, was also admitted at the December term, 
1813. He was a son of Cornelius and Rebecca (Davis) Lynde, and was 
born at Williamstown, April 21, 1791. He was an older brother of Hon. 
John Lynde still living in Williamstown. He graduated at Dartmouth Col- 
lege in 1810 and studied law with Judge Prentiss. He was practicing law 
here in 18 17, and moved to Williamstown and went into practice there in 
1818. He died in Williamstown, June 25, 1834, unmarried. 

I find on the records of December term, 1813, '• Mr. Elijah Blaisdell en- 
tered as a clerk in Mr. J. Loomis's office for two and a half years from this 
December term, 1813"; also, "Mr. Henry F. Janes entered as a clerk in 
the office of J. Y. Vail, Esq., September, 1813 "; also, "Mr. Alanson Allen 
entered a clerk in the office of Joshua Y. Vail, December 1, 1813.'' I find 
nothing further about Alanson Allen except that he with Janes went with the 
military company to Burlington at the time of the battle of Plattsburgh. 

Charles Robinson, of Barre, who was admitted to the Supreme Court in 
this county in 182 1, was from 1814 to 1833 a practicing attorney in Barre 
according to the Registers. Where he was admitted originally I do not 
know. Perhaps he was living in Plamfield before he went to Barre, and that 
the name " Charles Roby," given in Hemenway as that of a lawyer in Plain- 
field about 18 1 2, is a mistake, and that the name should be Robinson. 

Elijah Blaisdell studied law in Montpelier and was admitted at the 
December term, 1813. He was born in Canaan, N. H., October 30, 1782, 
son of Hon. Daniel Blaisdell. Soon after being admitted he returned to 
Canaan and later became the Hon. Elijah Blaisdell, of that place and of 
Pittsfield, N. H. In politics he was a Federalist, and later a Jacksonian 
Democrat. 

Joseph Smith, of Barre, was admitted at the December term, 18x5. His 
name appears as a practicing attorney in Barre from i8i8 to 1823. 

AzRO LooMis, of Montpelier, was admitted at the December term, 1815, 
He practiced law in Montpelier and died here. He married Susan Burbank,, 
June 29, 1 8 14. They had three children, Horatio Seymour, born April 13, 
1820, now a merchant and living in Montpelier, and two daughters, Emily 
and Julia. 

Henry F. Janes, of Waterbury, third son of Solomon and Beulah Fisk 
Janes, was born in Brimfield, Mass., October 18, 1792. His parents moved 



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to Calais, where his boyhood was spent. He read law in Montpelier with 
J. Y. Vail, and began practice in Waterbury in 181 7. He represented the 
town many years, was elected to Congress in 1834 to serve out the remainder 
of Benjamin F. Deming's term in the 23d Congress. Mr. Deming, who had 
been county clerk of Caledonia county, died during his first congressional 
term at the early age of thirty-four ; he was the father of H. H. Deming, now 
living in Montpelier. Mr. Janes was also elected to the 24th Congress, and 
served three years in all in Washington. He was also state treasurer for 
three years. In 1826 he married Fanny Butler, daughter of Gov. Butler. 
Dr. Henry Janes, of Waterbury, is their son. Mr. Janes was a very good 
lawyer and useful citizen. He died June 6, 1879. 

William Richardson, of Stowe, son of Israel Putnam Richardson and 
Susan Holmes Richardson, of Fairfax, Vt., read law with Joshua Sawyer at 
Hyde Park, was admitted to Orleans County bar, August 15, 181 5, and began 
practice in Stowe in 1817. About 1824 he went to Burlington on business, 
crossed Lake Champlain, and was never heard of after : it is supposed he 
died suddenly. Israel Bush Richardson, of Michigan, a general in the war 
of the Rebellion, is said to have been his brother. He married a daughter 
of Nathaniel Butts and they had several children. The oldest, Charles T., 
read law a few months at Stowe, went to Michigan, but never practiced. 

Williain Richardson, of Waterbury, another son of the above named Will- 
iam, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Waterbury in 
1848, 1849, and 1850. He died three or four years after his admission to 
the bar. 

Thomas Reed, of Montpelier, was born at Hampstead, N. H., March 29, 
1793. His father, Captain Thomas Reed, who married Patty Hutchins, of 
Hampstead, came with his family to Montpelier in 1804. Thomas, Jr., as 
he was called when admitted to the bar, must have been admitted to the 
County Court bar in 18 17 or 18 18, as in the last year named he was in prac- 
tice in Montpelier, and was admitted to the Supreme Court bar at the Sep- 
tember term, 1821. He was preeminently a business man and a banker, 
and was a man of strong body and strong mind. He went to the "Platts- 
burgh war " one day ahead of the other Montpeiierites of his time, (they left 
here Friday,) with the same zeal and courage that Captain Kemp and Co. H 
displayed sixty-seven years after in the equally dangerous "Ely war." The 
enemy in each case took the course of the coon that knew Captain Martin 
Scott, of Bennington. The day of the Plattsburgh battle the sound of can- 
non broke up the meeting (it was Sunday\ and the villagers went over on 
Berlin hill and listened and wept, for they thought their folks were in the fight. 
Mr. Reed took pride in military matters and became a colonel in the militia. 
He was a man severe in speech and manner, and of great dignity ; but under- 
lying all this he had a sense of humor. He used to tell with great glee how 
the proudest moment of his life was when, arrayed in all the panoply of war, 
he sat his horse in presence of and in command of his regiment of Vermont 



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militia, and believed that the honor and dignity of his position must impress 
others as it did himself; and that the humblest moment of his life was the 
next one, when he became suddenly aware of the presence by his side of a 
slab-sided, lant»2rn-jawed client who, undeterred from thought of gain, and 
unimpressed by all the pomp and circumstance of mimic war, inquired, 
^^ Mister Reed, can't I sell you abaout tew bushels of fust rate pertaters?" 
The known solidity of Montpelier financial institutions and of its business 
in general is largely due to the influence of Col. Reed upon its business 
men. His advice to a young banker (found in Hemenway, vol. 4, p. 473) 
shows the principles on which he acted. In that advice he warns his cor- 
respondent to be careful in loaning to any who "go by other banks to do 
business at yours," and says "security, security, security, that is the main 
thing." He first married Emily Doane, of Hartford, Conn., and their one 
child died in infancy, and his wife soon after. He then married Mary L. W. 
Bowlend, of Billerica, Mass. They had six children. George B. Reed, of 
Boston, Charles A. Reed, of Chicago, William J. Reed, who died in Milwau- 
kee many years ago, and Edward D. Reed, late of Buffalo, N. Y., who was 
buried in Montpelier this week, were the sons; and Josephine, wife of 
J. Monroe Poland, of Chicago, and Georgianna, who married George W. 
Bailey, Jr., and after his death Col. E. Henry Powell, of Richford, state audi- 
tor, are the daughters. Col. Reed died in Montpelier of paralysis, April 
19, 1864. 

Hezekiah HurcHiNS Reed, brother of Col. Thomas Reed, was born in 
Hampstead, N. H., May 26, 1795; he read law with Dan Carpenter in 
Waterbury and was admitted to Washington County bar, March term, 1819, 
and that year began practice in Troy, Ohio, where he remained five years, and 
then returned to Montpelier and went into partnership with his brother 
Thomas. He, like his brother, was more engaged in business than in law, 
and he was president of the Vermont bank at the time of his death. Both 
were men of public spirit and of strong influence in establishing and main- 
taining a strong community. His first wife was Martha P. Barnard. They 
were married September 21, 1825, and had five children, Mary B., who mar- 
ried Prof. N. G. Clarke and died February 11, 1859; Cornelia A.; Eliza 
Spaulding, who married Alpha C. May and lives in Milwaukee; Emily Doane, 
who married Charles W. Willard and died in January, 1886 ; and Gertrude 
H. Emily S. and Eliza D., were twins. Mr. Reed married for his second 
wife the widow of a Mr. Lamb, who was a Miss Lamb before her first mar- 
riage. Mr. Reed died in Milwaukee, June 15, 1856, while on a visit to the 
West. 

Shubael Wheeler, second child of Lieut. Jerahmel B. and Sibyl Wheeler, 
was born in Montpelier, March 20, 1793. He married Elsey Davis, Octo- 
ber 5, 1818, and their daughter Emily Mandeville was born June 29, 1819. 
He was in the practice of law in Montpelier in 1818, and remained here two 
years ; removing then to East Calais, where he was in practice for many 



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years. He was assistant judge of the County Court from 1827 to 183 1, 
and was clerk of the court from 1846 to 1849, and from 1850 to December 
term, 1857, having Luther Newcomb for his deputy during the last seven 
years. Soon after he ceased to be clerk of the court he went West and 
made his home the rest of his days with his daughter Emily, wife of Levi 
VV. Wright, of Merrimac, Wis., the only survivor of his eight children. He 
was an accomplished, genial man ; left his too social habits when he became 
clerk and made an admirable officer of the court. The meeting of the bar 
to recommend a person for clerk in 1846 was the occasion of a lively discus- 
sion as to the relations of church and state in this country, in which Mr. 
Heaton championed the cause of Mr. Wheeler, who was opposed by some 
on account of his religious belief or want of it. 

Charles Story, son of Alexander and Sally (Myers) Story, was born 
December 30, 1788, at Salem, Mass., where his father lived and died. 
Charles came to Newbury, Vt., and August 28, 181 2, married a daughter of 
Col. Thomas Johnson, of Newbury, by whom he had three daughters. He 
afterwards came to Montpelier, studied law with J. Y. Vail, was admitted to 
Washington County bar, September term. 1819, and went at once to Mc- 
Indoes Falls, where he practiced ten years. Then he went to Coventry and 
practiced till 1850, being state's attorney for Orleans county in 1836 and 
1837. He moved to Newbury in 1850 and died there in the spring of 185 1. 

Robert L. Paddock (probably a son of Dr. Robert Paddock who set- 
tled in Barre about 1806) was born in Barre, was admitted to Washington 
County bar, September term, 1820, went to Highgate, where he married a 
Miss Freileigh, and practiced till 1824, when he went to Swanton and became 
a partner of Judge Fisk. In 1827 he was deputy collector at Highgate and 
practiced at Highgate till 1846, when he went to New York. He came back 
to Highgate in 1849 and practiced there four years. He died in 1861. 

Newell Kinsman, of Barre, was admitted at the March term, 1822, and 
immediately began practice in Barre. He was a good lawyer, and his name 
appears among tlie practicing attorneys of Barre as late as 1855. He mar- 
ried Leonora Lamb, a sister of the second Mrs. H. H. Reed, of Montpelier. 
She died suddenly at Cleveland, Ohio, June 14, 1856, the two families hav- 
ing gone West for a few weeks' trip, on which Mr. Reed and Mrs. Kinsman 
both died. I do not find that Mr. Kinsman resumed practice. 

The Old Court-House Again. 

In the preceding pages I have, in case members of the same family were 
lawyers, •' kept the family together," and so have given an account of some 
members of the bar, admitted in late years, directly after the sketch of the 
first member of the family admitted, and this same course will be followed 
hereafter. But now, in taking leave of those who came to our bar before any 
member of it now living was admitted, I wish to make a iew corrections and 
additions in respect of the foregoing matter. 



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I have not before me my manuscript describing the building of the first 
court house in 1818, but think that it gives the idea that at that time State 
street was not in existence. If so it is wrong. State street was " staked out " 
in 1807, and completed so that when the first State House was occupied in 
1808 it was open for travel. The old State House fronted on State street, as did 
the old court-house. Each had a cupola, and a sketch made by Mrs. 
Watrous, from which an engraving appears on the old map, dated 1821, gives 
them in exaggerated glory. In this engraving the State House and the court- 
house appear in a line with each other, somewhat farther back from State 
street than the Pavilion. On the south side of State street, and nearly oppo- 
site the State House, appears the old Eaton tavern ; and to the west of the 
court-house, and I should say about where the southwest corner of the State 
House yard now is, appears the old Baylies residence. 

On the list of Mr. Vail's scholars attending the academy in the winter of 
1807-08, besides the name of Mr. E. P. Jewett, is that of one other survivor 
of that winter's pupils, that of Eliza Jewett, now Mrs. William R. Shafter, at 
present residing in her ninety second year with her brother, Col. Jewett. Her 
memory, like his, holds many interesting traditions, and is a mirror for the 
olden times. Most of the very interesting matter they have given me, how- 
ever, does not peitain to the legal history of the county. Another name on 
that list of scholars is that of Eliza Reed, sister of Thomas and H. H., who 
became the mother of James R. Spaulding, a lawyer of this bar. Col. Jewett 
tells me that there was no whipping post in Montpelier m his time, but they 
had a whipping-place " at the hay scales," and that there he saw one Joe 
Pilkey whipped for stealing, twenty lashes he thinks, Nathan Doty being the 
officer who wielded the cat ; and Pilkey was to run away after whipping, and 
did so run. 

Col. Jewett, by the way, is pretty well entitled to tell of law and law- 
yers, for his mother, Ruth Payne, was the daughter of Elisha Payne, who 
though of Lebanon, N. H., was chief judge of the Supreme Court of Ver- 
mont in 1781-82 ; his wife, Julia Kellogg Field, is the daughter of Charles K. 
Field, and the niece of Roswell M. Field who started the Dred Scott case; 
and his daughter, Ruth Payne Jewett, is the wife of John W. Burgess, Ph. D., 
LL. D., professor of constitutional history, international and constitutional 
law, and political science in Columbia College School of Law. Now if the 
Colonel is not related to the law by consanguinity and affinity, I am mis- 
taken. No thanks to the Colonel for this item about him ; he gave me no 
information on that — I knew it myself. 

"When this old 'shire' was new," and I have it not by tradition, but 
recorded in the clerkly hand of John Barnard, merchant, rum was $1.75 a 
gallon, and loaf sugar thirty-four cents a pound. Sally Hutchins, the Satur- 
day before the first term of court opened of a Monday, bought fifteen gallons 
of rum and didn't get it any cheaper, — perhaps that wasn't considered a 
wholesale transaction in those days, — but by buying nineteen pounds and five 



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ounces of loaf sugar she got that at thirty cents a pound. Sally was provi- 
dent for her hostelry. A clergyman was charged thirty-four cents for his 
pound the day before, but he got his quart of rum for forty-four cents and his 
pint of brandy for forty-two cents. Samuel Prentiss^ Jr., November 28, 181 1, 
bought three pecks of salt for $2.50. Freight from Boston was $2.50 a 
hundred, and ox-teams were in frequent use to bring it. Judge Salvin 
Collins, November 30, 181 1, two days before court, was charged thirty-eight 
cents for three, dozen eggs, one dollar for a pound of " Hyson Skin Tea," 
$2.57 for loaf sugar at thirty cents a pound, and what else he bought that 
day cost him $1.75 —doubtless he was on hospitable thought intent ; and the 
day court met he bought a forty-two cent "hair comb." Mr. Prentiss about 
these days bought " H. S. Tea" at $1.13 ; perhaps better tea, perhaps not a 
one-price store. " B. Tea" was only fifty cents a pound and " B. sugar" 
twenty-two cents; molassas was $1.25 a gallon and calico fiftv to fifty-six 
cents a yard ; cotton cloth thirty to thirty-four cents a yard ; a dozen 
needles eight cents; a paper of pins twenty-five cents, and a spelling book 
twenty-five cents. J. Y. Vail bought a dozen " segars " for eight cents; 
good ones, too ; they were bought by the barrel and sold singly for a cent 
a piece. Either the lawyers paid more for their rum or drank a better quality, 
for the charges against them are fifty cents a quart. Mr. Baylies about this 
time varied the ordinary routine of purchases by the lawyers by negotiating 
for a quart of gin — twenty-five cents. It is likely that he was digesting that 
" Index," and it is presumed that there was no " celery compound " in the 
market. I am told that some of those (not of the professional men, how- 
ever) to whom these charges appear " died of delirium tremens." And per- 
haps it should also be here remarked " by way of improvement " that the 
venerable and holy man who bought the rum and the brandy died fifty years 
after, having attained the age of ninety-five years only. '' There 't is " again: 
" sometimes the spirits work and sometimes they do not." 

Of Whom Some are Living. 

Paul Dillingham, of Waterbury, was admitted March term, 1823. He 
was then Paul Dillingham, Jr., but now at almost nmety years is the Nestor 
of our bar. He was born at Shutesbury, Mass., August 10, 1799, and is the 
son of Paul and Hannah (Smith) Dillingham. He came to Waterbury in 
1805, and nearing manhood attended the Washington County Grammar 
School at Montpelier, and afterwards read law with Dan Carpenter, whose 
law partner he became immediately on admission. His grandfather, John, 
served under Wolfe and was killed at Quebec ; and his father was three years 
a soldier in the Revolution. He represented his town in 1833, '34> '37> '3^> 
and '39; was state senator from this county in 1841, '42, and '61 ; was state's 
attorney in 1835, '36, and '37 ; was a member of Congress from March 4, 
1843, to March 4, 1847 ; was elected lieutenant-governor in 1862, 1863, and 



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1864, and governor in 1865 and 1866 ; and for more than fifty years drew 
•tears and verdicts from juries. The jury was to him an instrument " easier 
to be played on than a pipe." 

Of noble presence and melodious voice, his were " words that weep and 
tears that speak." And bench, bar, and court-room audience, as the jury, 
like an old violin, vibrated to the sound he gave it, were ''of one consent ; 
congreeing in a full and natural close." I remember Judge Barrett once 
told me of a famous case at Rutland (perhaps the Strickland will case), where 
people packed the court-room as Dillingham, whom they had heard of but 
had not heard, was to close against E. J. Phelps, whose delightful oratory 
they well knew. Phelps adroitly painted what was coming by such praise of 
his brother Dillingham's eloquence as would have broken most men up and 
made them fail to meet expectation by performance. Judge Barrett said 
that when Dillingham rose the whole audience eagerly bent forward to hear, 
but that under his slow and hesitating manner for the first ten minutes, as 
he stumbled along over some preliminary matter, they lost all interest in him 
and sank back against the seats with sighs of relaxation, merely wondering 
how such a halting speaker could have gained such a reputation. But in 
five minutes from that time, the Judge said, Dillingham had put out from 
shore with bench, bar, audience, and jury all aboard, and with all sails set 
and filled with favoring breeze, ship and cargo all his own, was on his way on 
the open sea to tlie port of destination. It was a problem to Judge Barrett 
whether the halting start was accidental or designed. 

The first time I ever heard Gov. Dillingham before a jury was nearly 
twenty years ago in the Gregory-Atkins case, in which he had the logic, 
humor, and sarcasm of Timothy P. Redfield to contend against. I had 
heard Dillingham greatly praised as a jury advocate, and had heard him criti- 
cized by certain bright college students as a man who maltreated the King's 
English, and whose nouns and verbs did not well agree. So I thought I 
would be an impartial critic and watch and find whether he was stronger weak, 
and in what his strength or weakness lay. I carried out my plan for a few 
minutes, long enough to find that he let the parts of speech get along among 
themselves pretty much as best they could ; and about an hour after, as his 
last words fell on the hushed court-room, the fact dawned on me that I had 
for an hour forgotten all about criticism or the study of oratory and had be- 
come convinced his client was entitled to a verdict — and to be honest about 
it he got to talking about one thing that started the tears in my eyes, and 
I remember what it was and that it justified tears, but what particular 
connection it had with that case is a little difficult to see now, though it 
was plain enough when he was talking. 

Mr. Dillingham first married Sarah P. Carpenter, eldest daughter of 
Dan ; she died September 20, 183 1. September 5, 1832, he married her 
sister Julia, and they had seven children. Of their three daughters, 
;E. Jane, Ellen S., and CaroUne, the second married J. F. Lamson, of Bos- 



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ton, and died in 1875, and the youngest, Caroline, in 1855, married Matt 
H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin. Tiie four sons were Charles, who was lieuten- 
ant-colonel of the Eighth Vermont, and has since the war lived in Louisana 
and is now in Texas; Edwin ; William P.; and Frank. 

In the Biographical Encyclopedia of Verviont is a sketch of ex- Governor 
Dillingham, and in Hemenway, vol. 4, p. 861, is an appreciative notice by 
Hon. B. F. Fifield, whose concluding words, as true now as when written seven 
years ago, I quote : — 

"With nothing to regret in his past, and a Christian's hope of the future, 
his present condition exhibits a restfulness and placidity which fittingly crown 
a life of labor not spent in vain." 

Edwin Dillingham, of Waterbury, second son of Paul and Julia, was born. 
May 13, 1839. ^^ began the study of law with his brother-in-law. Matt 
Carpenter, in Milwaukee, in 1858, went from there to a law school and 
graduated in 1859, came home and read with his father, and at September term, 
i860, was admitted to this bar, after which he became his father's partner and 
practiced in Waterbury till July, 1862, when he recruited Co. B, of the loth 
Vermont, and was made its captain. He was taken prisoner when an aide on 
the staff of Gen. Morris, at Locust Grove, November 27, 1863, and was in 
Libby prison four months. He was made major of the Tenth in June, 1864,. 
and was, September 4, 1864, at the battle of Winchester, struck on the thigh 
by a twenty-pound shot and, borne bleeding to the rear, died in two hours. 
One of the members of his regiment wrote of him from the battlefield : 
" While the fight was still roaring up over the hill he died, and this was the 
end of a beautiful, harmonious life, young, handsome, brilliant, brave amid 
trials, cheerful amid discouragements, upright, and with that kindness of heart 
which ever characterized the true gentleman, blended with firmness and 
energy as a commander, he was ever respected by all of his command and. 
loved by all of his companions. 

' A fairer and a lovelier gentleman 

The spacious world cannot again afford.' 

We shall long mourn him in our camp." 

William Paul Dillingham, of Waterbury, now governor of Vermont, is 
the third son of Paul and Julia, and was born December 12, 1843. He read 
law with his brother-in-law, Matt H. Carpenter, in Milwaukee, from^i864 to 
1866, two years ; he also read with his father and was admitted to Washing- 
ton County bar, September term, 1867. He was state's attorney from 1872 
to 1876, and established his reputation as a skillful lawyer in his conduct of 
the bitterly fought liquor cases during the long jury term of 1873, and later in 
the Barre bank burglary case, and the trial of Asa Magoon, who was convicted 
of the murder of Streeter and hung at Windsor. This reputation he has main- 
tained in his conduct of civil cases. 

Mr. Dillingham represented Waterbury in 1876 and 1884, and was a 
senator from this county in 1878 and 1880. He was commissioner of taxes. 



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from 1882 to 1888. In 18S8 he was nominated for governor, stumped the 
state for Harrison and Morton, and was elected governor by the largest 
majority ever given a candidate. His speeches during the campaign were, 
like his arguments before juries, logical, persuasive, and effective. 

Gov. Dillingham married Mary E. Shipman, December 24, 1874, and they 
have one child, Paul Shipman Dillingham, born October 27, 1878. 

RoswELL N. Knapp, of Montpelier, was admitted at September term, 
1823, and practiced in Montpelier about two years. He was born in Berlin. 
His name is given in the Registers as Roswell H., but I have followed the 
record of his admission. He moved to Ohio, practiced, and died there. 

Nahum Peck, of Montpelier, was admitted at the September term, 1823. 
He was an elder brother of Asahel Peck (see next notice), and settled in 
Hinesburgh and practiced there for many years. He survived his brother 
Asahel. Cicero G. Peck is his son. 

Asahel Peck, of Montpelier, the son of Squire and EHzabeth (Goddard) 
Peck, was born in Royalston, Mass., in September, 1803. His folks came 
to Montpelier in 1806, and he received his early education in the district 
schools of the town and in the Washington County Grammar School. He 
has told me how he studied arithmetic lying on the floor and ciphering by 
the light of pine knots in the fire-place. He was for a time in the Univer- 
sity of Vermont, left and went to Canada, where he studied French, returned 
and read law with his brother Nahum, and with Bailey and Marsh, and was 
admitted to the Chittenden County bar, March 29, 1832. 

He was circu't judge from 1851 to 1857, and Supreme Court judge from 
December i, i860, to August 31, 1874, when he resigned. He made his 
home in B.irlington till after his election as judge of the Supreme Court, but 
soon after presided in Washington and Orange counties and made his home 
in Montpelier till he made it on his farm in Jericho in 1872. He was elected 
governor in 1874; and after his term expired resumed practice until his 
death, May 18, 1879. 

Judge Rowell's admirable sketch of him is printed in the Vermojit Bar 
Association's Report for 1884, and to that I refer the reader. Stories of his 
great and peculiar personality would crowd so on each other that none can 
be admitted. I much doubt whether he did not know more law than any 
other man. 

Horace Steele, of Montpelier, practiced here from 1824 to 1827. I am 
told he went to Chelsea to be cashier of the Bank of Orange, and was there 
soon succeeded by Jason Steele and then went to Windsor. I think he was 
an uncle or other relative of Judge B. H. Steele. 

Oramel Hopkins Smith, of Montpelier, was admitted March term, 1825. 
He was born in Thetford, October 16, 1798, and read with Judge Prentiss. 
He was state's attorney from 1841 to 1844, and his professional life was 
long and honorable. In 1830 he married Mary Warner, daughter of Samuel 
Goss, who survives him — a most charming lady of the older days. They 



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had four children, one dying in infancy ; Ch\rles F. ; Ellen J., wife of C. J. 
Gleason ; and Lucy A., wife of Charles A. Reed. Mr. Smith died in Mont- 
pelier, January 23, 18S1. Reference is maile to Hemenway, vol. 4, p. 471, 
for more extended notice. 

Charles Franklin Smith, son of O. H., was born in Montpelier in 1833, 
graduated at Dartmouth in 1854, read law with his father and was admitted 
here, November term, 1856. He went west and for a time practiced 
in Chicago, but moved to Hancock, Mich., about 186 1. He died at Han- 
cock, April 23, T 864. 

Daniel Pierce Thompson, Vermont's novelist, was the son of Daniel and 
Rebeckah Tnompson, and was born in Charlestown, Mass., October i, 1795. 
He was a relative of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. His foiks 
came to Berlin in 1800. He graduated at Middlebury in 1820, went to Vir- 
ginia, taught and studied law, and was admitted to \Vashingt(jn County bar, 
March term, 1S25. He was clerk of the House, judge of probate, clerk of 
the court, secretary of state, and an editor. May Martin and the Green Monnt- 
ain Boys, and all the rest rush to muid. He married Eunice Knight Rob- 
inson, of (Concord ?), Vt., who survives him, and is living with Mr, Burroughs 
in Madison, Wis. Their children were Charles, who died in infancy ; George 
R.; Frances, died aged sixteen ; William, died at Madison some fifteen years 
ago; Alma, married Hon. George B. Burroughs, of Madison, and died in 
18S2; and Daniel G. I attempt no notice of Mr. Th )mpson, but refer to 
4 Hemenway 69; his own History of Montpelier a.nd his novels should be 
familiar to all, as they are to most Vermonters. I scrape<l acquaintance with 
him in November, 1863, on the cars near Ogdensburg, when on a night ride 
on the way to Wisconsin, and at midnight we were cast away on the cold 
shores and in a newly-plastered " hotel" of Prescott, Canada, where we had 
to stay twelve long hours; and from his presence my remembrance of that 
night, after a son of Africa stuck his head in the car dour with the exclamation, 
*' Lawd A'mighty, de train 's gone," is pleisurable instead of horrijle. He 
died of paralysis, June 6, 1868. He apparently believed, as many do to-day, 
in the Berlin murder myth. 

George Robinson Thompson, his eldest son, was born in Montpelier, Jan- 
uary 3, 1834, graduated at U. V. M in 1853, was admitted March term, 
1856, and practiced in Montpelier a year or so. He was clerk of the House 
in 1856 and 1857. He began practice in New York city in 1857, and was a 
successful lawyer till his death, when on the way to Albany to argue a case 
in the Court of Appeals, on the night of February 6, 187 i, at the New Ham- 
burgh disaster. He was of fine literary taste and good legal ability. He 
married, October 19, 1858, Serafina, daughter of Dr. T. C. Taplin, of Mont- 
pelier, who has resided here since his death. Their son Giorge Clinton, 
b )rn in i860, died in 1863, and their yoangest son, Cnarles Miner, born in 
Montpelier, March 24, 1864, graduated at Harvard in 1886, and is now 
literary editor of the Boston Advertiser. 



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Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, youngest son of D. P., was born in Mont- 
pelier, February 9. 1850, was assistant secretary of state while a student, grad- 
uated at Amherst in 1869, taught in Springfield, Mass., and published a 
First Latin Book in 1872. He went to New York, studied law, and has 
for years practiced there with success. He is now the head of the law firm 
of Thompson, Ackley & Kaufman, at 35 Wall street. As Oviatt was wont 
to refresh his mind by reading Marshall's opinion in the Dartmouth College 
case, so my friend, Daniel G., has his recreation in conversing with Herbert 
Spencer, reading John Stuart Mill, and writing works on metaphysics. 
" Type metal, once hold, never lets go." He began publishing philsophical 
articles in 1878, in Mind, a London quarterly devoted to psychology and 
philosophy; and from 1884 has published four works. His publishers are 
Longmans, Green & Co., London, and his works to date are : A System of 
Psychology, two vols., 1884 ; The Problem of Evil, 1887 ; The Religious Sen- 
timents of the Hiwian Mind, 1 888; and Social Progress, 1889. He is pres- 
ident of the Nineteenth Century Club, and I am half curious to know what 
proportion of that body of extremely liberal thinkers go with their president 
when he says : " I am inclined to the opinon that the ground for the asser- 
tion of post-mortem self-consciousness in identity with ante mortem self con- 
sciousness is firmer than for the contrary belief." It is possible I don't get 
hold of Dan's meaning, but if I do he votes "yes " on the old and biggest 
question, "if a man die, shall he live again ?" and I say "hit 'em again"; 
but if I don't apprehend him and he means something else, then, as Jere. 
Mason said to Rufus Choate, " why did n't you say so?" 

To get back from metaphysics and opinion to known fact, Mr. Thompson 
married Henrietta Gallup, of Cleveland, Ohio. 

William Watkins was admitted September term, 1825, and a William 
Watkins was practicing in Reading in 1827. 

Asa Wheeler, Jr., was admitted September term, 1825, and I am glad I 
don't know anything more about him ; "a short horse is soon curried." 

Simeon Smith, of Northfield, the first lawyer to practice in that town, was 
admitted September term, 1825. He was the son of Levi and Catharine 
(Walcott) Smith; was born at Williamstown, September 4, 1797, graduated 
at Dartmouth in 1822, read law at Barre with Newell Kinsman, practiced but 
a few months in Northfield, moved to Kentucky and afterwards returned to 
Williamstown for a time, but finally settled at Covington, Ky. He married 
Mrs. Mary Ann (Hall) Smith, of Kentucky, the widow of his brother Zebina, 
which was about as near marrying his widow's sister as marrying his deceased 
wife's sister would have been. 

It may here be said that Elisha W. Keyes, born in Northfield, is a promi- 
nent lawyer of Madison, Wis. 

John L. Buck, of Northfield, was born in Reading, January i, 1802, began 
reading with Reuben Washburn, of Cavendish, and afterwards read with 
J. Loomis and Mr. Prentiss. He was admitted September term, 1825, and 



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in October settled in Northfield, where Simeon Smith had already located. 
Mr. Buck was state's attorney. He practiced in Northfield till 1851, when 
he went to Lockport, N. Y., to live. He married Mary Ann Hildreth, of 
Montpelier, November 29, 1826 ; she died in Lockport, November 6, 1864. 
Their children were Mary D., who died in 1852, in Lockport; George B., 
who died in Northfield in 184 1 ; and John H. See Gregory's Northfield iox 
more. 

John Hildreth Buck, son of John L., born in Northfield, November 22, 
1827, graduated at U. V. M. in 1850, began reading law with his father, 
went with him to Lockport, N. Y., in 185 1, and was admitted in New York 
in 1854. He married Harriet M. Fletcher, of Bridport, August 24, 1854. 
He was mayor of Lockport in 1874. 

Calvin Jay Keith, of Montpelier, son of Chapin Keith who was some- 
time judge of probate, and who, when sheriff, once ended a proclamation 
with " God save the King " instead of " God save the People," — an early case 
of heterophemy, — was born in Uxbridge, Mass., April 9, 1800, and was an. 
infant when his folks moved to Barre. He graduated at Union College in 
1822, read law with William Upham, and was admitted September term, 
1825. He was the first state librarian of Vermont — 1825 to 1829. He 
practiced in Montpelier; became attorney for the heirs of one Elkins who 
went from Peacham to New Orleans and was a merchant ; it took years to 
unravel the matter and he spent much time in New Orleans ; by skillful 
management he saved a fortune for the heirs and made one himself He 
visited Europe in 1852, and died of brain fever at Montpelier, September 23, 
1853. He was at one time partner of William Upham, and was an able 
lawyer. See Thompson's Montpelier. ' 

Lucius Benedict Peck, of Montpelier, son of John Peck who was first 
sheriff of this county and married Anna Benedict, of Underhill, was born in 
Waterbury, in October, 1802, beginning in July, 1822, was in West Point 
Military Academy one year, read law with Mr. Prentiss, and with Denison 
Smith, of Barre, was admitted September term, 1825, and went into partner- 
ship with Mr. Smith at Barre, where he practiced till 1832, when he moved 
to Montpelier, He was member of Congress from 1847 to 1851; United 
States' district attorney for Vermont from 1853 to 1857; and would have 
succeeded Judge Prentiss as district judge had the wish of his party in Ver- 
mont prevailed; but the man who took Peck's petition to Washington 
brought back the appointment of himself, and made no answer to W. H. H. 
Bingham and the rest of a committee, who went to see him and represent 
that it would n't do and to suggest that he decline the appointment, than to 
take his commission from his desk and remark that he had figured it up and 
that paper was worth so many dollars each day in the year. Mr. Peck was 
for a third of a century the leader of this bar. He was, the last years, counsel 
for the Central railroad. He married, in 1830, a daughter of Ira Day; she 

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died in 1854, and a daughter survives. He died at Lowell, Mass., of apo- 
plexy, December 28, 1866. See sketch by Mr. Fifield in vol. 4, Hemenway. 
Stoddard Benham Colby, of MontpeUer, is here placed because " Peck 
•and Colby" were so long together. He was the second son of Nehemiah and 
Melinda (Larrabee) Colby, and was born at Derby, February 3, 1816, fitted 
for college in I. F. Redfield's law office, graduated at Dartmouth in 1836, 
read law with WiUiam Upham, was admitted in Orleans county, December 
■term, 1838, and practiced in Derby till 1846, when he came to Montpe- 
Uer and was a partner of L. B. Peck for seventeen years. He was state's at- 
torney two years. Mr. Colby was a finished orator and always charmed with 
"beautiful language, and his partner said of him, " give him a case with neither 
law nor fact on his side and he would win when another man would never 
■dream of trying it." Peck, on the other hand, did best with a good case. Mr. 
Colby was appointed register of the treasury and went to Washington, where 
he resided the last three or four years of his life. He married Harriet Eliza- 
beth Proctor, February 11, 1840, and they had four children; two growing 
up, one became the wife of Col. A. B. Cary, and the other is Jabez Proctor 
Colby. Mrs. Colby perished at the burning of the Hent-y Clay on the Hud- 
son. Mr. Colby's second wife was Ellen Cornelia Hunt, of Haverhill, N. H. 
They were married July 12, 1855, and had two children, Ellen and Frank. 
Mr. Colby went to Haverhill for rest and died there, October 21, 1867. See 
Baldwin and Hemenway for full sketches. 

Isaac Fletcher Redfielu. — Near Peck and Colby should be sketched 
the Redfields, those two great lights of the bench and bar of the state. 
Isaac F. never parcticed in this county, but he lived here for some eleven 
years after he was elected j udge. He was born at Weathersfield, April i o, 1 804, 
went to Coventry when his father moved there in 1805, graduated at Dart- 
mouth in 1825, and was in 1827 admitted to the bar in Orleans county. 
He began practice at Derby, and so good a lawyer was he that he was con- 
tinuously state's attorney from 1832 till elected a judge of the Supreme Court 
in 1835. He moved to Montpelier, and about 1846 to the Judge Chase 
house at Randolph Center, where he lived three or four years and then moved 
to Windsor, where he lived till he went to Boston in 1861. He was on the 
supreme bench twenty-five years, the last eight of which he was chief judge. 
He conferred honor on the court and it was quoted in other states as the 
" Redfield Court." After he declined further service on the bench he went 
to Boston. He wrote many valuable legal works, notably treatises on the law 
of wills and railway law. He died in Charlestown, Mass., March 23, 1876, of 
pneumonia, and was buried at Windsor. He married Mary Ward Smith, 
of Stanstead, September 28, 1836; and Catharine Blanchard Clark, of St. 
Johnsbury, May 4, 1842. No children survive. See Baldwin, pp. 84 to 93, 
for full sketch by E. J. Phelps. 

Timothy Parker Redfield, of Montpelier, was one of the twelve children of 
Dr. Peleg Redfield and Hannah (Parker) Redfield. He was born at Coven- 



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try, November 3, 181 2, and was educated at Dartmouth in the class of 1836. 
He read law with his brother Isaac F., was admitted to Orleans County bar in 
1838, and began practice at Irasburgh, where he remained ten years. In 
1848 he was elected senator from Orleans county. He moved to Montpelier 
after the session of 1848, practiced here till his election as a judge of the Su- 
preme Court in 1870, and continued on the bench till the fall of 1884, when 
he declined a reelection. He married Helen W. Grannis, of Stanstead, Feb- 
ruary 6, 1840, and she survives him. They had four children, one of whom, 
Alice, the wife of Andrew J. Phillips, is living in Chicago. Alice has two 
children, a daughter, Helen, and a son, Timothy. The Judge, after many 
years, lies with his three other children in Green Mount cemetery, that 
pleasant place of rest of which Eastman wrote : — 

" This fairest spot of hill and glade, 
Where blooms the flower and waves the tree, 

And silver streams delight the shade, 
We consecrate, O Death, to thee." 

Judge Redfield was a wise and genial man as well as a profound lawyer 
and great judge. No man at the bar had quite so much the flavor of the 
olden time. Some way he remembered the wise and witty things that seemed 
to be the common stock of the ancients of the law, and it was an education 
to hear him discourse of the old lawyers and the old practice. And withal 
he knew more things that were "going on " about him than nine-tenths of 
their actors ; how he became possessed of his information was a mystery — ■ 
he must have absorbed knowledge from the air as he went along. He was 
a powerful advocate while at the bar — logical, adroit, with play of wit and 
humor, he was a dangerous antagonist. And after he was on the bench his 
power and mastery of the art of putting things used to make the lawyer who 
was getting the worst of the charge wince, and make the one whose law and 
facts the Judge thought were right ashamed of himself to see how a real 
artist could do his work. When he had his mind made up he took care that 
his position should be understood. When he made decisions as a chancellor 
he would often file reasons with or as a part of the decretal order that, when 
the case went up, were a tower of strength in defense of the order he had 
made. 

It is, I find, the general sense of those who knew the two Judges Redfield 
that Isaac F. was the more studious in habit, and Timothy P. the stronger 
by nature. The elder brother cultivated more assiduously, but the younger 
plowed the deeper — and he seemed to know intuitively legal fields and what 
grains and fruit they bore. I have been surprised, after examining a doubt- 
ful point and going over all the authorities attainable, to hear him, the mo- 
ment the question was sprung in the court-room, start from a principle and 
go on till he had talked all the law there was about the thing — give a better 
summary of the law off-hand than one could find in the books of those who 
had taken their time for thought and statement. He was solidly grounded 



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in the principles of the law — and he rerabered a vast deal about practice. 
He was to the younger members of the bar a spring of pure and ever flowing 
law; and I believe that his brethren on the bench would say that they looked 
to him as to the master of a stronghold of the law with all its weapons avail- 
able to his hand. 

Judge Redfield died in Chicago in 1888, and his remains were brought to 
Montpelier for burial. See Baldwin and Hemenway for excellent sketches 
by Judge Thompson and Mr. Fifield. 

Lewis Marsh was the son of William and Hannah (Nye) Marsh, and was. 
born in Montpelier, July 6, 1804. He studied with J. Y. Vail, was admitted 
September term, 1826, and at once went to Derby, where he practiced eight 
years successfully. He died in Montpelier, June 4, 1835. See Baldwin, 
p. 118. 

Orion W. Butler, of Stowe, began practice there in 1826, and retired in 
1845. He was admitted to the Supreme Court in Montpelier, March term, 
1830. He was first state's attorney of Lamoille county, and a state senator. 
See sketch in 2 Hemenway 729. 

Willis G. Butler, of Stowe, eldest son of above, was admitted here,. 
September term, 1856. He went to Minnesota and practiced. 

AzEL Spaulding, of Montpelier, was admitted at the August term, 1827, 
practiced first in Plainfield, and moved to Montpelier in 1829. He repre- 
sented the town in 1831, 1832, and 1833. About thirty years ago he moved 
to Kansas, where he died at Grasshopper Falls about three years ago. His 
remains were brought to Montpeher. 

Theron Howard, the first lawyer to settle in Cabot, practiced there from 
1827 to 1832, but as Cabot was till [855 in Caledonia county he did not 
properly belong to our bar; the same is true of Timothy P. Fuller, who was 
from 1847 to 1850 in Cabot, (see his sketch in Child's Orange County Gaz- 
etteer, p. 118,) and of John McLean, who was practicing in Cabot m 1850 
and died there. Mr. Howard went to Danville, and I am told to Groton 
also. John IV. Twiss, afterwards in Chelsea, (see Child's Orange County - 
Gazetteer,) practiced in Cabot in 1841 and 1842. 

Sidney Smith Taplin, a son of John and Lydia (Gove) Taplin, was born 
in Berlin, February 5, 1803, was admitted May term, 1828, and practiced 
for a short time in VVilliston. About 1829 he went to Buffalo, N. Y., where 
he was successful and prominent. He went to Springfield, 111., to see whether 
he would locate there, and died there July 8, 1833. He married Sarah 
Bailey, of Buff"alo, who survived him and was a successful teacher in Pitts- 
burg. 

David B. Webster was admitted to the Supreme Court at Tune term, 
1829. He practiced in Chittenden county, and in 1836 was for a little 
while in practice in Northfield. He married a daughter of Samuel Goss, of." 
Montpelier, and moved to Kalamazoo, Mich. 



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Gen. Seth Cushman, who was a nephew of Judge Elijah Paine, and who 
went to Guildhall in 1805 and died there in 1845, aged sixty-three, came 
down to Montpelier on some political wheel in 1830 and opened a law office, 
but the wheel did n't revolve, so he went back home. 

Jonathan Peckham Miller, of Montpelier, son of Heman Miller, was 
born in Randolph, February 24, 1797. His father died when Peckham 
was two years old. He went to Burlington with the Randolph volunteers 
for Plattsburgh. He enlisted in the regular army in 1817, served two years, 
fitted for college, and was at Burlington in college when the college buildings 
burned, May 24, 1824. Afloat again, he sailed for Greece, August 21, 1824, 
and became a colonel in the Greek revolution. Returning, he settled in 
Berhn, where he lived until 1833. He was admitted May term, 1831, and 
practiced in Montpelier till his death, February 17, 1847. He was an earn- 
est abolitionist, and deserves a high place in the annals of men who have 
sought to free the oppressed. He was a brave soldier and a noble man. 
He married Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Arms, in June, 1828. Their 
daughter Sarah is the wife of Abijah Keith, an honored citizen of Chicago. 
See Hemenway, vol. 4, p. 457, for full sketch. 

Lucas Miltiades Miller was a Greek orphan adopted by Col. Miller 
and brought to this country by him. He was admitted to the bar, April 
term, 1844. He practiced here a few years, when he went to Oshkosh, 
Wis., where he became a prominent and successful man. 

Heman W. W. Milie?% brother of Col. J. P., was born in Randolph. He 
was, like Col. Miller, of commanding presence, but, unlike his brother, of 
erratic character. He is given in the Registers as a practicing attorney in 
Calais in 1838, and in Moretown in 1839 and 1S40. Whether he was ever 
really admitted to the bar I do not know. He was an abolitionist and was 
as a stump speaker a sort of " Great Kyhega of the Universe." He was 
once discoursing to a multitude of the martyr, Lovejoy. Said he : " My 
friends, future ages will erect to him a monument that shall have for its base 
eternal space, and from whose top you can behold the throne of Almighty 
God." He was married. He died in poverty, about which he cared nothing. 

Peter Sleeman Wheelock was born in Montpelier, studied law with 
W. Upham, and was admitted November term, 1832. He went into busi- 
ness at Sutton, but was not successful. He then went to Boston and began 
the practice of law, and was for many years a poUce judge, in the Roxbury 
district I think. He attained a competence and died only a few years 
ago. 

William Morrill Pingry, of Waitsfield, son of William and Mary (Mor- 
rill) Pingry, was born in Salisbury, N. H., May 28, 1806. He was admitted 
in Caledonia county, June term, 1832, went to Waitsfield and practiced there 
till 1841, when he moved to Springfield and thence to Perkinsville, where he 
lived an honored citizen, being state senator, and also assistant judge as he 



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had been in this county. He was twice married. He wrote a Genealogy of 
the Fitigry Family, published in 1881, which see for more full account. 

Thomas J. Ormsbee was admitted November term, 1832. 

Sylvester C. Eaton, of Plainfield, was born in Hard wick, April 2, 1808, 
read law with Upham & Keith, and was admitted here, April term, 1833. 
He practiced in Plainfield till 1S39, when he moved to Tunbridge, going 
thence to Chelsea in 1840. In 1842 he began preaching as a Universalist, 
and so continued in various places for very many years. He died at North- 
field, January 7, 1886. 

Lew^is Royce was admitted at the April term, 1833, and went into prac- 
tice at Washington, where he remained two years, being the first lawyer to 
locate in that town. He moved from Washington to Michigan. 

Moses N. Flint was admitted April term, 1833. I am told that "he was 
a New Hampshire boy and went up north, where he practiced and soon died." 

Jeremiah T. Marston, of Montpelier, was admitted April term, 1833. 
He practiced one year in Cabot, and in 1834 came to Montpelier and be- 
came editor of the Vermont Patriot, and so continued till 1846, the latter part 
of the time owning as well as editing the paper. He was town representa- 
tive in 1844 and 1845. Something more than forty years ago he moved to 
Madison, Wis., where he has had a successful life. He married a daughter 
of Jacob F. Dodge, of Montpelier, and they had three children. 

Anson Sargent was admitted April term, 1834. 

Alanson C. Burke studied with Merrill & Spaulding and was admitted 
November term, 1834. He went into practice in Stowe and there continued 
until 1856, when he moved to Berlin and there remained, practicing a part 
of the time for about ten years, when he returned to Stowe. J. A. Wing 
says he was living at Morrisville two years ago, and he thinks he is still living 
there. 

Benjamin F. Chamberlain, of Northfield, was admitted November term, 

1834. He practiced in Northfield two years and went to Snowsville, in 
Braintree, where J. P. Kidder read law with him. He practiced at Snows- 
ville several years, and Gov. Farnham says in Child's Gazetteer of Orange 
County that he went to Concord and was an editor. He fell out of a tree 
and broke his back about 1843, but where this fatal accident occurred I am 
not sure. 

Edward L. Mayo studied with Judge Prentiss and was admitted Novem- 
ber term, 1834, He went to Woodstock, 111., where he was successful, and 
where he was living not many years ago. 

Harrison B. Page was admitted November term, 1834. His father was 
a clergyman and went to Ohio. Mr. Page was a gentlemanly young fellow, 
but economical ; he never practiced in this county. 

John Colby, son of Jonathan and Esther Colby, was born in Barre, Sep- 
tember ig, 1807, studied with N. Kinsman, and was admitted April term, 

1835. He practiced in Washington till 1848; went to Salisbury; and in 



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1853 to Craftsbury; to Glover in 1855 and soon to Hartland, where he stdd 
till 1872, when he went to Fairlee, where he died March 19, 1875. He rep- 
resented Washington, Salisbury, and Hartland. In 1837 he married Adaline 
M. Kneeland, of Hartford, by whom he had four children. I have followed 
Baldwin's account, which see for more detail. 

Samuel A. Chandler practiced in Montpelier a few months — in 1835. 
He was a man of some capital and went to Concord, N. H., where I am told 
he was in business and did not practice much. 

Stephen S. Jones was admitted November term, 1835. 

Homer Wallace Heaton, of Montpelier, was born in Berlin, August 25, 
181 1, and is the son of Dr. Gershotn Heaton, who moved to Berlin in 1795, 
and Polly (Wallace) Heaton. His education was in the common schools, 
and in St. Lawrence Academy at Potsdam,, N. Y., and Washington County 
Grammar School. He read law with J. P. Miller and N. Baylies, Jr., was 
admitted to the bar, November term, 1835, ^^^ — the firm of Miller & Bay- 
lies dissolving that year — at once became a member of the law firm of Miller 
& Heaton. Col. Miller's health in 1839 obliged him to retire from prac- 
tice, and with Charles Reed the firm of Heaton & Reed was formed, which 
lasted till Mr. Reed's death, March 7, 1873. 

He was state's attorney in 1839, ^^4^y i860, and i86r, and representative 
in 1848. When J. Y. Vail resigned as county cleric Judge I. F. Redfield 
and his associates offered the place to Mr. Heaton, but he kept at the law, 
thinking rightly that in its steady pursuit he would find his account. He 
was the candidate of the Democrats for speaker in 1848, for governor in 1869 
and 1870, and for Congress in 1872 and 1874. His first vote was for An- 
drew Jackson, and in Rebellion days he was a war Democrat. He would 
probably call himself a Jeffersonian Democrat, and his definitions are gener- 
ally correct. I have always wished that he was a Republican, but while at 
times I have thought he was almost under conviction he has never exhibited 
any indications of coming forward into the anxious seats; and instead of 
seeing my old law instructor come over to the right side I have lost off my 
partner to the Democrats. 

Mr. Heaton's professional life and his later engagements in other fields 
have been above all an example of steady and persistent work, and his suc- 
cesses have all been earned by painstaking labor and care. Conservative, 
cautious, and industrious, he has made progress in the walks of life by regu- 
lar steps, — -goo.l long ones, some of them, though, — and has attempted no ad- 
vancement by sudden flights. But all the while he has been genial in social 
life and not averse to its enjoyment. That " stern mistress, the Law," has 
been known now and then to look without disapproval on timely amuse- 
ments, and even the venerable Hannibal Hamlin is remembered as a good 
dancer as well as a good Vice-President. In court, too, a quick turn some- 
times helps when rightly made, as did Mr. Heaton's suggestion when trying 
to get the bonds chancered in a case where his absent client in a drunken 



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frenzy had flourished a revolver and put a bullet through a man's hat and 
hair. The state's attorney was earnest in opposing the chancering of the 
bonds, for the assault was really an outrageous one, but he unfortunately 
made several allusions to the " bullet through the hat," so that Mr. Heaton's 
only suggestion in reply, " but the hat, your lionors, was an old straw hat,'' 
finally characterized the case in the minds of the judges, and the bonds were 
greatly cut down. 

Mr. Heaton was always a good " all round " lawyer, and while he was a 
good pleader his special strength was in his extensive knowledge of real 
estate law and in his careful conduct of all the business interest of his clients 
and in his power as a jury lawyer. He was, though an easy speaker and a 
good advocate, not given to flights of oratory, and an adversary might for 
once (but never a second time) underrate what he had to contend with. A 
verdict for his client was the goal aimed at, and he scored in his professional 
life full more arrivals at the point of destination than was his share. His 
success was obtained by careful preparation, lasting vigilance, and going 
around such obstacles as he could not remove. 

Of late years he has kept out of practice all that he could to devote him- 
self to the conservation and increase of his large property, and to the manage- 
ment of the Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Company, of which he has 
been president since its organization, and which is as financially sound and 
honest as Mr. Heaton himself. This large business institution is confessedly 
a model of its kind, and none would rate Mr. Heaton's efforts higher towards 
making it such a model than Mr. Brock, Mr. Ferrin, and his other associates 
in its management. 

I wish here to acknowledge the value of Mr. Heaton's and Mr. J. A, 
Wing's reminiscences of the bar during the second third of this century, and 
of the traditions by them preserved of the earlier bar and judges. Mr. 
Heaton and Mr. Ewing are the fathers of our bar, — ex-Gov. Dillingham is 
its good grandfather, — and we thus have " more ancestors than wealth"; and 
indeed had we a good big pot of wealth we should take more pride in our an- 
cestry than in it. They have all been kind and helpful to the younger mem- 
bers of the bar, and when we have got any distance from what is the right 
way it is a sure sign we have n't followed their advice. It should be here 
justly said that good feeling towards each other has been peculiarly a mark 
of Washington County bar from the very first. This feeling is strengthened 
by the example of these three men, and the high respect in which they have 
always held their own profession has no doubt elevated its standard in the 
county as well as given them their high place in the minds of the community 
at large and their brethren of the bar. 

Mr. Heaton married Harriet Stearns, of Boston, July i, 1841. She died 
April 26, 1859. Three of their four children are now living — Charles H., 
James S., and Homer W. 

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Charles Reed, of Montpelier, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Burnap) Reed, 
was born in Thetford, November 24, 1814. His father moved to MontpeHer 
in 1827 — they came in the winter, and I have heard Mr. Reed say that, as 
they were coming into town, they met Gen. Walton driving a span of fine 
horses, and that the equipage as the General dashed by awed him by its 
magnificence as nothing had since. 

Mr. Reed graduated at Dartmouth in 1835, read with W. Upham, and was 
two years in Harvard Law School. He was admitted at the April term, 1838, 
and finished his law school studies and graduating LL. B. in 1839. In 1839 
he began practice, forming a partnership with H. W. Heaton, under the 
name of Heaton & Reed, which lasted more than a third of a century, and in 
the same office the whole time. 

Mr. Reed was state's attorney in 1847 and 1848; state librarian from 
1858 till his death, and also librarian of the Vermont Historical society, and 
was a valuable legislator as representative from Montpelier and senator from 
this county. He was particularly a Supreme Court lawyer, and, in the divis- 
ion of labor between him and Mr. Heaton, that part of the firm's practice 
fell to his share. He was a public spirited citizen and gave himself to much 
work in all matters that promoted the public good. He was as good a lawyer 
as any who practiced at this bar in his time, and the bar and the court knew 
it — the men who won verdicts had trouble in keeping them when he was on 
the other side, and many cases came to his hands after they had left the 
•County Court on their way up. 

He was a man of marked personality, and pages might be filled with his 
wise and terse sayings. A student in his ofifice, as the years go by I remem- 
ber him with the same affection and with, if possible, increased respect — for 
experience shows the value and the rarity of such knowledge as his, of such 
men as he. 

A just estimate of Mr. Reed by Rev. J. Edward Wright is found in Hem- 
enway, vol. 4, p. 513; and a sketch appears in the Vermont Bar Associa- 
tions Proceedings for 1880. 

Mr. Reed married Emily Eliza Baldwin, June 5, 1842. Of their five chil- 
dren, one,' Minnie G., is now living : she resides with her mother in Mont- 
peHer. Another daughter, Elizabeth Burnap Reed, was the wife of Col. 
Lucia, and died leaving three children. Mr. Reed died March 7, 1873. 

George Washington Reed, brother of Charles, was born in Thetford, No- 
vember 4, 181 7, graduated at U. V. M. in 1838, and was admitted to the 
bar, and he was a lawyer of Montpelier from 1842, but never pursued the 
practice. He was postmaster of Montpelier from 1845 fo^^'' years, and has 
long been secretary of the National Life Insurance Company. He married 
Almira Robinson, of Boston, in June, 1853. Mr. Reed was a^lmitted to the 
Washington County bar, he tells me, in the days when Stillman Churchill 
was clerk of the court, which explains why there is no record of his admis- 
sion. 



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Joseph Addison Wing, of Montpelier, son of Josiah and Polly (Gray) 
Wing, was born in what is now East Montpelier, October 26, 1810. He 
went to district schools in the summer till seven years old and then to winter 
district schools till he was eighteen, and attended the Grammar School three 
months. He lamed his shoulder, concluded to study law, entered his name 
in Merrill & Spaulding's office, used to come and get books once in two 
weeks, meantime working on the farm three miles from here and reading at 
home, until November, 1834, when he came into their office and read there till 
April, 1835. He went to Plainfield, May 13, 1835, and began practice and 
says: " I supposed, in 1835, when I started, I knew just as much law as I 
suppose I know now." He was admitted April term, 1836. 

Mr. Wing is especially a chancery lawyer. He has all his life delighted in 
that form of practice. Another delight of his has been pleading in law cases. 
He used to read the pleadings in every case in court. And he has always been 
ready and willing to give the younger members of the bar the benefit of his 
knowledge of pleadings and practice. He knows more statute law and points 
decided by the courts than any other man who has been at this bar. He is 
an indefatigable worker, and to this day carefully prepares and writes out at 
length many of his arguments. 

One of his first cases is illustrative of the man and the lawyer. James Bell 
in 1836 brought suit for a client before a justice in Caledonia county. Wing 
was employed to defend, got beaten, and took an appeal to County Court. 
There he called in L. B. Peck to help him ; they got beaten ; Wing told 
Peck he was going up to the Supreme Court ; Peck said not to do it. Wing 
carried it up all the same, got a new trial, went back to the County Court, 
and got beaten worse than ever. Peck said: " You 've got beat i/iis time" ; 
Wing said: "No, there is a hole just big enough for me to get through." 
I. F. Redfield was presiding in the County Court ; Wing had taken excep- 
tions and asked to have them allowed ; Redfield said there was nothing in 
them and that he would not stay execution. Wing said : " Your honor, the 
execution is yours, the exceptions are mine." He went up to the Supreme 
Court again, got another irial ordered, and at that trial in the County Court 
ended the case by getting a verdict ordered for the defendant, the plaintiff 
not being able to change his case from what the last exceptions showed it to 
have been at the preceding trial. 

Mr. Wing moved from Plainfield to MontpeHer, in June, 1858, and has 
practiced in Montpelier ever since. He marred Samantha Elizabeth Web- 
ster, January i, 1840, and their sons, George W. and John G., and their 
daughters, Mrs. Florence A. Blakely, Mrs. Annette M. Farwell, Alice M.^ 
and Elizabeth B., all live in Montpelier. 

George Washington Wing, of Montpelier, son of J. A., was born in Plain- 
field, October 22, 1843, graduated at Dartmouth in 1866, read law, and was 
admitted in this county, March term, 1868. He was assistant state librarian 
in 1864 and 1866, deputy secretary of state from 1867 to 1873, town repre- 



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sentative in 1882, and postmaster from July, 1884,- to July, t888. Mr. Wing 
has a good law practice, and entertains and instructs whether before the jury 
or the court, or on the sUimp. He is at once scholarly and practical, and 
has an enviable power of illustration peculiar to himself. 

Mr. VVing, December i, 1869, married Sarah E., daughter of Dr. Orlando P. 
and Millie (Hendee) Forbush, of Montpelier, who died in April, 1871, leav- 
ing one daughter, Sarah Forbush. Mr, Wing in 1882 married Miss Ida I. 
Jones, of Montpelier. 

John Gray Wing, of Montpelier, son of J. A., was born in Montpelier, 
October 20, 1859, read law with his father, and was admitted September 
term, i88o. He has practiced ever since in Montpelier, studies his cases 
carefully, and argues them well. He married, August 16, 1882, Dora M. 
Hathaway, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Hathaway. They have one 
child, Charles A. 

Marcellus N. Fletcher, of Plainfield, a nephew of Joseph A. Wing, 
was admitted to Washington County bar, March term, 1856, and went at 
once to Plainfield, where he entered into partnership with Mr. Wing, and 
practiced law till his death, in June, 1858. 

William Henry Harrison Bingham, of Stowe, son of Elias and Martha. 
(Robinson) Bingham, was born in Fletcher, April 13, 1813, read law and 
was admitted in Washington county, November term, 1836, and began prac- 
tice in Stowe, where he remained until in 1877 he made his business head- 
quarters in Montpeher, where he was for some years president of the Vermont 
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He was state's attorney for Lamoille 
county for four years, and has held numerous other positions, being now, as 
he has been for more than ten years, a director of the state prison and house 
of correction. 

Mr. Bingham was, in 1874, 1876, and 1878, the Democratic candidate for 
governor, and would long ago have been governor of his native state had he 
belonged to a party not in the minority. As it is he is " Governor Bing- 
ham " to his host of friends throughout the state, not because he has been 
governor, but because he deserved to be. The Biographical Encyclopedia 
of Vermont and Hemenway give more full sketches. 

Mr. Bingham married, July 31, 1838, Orpha R., daughter of Riverius 
Camp, of Stowe. They last summer celebrated their golden wedding, at 
which there was a most notable gathering of Vermonters. 

Heman Carpenter, of Northfield, son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Morse) 
Carpenter, was born in Middlesex, July 10, 181 1, read law with W. Upham, 
and was admitted November term, 1836. He at once began practice in 
Northfield, and there continued the remainder of his useful and honorable 
life. Judge Carpenter held many oftices of importance, and his life was full 
of professional and business duties too numerous to be here described. I 
refer the reader to Frank Plumley's appreciative sketch of his old instruc- 
tor in the law, read at the meeting of the Vermont Bar Association in 1885. 



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He married, November 14, 1838, Harriet S. Gilchrist, who died June 21, 
1865, and left four children who survive : Col. George N., of Boston ; Jason 
H., of Grand Rapids, Mich. ; and Mrs. Caroline S. Porter and Mrs. Abigail 
F. Howes, both of Northfield. Mr. Carpenter, October 16, 1866, married 
Betsey S. Edgerton. Judge Carpenter died at Northfield, January 16, 1884. 
His son George N. graduated at the U. V. M. in i860, read law a few 
months, enlisted, was a captain in the 8th Vt., and is now in Boston, the 
general agent of the New P^ngland Mutual Life Insurance Company. 

Albert V. H. Carpenter, of Northfield, a brother of Heman, was born 
in Middlesex, read law with his brother Heman, and was admitted April 
term, 1884. He began practice in Strafford and remained there till 1847, 
when he went to Northfield and practiced for a time, being admitted to the 
Supreme Court bar in 1853, but soon turned his attention to railroading, 
and for nearly thirty years has been general ticket agent of the Milwaukee 
& St. Paul Railway lines, with headquarters at Milwaukee and Chicago. 

Harman G. Reynolds was from Berlin and was admitted November term, 
1836. He went West, to Illinois Mr. Wing says ; and Gov. Bingham says 
he became an editor. 

Rufus C. Smith, of Waterbury, practiced in that town from 1836 till his 
death, which was about 1854. I as yet find nothing further concerning him 
except that he was a reputable lawyer. 

William Wellington Wells, of Waterbury, son of Roswell and Pamelia 
(White) Wells, was born in Waterbury, October 28, 1805, and died there 
April 9, 1869. He graduated from the U. V. M. in 1824, read law and was 
admitted in Chittenden county, but went into business and returned to 
Waterbury, and never practiced law. He married Eliza, dauaghter of Dan 
Carpenter, January 31, 183 1. They had ten children, of whom seven sons 
and one daughter grew up. Gen. William Wells, of Burlington, is one of 
the sons, and Mrs. James W. Brock, of Montpelier, the daughter. See 
Hemenway, vol. 4, p. 852, for longer sketch. 

John Richardson, of Barre, is given in the Registers as a practicing law- 
yer in that town for two years. He was there in 1836 and 1837. 

Aaron Bailey is gived in a Register as a practicing attorney in Wood- 
bury in 1836. 

Harlow P. Smith, of Berlin and sometime of Cabot, was an attorney 
there in 1836. He went to Hyde Park in a short time and was in practice 
there a number of years. He was at one time state's attorney of Lamoille 
•county. 

Augustus Pingry Hunton, of Bethel, son of Dr. Ariel and Polly (Pingry) 
Hunton, of Hyde Park, was born at Groton, N. H., February 23, i8i6, read 
law with Joshua Sawyer at Hyde Park, W. C. Wilson at Bakersfield, and then 
with William M. Pingry at Waitsfield, and was admitted in Washington 
county, April term, 1837. He practiced at Warren, and in 1838 went to 
Bethel and was a partner of Julius Converse till 1844, when he went to Chel- 



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sea and practiced till 1848, when he returned to Bethel and has practiced 
there since. He was speaker of the House of Representatives in i86r. iVTr. 
Hunton's ability deserved still higher preferment, and he is a lawyer of great 
skill. See Child's Orange County Gazetteer and Pingry Genealogy for fur- 
ther notices. He married Caroline Paige, of Bethel, April 29, 1849, and 
their daughter Mary is the wife of William B. C. Stickney, of Bethel. 

George Barney Manser, D. D., of Montpelier, son of John and Sarah. 
(Barney) Manser, was born at New Haven, Conn., August 8, 1803. He read- 
law at Danville, practiced at Williston, was secretary to the Governor and 
Council, and afterwards civil and military secretary from 1832 to 1841, removed 
to Montpelier in 1837, and practiced law till 1841. He entered the Episcopal- 
ministry in 1843 and was the first rector of Christ church in Montpelier, 1843. 
to 1850; he then went to Bennington, where he was rector of St. Peter's till 
his death. He married, June 12, 183 1, Mary, daughter of Augustin Clark,, 
of Danville; and he died in Bennington, November 17, 1862. 

Stillman H. Curtis, son of Col. Caleb Curtis, of North Calais, read law^ 
with S. C. Eaton, and was admitted April term, 1838. He practiced four or 
five years in Plainfield and died of consumption. 

Stillman Churchill, son of Noah Churchill, of Stowe, was admitted in 
Washington county, April term, 1839, ^"^'^ began practice in Montpelier. He 
was clerk of the court from 1840 till 1844, when he went to Stowe, and in 
about twelve years returned to Montpelier. He afterwards went West and 
was eight years ago living in Chicago. 

George W. Stone, of Cabot, was a practicing attorney in that town most 
of the time from 1839 to about 1865. 

Benjamin H. Adams, of Waitsfield, was born in Tunbridge in i8ro, and 
was, I think, admitted in Orange county at the June term, 1838. He was- 
admitted to the Supreme Court bar in Washington county, March term, 1842. 
He began practice in Waitsfield in 1839, and there continued till his death, 
in October, 1849. He was a good advocate, and might have attained dis- 
tinction had his habits and health been different. He was a man whose 
ready wit made him remembered long after his asthma and appetite had 
wrought their work. 

Allen Spaulding, of Roxbury, is given as an attorney in that town from 
1839 to 1842 in the Registers, but probably this was merely to put collection 
business into his hands, as Mr. Heaton says he was never a member of the 
bar. 

Robert S. M. Bouchette, of Montpelier, opened an ofiice here in 1840- 
and remained a few months. He was a man of fine appearance and of abil- 
ity, and had been editor of the Qicebec Liberal. He engaged in the " Patriot 
war," otherwise called the Papineau Rebellion, and in December, 1837, in 
the fight at Moore's Corner, was shot in the ankle and taken prisoner by the 
British. He was transported to Bermuda, came to Vermont and was ad- 
milted to the bar in Franklin county in 1839, and came to Montpelier the next 



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year probably on account of his firiendship for J. A. Vail. He afterwards 
had an office in Burlington, and Thompson says was, in i860, in Montreal. 

O. H. P. Miller was admitted to Washington County bar at the April 
term, 1840. 

George Gale, of Waterbury, began practice there in 1840 and continued 
three years, when he went to Wisconsin. I suppose him to have been a 
brother of Mrs. Hannah Gale Luce, daughter of Peter and Hannah Gale, who 
with her husband moved to Galesville, Wis., in 1857, and that George Gale 
was the founder of Galesville. 

Alpheus Tilden, of Barre, was admitted at the April term, 1841, and 
practiced there six years or more. He was a brother of Judge Harvey Tilden, 
and removed to New York, but returned and died at Barre. He left a widow. 

[See sketch of his brother, Judge Harvey Tilden, at close of this article.] 

Ephraim Eddy French. * — The progenitor of the French family in America 
was John French, born in 1612, who came from Thorndic, Scotland, to the 
Massachusetts colony, when about twenty years of age, and in 1639 was ad- 
mitted as a freeman in Dorchester. He removed to Braintree in 1648, and 
from him have descended most of the name in New England. They are 
generally people of marked individuality. 

Samuel French, a native of Silisbury, Mass., born January 29, 1789, 
married Lydia Sampson, born at Woodstock, Vt., December 2, 1779. Sam- 
uel emigrated to Vermont when a boy, with a Mr. Baker, and engaged in fell- 
ing trees, clearing land, and other pioneer work. After his marriage he 
located on a wild lot in Washington, and in time his labors were successful 
in making a comfortable home for himself and wife and their four sons and 
three daughters, — Deborah, married John Paine ; Lucy (deceased), married 
Alfred Browning; Leander (deceased); Ephraim E. ; Lydia (deceased); 
Philona (deceased), married Addison Ripley ; Samuel, Jr., died young. 
Mr. French was a hard working farmer, and a good and useful citizen. He 
died in 1850. 

Ephraim Eddy French, of Barre, son of Samuel and Lydia (Sampson) 
French, was born in Washington, Orange county, Vt., January 31, 18 14. 
Ephraim had but the educational advantages of the common schools of Barre, 
where his parents had removed when he was four years old. His surround- 
ings — those of a farmer boy of three-quarters of a century ago — could not 
restrain or limit his desire for a broader culture, and while at work in the 
fields his book was his companion ; every leisure moment wj.s given to study, 
and he fitted himself for a teacher, which avocation he pursued successfully 
for six winters in Barre and vicinity. He continued tilling the soil, however, 
until he was twenty-three, when, his health being much impaired, he was 
forced to relinquish this occupation. Li the spring of 183S he commenced 
the study of law with Newell Kinsman, Esq., in Barre, and, after one year 

* Sketch furnished by a friend. 




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under his tuition, was taken into partnership by Mr. Kinsman, and at the 
September term of the County Court, 1841, Mr. French was admitted to the 
bar, and in 1844 as a practitioner in the Supreme Court. He continued as 
a law partner with Mr. Kinsman five years, then opened an office for himself, 
and soon had a large and lucrative business, mostly in Orange and Washing- 
ton counties. 

His close application to his chosen field of labor seriously injured his health, 
and his physician advised him to engage in a more active business, and stop 
studying so much j and in 1848 he engaged in merchandising in Plainfield 
with his brother-in-law, CHnton French (firm name French & Co.), where he 
remained two years. Returning to Barre in 1850, he bought out two firms, 
George VV. Keith and Orvis French, and united the stocks, making the largest 
mercantile estabHshment in Barre. This was conducted in a building lo- 
cated on the site which the new Granite Savings Bank building now occu- 
pies ; here Mr. French was in trade for two years. He then reopened his 
law office, continuing in active practice until 1875, when he sold his law library 
and legal business to G. L. Stowe. 

Mr. French married, August 5, 1845, Angelia, daughter of David and 
Delia (French) French, of Barre. She is a lineal descendant of John, of 
Dorchester, the line being John', Thomas^, Abijah', David*, David^ Angelia'. 
Her father was born in Westmoreland, N. H., February 16, 1794, and re- 
moved to Barre in 1810, where he engaged in tanning. He died in 1864, at 
the age of seventy years. Her mother was born in Barre, December 2, 1794, 
and was a daughter of Bartholomew and Susannah (Gale) French. Barthol- 
omew was one of the first settlers of Barre. He was born in Bridgewater, 
Mass., October 18, 1752. His wife, Susannah G. French, was born in Sut- 
ton, Mass., July 14, 1758. [The children of David and Delia (French) 
French were Christina (deceased), married A. M. Jackman; Fidelia, died 
young; Angelia; Orvis; David C. (deceased); Clinton; Esther A., married 
Nathaniel Chamberlin ; David E. ; Gilbert L. ; Delia A. ; Alice, died young.] 
Mrs. French is an estimable lady of education and refinement, social and 
kind, a genial companion, and has been a worthy helpmate of her husband. 

Mr. French was a pronounced Union Democrat, and warmly supported 
the Union in her time of trial. He was appointed postmaster of Barre, Feb- 
ruary 24, 1857, under President Franklin Pierce, held the office under 
Buchanan, and two years under Lincoln, resigning then in favor of his 
deputy. He was often delegate to county, state, and congressional con- 
ventions. As he was a Democrat he was in the minority party, but was its 
standard bearer in many elections. He was one of Barre's most active 
and influential citizens, and one of the principal movers, forces, and promot- 
ers of her progress. In 1873 ^^ ^^^ prominently connected with Dr. Braley 
in the removal of the Orange County bank from Chelsea to Barre, and on its 
organization as the National Bank of Barre he was placed on the first board 
■of directors, and was its vice-president until the death of Dr. Braley. He 



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was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Granite Savings Bank and 
Trust Company. He was one of the trustees and chairman of the prudential 
committee of Barre Academy for over twenty years, and until he deemed it 
his duty to resign in favor of younger men. 

Mr. French was one of the first to call the attention of the public to the 
desirability of constructing the Montpelier & White River railroad, was one 
of the original incorporators, and was elected chairman of the town commis- 
sion to bond the town, and to contract with the Central Vermont Railroad 
Company to build the road. He was the main speaker in securing the bond- 
ing for the railroad not only of Barre, but of Williamstown and Brookfield. 
To him more than to any other are the people indebted for the building of 
the " Barre Branch." July 5, 1875, when 6,000 people assembled to cele- 
brate the opening of the road, Mr. French welcomed them with a graceful 
and appropriate speech, expressing his gratification that this important object 
for which he had so zealously labored had been consumpnated. A committee 
of three was chosen — Mr. French, Josiah Wood, and Dr. Braley — to arrange 
with Gov. Smith for an appropriate depot. This was done only by each of 
the committee giving largely of their private funds. He was a director of 
the road from the first, and its president for the last six years of his life. He 
was an attendant of the Methodist church and a Hberal supporter of its 
charities. 

As a lawyer, Mr. French was a hard worker and close student, earnest and 
industrious in the preparation and trial of causes, and stood high among his 
brethren. Devoted to the interests of his clients, he was persistent in secur- 
ing their rights, and ever a safe and honest counselor. He had many impor- 
tant cases intrusted to him, and was financially successful. As a citizen, Mr. 
French was active, positive, and public S[)irited ; he took a lively interest in 
the prosperity of the community, and enjoyed the stror.g friendship of the 
leading men of the state. While on his way home from a trip to California 
he was taken sick at Denver, Col., and died at the residence of his brother, 
at Evanston, 111., April 25, 1888. 

Whiit.ian George Ferrin, of Montpelier, son of John and Hannah 
(Jacobs) Ferrin, was born at Croydon, N. H., July 13, 1818. In 1819 his 
parents moved to Morristown. He read law with L. P. Poland, in Morristown, 
and was admitted to the Lamoille County bar, June term, 1843. He went 
at once into practice at Wolcott and was there five years, then in Johnson 
seven years and in Hyde Park about three years. He came to Montpelier in 
1859 and has resided here since, being in active practice for about ten years, 
when he vvas elected state auditor, which position, he held till 1876. He was 
state's attorney of Lamoille county and represented Montpelier two years. He 
was some years treasurer of Montpelier Savings bank and is yet on its board 
of management, and is president of the Union Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
pany. 

He married, December 25, 1843, Harriet Matilda Elarris, of Stowe, and 



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their four living children are Alma T., wife of William P. Richardson, of New- 
York city; Albert W., the present treasurer of the Montpelier Savings bank ;. 
Charles H., a Montpelier merchant; and Hattie M., vvife of Dr. Homer W. 
Brigham, of Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Lewis Chamberlain, of Plainfield, was admitted November term, 1843. 
He at once began practice in Plainfield and remained there till his death, in 
August, 1863. He was in 1855 and 1856 elected assistant judge of the 
County Court. 

Edward Carleton Johnson, of Montpelier, son of David and Lucy 
(Towne) Johnson, was born at Newbury, September 30, 1816, graduated at 
Dartmouth 1840, read law with L. B. Peck from 1841 to April 25, 1843, 
when he was undoubtedly admitted to the bar in this county, but as it was in 
the day of Mr. Churchill's clerkship it did not happen to get recorded. He 
formed a partnership with Lucas M. Miller and began practice in Montpelier. 
He removed to New York city in 1845 and went into mercantile pursuits,, 
and has been trustee of several estates that required business management. 
He married Delia Maria Smith, of Hamilton, N. Y., August 31, 1847. 

John Dean, Jr., of Waterbury, was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
Court, March term, 1844, and was in practice there from that year till 1847, 
when he came to Montpelier, but did not remain more than one year. 

Monroe L. Burnham was admitted at April terra, 1844. 

Samuel Hoyt, of Middlesex, was admitted April term, 1844. He came ta 
Montpelier in 1840 as a manufacturer, and went to North Montpelier, v/here 
he was unsuccessful in his business enterprise; he read some and got admit- 
ted as above. He went to Middlesex and practiced there two or three years,, 
the rival of Mclntyre. They put many legal grists into the hopper. Mr. 
Hoyt went to New Orleans and is dead. 

Hiram C. McIntyre, of Middlesex, was admitted April term, 1844, and 
practiced for about six years in Middlesex. He staid longer than Hoyt and 
was afterwards in Lamoille county. He died in Middlesex. 

Guy C. Sampson, of Montpelier, opened an office in 1844 ^.nd was admitted 
to the bar of the Supreme Court, March term, 1845. He left Montpelier 
that year. 

John Melvin Gilman, of Calais, only brother of Marcus Davis Gilman 
who died last January in Montpelier, and son of Dr. John Taylor Gilman and 
his wife, Ruth, daughter of Col. Caleb Curtis, was born in Calais, September 
7, 1824. His father died the next February; and his mother married 
Nathaniel Eaton, their sons, Caleb Curtis Eaton, of Montpelier, and Dor- 
man B. Eaton, the New York lawyer of civil service reform fame, being half- 
brothers of John M. and Marcus D. Gilman. 

John M. read law with Heaton & Reed, and was admitted November term, 
1845. He went into practice in New Lisbon, Ohio, and in 1857 moved to 
St. Paul, where he is now a prominent lawyer. He married Anna G. Corn- 
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wall, of New Lisbon, June 25, 1857. See Hemenway, vol. 4, p. 151, for full 
sketch. 

James Reed Spaulding, son of Dr. James and Eliza (Reed) Spaulding, 
was born in Montpelier about 1822. He graduated at the U. V. M. in 1840, 
and began the practice of law in Montpelier in 1845 and pursued that pro- 
fession here for a few years, being admitted to the Supreme Court bar, April 
term, 1847. He left the law for journalism, went to New York, helped found 
the IVorld, but left it for the Times, on which, while Mr. Raymond was its 
chief, he did excellent editorial work. He died at Dover, N. H., of apoplec- 
tic paralysis, in October, 1872, in his fiftieth year. 

Clark W. Upton, of Barre, began practice there in 1846 and remained 
five years. He went West, where he succeeded. He has been mayor of 
Waukegan, 111. 

Jared S. Demmon, of Waterbury, began practice there in 1847 and con- 
tinued four or five years at least, when he went West. He was admitted to 
the Supreme Court bar, April term, 185 1. He died at Minneapolis, Minn. 

£)an S. De7nmon, of Waterbury, brother of J. S., was admitted September 
term, 1855. ^^ '^ ^^^^ ^^ could write with both hands at the same time — an 
enviable gift ! He went West and died at Minneapohs, Minn. 

Henrv Walbridge is in the Register as an attorney in Plainfield in 1847. 

George D. Rice, of Waitsfield, was in practice there in 1847. He went 
to Wisconsin or Michigan and became very successful. Henry M. Rice, 
sometime U. S. Senator from Minnesota, was of the Waitsfield family as was 
Edmund Rice, M. C. from the St. Paul district in the fiftieth Congress. I 
have been told George D. became a member of Congress, but aside from the 
habit the Mad River Valley boys have — Matt Carpenter from Moretown and 
Roswell G. Horr from Waitsfield, for example — of becoming senators and 
representatives I have found no proof of that. 

Chauncey Smith, of Boston, one of the leading patent lawyers of the 
country, is a native of Waitsfield, a son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith. 

Matthew Hale Carpenter. — His name was Decatur Merritt Harmon 
Carpenter, and it is as D. M. H. Carpenter that it appears in the record of 
his admission to Washington County bar, November term, 1847. His 
grandfather was Col. Cephas Carpenter, and his father, Ira Carpenter, was a 
deputy sheriff and constable. He was born in Moretown, December 22, 
1824, and died, a United States Senator from Wisconsin, in Washington, 
D. C, February 24, i88r. The story of this statesman and great lawyer, his 
boyhood, his study with Dillingham and with Choate, his rapid rise in Wis- 
consin, his change of name growing out of the mixture of his initials on 
some tickets, his marriage to Gov. Dillingham's daughter Caroline, his 
preeminence in his profession, and his high standing in the Senate cannot 
here be told. See Hemenway, vol. 4, p. 604, and Meviorial Addresses. 
Senator Edmunds in the latter said : " Mr. Carpenter's birthplace and the 
home of his youthful days was only a dozen miles from the town of my own 



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nativity, the hills of which I can still see from my present home, and we first 
met when we were both very young and studying law, at a small school-house 
situated in the very heart of the mountains, to contend through the whole 
day and night for the rights of our respective clients in a very small affair, 
before a farmer justice of the peace and a jury of six " ; also Senator Ed- 
munds said : " In an acquaintance of more than thirty years and an intimacy 
of nearly fifteen we never had an unfriendly feeling or dispute, and I never 
received from him a word hurtful or unkind. His fe«v human faults I forget, 
as I would wish my own to be forgotten. Peace to his great soul." 

Cornelius N. Carpenter, of Northfield, son of Harvey W. and Jane 
(Campbell) Carpenter, was born in Moretown in 1826. His mother was 
drowned in the great freshet of July 27^ 1830, and his father lived in North- 
field from 1836 till his death in 1849. Cornelius was admitted to the Wash- 
ington County bar, November term, 1848. He practiced in Northfield a few 
years, went West, returned, and was captain of Co. C, 15th Vt. Vols. He is 
now president of a bank in Broadhead, Wis. 

H. M. Safford was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court, April 
term, 1848. 

Francis Voltaire Randall, son of Gurdon and Laura S. (Warner) 
Randall, was born in Braintree, February 13, 1824. He read law with H. 
Carpenter and was admitted November term, 1848. He practiced in North- 
field till 1857, being postmaster from 1853 to 1857, when he removed to 
Roxbury. In i860 he moved to Montpelier. In May, i86r, he was captain 
of Co. F, 2d Vt., and was in its battles till July, 1862. He was colonel of 
the 13th Vt. Vols., and at Gettysburg led them to victory. He was after- 
wards colonel of the 17th Vt. He returned to Montpelier, had a large prac- 
tice, and in 1876 moved to a farm in Brookfield, from which he practiced 
law, and lectured, principally on the battle of Gettysburg. In 1884 he re- 
turned to Northfield. He died March i, 1885, of apoplexy. I remember well 
how popular Col. Randall was in the 2d Brigade. He was a bhifF, brave 
soldier ; and he was a lawyer of rude, effective strength, but ever courteous 
to his younger brethren. His second wife, Olive Colby, to whom he was 
married September 6, 1863, survives him. Francis V. was the only child of 
his first marriage surviving him. The children of the second marriage were 
Phil Sheridan, (born in 1865, graduated at Norwich University 1886,) Gurdon 
Colby, and Luther Volney. 

See Hemenway, vol. 4, p. 16, and Child's Orange County Gazetteer, p. 
2>T^, for more full account. 

Col. Randall's life durmg the war was so full of incident that it is utterly 
useless here to attempt details. 

Luther Henry, of Waterbury, son of Sylvester and Sibyl (Proctor) Henry, 
was born August 14, 1826, read law with P. Dillingham, and was admitted 
in May, 1849. He began practice in Waterbury, and there continued to live 



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till his death, January i, 1867. His first wife was Flora Taplin ; his second^ 
Katherine E. Royce. 

Oscar F. Silver, of Montpelier, was a student in the U. V. M. in 1842. 
He read law, and was practicing in Montpelier in 1849, and April term, 
1850, was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court. He is now living in 
Berlin, Wis. 

David B. Fay, of Calais, appears as a practicing attorney of that place in 
1849, and so remained ten years except one year (1853) when he was given 
as of Plainfield. Mr. Fay still lives in Calais, and having a good Vermont 
farm has cultivated that instead of the law. 

Milan H. Sessions, of Waitsfield, born in Randolph, December 4, 182 1, 
admitted at Chelsea, June 17, 1846, practiced in Waitsfield from January, 
1S50, to May, 1855. and was state's attorney in 1851 and 1852. "Long 
Sessions " his brethren called him. He moved to Waupaca, Wis., served as 
captain in the 21st Wis. Vols., moved to Nebraska in 1871, and was speaker 
of the House fifteen years ago. In 1884 he moved to Minneapolis, where 
he now resides. He married, November 3, 1847, Caroline C, daughter of 
William B. Chandler. 

John Gile Sherburne, of Waterbury, son of John Sherburne, was born 
at Northwood, N. H., December 20, 1820, graduated at Dartmouth in 1842, 
came to Vermont as assistant in the surveys for the Central railroad, read 
law and was admitted November term, 1850, and practiced at Waterbury till' 
he went West with one of the Demmons about 1856. He married Thirza 
Flagg, daughter of Jesse Bridgrnan, of Hanover, N. H., in 1843. 

Alpha Child May, of Northfield,. son of Elisha and Elethea (Woodward) 
May, was born at West Fairlee, May 16, 1825, graduated at Dartmouth 
1847, read law with O. H. Smith and F. F. Merrill, and was admitted No- 
vember term, 1850. He began practice in Northfield, in December, 1850, 
and moved to Milwaukee, Wis., November to, 1852, where he still resides. 
He married Eliza S. Reed (twin sister of Mrs. Charles W. Willard), of 
Montpelier, March 22, 1853. 

William A. Dodge, of Birre, son of Nathaniel Dodge, was educated at 
the U. V. M., read law, and was admitted November term, 1850. He 
practiced in Barre till 1854, when he moved away. 

Luther Leland Durant, son of Luther and Susan (Leland) Durant, 
was born in Springfield, May 30, 1827, crept into the fire when a child and 
crippled his right hand, read law with B. H. Adams, was admitted November 
term, 1850, and was with C. W. Upton at Barre for a time, I think both be- 
fore and after admission. He began practice in Waitsfield, in June, 1852, 
and in November, 1855, went to Waterbury and became a partner of Paul 
Dillingham. In 1867 he moved to Montpelier and became a member of the 
firm of Randall «& Durant ; they did a very great business for some years 
succeeding the war. Mr. Durant suffered partial paralysis, but continued to- 
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He married Julia M. Tenney, daughter of John and Sophia (Wentworth) 
Tenney, of Dalton, N. H., who survives him. She is a sister of Hon. Asa 
Wentworth Tenney, of Biooklyn, N. Y. (Thompson, writing in i860, gives 
the name of A. W. Tenney in his Hst of lawyers who had practiced in Mont- 
pelier; I find trace of no other Tenney here; but Asa W. graduated at 
Dartmouth as late as 1S59, and read with Benton & Ray, of Lancaster, from 
September, 1859, to 1862 : maybe coming lawyers sometimes like "coming 
events cast their shadows before.") 

Their daughter, Lettie Estella Durant, was born in VVaitsfield, June 26, 
1854. I appointed her assistant in the state library durmg the session of 
1874; she attended the U. V. M., one of its earliest girl students; she was 
appointed assistant in the Fletcher library in 1876; returned to the state 
library during the session of 1876, and in 1877 or 1878 married Augustus 
Torrey, of Burlington. She died June 20, 1879, leaving an infant child. She 
was a lovely girl and an accomplished woman. Her brother, Paul Dilling- 
ham Durant, was born February 2, 1874, and was page in the executive 
department last session. 

Mr. Durant died in Montpelier, February 17, 1888. The words I some 
years since heard Judge Powers quote from one of Joaquin Miller's poems 
recur to mind : — 

" In men whom men condemn as ill 

I find so much of goodness still, 

In men whom men pronounce divine 

I find so much of sin and blot, 

I hesitate to draw the line 

Between the two where God has not." 

N'orinan Durant, older brother of Luther L., may have been admitted 
here during Churchill's administration of the records ; he practiced at Tun- 
bridge from 1844 to 1850, went to California, and was not heard of more. 

Langdon C. Wheelock, of Barre, was admitted November term, 1850, 
and practiced at Barre some twenty-five years, and died there. He was a 
thrifty practitioner. 

George Washington Cottrill, son of Mahlon and Catharine Smith 
(Couch) Cottrill, was born in Montpelier. May 18, 1828, graduated at the 
U. V. M. in 1847, and was admitted November term, 1851. He went West 
and afterwards was a lawyer in New York city. 

Jedd Philo Clark Cottrill, son of Mahlon, was born in Montpelier, April 
15, 1832, graduated at U. V. M. in 1852, and was admitted September term, 
1854. He went to Milwaukee and became a prominent lawyer. He was one 
of the revisers of the Wisconsin statutes in 1878. He died in Milwaukee, in 
February, 1889. 

Milton Brown, of Worcester, was admitted March term, 1852. He was 
at one time superintendent of the state prison, and did not practice. 

Charles Herbert Joyce, son of Charles and Martha Eliza (Grist) Joyce, 
was born near Andover, England, January 30, 1830. The family settled in 



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Waitsfield in 1836, Charles read with J. L. Buck, F. V. Randall, and F. F, 
Merrill, and was admitted September term, 1852, and at once began practice 
in Northfield. He was state librarian in 1853 and 1854, and state's attorney 
in 1856 and 1857. He was made major of the 2d Vt. Vols., June 7, i86r, 
and was in the battles of that famous fighting regiment till September, 1862^ 
when he was taken sick, and not regaining his health resigned, in January, 
1863, the lieutenant-colonel's commission which he had held after June 7, 
1862. Col. Joyce moved to Rutland in 1863, and representing Rutland was 
speaker of the House in 1870. He was a member of Congress from March 
4, 1875, to March 4, 1883. He now resides in Rutland. Col. Joyce 
is an impassioned speaker, and attained great popularity especially among 
the old soldiers, whose regard he justified by earnest and laborious work for 
them while in Congress. 

He married, February 21, 1853, Col. Randall's sister, Rouene M. Their 
children, a son and daughter, are living, the latter the wife of T. C. Crawford^ 
the well-known newspaper correspondent. 

Harold Sprague, of Montpelier, son of Wooster Sprague (who died Janu- 
ary 15, 1883) and Nancy Stickney (Young) Sprague (who still lives in Mont- 
pelier and is a sister of Ammi Burnham Young, the architect), was born in 
Montpelier, October 1, 1831, and was admitted September term, 1852. He 
did not practice, but went to Chicago and engaged in the commission busi- 
ness. He married Sarah Wilson, of Montpelier, and died in Chicago, March 
IS, 1885. 

Charles Wesley Willard, of Montpelier, son of Josiah and Abigail 
(Carpenter) Willard, was born at Lyndon, June 18, 1827, graduated at Dart- 
mouth 1 85 I, read with Peck & Colby, and was admitted March term, 1853. 
He practiced law till 1861, the first years as a partner of F. F. Merrill; was 
secretary of state from 1855 to 1857, declining a reelection ; was state sena- 
tor in i860 and 1861, and in 1861 became editor and proprietor of the 
Freemati, and so continued till 1873. He was a member of Congress from 
March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1875; and then, though in delicate health, re- 
sumed the practice of law. In 1878 Gov. Proctor (who was his classmate at 
Dartmouth) appointed Mr. Willard and Col. Veazey commissioners to revise 
the statutes. This work he engaged in till his death, the burden of it falling 
upon him as Col. Veazey was called to the bench. His old instructor, L. B. 
Peck, was one of the revisers of 1839, ^"^l the work of Mr. Willard, forty 
years later than that of Mr. Peck, again put our statute law in concise and 
coherent shape. He was an able, upright man, a good lawyer, and a statesman ; 
a reformer and in advance of his time, he was less popular than he might have 
been among the politicians and materialists who haunted Washington in his 
day, but that is to his credit, and he had the high and deserved respect of the 
citizens of his state. 

He married, August 24, 1855, Emily Doane, daughter of H. H. Reed, of 



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Montpelier, who survived him nearly six years. Their children are Mary, 
Ashton R., Eliza M., and Charles W. He died June 8, 1880, at Montpelier. 

Ashton Rollins JVillard, son of C. W., was born in Montpelier, April 
14, 1858, graduated at Dartmouth in 1879, read with his father, in 1881 and 
1882 attended Harvard Law School, and was admitted in this county, March 
term, 1S82. He practiced in Montpelier, part of the time of the firm of 
Heath & Willard, till July, 1887, when he moved to Boston, where he has 
since been in practice. He was one of the commissioners to edit the Revised 
Laws of 1880. Mr. Willard's thorough study and knowledge of the law had 
already given him excellent standing at our bar when he followed the example 
of so many other Vermonlers who " seek a country." He married, Septem- 
ber 19, 1888, Agnes, daughter of Gov. Horace and Mary E. (Taylor) Fair- 
banks, of St. Johnsbury. 

Luther Neivcomb, the intimate personal friend of C. W. Willard and so 
long an excellent clerk of our courts, though never admitted to the bar, should 
here be noticed. He was the son of Dr. Luther and Lucretia (Martin) New- 
comb, of Derby, and was there born, April 10, 1826. His father dying when 
Luther was five, the boy staid with his mother till he was eleven, when he 
came to Montpelier and was " brought up " by Judge L F. Redfield, with whom 
he read law. He was clerk of the court from 1857 to his death, and had 
been Mr. Wheeler's deputy from 1849. He was a model officer, and a man 
whose friendship I am very glad to believe I had. He married, June 25, 
1857, Amanda, the only daughter of Gen. Stephen Thomas, who with their 
three children survives him. He died of Bright's disease, January 2, 1876. 

David Nelson Burnham, of Northfield, son of Luther S. and Lucy (Nel- 
son) Burnham, and a brother of Mrs. James N. Johnson, was born in Orange 
in 1825. He read with F. V. Randall, and was admitted September term, 
1853. He went at once to Chicago and died there in September, 1855. 

Nathan Lord, Jr., brother of Rev. W. H. Lord, D. D., was born at Hanover, 
July 17, 1831. He read law with Millard Fillmore, at Buffalo, and with F. F. 
Merrill, and was admitted September term, 1854. He practiced at Cincin- 
nati and went into the railroad business. He was colonel of the 6th Vt. 
Vols, from 1861 to February, 1863, when he returned to Ohio and died there 
a few years ago. 

Henry Ashley Partridge, son of Oramel and Lucy (Capron) Partridge, 
was born in Randolph, November 27, 1827. He was admitted September 
term, 1854, as of Waterbury. He practiced a short time in West Randolph, 
went to Minneapolis, went to the war, and back to Minneapolis, where he 
died some years after the war. He was a brilliant young man, but fell into 
unsteady habits. 

William Penn Briggs, an uncle of Senator Edmunds, was born in Adams, 
Mass., in 1793, settled in Richmond in 1826, continued there as lawyer, far- 
mer, and business man, except four years in Tyler's time, when he was collec- 
tor of customs, till 1854, when he moved to Montpelier, where he died 



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September 20, i86r. He was a man of acute mind, a skillful lawyer, and of 
sarcastic, pithy speech. 

James N. Johnson, of Northfield, son of James W. and Lydia (Harvey) 
Johnson, was born at Northfield, September 4, 1833. He was educated at 
Northfield and at South Woodstock, read law with F. V. Randall, and was 
admitted September term, 1854. He began practice in 1856 in Chicago, 
where he remained three or four years and then returned to Northfield, where 
he has been in active practice since. He is entitled to a patent on his 
method of statement, but has never taken one out because no other living 
man could work it successfully. I shall always remember his getting away 
with me in the Supreme Court on a question of "contingent remainder." He 
has gone along steadily, getting his share of business and taking good care of it. 
He says : '" I am a Democrat the whole length of my backbone." His back- 
bone will never bend. He married, April 3, 1858, Eloisa, daughter of 
Luther S. and Lucy (Nelson) Burnham, of Northfield. His son Luther B. 
was born in 1869. 

George M. Fisk, of Northfield, son of David and Sarah (Reed) Fisk, was 
born in VVolcott, June 7, 1830, read law with H. Carpenter and at the 
Poughkeepsie Law School, and was admitted to Washington County bar in 
1854. He always practiced in Northfield, represented the town in 1863, was 
a prominent Democrat, and a delegate to St. Louis in 1876. He had by 
nature a strong legal mind. He was president for some time of the North- 
field Savings bank. He married Jane E., daughter of James and Annis A. 
Nichols, in 1856. He died in 1888. 

Ira Y. Burnham was a practicing attorney in Northfield in 1855 and 
1856. 

George Tucker, son of Samuel and Alma (Rice) Tucker, was born at 
Claremont, N. H., June 16, 1825. His folks mqved to Northfield, he at- 
tended Norwich University, read law at Montpelier, was admitted, is given as 
being an attorney in Northfield in 1856 ; went to Barton and became a part- 
ner of W. W. Grout for a year before the war, when he went South as cap- 
tain of Co. D, 4th Vt., resigned, lived in Alexandria, Va., and Washington 
City till he went to Colorado in 1880, where he died in Canon City, May 22, 
1885. See Baldwin for a longer sketch. 

Columbus Floyd Clough, of Waterbury, son of Thaddeus and Clarissa 
(Morse) Clough, was born in Stowe, June 28, 1833, read law with Paul Dil- 
lingham, and was admitted March term, 1856. He practiced at Waterbury 
till June, 186 1, then in Waitsfield till October, 1867, when he returned to 
Waterbury, where he has since practiced. Mr. Clough, though engaged in 
other business than the law, has always kept his share of practice and fre- 
quently appears in jury trials. He married, July 29, 186 1, Persis L., 
-daughter of Charles S. and Nancy Allen, of Waterbury Center. 

George N. Dale was born at Fairfax, February 19, 1834, and the family 
moved to Waitsfield that year. Hard work and poverty were the lot of his 



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youth, but at thirty-six he was lieutenant-governor of the state. He read law 
with Dillingham &: Durant and was admitted March term. 1856. He began 
practice at Waitsfield, but in December, 1856, went to Guildhall, and in 
June, 1 86 1, to Island Pond, where he has lived, except two or three years 
when his family lived for a time in Montpelier. He lived here in 1884. He 
has held a number of official positions, but none of them as large as the man 
himself. He is a born orator and withal a good lawyer. He was president 
of the Vermont Bar Association in 1885-86. The Governor is fortunate and 
happy in his family. His son Porter H. went West after attending school in 
Montpelier. 

D. S. Morse was admitted March term, 1856. 

William H. Baldwin, of Montpelier, was admitted September term, 1856. 

Eden Sprout read law with J. A. Wing in Plainfield and was admitted 
March term, 1857. 

Joel C. C. Winch was born in Northfield, was admitted from there March 
term, 1S57, and before, or soon after, beginning practice went to Texas, 
where he died within the last ten years. 

Nelson A. Taylor, admitted in Orange county, June term, 1857, opened 
an office that year in Waitsfield and went to Barre in 1859, where he re- 
mained somewhat more than a year, and then came into the firm of Wing, 
Lund &: Taylor in Montpelier. He was quartermaster of the 13th Vermont 
Regiment, and before many years went to Council Bhift's, Iowa, and went 
into trade. 

H. F. Adams was an attorney in Waterbury in 1857 if the Register is cor- 
rect. 

Benjamin Franklin Fifield, of Montpelier, son of Orange and Melissa 
(Nelson) Fifield, was born in Orange, November 18, 1832. He graduated 
at the U. V. M. in 1835, read law with Peck & Colby, and was admitted 
March term, 1858. When Mr. Colby, in 1864, became register of the treas- 
ury, Mr. Fifield became Mr. Peck's partner. On the death of Mr. Peck, in 
1866, Mr. Fifield succeeded to the business of the firm which included the 
general conduct of the Vermont Central Railroad's legal affairs. The com- 
plications consequent on the adversities of the various investors in the 
securities of the Central and lines controlled by it were so great for the six- 
teen years succeeding Mr. Peck's death, that Mr. Fifield's civil practice be- 
came mainly centered in the Central litigation. In this litigation he main- 
tained himself as an acute and inventive corporation lawyer. Mr. Fifield was 
appointed U. S. district attorney in 1869, and held the office until elected 
representative of Montpelier in 1880. As district attorney he had charge of 
the legal machinery preventive of further prosecution of the Fenian invasion 
of Canada, and of many important criminal prosecutions growing out of the 
defalcations in the customs department. Important cases for false imprison- 
ment and the like were still on the docket against U. S. officers, who had, 
during the war, carried out the orders of the government as best they could. 



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The United States had to defend these cases and Mr. Fifield had charge of 
the defense. Mr. Fifield's papers and arguments, while he was district at- 
torney, of themselves would have placed him among the leaders of the bar. 
He was president of the Vermont Bar Association in 1883-84. He married^ 
January 4, 1865, Lucy, daughter of Erastus Hubbard, of Montpelier. They 
have three daughters. 

George C. Moore was admitted March term, 1858, and practiced in 
Barre about a year. A Rev. George C. Moore, Jr., is described in Hemen- 
way, vol. 4, p. 64, as a son of Dea. Moore, of Berlin, and as going to Texas 
and dying at Victoria, Tex., in September, 1867. I have not as yet traced 
the lawyer from Barre, but it is a little curious that two George C. Moores of 
about the same age should start out from the same locality. It may be an- 
other " James Cook Richmond " case where the parson of that name found 
the Austrian police excited because they couldn't find James Cook, of 
Richmond. 

Carlisle J. Gleason, of MontpeHer, son of Huzzial and Emily Henry 
(Richardson) Gleason, was born in Warren, October 23, 183 r, graduated at 
Dartmouth in 1856, read law with T. P. Redfield, and was admitted Septem- 
ber term, 1858. He became a member of the firm of Redfield & Gleason 
till Mr. Redfield was made judge in 1870 ; after that practiced alone a year 
or two, when the firm of Gleason & Field was formed. Mr. Gleason retired 
from the law when Mr. Field went West in 1881, and has for some years 
spent most of his time in Boston, where he is treasurer of the American In- 
vestment Company. He married, December 12, i860, Ellen Jeannette, 
daughter of O. H. Smith, of Montpelier. 

George W. Bailey, Jr., of Montpelier, son of George W. Bailey, was born 
in Elmore about 183 1, read law and was admitted to the bar, September 
term, 1858. He was a brother of J. Warren, Charles W., and Theron O. 
Bailey. He was elected secretary of state in 1861, and held that office at 
the time of his death. He married Georgianna, daughter of Col. Thomas 
Reed, who is now Mrs. E. H. Powell, of Richford. He died July 17, 1865, 

Samuel Wells, of Montpelier, son of William Wells, of Milton, was born 
in Milton, September 23, 1822. He read law with A. G. Whittemore, of 
Milton, was admitted in Chittenden county in 1847, and began practice 
in Bakersfield, and in 1849 procured a charter for the Farmers' Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company, of which he became treasurer. He moved to Mont- 
pelier and lived here the remainder of his life. He began agitating the 
question of a water supply very early, and would have rejoiced could he 
have lived to see the Berlin supply obtained as he, years before his death, 
maintained it should be. He died January 31, 1878. He married, in Sep- 
tember, 1854, Mary P. Leslie, of Newbury, who with two daughters survived 
him. 

Charles Henry Heath, of Montpelier, son of Elias and Ruth (Blanch- 
ard) Heath, was born in Woodbury, November 4, 1829. Elias was born in 



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Newport, N. H., January 14, 1801, and was brought by his father to Mont- 
pelier in 1802 and to Woodbury in 1806, to the farm where he lived till his 
death, in August, 1878. Elias Heath was also the name of the grandfather 
of Charles, and the older Elias was the son of Richard Heath who died of 
small-pox at Cambridgeport, Mass., a soldier in the Continental army at 
Washington's siege of Boston. Ruth, the mother of Charles, was the 
daughter of Deacon Joseph and Phcebe Abbott Blanchard, who was de- 
scended from George Abbott who emigrated from England in 1640 and set- 
tled in Andover, Mass., in 1643. Charles's brother, Lester Eugene Heath, 
now of Watertown, N. Y., was born in Woodbury, May 14, 1845 ; his sister 
Elvira Blanchard Heath was born August 14, 1832, at Woodbury, and died 
there; his sister Irene Abbott Heath was born at Woodbury, August 16,^ 
1834, married Sidney O. Wells and died at Woodbury, in December, 1870 ; 
his sister Sophia Cutler Heath was born October 31, 1836, at Woodbury, 
and is the wife of Almon Chester Guernsey, of Calais. 

Mr. Heath went to the "district school" in Woodbury, and in 1847 to 
1849 attended Washington County Grammar School; was then for a year 
under the tutorship of Rev. Horace Herrick at Woodbury, and in 1850 was 
at the People's Academy in Morrisville, then under the preceptorship cf Mel- 
vin Dwinell. Mr. Heath was then four years in the University of Vermont, 
and took his degree of A. B. in 1854 and A. M. in 1857. He was from 1854 
to 1S58 principal of the People's Academy at Morrisville, which became 
during that time from small beginnings the best school of its class in the 
state, and among his pupils he had Shurtleff, Lamson, and Livingston now 
of this bar. 

He read law in 1856, 1857, and 1858 in the office of Thomas Gleed, of 
Morrisville, and was admitted in Lamoille County Court, December term, 

1858, Asa O. Aldis, presiding judge. Mr. Heath began practice January 16, 

1859, at Plainfield, and there continued till December 20, 1872, when he 
moved to Montpelier, and since that time has practiced at and from Mont- 
pelier, mainly in the counties of Washington and Orange. He was state's 
attorney from December, 1862, to December, 1864; state senator from this 
county in 1868, 1869, and 1870, at the session of 1869 being chairman of 
the senate judiciary committee and in that of 1870 president pro tempore ; 
and a trustee of the state library since 1873. He was president of the Ver- 
mont Bar Association, 1886-87. 

Mr. Heath is blessed with a strong physique as well as an untiring mind re- 
tentive of all facts that have ever come to his knowledge. He is apparently re- 
freshed by along jury trial. I think that as a student and teacher he must have 
taken great delight in the natural sciences, for he knows more facts than any 
other man at the bar about material things : immaterial things, too, for that 
matter — and what is provoking about it, when you are on the other side, is 
that he gets some of them into the box right before your eyes and gets them 
counted, too. Everybody respects a good fighter, and Mr. Heath stands 



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boldly for the rights of his client against all comers ; he has a just sense of 
the dignity of the profession, and considers court, jury, and bar each as having 
its own duties in the administration of the law, and that each should perform 
its own and none other. Mr. Heath has tried more jury cases for the last 
thirty years than any other member of the bar, and believes in them and 
enjoys them. When you are with him you will find him a very present help ; 
when against him, prepare for war. He keeps alive to interests outside 
his practice — historical, educational, and business. And in all his under- 
takings, professional or otherwise, he is a hearty, vigorous man who stands 
by his friends and strikes his antagonists. 

Mr. Heath married, February 9, 1859, Sarah Elizabeth Putnam, of Mor- 
risville. She is the daughter of David Wing and Rebecca (Coldwell) Put- 
nam. David Wing Putnam was born in what is now East Montpelier, and 
was the son of Captain Isaac and Sally (Wing) Putnam. 
George S. Dana was admitted March term, 1859. 

George H. Carpenter, of Waterbury^ son of William Carpenter who was 
a son of Dan Carpenter the first lawyer of Waterbury, was admitted March 
term, 1859. He did not enter upon the practice of law in this county and 
is not now pursuing it. He is a book-keeper in Griswoldville, Mass. 

Alvin W. Barry, of Warren, was admitted to the County Court, March 
term, i860, and practiced for a time in Braintree, of which town he was a 
native. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court here, August 
term, 1866. Gov. Farnham says, in Child's Orange County Gazetteer, he re- 
moved to Pithole, Penn., and afterwards settled in New York and now re- 
sides there. 

Joseph Philbrook Lamson, of Cabot, son of David and Phila (McClin- 
tock) Lamson, was born m Elmore, February 9, 1840, studied at the Peo- 
ple's Academy at Morrisville, and one year at the U. V. M., read law with 
Thomas Gleed at Morrisville, and was admitted in Lamoille county, April 
term, i860. He began practice August i, 1S60, at Cabot, and has there 
continued. He was assistant secretary of the senate three sessions, and was 
state's attorney, 1866 to 1868. Mr. Lamson has taken much interest in 
educational matters, and, acting as town superintendent, has for the last year 
or two brought the district schools of Cabot to a high standard. He is 
eminently a practical man, and in his profession exhibits such acuteness and 
skill in the trial of questions of fact as excite the admiration of his brethren 
of the bar not engaged on the other side of the case. He married, Febru- 
ary 9, 1870, Abbie A. Knights, daughter of Roswell and Sarah Knights, of 
Franconia, N. H. They have one child, Arthur David. 

Rodney Lund, of Montpelier, son of Thomas and Anna Lund, was born 
in Corinth, April 28, 1830, admitted in Orange county, January term, 1852, 
practiced in Corinth, White River Junction, and in West Lebanon, N. H., 
till i860, when he came to Montpelier and remained till 1867, part of that 
time being of the firm of Wing, Lund & Taylor. Since 1867 he has been in 



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active practice in Boston. He married, September 13, 1854, Elmyra Jane 
Chubb, of Wolcott, daughter of Joseph and Sally Davis Chubb. 

Charles I. Vail, son of Samuel K. and Mary D. Vail, was born in 
Chester, N. Y., November 11, 1837, graduated at Union College in 1859, 
read with T. P. Redfield, and was admitted September term, i860. He be- 
gan practice at Newport, removed to Irasburgh in the spring of 1862, prac- 
ticed there till he moved, in April, 187 i, to Blairstown, Iowa, where he has 
practiced since. He married, December 9, 186 1, Abbie F., daughter of 
Henry E. Barnes, of Stowe. 

Albert Clarke, born in Granville, October 13, 1840, was admitted 
March term, t86i, and began practice in Montpelier. He enlisted the next 
year in the 13th Vermont and became ist lieutenant of Co. G. Col. Clarke 
married, after the war, and lived at St. Albans with his family. He left the 
law and edited the St. Albans Alessenger. In 1874 he was state senator from 
Franklin county. He went to Boston and was on the editorial staff of the 
Advertiser for some time, returned to Rutland and was editor of the Rut- 
land Herald until a recent change in its management. Col. Clarke is a. 
forcible and polished writer and speaker. 

Charles Daley Swazey, of Montpelier, graduated at the U. V. M. in 
1859, was admitted at the September term, i86r, began practice in Mont- 
pelier, and in 1862 became a member of Co. I, of the 13th Vt. He went to 
Minneapolis and died there, June i, 1865, aged thirty-two years. 

Americus Vespucius Spaulding, of Waitsfield, practiced there from 1861 
about two years, then went to Bristol, and is now practicing in Burlington. 
He married Mary, daughter of Ziba Rice, of Waitsfield. 

George Washlvgton Kennedy, of Waterbury, son of Samuel Barnet and 
Hannah Mosely (Morse) Kennedy, was born in Bolton, July 4, 1S34, was 
admitted in Chittenden county, September term, i860, and began practice 
in 1862 in Waterbury, where he has since continued. He married Marie 
H., daughter of Orange V. and Cornelia J. Hill, of Burlington, April 21,. 
1863. They have had four children, one of whom, Dion Wylie, is now 
living ; the three others died in 1881. 

Lee H. Bliss, of Calais, was admitted March term, 1863, and was in 
practice in Calais from 1863 to 1866. 

Stephen Currier Shurtlefk, of Montpelier, son of Abial and Rebecca 
(Currier) Shurtleff, was born in VValden, January 13, 1838. He, after "go- 
ing to district school," attended the academies at Newbury, Glover, and 
Morrisville. He read law with C. H. Heath, was admitted March term, 1863,. 
began practice at East Hardwick in May, moved to Plainfield in October, 
1863, and there remained till September, 1876, when he came to Montpelier,. 
where he now resides. 

Mr. Shurtleff represented Plainfield in 1874, and was the Democratic can- 
didate for governor in 1886 and 1888. He has always had a large general 
practice, and has been for some years counsel for the Montpelier & Wells. 



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River R. R., and in other railroad interests. He has also been engaged more 
than any other member of our bar in patent litigation. When Judge Red- 
field left the bench, in 1884, Mr. Shurtleff received in the legislature a very 
substantial support as his successor on the bench. Mr. Shurtleff is a strong 
lawyer, going straight to the vital things in issue in the trial, and is forcible 
and direct in his management and argument. His attack is strong and sus- 
tained; crede experfo — for I remember, when opposed (and beaten) by him 
and Mr. Carleton in an election case, his sudden disclosure in argument of 
the bearing and deadly effect of a bit of testimony quietly elicited from a 
witness in sympathy with our side ; and what made it the more aggravating 
was that Carleton, with his Congregational countenance, sat by consenting and 
holding the garments of Stephen while he stoned us. 

Stephen was a mighty hunter till somebody stole his hundred dollar shot- 
gun. 

He married, April 21, 1868, Elizabeth M., daughter of John Augustine and 
Arminda Pratt, of Marshfield, and they have two children, Harry C. and 
Maud L. 

Charles D. Harvey was admitted September term, 1863, and began 
practice in Montpelier, and was here one year. 

Cyrus Brown, of Worcester, was admitted at the September term, 1863. 
He has lived in Worcester and at one time had an office in Montpelier. The 
old gentleman has tried a great many justice cases, and I do not suppose 
that the time has yet come to say of him : " The books are about to be 
closed — -and the books are closed." 

Edwin Franklin Palmer, of Waterbury, son of Aaron and Sarah (Thayer) 
Palmer, was born in Waitsfield, January 22, 1836; graduated at Dartmouth 
in 1862, was 2d lieutenant of Co. B, 13th Vt., read law with Paul Dillingham, 
and was admitted September term, 1864. He began practice in Waterbury 
in 1865 and has there continued; represented Waterbury in 1880 and 1888; 
was reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court, 1880 to 1888; and was 
elected to and now holds the office of state superintendent of education. Mr. 
Palmer is a scholarly and studious lawyer, and the important positions to 
which he has been chosen show what estimate his fellow citizens have of his 
abilities and high character. 

He married, in 1865, Addie D., daughter of William Hartshorn, of Guild- 
hall. They have seven children. 

William Palmer, of Waitsfield, brother of Edwin F., was admitted March 
term, 1870. He resides in Waitsfield, but is not in practice. 

Rising Nichols, of Warren, son of Lorenzo Nichols, was admitted March 
term, 1865. He did not practice in this county, but went to Pithole, Penn., 
near which place he died in 1887. 

It may here be said that George W. Tyler, of Warren, son of William P. 
Tyler, went to Boston, read law with Rufus Choate, went to California, where 



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he has been a prominent lawyer, and where he was not long ago one of the 
counsel engaged in the celebrated divorce case of Sharon z's. Sharon. 

Chauncey Warriner Town, of Montpelier, son of Ira and Frances 
Miretta (Witherell) Town, was born at Montpelier, July 4, 1840; graduated 
at Dartmouth in 1862; was assistant in the state library; read law with 
Heaton & Reed, and was admitted September term, 1865. He went to New 
York city, where he has since been in successful practice. 

Hiram Carleton, of Montpelier, son of David and Mary (Wheeler) Carle- 
ton, was born at Barre, August 28, 1838. He attended the Barre Academy 
and graduated at the U. V. M.; read law with E. E, French and was ad- 
mitted September term, 1865. He began practice in Waitsfield in May, 1866, 
and remained there nearly ten years, when he came to Montpelier and was a 
partner in the firm of Heath & Carleton, until 1883, when he became judge 
of probate. While in Waitsfield he represented the town and was state's at- 
torney two years. 

Judge Carleton while in practice became known as a sound lawyer and 
safe counsel. He mastered his cases, was careful in his pleadings, never 
proclaimed himself certain of victory till final judgment in his favor, but left 
no stone unturned to obtain such judgment. " Brag is a gopd dog, but 
Holdfast is a better." 

He married, October 26, 1865, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Lathrop and 
Mary Ball Pope, of Keeseville, N. Y. They have two children, Frederick 
Pope and Mary Ball. 

Henry N. Deavitt, of Waterbury. son of Samuel and Adaline (Preston) 
Deavitt, was born in Richmond, in February, 1842, read with Luther Henry 
and with Redfield & Gleason, was admitted March term, 1866, and practiced 
in Waterbury two years. He then went to Underbill Center, then to Rich- 
mond, and for about three years has been in practice in Winooski. He has 
been twice married. 

Thomas Jefferson Deavitt, son of Willliam and Chestina (Preston) 
Deavitt, was born at Richmond, February 17, 1840 ; read law with Paul Dil- 
lingham and was admitted March term, 1866. He began practice at More- 
town in May, 1866, and in May. 1872, moved to Montpelier. Mr. Deavitt, 
while not giving up entirely general practice, has devoted himself especially to 
the prosecution of claims for patents and pensions, and for some years his prac- 
tice in pension cases has been larger than that of any other attorney in New 
England. 

He married, January 19, 1870, Carrie E., daughter of Luther and Caroline 
Harrington, of Royalston, Mass. The have four sons and one daughter. 

yb/m J, Deavitt, born May 14, 1808, near Troy, N. Y., a member of 
Franklin County bar, was with his nephew, Thomas j., in Montpelier, in the 
winters of 1886-87 and 1887-88. 

Melville Earl Smilie, of Montpelier, son of Earl Smilie (who was a son 
of Nathan Smilie of " Sm.ilie and Bank reform " times) and Matilda Bolton 



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(Thurston) Smilie, was born in Cambridge, August 21, 1844. He attended 
the U. V. M. two years, came to Montpelier in 1864, read law with Heaton 
& Reed and in Luther Nevvcomb's office, was admitted March term, 1866, 
and was ileputy clerk till October, 1866, when he began practice in Water- 
bury. He was elected state's attorney in 1868 and 1869, and established 
himself in the estimation of the community, and of such critical judges as- 
Charles Reed, as a good lawyer and advocate. About r87c he left the law 
and went into what proved to be an unsuccessful business enterprise, and in 
June, 1873, he went to Detroit and began practice; but Mr. Newcomb falling 
sick he returned m 1875 and took charge of Mr. Newcomb's office as his 
deputy. On Mr. Nevvcomb's death he succeeded him as clerk of the court, 
an office which he has filled as worthily as did his predecessor. Whether the 
love of fishing is an inheritance of the county clerk's office, I don't know. 
But I do know that Mr. Newcomb, in his day, and Mr. Smilie, in his, have 
both delighted in it; but I never heard that Mr. Newcomb was chased by a 
bear in the wilds of Granville. 

Mr. Smilie married, May 26, 1870, Ellen Pinneo, and they had two chil- 
dren, of whom one, Melville Earl, born April 27, 1878, is living. They have 
resided in Montpelier since 1876. 

James Stevens Peck, of Montpelier, son of W. Nelson and Julia A. 
(Clark) Peck, was born at Montpelier, December 8, 1838. He graduated at 
the U. V. M. in i860, began reading law, was a lieutenant in and adjutant of 
the 13th Vt., and adjutant and major of the 17th Vt. He was admitted to 
the bar, September term, 1866, and continued in Mr. Fifield's office for many 
years. He was assistant district attorney under Mr. Fifield, and had charge 
of making the office reports to Washington where they were complimented as 
being the best received by the department. He was adjutant-general of the 
state from 1872 to 1881, when he was appointed postmaster of Montpelier. 
Gen. Peck never engaged in active practice of the law. His tastes were liter- 
ary rather than forensic, and while he excelled in expressing himself on paper, 
in public speech he had the diffidence of a girl. He was a steadfast friend, 
an outspoken opponent, a brave soldier, and a noble gentleman. He mar- 
ried, March 4, 1869, Mary Blake, who survives him. 

David B. Lyman was admitted September term, 1866. 

Arthur Culver, of Montpelier, studied in the county clerk's office with 
Mr. Newcomb. He was admitted March term, 1868. In 1869 he was secre- 
tary of the Council of Censors. He went to Royalton and died there 
August 21, 1871, aged twenty-six years. 

Robert E. De Forrest was admitted September term, 1868. 

Joel Hayward Lucia, son of Charles Theophilus and Paulina (Macier) 
Lucia, was born in Bridport, March 17, 1842. He attended Barre Academy, 
1858 to 1861, and was in Middlebury College, 1861 to 1862. He served in 
Co. D, 14th Vt.; and as ist sergeant and ist lieutenant of Co. H, 17th 
Vt., until discharged July 14, 1S65. He lost his left arm at the battle of 



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Poplar Spring Church, September 30, 1864. Gen. Lucia was register of 
probate several years in Addison county, and was mayor of Vergennes in 
1 88 1, '82, and '83. He was admitted in Addison county, in June, 1868^ 
practiced at Vergennes till his removal in November, 1883, to Montpelier^ 
and was state's attorney of Addison county, 1872 to 1874. 

He married, June 27, 187 1, Elizabeth Burnap, daughter of Charles and 
Emily EHza (Baldwin) Reed, of Montpeher, who died January 5, 1881, leav- 
ing three children. 

Frank Plumley, of Northfield, was born in Eden, December 17, 1844, 
read with Powers & Gleed and attended Michigan University Law Depart- 
ment, was admitted in Lamoille county, May term, 1869, and went to 
Northfield in June. He was six years of the firm of Carpenter & Plumley, 
and has practiced there continuously. He was state's attorney from 1876 to 
1880, among his important cases being the Carr and Meaker murder trials. 
He has just been appointed United States' district attorney for Vermont. 

He has a good civil practice. He has been at the head of the Good Temp- 
lars of the state, is an earnest temperance man, and is a powerful and effec- 
tive stump speaker. He represented Northfield in 1882. He has stumped 
in Michigan for several campaigns as well as speaking in Vermont. He likes. 
it and so do his audiences. 

He married, August 9, 187 1, Lavinia L., daughter of Hiram C. and Mary 
(Smith) Fletcher, of Eden. They have two cliildren. 

William Anderson Bovce, of Barre, son of Richard T. and Joanna (Ban- 
field) Boyce, was born in Newbury, December 3, 1839, came to Barre in 
1858, read law with L. C. Wheelock and was admitted September term,. 
1869, and has practiced in Barre since. He represented Barre in 1872. 

Osman Baker Boyce, of Barre, brother of W. A., was born in Newbury, 
November 24, 1841, read with his brother and graduated at Albany Law 
School, 1 87 1. He settled at Guildhall in May, 187 1, was admitted in Essex 
county, and was state's attorney in 1872 and 1873. I" 1874 he went to 
Barre and has since practiced there. 

He married, in June, 1871, Amelia A. French, of Northumberland, N. H., 
who died in September, 1877, leaving one child, Edith A. He married, in 
January, 1881, Louise L., daughter of Oramel Dodge, of Barre. 

Ephraim Albert Heath, of Moretown, son of Almon D. and Cordelia 
Heath, was born at Lincoln, June 15, 1846, was admitted September term, 
1869 ; remained in Montpelier for a time and began practice in April, 1873, 
in Moretown, where he has since continued. 

He married, March 2, 1872, Lizzie J. Wilkins, of Moretown; they have 
one child, Maud Mary, aged eleven. 

Hiram Blaisdell read with C. H. Heath and was admitted March term, 
1870. He is now in Boston. He invented the use of a search warrant signed 
by two justices to get possession of a child in a divorce case, and made 
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it work. For full sketch of him see Child's Orange Coutity Gazetteer, p. 
148. 

E. J. McWain, born in Ripton, August 17, 1840; lieutenant in nth Vt., 
admitted in VVindsor county in 1867, practiced in Northfield, 1868 to 1870 ; 
is now in Nebraska. See C/ii/d's Orange Coimty Gazetteer, p. 146, for full 
account. 

Henry Kellogg Field, son of Charles Kellogg and Julia (Kellogg) Field, 
was born in Newfane, June 8, 1848^ graduated at Amherst in 1869, was ad- 
mitted in Windham county in 187 1 or 1872, came at once to Montpelier 
and was partner in the firm of Gleason & Field till September, 1881, when 
he went to San Francisco as general agent of the New England Mutual Life 
Insurance Company. He has succeeded finely in business there. He mar- 
ried, November 26, 1872, Catharine Daniels, of Hartford, Conn. They have 
five sons. 

William D. Gould was admitted March term, 187 1. 

JosiAH Osgood Livingston, of Montpelier, born in Walden, February 3, 
7837, was admitted in Lamoille county, May term, 1871. He went into the 
9th Vt and became its adjutant, and also captain of Co. G. He practiced 
in Topsham three years and was one year in Calais, and came in 1871 to 
Montpelier, where he has since practiced or resided. 

Captain Livingston married Alice Kent, daughter of Ezekiel Kent, of 
Montpelier, and now resides on his farm in such comfort as the results of his 
service in the war permit him to enjoy. 

Orman L. Hoyt, of Plainfield, was admitted March term, 1872, and has 
since practiced in Plainfield. He is at present in Fort Payne, Ala., but I 
presume intends to return. His family has in his house, by inheritance, a 
quaint old desk that Israel Putnam once possessed. 

Eugene C. Hoyt, of Plainfield, son of O. L., was admitted March term, 
1882, and he practiced with his father till last winter, when he went to Fort 
Payne and is now there in such ill health as to call his father there. 

Clarence Horatio Pitkin, of Berlin (oftice in Montpelier), son of Gen. 
Perley P. and Caroline Matilda (Templeton) Pitkin, was born in East Mont- 
pelier, August 26, 1849, read law with B. F. Fifield, and was admitted March 
term, 1872. He has practiced in Montpeher since that time, part of the 
time alone, part as member of the firm of Fifield, Pitkin & Porter, and for 
the last six years has been the senior lawyer of the firm of Pitkin & Huse. 
He was in 1881 one of the commissioners to edit the Revised Laws, state's 
attorney, 1880 to 1882, and United States' district attorney for Vermont 
from June, 1887, till his resignation took effect, March 5, 1889. He mar- 
ried Catharine Lamora, and they have one son, Harold. 

Carroll Perley Pitkin, of Montpelier, brother of Clarence H., was 
born in East Montpelier, December 15, 1851. He read law with B. F. Fi- 
field and was admitted March terra, 1873. He has not been in practice 
and has been for years secretary and treasurer of the Lane Manufacturing 



BENCH AND BAR. 115 



Company. He is the present town representative from Montpelier. He 
married Ella C. Dewey ; and after her death married Mary Devine. 

Hiram Augustus Husk, of Montpelier, son of Hiram S. and Emily M. 
(Blodgett) Huse, was born in Randolph, January 17, 1843. His parents- 
moved to Wisconsin in 1845 ^"^ there remained till 1868. He graduated 
at Dartmouth in 1865 and at Albany Law School in 1867. In December, 
1872, he moved to Montpelier; was town representative in 1878; one of 
the commissioners to edit the Revised Laws in 1881 ; state's attorney, 1882 
to 1884; and has been state librarian since 1873. 

He married, January 30, 1872, Harriet Olivia, daughter of Melzar and 
Eunice Harriet (Smith) Woodbury, of Randolph. They have two children, 
Harriet Emily and Ray Woodbury. 

Charles D. Joslyn, of Northfield, read law with Gov. Dillingham, was 
admitted March term, 1873, practiced in Northfield one year, and went to 
Detroit, Mich., where he died. He married Miss • Atherton, of Water- 
bury. 

Frank M. Page was admitted September term, 1873, ^^^ went into prac- 
tice at Groton. 

Charles Walcott Porter, of Montpelier, son of John and Jane F. Por- 
ter, was born in Hartford, July 11, 1849. He read law with B. F. Fifield^ 
was admitted March term, 1874, and has practiced in Montpelier since, for 
a time as a member of the firm of Fifield, Pitkin & Porter, and lately alone. 
He was deputy secretary of state from 1872 to 1884, and has been secre- 
tary of state since 1884. 

He married, July 16. 1885, Florence B., daughter of Charles W. and 
Olive E. Bailey. 

Albert R. Savage, of Northfield, was a graduate of Dartmouth College 
and principal of the graded school in Northfield, read law with F. Plumley, 
was admitted March term, 1874, practiced in Northfield till 1875, and then 
went to Auburn, Me., where he is now judge of probate with his office at 
Lewiston. 

Henry Oviatt, of Montpelier, was a native of Boston, came here as 
court reporter about 1870, was a first rate news and editorial writer, read 
law, and was admitted March term, 1875. He did not practice law, but 
continued reporting here till 1885. About three years ago he went to New 
York city, where he is on the editorial and law reporting staff" of the Times. 

He married Laura Field, of Montpelier, and they have two children, Har- 
ry and the charming Miss Sally. 

Harry G. Dewing, of Montpelier, son of John A. and Mary Gratton 
Dewing, was born at Lisbon, N. H., November 16, 1852, read law, and was 
admitted September term, 1875. He practiced for a time in Montpelier, 
left the law for journalism, and has been since 1880, with the exception of a 
few months spent in Boston, an efficient member of the news and editorial 
staff of the Argus and Patriot. 



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He married, December 19, 1878, Mae Tanner, of Montpelier, and they 
have one child, Bertha Mae, born March 7, 1882. 

George Lewis Stow, born October 10, 1851, in Grafton, Mass., now of 
Chelsea, practiced in Barre from October 15, 1875, to January, 1880. In 
1884 he married Mrs. Laura A. Davis, of Chelsea. See Child's Orange 
County Gazetteer, p. 104, for full sketch. 

William Adams Lord, of Montpelier, son of Rev. William Hayes Lord, 
D. D., and Harriet Adams (Aiken) Lord, was born in Montpelier, August 
28, 1849, graduated at Dartmouth College, of which his grandfather was for 
a third of a century president, in 1869, read law in Cincinnati and with C. H. 
Heath, was admitted March term, 1876, and has since practiced in Montpe- 
lier. He married, June 29, 1883, Mrs. Lucy A. (Reynolds) Young. 

Walter P. Wheeler was born in Calais, September 25, 1854, was ad- 
mitted September term, 1876, began practice in Montpelier, soon went to 
Brandon and practiced there some years. He married and has lately gone 
to work for a publishing house. 

Truman Robert Gordon, of Montpelier, was admitted September term, 
1877, and has since practiced in Montpelier. Of late he has, besides his 
practice of law, " in an itinerant way in connection therewith and sometimes 
Independent thereof," kept a livery stable. He promised me his autobi- 
ography, but has not sent it. 

Since I wrote the above he has filed the document, and, as he apparently 
delayed in good faith, I add that he is a son of William and Mary (Thurber) 
Gordon, of Bolton, and was born at Vershire, August 3, 1850. 

He married Ellen L. Hatch, November 27, 1875, at Jericho; she died 
some years ago, leaving one child, Ellen L.; he married, December 25, 1888, 
Hattie M. Norris. 

Cyrus M. Johnston, of Northfield, son of Moses Johnson, was born at 
Northfield, graduated at Norwich Universit)% was admitted September term, 
1877, practiced in Northfield two years with Mr. Plumley, one year alone, 
and went in 1880 to Detroit, Minn., where he is now practicing. 

John W. Gregory, of Waitsfield, son of Rev. Joseph D. and Laura L. 
(Cutting) Gregory, was born at Northfield, July 13, 1854, graduated at Ann 
Arbor in 1879, was admitted in this county, September 21, 1878, and has 
practiced in Waitsfield since September, 1879. 

He married Lucy F., daughter of Jonathan H. and Ellen M. Hastings, of 
Waitsfield, September 20, 1880. 

Rush P. Barrett, of Montpelier, son of Judge James Barrett, was born 
at Woodstock, graduated at Dartmouth, was admitted, came here about 
1879, was in Mr. Shurtleff's office, was admitted to the Supreme Court, gen- 
eral term, i88t, went to Rutland, practiced, and married there. The death 
of his wife was a terrible blow to him, and after regaining his health he went 
to New York city and went into business. I was glad to meet him in Rut- 
land last month (March, 1889). 



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OsMAN Dewey Clark, of Montpelier, son of John VV. and Ann B. (Dewey) 
"Clark, was born in Montpelier, November 26, 1855, graduated at Amherst in 
1876, was admitted March term, 1879, began practice, but devoted himself 
largely to insurance business, and has, since 1884, been assistant secretary of 
the National Life Insurance Co., of Montpelier. 

He married, November 29, 1882, Elizabeth De Witt Atkins, daughter of 
Hiram Atkins, of Montpelier. They have one child, De Witt Atkins, born 
July 10, 1886; another, Philip D., died December 22, 1888, in infancy. 

John Henry Senter, son of Dearborn Bean and Susan Chase (Lyford) 
Senter, was born in Cabot, November 11, 1848, spent his boyhood and youth 
in East Montpelier, Montpelier, and Concord, N. H.; taught district school 
in Maine, came back to Montpelier. broke his leg, and went to Warren. He 
taught school forty-three terms. He read law under C. H. Pitkin's direction, 
was admitted March term, 1879, practiced in Warren nearly six years, when 
he moved to Montpelier, formed the partnership of Senter & Kemp, and has 
been in active practice here since. Senter & Kemp also do a large insur- 
ance business, and are^ respectively, secretary and treasurer of the Union 
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., of Montpelier. Mr. Senter is United States bank 
examiner for Vermont. 

He married. November i, 1875, Addie G. Martin, of Warren, and they 
have three children, Frank Ginevra, Clarence Hiram, and Mabel. 

John E. Harris, of Montpelier, was admitted September term, 1879, be- 
gan practice in Montpelier, went to Burlington, married, went into journal- 
ism there and at St. Johnsbury, and is now again in Burlington. His news- 
paper work is always pungent and forcible. 

Edward Wyatt Bisbee, of Barre, son of Elijah Wyatt and Lydia Dewey 
(Brown) Bisbee, was born in Waitsfield, February 27, 1856, was admitted 
September term, 1879, began practice at Barre in November, 1879, and has 
there continued. He has been state's attorney since December i, 1886. 
He married, January 20, 1886, Julia B., daughter of John and Maria Snow. 

Levi Bishop Smith, born in Strafford, September 2, 1856, read with Heath 
& Carleton, was admitted September term, 1879, began practice in Strafford 
and died there of consumption, April 9, 1880. For full sketch see Child's 
Orange County Gazetteer, p. 154. 

Zed Silloway Stanton, of Roxbury, son of George B. and Lucretia 
Stanton, was born at Roxbury, May i, 1848, was admitted March term, 1880, 
and has practiced in Roxbury since. He represented Roxbury in 1884 and 
18S6, and was assistant judge of Washington County Court from 1884 to 
1888. He received a good vote for speaker in the session of r886. 

He married, May 31, 1880, Mrs. Jennie S. (Smith) Walbridge, daughter of 
Israel and Maria Smith. They have one child, Jessie L. 

Frank R. Bates, of Northfield, son of Orrin Bates, was born in Northfield, 
graduated at Norwich University, was admitted March term, 18S0, and prac- 
ticed in Northfield until his death from consumption in the fall of 1883. 



Il8 WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



Burleigh F. Spalding, of Montpelier, read with Gleason & Field, was 
admitted March term, 1880, went at once to Fargo, Dakota, where he has 
become a very prominent and successful lawyer. He is married. 

George Barnard Clifford, of Montpelier, son of Benjamin B. and Ruth 
N. (George) Clifford, was born in Concord, N. H., March 10, 1858, was 
admitted September term, 1880, began practice May 15, 1881, at Grand 
Forks, Dakota, and has there continued. He is secretary and one of the 
managers of the Dakota Investment Co. 

He married, May 23, 1888, Minnie E. Cooley, of Grand Forks. 

Charles Fremont Templeton, of Montpelier, son of Horatio Templeton, 
was born in Worcester, June 21, 1856, graduated at Dartmouth in 1878, was 
admitted September term, 1880, went to Fargo, Dakota, in March, 1881, and 
became a partner of Mr. Spalding. He was appointed attorney-general of 
Dakota Territory in January, 1887, and so remained till November 10, 1888, 
when he became chief justice of the Eighth Judicial District'of the Territory. 

He married, February 26, 1881, Edna C. Carleton, of VVilliamstown, and 
they have three children. 

Charles B. Goodrich was born at Hartland, February 16, 1853, read 
with Heath & Carleton, was admitted September term, 1880, began practice 
at West Randolph, and in April, 1881, went to Syracuse, where he now prac- 
tices. He married, May 27, i88o, Elizabeth C. Vanderburgh, of Vineland, 
N. J.; they have one daughter. 

Harlan Wesley Kemp, son of Phineas Allen and Betsey Kemp, was born 
at Worcester, April 5, 1858, read with S. C. Shurtleff, was admitted September 
term, 1880, began practice in Montpelier and has here continued, and for 
the last four years has been of the firm of Senter & Kemp. He married, 
December 13, 1881, Sarah Adaline, daughter of Christopher Columbus and 
Elizabeth Putnam; they have two children, Margie Belle and Bessie Eliza. 

George Walter Morse, of Waterbury, son of Truman and Mary (Strick- 
land) Morse, was born in Essex, March 23, 1847, admitted September term, 
1880, and has practiced since in Waterbury, where he has been postmaster 
from 1885. 

He married, January 3, 1882, Ella F., daughter of Francis and Sylindia 
Joslyn. She died last fall of quick consumption, leaving one daughter, Flor- 
ence Frances. 

George T. Swasey, of Montpelier, was admitted September term, 1880. 
He went to Wahpeton, Dakota, practiced there, was in Massachusetts for 
some time, and is now gone, on the line of the Northern Pacific R. R., to 
Montana. 

" Westward the star of Empire." 

Jonathan Kendrick Kinney, of Montpelier and Berlin, son of Luther Skin- 
ner and Ednah Maria (Walker) Kinney, and great-grandson of Jonathan Kin- 
ney the first Congregational preacher in Vermont, was born in Royalton, Oc- 



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tober 26, 1843 j served in the i6th Vt., and says: " was present at battle of 
Gettysburg, badly scared, always remembered that ; wished then that I was 
somewhere else; since been glad I was there." He was admitted in Or- 
ange county in 1875, practiced at West Randolph, and about 1880 for a 
short time in Montpelier. Left practice for legal authorship and is author of 
Kinney's Digest, and other books, and says " more in preparation and contem- 
plation which I hope may be better." The others are good. 

He married, October 16, 1866, Mary Lucetta Babbitt, of Randolph, a 
grandniece of Joel Barlow. Their son Hugh S., a boy of great promise, 
died at fifteen ; their daughter, Mary Kendrick Kinney, assists her father in 
his work. They live a couple of miles out of Montpelier, " down the river 
on the Berlin side." See Child's Orange County Gazetteer for full sketch. 

Frank William Tuttle, of Montpelier, son of John L. and Amanda 
Jane Tuttle, was born at Newbury, February 6, i860, was admitted March 
term, 1881, went the next year to Grand Forks, Dak., returned to Vermont, 
and in 1886 located at Vergennes, where he is now in practice. 

Willis F. Baker, of Northfield, came from Greensboro to Norwich Uni- 
versity, read with C, W. Porter and with F. Plumley, was admitted March 
term, 1882, and practiced in Northfield until he went South for health in 1884. 
He returned and died in Northfield in 1885. He married Abbie, daughter 
of C. P. Kimball, of Northfield. 

Frank E. H. Garev, of Montpelier, son of Ephraim Garey, was admitted 
September term, 1882. He practiced here in the firm of Gordon & Garey, 
and about three years ago went to Boston to pursue his profession. 

Almer B. Thomas, son of Oscar and Julia A. Thomas, was born in Wood- 
bury, August 2, 1862, read law in Montpelier, was admitted March term, 

1883, and went to Redfield, Dak., where he practiced nearly three years. He 
returned to Vermont and has practiced at West Randolph, and is interested 
in new granite quarries in Woodbury and Hardwick. He married Cora M, 
Shipman, of Hardwick, in October, 1885. 

Alland Gardner Fay, of Montpelier, son of Gardner and Matilda Catha- 
rine (Sancry) Fay, was born in Brookfield, December 4, 1856, and was 
admitted at the general term of the Supreme Court in 1884^ being the first 
student from this county to be admitted under the new rules, in force from 

1884, requiring all students applying for admission to the bar in this state to 
undergo examination at the general term. He began practice in December, 
1884, at Plainfield, and in August, 1887, came to Montpelier and is since 
of the law firm of Heath & Fay. He married, December 15, 1886, Carrie 
Bradley, daughter of Luther and Mary Page (Bradley) Cree, of Montpelier. 

Charles M. Bennett, of Montpelier, son of Daniel K. and Caroline L. 
(Mann) Bennett, was born in Montpelier, March 5, 1861, read with C. H. Pit- 
kin and Pitkin & Huse, was admitted at the general term, 1885, and has 
since practiced in Montpelier. 



WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



Walter A. Dutton read law with M. E. Smilie in the county clerk's 
office, was admitted at the general term, 1885, and has practiced in Hard- 
wick and vicinity. He is married. 

John V. Sprague, of Barre. son of John H. and Elizabeth J. (Bacon) 
Sprague, was born at Chelsea, December 22, i860, was admitted at the gen- 
eral term, 1886, and has since practiced at Barre. He married, July 3, 1887, 
Ida E., daughter of Jefferson and Lurinda (Wal bridge) Bruce, of MontpeUer. 

Charles D. Edgerton, of Northfield, son of Orvis D. and Roxana S. 
(Taylor) Edgerton, was born at Brasher Falls. N. Y., August 25, 1856, gradu- 
ated at Dartmouth in 1879, ^^^ admitted at the general term, 1886, and 
has since practiced in Northfield. 

Leonard S. Thompson, born in Richmor.Jl,' August 26, 1842, was admitted 
in Orleans county. He came from Stowe to Montpelier in 1886, and prac- 
ticed in Barre, residing in Montpelier, for a tiinc. His wife died in Montpelier 
in 1888, leaving a son and daughter. Mr. Ti bmpson is now in Boston, but 
not in the practice of law I am informed. 

Walter Eugene Barney, of Barre, son of'\lvah W. and Samantha S. 
(Way) Barney, was born in Acworth, N. H., read with S. C. Shurtleff and 
M. E. Smilie, was admitted at the general term, 1887, and has since prac- 
ticed in Barre. He married, February 17, 1886, Hattie M., daughter of 
George B. and M. Jane Newcomb, of Warren. 

Rome Green Brown, of Montpelier, son of Andrew Chandler and Lucia 
(Green) Brown, was born at Montpelier, June 15, 1862, graduated at Har- 
vard University in 1884, read with B. F. Fifield, was admitted at the general 
term, 1887, and went, in November, 1887, to Minneapolis into the office of 
Benton & Roberts, where he now is. He married. May 24, 1888, Mary Lee 
Hollister, of Plainfield. 

Howard Haseltine, of Waterbury, son of Eben and Lydia (Marshall) 
Haseltine, was born in Moretown, August 28, 1859, read with W. P. Dilling- 
ham, was addmitted at the general term, 1887, and has since practiced in 
Waterbury. 

Fred Leslie Laird, of Montpelier, son of Henry S. and Lora (Dwinell) 
Laird, was born in Plainfield, September 26, i860, graduated at Dartmouth 
in 1884, read law in Montpelier, was admitted at general term, 1887, and 
has since practiced in Montpelier. He married, November 15, 1888, Nellie 
Cox, daughter of Capt. B. A. and Victoria Louise Cox, of Randolph, Me. 

A Few Additions and Corrections. 

Charles Robinson, of Barre, noted as practicing there from 18 14 to 1833, 
was a descendant of the famous Rev. John Robinson who died at Leyden 
before the Mayflower ^'i^^Q^. He was born at Tolland, Conn., January 25^ 
1787, and married Nancy R. Wheeler, and died in 1834. Their son Charles 
was a lawyer. See Baldwin, p. 190. 



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Stephen S. Jones, noted as admitted in November, 1835, was of Barre, 
practiced a time at Hyde Park, married Lavinia M., daughter of Philo G. 
Camp, of Hyde Park, we^tto St. Charles, 111.^ went into Spiritualism, estab- 
lished a " Religio-Philosophical Journal" at Chicago, and about ten years 
ago was shot in his office. He had several children. 

Newell Kinsman, of Barre, noted as admitted in 1822, died in MontpeUer, 
December 28, 1858. His son Edward Center, born in August, 1831, gradu- 
ated at Dartmouth in 1852, read with Peck & Colby, and practiced in 
Cleveland, O. 

Guy C. Samson, admitted in the forties, was probably a son of Rev. Guy 
Samson who was at Waitsfielf m 1831. 

Anson Sargent, noted as admitted in April, 1834, was born in East Ran- 
dolph, and a son of Benjamin and Orpha Belknap Sargent, and his name 
was Jonathan Anson Sarger le practiced in Orange county and left the 
law and became book-keepe. for T. A. S. White at Northfield, and after that 
worked for the Central R. R. See Child's Orange County Gazetteer, p. 134. 

Ira Young Burnham, noted as practicing in Northfield about 1855 and 
1856, was admitted in Orange county, January 25, 1854, from Randolph. 

Frank Richard Bates, of Northfield, noted as admitted March term, 1879, 
was born in Berlin, November 26, 1855, and the exact date of his death 
was September 26, 1883. 

It seems to me that Arthur H, Hazen, who read with Durant and after- 
wards with Wing, was admitted here, — about 1880, — but I do not find any 
record of it. He was from Grand Isle county and has since been in Fargo 
in successful business. 

I have not attempted to make note of the many students who have read 
here — the older ones like Perkins Bass and George B. Damon or the later, 
like Donahue who is booming at Fort Payne ; nor of the many boys of the 
county who have studied elsewhere and practiced without the state, like 
William B. Perrin now of Nashua, Iowa, and his brothers of Berlin, C. A. 
Braley, of Northfield, now in Kansas City, and Fred W. Gregg, of North- 
field, now of San Bernardino, Cal. Nor of the assistant judges under the 
system of the last sixty years, nor of the lawyers admitted here at the 
general term from 1884 to the present time from other counties, nor of the 
Supreme Court judges who, not residents of the county, have presided here. 
The line as given did seem as though it would " stretch out to the crack of 
doom." 

I have not read the 'proof of this article, and presume the type-setters will 
add some of their blunders to mine ; but as a rule it will be just to shoot at 
me as the one guilty of sins of omission and commission. And I shall for 
answer have a precedent in the four words my good, old friend Gen. Thomas 
used to the rebels when lie rode into the ravine the morning of the battle of 
Cedar Creek. 

I have attempted no estimate of the lawyership of members of our bar ad- 



122 WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



mitted since the sixties closed. As to what I have said of the others, " right 
or wrong, regular or irregular, that 's the way it 's been done." 

Judge Harvey Tilden.* — The Tilden family is one of the oldest in New 
England. Joseph Tilden was one of the London merchants who assisted in 
fitting out the Mayflower, and one of the family, Thomas Tilden, came to 
Plymouth, Mass., in the ship Anti in 1623. In 1637 Nathaniel Tilden v/as 
appointed one of four commissioners to determine the boundaries of Scituate, 
and was one of the first settlers of the town. '' Nathaniel Tilden, the ruling 
elder of the first church, is said to have come from Tenterden, County Kent, 
England. He has been followed in the old town, upon whose settlement and 
history he early exerted so large an influence, by a race worthy of their an- 
cestor." The late Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, was of this family. 
Every generation has produced its men of mark, and, wherever located, its 
members have done honor to the name. 

Harvey Tilden, of the Connecticut branch, sixth child of Leonard and 
Phoebe (Royce) Tilden, was born July 29, 1812, in Williamstown, Vt., 
whither his parents had removed, from Windham, Conn., as early settlers. 

The environments of a pioneer farm-life were not favorable to educational 
facilities, and, as his health was feeble, he was compelled to forego many ad- 
vantages possessed by those of stronger physique. He was a diligent student, 
had a remarkably retentive memory, and began to teach school when sixteen. 
In this he was successful; he was a strict disciplinarian, and at the same 
time interested and imparted instruction to his pupils. He taught several 
seasons in Barre and surrounding towns. After some years he attended one 
term at Chelsea Academy, and this closed his school education. His lungs 
becoming aff'ected, he traveled as a merchant, and in this way visited the 
New England, Middle, and Western states. He also brought horses from the 
West to Boston markets. He became manager of the Farmers' and 
Mechanics' Cooperative store at Northfieid, and conducted it until 1847. 
Here he not only gained many strong friends, but held various positions of 
pubHc trust, and manifested a keen shrewdness and ability in commercial 
dealings. 

He married, September 25, 1849, Mariah, daughter of Rev. Doane and 
Polly (Twing) Cook. Their children were Willie Cook, born April 27, 1852, 
died December 27, 1852; Stella Cleora (Mrs. A. C. Averill), born Decem- 
ber 15, 1855; Alice Maud, born April 11, 1859, died June 10, 1859; and 
Blanche Jane, born October 13, 1861, now residing in Barre with her mother. 
They commenced housekeeping where Dennis Tilden now lives. 

He also this year (1849) represented Barre in the legislature, and secured 
the charter of Barre Academy. Mr. Tilden had been settling the affairs of 
L. W. Tilden & Co. (with whom he had been connected) for two years prior 



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to his marriage. He now associated himself with Dennis Tilden in the 
manufacture of door-latches, handles, trunk-nails, etc., thus continuing the 
line of the old firm at Factory Village. He had previously invented the old 
style door-handle with a thumb-latch, and large numbers were manufactured 
at the present Moorcraft stand. New Jersey competition, however, caused 
the business to become unprofitable, and it was finally abandoned. He -was 
then engaged for some time in obtaining pensions and land warrants for old 
soldiers. In 1856 he purchased the homestead of his wife's father (now owned 
by J. R. Langdon), removed thither, and this was his home until he pur- 
chased the place in i860 where he lived until his death, and which he im- 
proved and beautified. 

Mr. Tilden had often been chosen executor, administrator, etc., and to 
settle estates, and thus became thoroughly versed in probate law, and in 
1856 he was elected judge of probate for the district of Washington and 
held the office two years. In 1862 he was appointed assessor of U. S. inter- 
nal revenue, his jurisdiction extending over eight towns of the county. In 
1870, after nearly nine years of unintermitting and faithful service, he resigned 
this office, and again assumed the duties of probate judge, for which the people 
deemed him preeminently well qualified. To this office he was again and 
again elected. He impartially administered justice, holding that a public 
servant should not be influenced by personal preferences. After the Probate 
Court became a Court of Insolvency many conflicting opinions were held as 
to the construction of the law, but the one given by Judge Tilden was uni- 
versally accepted. His reputation for judicial erudition increased each year, 
but his faihng health caused him to resign this office in April, 1883, to take 
effect June i. He did not enjoy here freedom from official cares, for May 19, 
1883, death called him from earth. 

Judge Tilden was of a sanguine, nervous, and positive temperament, tak- 
ing hold with energy of everything he undertook. He was in accord with 
the highest principles of humanity, and was the determined opponent of 
every form of oppression and wrong. He was an Abolitionist when popular 
clamor denounced all holding the belief. During the anti-slavery period he 
invited Vice-President Henry Wilson to Barre to speak in a political meeting, 
and paid for lecture and lecturer's expenses himself. He was one of the 
founders of the Republican party, and gave the great weight of his nature to 
the cause of freedom untiringly, and was ever a prominent factor in all things 
tending to the betterment of morals, enlightenment, and education. Much 
of his time for four years was passed in securing the location of the seminary 
in Barre, and in strenuous exertions for erecting its buildings. Not only his 
time, but his money and entire credit were devoted to this work, and his name 
was on its paper for the full value of his property. It is not too much to 
say that the successful establishment of this school is due to him above all 
others. At his suggestion the present name, Goddard Seminary, was adopted, 
and for several years he was its honored secretary and treasurer. 



124-128 WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



A firm believer in Universalism, he took an active part in all church 
work, and was ever ready with his sympathy and help for those in need. 
Wise in counsels, most energetic in labors, of a generous and loving nature, 
Judge Harvey Tilden left an abiding memory in the hearts of his townsmen 
and a record worthy of the historic family from which he sprung. 



GAZETTEER OF TOWNS. 



BARRE lies in the southeast part of the county, in latitude 44" ri' and 
longitude 4° 31', and contains 19,900 acres. It is bounded north by- 
East Montpelier and Plainfield, east by Orange, Orange county, south 
by VVilliamstown, Orange county, and west by Berlin. 

This town was chartered by the name of Wildersburgh, and granted to Will- 
iam Williams and his associates November 6, 1780. 

The surface is uneven and hilly, but there are no great elevations, Cobble 
and Millstone hills being the highest, and composed of an almost solid mass 
of granite. Mainly the town has a good soil, and Barre ranks with the good 
farming and dairying towns of the state. Large quantities of maple sugar 
are also produced and exported annually. 

The town is abundantly watered by its numerous springs and running 
brooks. The principal streams are Stevens Branch and Jail Branch. Stevens 
Branch has its source in Williamstown, Orange county, flows in a northerly 
direction, crosses the south line of Barre, continues a north course until it 
reaches Barre village, then takes a northwest course, and crosses the north- 
west corner of Berlin and unites with the Winooski river. In the early his- 
tory of this location a hunter by the name of Stevens had a camp near the 
mouth of this stream, and was fouad dead in his hut on a bed of beaver 
skins. From this circumstance the branch received its name. Jail Branch 
rises in Washington, runs northerly into Orange, thence westerly into Barre, 
and unites with Stevens Branch near the center of the town, a little south of 
the lower village. Gunners Brook is also a considerable stream. The only 
natural pond in town is Peck's pond, situated in the northwest corner, and 
is ([uite small in size. There is a mineral spring near Jail Branch, and about 
two miles southeast of Barre village. 

The first settlement was made in Barre in 1788 by Samuel Rogers and 
John Goldsbury, and their families, and from 1790 the town was rapidly set- 
tled by an enterprising and industrious class of pioneers who came from Mas- 
sachusetts and Rhode Island, and hewed out of the wilderness homes which 
are in many instances now occupied by their descendants. 

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The town was organized, with the charter name, " Wildersburgh," March 11, 
1793. The officers then elected were: Joseph Dwight, town clerk; Joseph 
Sherman, Joseph Dvvight, Nathan Harrington, selectmen; John Nichols, 
treasurer ; Job Adams, constable ; Isaac S. Thompson, Apollos Hale, Elias 
Cheney, listers. 

The long name of the town (very justly, too,) soon became unpopular with 
the inhabitants, and a town meeting was called and held at the house of Cal- 
vin Smith, September 3, 1793, for the purpose of selecting some other name 
to present to the legislature for their approval. The town records of Barre 
show that the transactions of this important meeting are as follows : — 

"Voted, that the man that will give the most towards building a meeting- 
house in said town shall name the town, and the town will petition the Legis- 
lature for that name. The name of the town vendued and bid off by Ezekiel 
Dodge Wheeler, for 62 ^ lawful money, he being the highest bidder, and 
said Wheeler named the town Barre." 

Thompson, in his History of Vermont, part third, page 9, gives the follow- 
ing version of the origin of the name of Barre : — 

"The meeting being opened, freedom was given for anyone to present the 
name he chose, and the choice among the number presented was to be de- 
■cided by vote of the town. Several names were proposed, such as Paris, 
Newburn, t&c. Two of the voters present, Capt. Joseph Thompson and Mr. 
Jonathan Sherman, the first from Holden, the other from Barre, Mass., each 
in their turn strenuously contended for the name of the town from which he 
came ; and as the matter seemed to lie chiefly between these two, it was pro- 
posed that it should be decided between them by boxing, lo'^Yxxoh they readily 
agreed. The terms were that they should fight across a pole ; but if one 
should knock the other down, they might then choose their own mode of war- 
fare. The meeting then adjourned to a new barn-shed, erected by said 
Smith, over which a floor of rough hemlock plank had just been laid, and on 
this the issue was to be decided. Agreeably to this arrangement, the com- 
batants advanced upon each other, and soon Thompson, by a well-directed 
blow, brought his antagonist to the floor, and springing upon him at full 
length, began to aim his heavy blows at his head and face ; but Sherman, being 
more supple, avoided them, and they generally fell harmless on the floor, ex- 
cept feelmg his own knuckles. During this process, Sherman was dexterously 
plying his ribs from beneath, when Thompson was soon heard to groan, 
and his blows became palsied and without effect. Sherman then rolled him off, 
and springing upon his feet, exultingly exclaimed — ' There, the name is Barre, 
by God r Accordingly, a petition for the name Barre was presented and 
sanctioned by the legislature the same year." 

The foregoing is the current tradition of the people of Barre. The writer 
has no doubt that, in the heat of the contest for the name, the belligerents, 
Thompson and Sherman, did resort to fisticuffs on their own account, and in 
the manner described; and that the supple Sherman overcame his stronger 
but less active antagonist ; but thinks that the honor of naming the town 
justly belonged to Mr. Wheeler, as shown by the town records. 

In 1880 Barre had a population of 2,700 and is estimated to have 5,000 
now. In 1886 the town had fourteen school districts and fourteen schools, 



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taught by six male and twenty-two female teachers, at an average weekly sal- 
ary, including board, of $12 for males and $7 for females. There were 678 
different scholars, and forty-six attended private schools. The whole amount 
of revenue for school purposes was $4,943.86, and the whole amount ex- 
pended for all school purposes was $5,063.98. 

The rapid and almost unprecedented increase of the population of Barre 
village has made it necessary for that district to adopt the graded school sys- 
tem, and provide adequate accommodations for all their children. The district 
has recently bought the buildings and ample grounds of Barre Academy, and 
appointed a committee to draft a plan for a fine new structure capable of seat- 
ing and accommodating 500 scholars. 

Barre village is located in a beautiful valley on Stevens Branch, a tribu- 
tary of the Winooski, which here furnishes a fine water-power, and lies about 
six miles east of Montpelier on the Central Vermont, Barre branch, and Barre 
railroads. It is the busiest and most flourishing town of its size in the state. 
In i88o the entire population of Barre was but 2,700; now the village alone, 
as estimated, has a population of 3,500, and including the township 5,000. 
This unprecedented and phenomenal growth is explained and by two words, 
Barre gratiife. 

The village was incorporated November 24, 1886. Mail matter is sent 
from the postofiice here to adjacent towns by several star mail routes. Barre 
has four churches. Congregational, Universalist, Methodist, and Roman 
Catholic. The Union graded school and Goddard Seminary afford superior 
educational advantages, and offer the acquisition of a good academic educa- 
tion to all her sons and daughters. There are several flourishing manufac- 
tories, besides about forty granite firms, and several fine business blocks 
occupied by numerous and enterprising wholesale and retail merchants 
lawyers, doctors, and business men. The village also boasts of its fine opera 
house, and "The Village " and "Currier" parks. The latter was donated to 
the village by Hon. S. C. Chubb. 

Factory Village, Thwingville, and Gospel Village are now included 
in the corporation of Barre. 

South Barre is a post village located on Stevens Branch, about two miles 
south of Barre village. In the early history of Barre this was the important 
village, and here was located the postofiice for the town, which received its 
mail from a postman on horseback, and later by the old stage coach drawn 
by six horses. Here also was Ira Day's tavern, where he entertained 
General LaFayette. And here flourished the leading merchants, a foundry, two 
saw-mills, a tannery, and cab-shop. Now it contains a large granite polishing- 
mill, a sash and blind factory, general store, blacksmith shop, livery stable, 
and about forty dwelling houses. 

East Barre (p. o.) lies in the southeastern part of the township. Jail Branch 
passes through this village, and furnishes its water-power. The village con- 
tains a granite and blacksmith shop, one store, and about twenty dwellings. 



132 TOWN OF 15ARRE. 



GoDDARD Seminary. 

Goddard Seminary is the child of the UniversaHst denomination, and has 
ever received the fostering care of the members of that fellowship. 

The institution, in common with many others of the Universalist church 
owes its being to a great interest in educational matters that began to be 
manifest in the denomination about the middle of the present century. The 
early fruit was the founding of Tufts College, which in ten years drew to itself 
funds to the amount of nearly $800,000. Later came the foundation of 
St. Lawrence University, New York, and Dean Academy, Massachusetts, and 
large gifts to these and older scliools. The tide of interest reached Vermont 
and its people became keenly alive to all educational interests. Li the state 
there were already two schools under the patronage of the Universalists, the 
Orleans Liberal Institute at Glover, founded in 1852, and the Green Moun- 
tain Institute at Sauth Woodstock, founded in 1848, one of the oldest acade- 
mies in the state. For some years the school at Glover had kept within its 
income by having but two terms in a school year, while that at South Wood- 
stock had kept its doors open for the full school year only by a constant 
drain on the means of its friends to supply the inevitable deficiency. Both 
these schools had done excellent work, and had been loyally supported, but 
without endowment it was not possible to maintain a school of the highest 
academic grade that should be able to prepare for the best colleges. 

The growing educational sentiment inspired the denomination with the 
thought that their growth as a church and true Christian zeal demanded of 
them more careful attention to the education of their youth. The sentiment 
crystallized at a meetmg of the State Convention of Universalists held at 
Montpelier in August, 1863, when a committee, consisting of Rev. J. S. Lee, 
William R. Shipman, and Hon. Heraan Carpenter, reported a resolution, 
'' that it is expedient for our denomination to establish and endow a scien- 
tific and classical school of the grade of an academy." This resolution 
received a unanimous vote, but to pass a set of resolutions never yet accom- 
plished anything, and many feared that the movement would not outlast the 
enthusiasm and glo»v of the convention. But those who wished well, but 
prophesied failure, were to be happily disappointed. At the session of the 
General Assembly in the fall of 1863 a charter was granted to Eli Ballou, 
of Montpelier, Harvey Tilden, Barre, Heman Carpenter, Northfteld, L. H. 
Tabor, Concord, Isaiah Buckman, W. R. Shipman, Woodstock, R. B. Fay, 
Williston, G. W. Chaplin, Rutland, J. S. Moore, Royalton, Riverius Camp, 
Jr., St. Albans, William B. Dennison, Irasburgh, W. T. Stowe, Brattleboro, 
James T. Parish, Stowe, Martin Barnham, Williamstown, Kittredge Haven, 
Shoreham, and T. R. Spencer, St. Johnsbury, as trustees of a school to be 
called the Green Mountain Central Institute. Rev. Eli Ballou was chosen 
first president of the board, and Hon. Harvey Tilden, secretary and treasurer. 



TOWN OF BARRE. 



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W. R. Shipman, late principal of the school at South Woodstock, was chosen 
financial agent to canvass the state for subscriptions. It was not deemed 
expedient to locate the school until $30,000 should be pledged. 

At the first broaching of the subject of a school in Vermont, Thomas A. 
Goddard, of Boston, interested in the institution both for itself and as a 
fitting school for Tufts College, of which he was a devoted friend, had offered 
to give one-tenth of any amount raised up to $50,000. He was already pay- 
ing the interest of $5,000 toward the expenses of the school at South Wood- 
stock, and recognized the necessity of endowment to any school that was to 
be properly sustained. With the promise of this sum as an incentive the 
agent entered upon his work. The first town canvassed was Woodstock, which, 
despite the fact that it had the interests of its own school at heart, came loy- 
ally to the support of the new institution with a subscription of more than 
$3,000, Major Gaius Perkins heading the list with $1,000. 

Mr. Shipman canvassed a small part of the state and raised about $10,000, 
when he relinquished this work in the summer of 1864 to accept a professor- 
ship in Tufts College. His retirement seemed to block the wheels for a time. 
After a futile effort to advance the work by constituting all the ministers of 
the state agents, it remained for a conference of churches at South Wood- 
stock, in February, 1865, called for the ordination of Prof. Shipman to the 
ministry, to give a new impetus to the work, fifty persons pledging them- 
selves to be responsible for the salary of an agent for one year. Soon after 
J. J. Lewis, who had also been principal of the South Woodstock school, took 
the field and the outlook again brightened. Subscriptions were not large but 
quite general. When the work began to flxg it was thought advisable to 
authorize the issue of scholarships to those subscribing $100 or more, and with 
this impetus the work went on until, at a state convention held at East Mont- 
pelier, in August, 1865, amid much enthusiasm, $6,000 was pledged, complet- 
ing the $30,000 that was to be raised before locating the school. 

The locating committee, as provided by the charter, consisted of Rev. 
A. A. Miner, D. D., of Boston, Ex-Gov. Eliphalet Trask, of Springfield, Mass., 
and Rev. G. W. Bailey, of Lebanon, N. H. In November this committee 
visited each of the competing towns, Springfield, South Woodstock, Bethel, 
Northfield, Barre, and East Montpelier, and made a thorough inspection of 
the towns themselves and of the sites suggested. At the close of this visita- 
tion representatives of each town appeared before the committee at the court- 
house at Montpelier and presented the claims of their towns. The towns, in 
addition to a general subscription, made certain pledges of money, free sites, 
and building material. The competition was an earnest yet friendly one. 

The task of the committee was difficult; not only financial aid, but locality 
the community, church advantages, and various other considerations must 
have weight. Each town had advantages peculiarly its own; the committee 
in reporting bore witness to the generosity of each, and the fraternal spirit of 
the contest, but fixed upon the town of Barre, as, on the whole, meeting the 



134 TOWN OF BARRE. 



greatest number of requirements. Barre, beside a general subscription of 
nearly $3,000, had about $12,000 already pledged as a local subscription and 
offered a suitably graded site free of charge. Five towns were, of course, 
disappointed, but they remained to an unexpected degree loyal to the school. 
The institution was now an assured fact, and strenuous exertions were put 
forth to increase the subscription, the more sanguine working with a hope 
destined to be unfulfilled, that the sum already pledged by general subscrip- 
tion might be held as an endowment fund. Mr. Lewis continued as an agent 
for a time, and later G. H. Harmon and others assisted in the work. 

The site chosen was on a plateau a little north of the village. " The 
prospect commands a fine view of the valley spread out along the river. To 
the south and west, over a wide reach of green hills, fertile farms stretch 
away before the eye, while down the valley towards Montpelier, and over the 
hills beyond, the dark blue form and sharp outline of the most sublime of Ver- 
mont's mountains, Camel's Hump, rises in silent majesty against the sky." 
The plan of the building was prepared by T. W. Silloway, of Boston, and the 
building committee consisted of L. F, Aldrich and Charles Templeton, of 
Barre, and Heman Carpenter, of Northfield. Early in the spring of 1867 the 
people of Barre, according to agreement, began to grade preparatory to build- 
ing, and in the summer of the same year, by which time the funds at the 
disposal of the trustees had increased to nearly $50,000, work was begun 
and prosecuted vigorously. 

The work throughout was under the constant care of the building com- 
mittee, the Barre members, Messrs. Aldrich and Templeton, giving nearly 
their entire time for three years without remuneration. In digging for the 
foundation a fine bed of clay was found and from this all the bricks were 
made. This was a great saving, but the high prices of labor and all 
materials, which were still at war rates, made the original estimate of the 
cost far too low. It was also deemed best to heat the buildmg by steam, the 
first so heated in the state, and this made an additional expense. 

At this time the school had no agents, subscriptions had ceased to come 
in, and in the summer of 1868 it was feared that the work would have to 
stop before completion. An appeal to the pubhc brought a speedy answer 
from Mary T. Goddard, widow of the early benefactor, T. A. Goddard, who 
had recently died. She offered an additional $5,000, on condition that a 
like sum should be raised by others. At the time of the receipt of this 
communication, members of the board of trustees were gathered at the home 
of Judge Tilden, anxiously and despondently discussing the question of ways 
and means. An enthusiastic shout greeted the reading of the letter and 
new life was put into the work. The executive committee being in pressing 
need of funds, Mrs. Goddard did not wait for the complete fulfillment of her 
condition, but in a letter to the board sent a check for the amount with 
these words : " I wish you to accept this as a gift from Mr. Goddard, in 
memory of him whose interest in your institution would not, I am sure, have 



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abated had his Ufe been spared, and who would joyfully have witnessed a 
successful result of your labors. " The gift of $x,ooo antedating this by a 
few months, from Mrs. Philena Hayes (now Davis), then a resident of Chi- 
cago, deserves to be noted also as coming in a time of need. 

The constantly increasing prices, however, rapidly consumed the funds at 
command, and it was amid renewed discouragement that the friends of the 
institution continued the work. Great credit is due to the building com- 
mittee and their energetic treasurer for the sacrifices and zeal which 
characterized the work until its completion in 1870. Of the building itself 
but little need be said. It is sightly, commodious, and substantial. From a 
central portion fifty-three feet square two wings extend to the north and 
south, each fifty-three and one-half feet long. It is four stories in height 
above the basement, and is built of brick with granite trimmings. 

The school opened February 23, 1870, with eighty-eight students in 
attendance. L. L. Burrington, now at the ^head of Dean Academy in 
Massachusetts, was the first principal ; Miss Mary Bryant, preceptress. 
Soon after the opening the ladies of Barre held a " Bell Festival " to procure 
a bell for the school building, a festival famous in the vicinity as a great 
success. The net proceeds were about $525. The first class graduated at 
the close of the summer term, and consisted of four young men, three of 
whom had been with the principal at another school. 

In November of the same year, by vote of the trustees and act of the 
legislature, the name of the institution was changed to Goddard Seminary, 
in honor of Thomas A. Goddard. Mr. Goddard took a life-long interest in 
the educational work of the Universalist church, his name being forever 
connected with Tufts, Dean, and Westbrook by gift of buildings or endow- 
ment of professorships ; a proposition of his to give $5,000 was the nucleus 
about which the original fund was gathered ; his gifts supplemented by those 
of his wife made the school possible. For these reasons it seems preeni- 
nently fitting that the school should bear his name. He was a man of large 
views, great charity, and just discrimination. His wide charities were distrib- 
uted with generous hand. Always the friend of the young, his constant aim 
was to help provide for the Christian education of the youth of the church 
to which he gave so liberally of his means and time. By his works he 
showed the greatness of his faith. 

Though the school had seen dark days during its building, darker times 
were ahead. Instead of $40,000 the building, with the heavy cost of equip- 
ment for school use, hid cost nearly $75,000, a part of which was unpaid. 
The only subscriptions during this time were gifts of fifty dollars by a large 
number of individuals or societies to furnish rooms. While for the first two 
years the number of students was large and school expenses amply provided 
by its income, the "hard times" rapidly came on, and it was a fight for life 
for many years. The trustees knew not which way to turn to obtain money 
for the pressing obligations of the school. Members of the board had risked 



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much for the sake of the school, many being on notes of the institution for 
more than the value of their property. At one of these dark periods Judge 
Tilden made a trip to Boston to ask aid of friends in that neighborhood. 
He found other interests pressing and those whom he consulted discouraged 
him. Disappointed and disheartened he started on his return home. Stop- 
ping at Concord, N. H., he received a little encouragement and help. The 
prospect of returning nearly empty handed was too painful to be thought of, 
and he turned back to Boston. Again Mrs. Goddard responded with a gift 
of $2^000, and soon, by the efficient aid of Dr. A. A. Miner, about $7,000 
was secured, which tided ever the most pressing difficulties. 

In 1872 Mr. Burrington resigned his position and was succeeded by Mr. 
F. M. Hawes. In the fall of the same year the school received its first 
bequest by will, $r,ooo from the estate of Lucyna H. Ross, of Chesterfield, 
Mich., a resident of Barre in her younger days, who by her gift marked her 
memory of her native town and her appreciation of school advantages which 
she had desired, but had never been able to obtain. Later a bequest of the 
same amount was received from Amasa Watkins, of Reading, Vt. 

During all its early years the school struggled under a heavy weight of debt. 
At many times it seemed as if the fight for its existence would have to be 
abandoned. The financial crisis of '73, and the hard times that followed, 
were severely felt by its constituency. It seemed folly to attempt to raise 
money at such a time, but it had to be done. In 1874 $11,000 was raised 
by the efforts of earnest friends, $7,000 being raised in Massachusetts and 
vicinity by Prof. Shipman, at this time president of the board of trustees, 
and the remainder in Vermont. The amount was completed at a conven- 
tion in Bethel in response to a fervent appeal of Mrs. Caroline A. Soule, and 
a beginning was also made on an endowment fund. This sum did not prove 
sufficient, and the next year another effort had to be made to conquer the 
spectre, debt. It was a gloomy prospect ; but the ever faithful friends 
responded loyally, and about $4,000 more was raised. At the next meeting of 
the board of trustees, in June, 1876, there was found to be a slight remainder 
of the old debt, and, as if to mock the efforts of years, a deficiency of nearly 
$3,000 in the running expenses of by far the most disastrous year in the 
history of the school stared them in the face. This was near to being the 
last straw, but after long debate, eleven members of the board assumed 
the entire debt till such time as the school could pay it, a result not accom- 
plished till 1883, and then largely by the giving up of notes by those who, 
assuming the debts, had taken the notes of the institution, secured by the 
only mortgage that had ever been placed on the building through all these 
years of hardship and discouragement. 

This was the last of the financial struggles of the school. It had been 
long and trying. Only by the cooperation of all under the leadership of 
the energetic and self-sacrificing president of the board of trustees, and by 
most persistent effort, was the result accomplished and the school put in a 



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condition where it might hope for brighter things. It might literally be said 
of each one of several workers of the period, " without the help of this one 
it would have been impossible to save the school." 

From 1876, when the remainder of the debt was, as stated, assumed by 
certain trustees, to i88o, the raising of an endowment fund of $10,000 was 
prosecuted with more or less energy. Under the stimulus of an offer by Mr. 
Ira C. Calef to pay the last thousand of the sum, a thorough canvass of the 
state was made by Mr. H. V. French, $2,500 was raised in Massachusetts, 
and the full amount was made up by a memorable contribution in the great 
hali of the seminary at the close of the graduating exercises in June, 1880. 

During these years of financial struggle the school itself was steadily 
gaining ground in the confidence of the people and in the ability to provide 
a thorough education, under the efficient principal, Mr. Henry Priest, who had 
succeeded Mr. Hawes in 1874. By his efforts facilities in the laboratory 
were increased, the cabinets received many additions, and the library was 
constantly growing. The class of students has been excellent to a remark- 
able degree from the beginning to the present, a fact of no small importance 
towards making a successful school. A well marked system of government 
has been followed from the first that, avoiding so far as possible minute 
rules, should cultivate habits of honor and order. 

Since the establishment of the permanent fund other gifts have come, 
until the school has now the mcome of $20,000. Of this sum Stevens 
Calef, of Providence, R. I., bequeathed $[,000, the late Jonas Barber, of 
Richmond, $7,000. Besides this the institution holds a gift of $3,200 from 
Mr. J. M. Haynes, of St. Albans, subject to his life interest, and Mrs. 
Alinira Smith, of Barre, a devoted friend of the school, willed to it her entire 
personal estate, subject to the life interest of her parents. In 1884 a tract 
of land south of the building was purchased to prevent the encroachment of 
the growing village. It w^as, in part, paid for by gifts of the Alumni. 
This addition renders it possible to make the grounds a great ornament, and 
the work of putting them in proper order, which pressing necessities have 
heretofore forbidden, will be undertaken in the near future. 

The graduates of the school number 228 — 104 ladies and 124 gentlemen. 
It is worthy of note that more than one-half of the young gentlemen who 
have graduated, in all sixty-eight, became college studerits, of whom fifty- 
three entered at Tufts, the remainder at Dartmouth, Burlington, Harvard, 
Cornell, Boston University, Smith, and Antioch. 

The following gives the names of its successive teachers and their terms 
of service : — 

Principals: — L. L. Burrington, 1870-73; F. M. Hawes, 1873-74; Henry 
Priest, 1874-83; Alston W. Dana, 1883-87; D. L. Maulsby, 1887. Precep- 
tresses: — Mary A. Bryant, 1870-72 ; Adelma A. Ballou, 1872-74; Hattie E. 
Wood, 1874-76 ; Bessie A. Weeks, 1876-78; Flora C. Eaton, 1878-82 ; Alma 
G. Watson, 1882-83; Linda H. Brigham, 1883-86; Mrs. M. B. Aitcheson, 



138 TOWN OF HARRE. 



1886. First Assistants: — C. W. P.armenter, 1870-71; Ad el ma A. Ballou^ 
1870-72; G. A. Adams, 1871-72 ; F. M. Hawes, 1872-73; Fannie Wolcott, 
1872-73; Leslie A. Lee, 1873-74; Eva D. Heaton, 1873-74; Charles M. 
Knight, Bradford Spirrovv, 1874-75; Lois L Witherbee, 1874-76; Seth L. 
Larrabee, 1875-76; D. M. Woodbury, 1876-78; P. A. Thompson, 1876; 
Charles C. Bates, 1878-82; Arthur W. Peirce, 1882. Second Assistants : — 
G. A. Adams, 1870 ; J. N. Mallory, 1871-73 ; Persis A. Thompson, 1872-76 
Dora A. White, 1876-77; Alma G. Watson, Mrs. A. C. Averill, 1880 
Philip G. Wright, 1883 ; F. L. Bigelow, 1883-86; H. W. Whittemore, 1886 
Grace B. Aitcheson, 1886. Instrumental music: — H. S. Eddy, 1870-71 
W. A. Briggs, 1871-76 ; W. A. Wheaton, 1876-82 ; Miss J. B. Snow, 1882-84 
Miss L. M. Kendall, 1884. Vocal music :— K J. Philips, 1870-73 ; F. E 
Grant, 1873-74; Charles Dudley, 1874-76; Mrs. F. J. Hopkins, 1880-81 
Mrs. B, W. Bradley, 1881-84; George W. Foster, 1884. Fainting and 
draiving : — C. Mirion Ware, 1870-72; Louise Watson, 1873-74; Hattie E. 
Wood, 1874-76; J. O. Gilman, 1876-78; Mrs. James Vmcent, 1878-79; 
Lettie Davis, 1879-80; Fannie A. West, 1880-85 ; Eva M. Hall, 1885-87 ; 
Martha E. Calef, 1887. Fe?imanship : — B. L. Dwinell, 1870-72; Uriel H. 
Squires, 1872-74; H. N. Pearce, 1874-76; H. H. HoUister, 1876-79 ; J. M. 
Kent, 1879. 

The present condition of the school is the best in its history. The num- 
ber of pupils in the fall and winter terms of 1887 and 1888 has never been 
exceeded. The musical department, which was made a prominent part of 
the school work in 1884, has been successful from the first, both in number 
of pupils and character of the instruction. Nine scholarships have been 
recently endowed by gifts of friends, which are given, under prescribed condi- 
tions, to those needing aid. Of these one was founded by Hon. Parley 
Starr, of Brattleboro, one by the sons of Capt. Stephen Foster, of East 
Montpelier, one by Mrs. Harriet Mason Christie, of Woodstock, and the 
others by friends in Massachusetts and elsewhere. 

The future of the school never was so encouraging as at present, a result 
due mainly to the devotion to it of scholars, teachers, and friends. To them 
it owes its life, after a struggle for existence that would discourage the 
bravest. From the beginning a very large number have responded to every 
call for funds. Often when the husband has died, the wife has taken his 
place as a benefactor; the son has supplemented the gifts of the father. 
New friends have risen to aid and strengthen the old, and its supporters 
were never so numerous as at the present. All things seem to prophecy for 
Goddard the fulfillment of the prayer of one of its earliest and latest friends, 
that " Its prosperity may ever endure, and it may long continue to be a 
power for good in all the state, sending forth faithful children and obedient 
disciples of Christ our Teacher and Saviour, and God our loving Father." 

Barre Academy was incorporated by act of the legislature of Vermont, 
passed November 13, 1849. Ari organization was completed under this act. 



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and Newel Kinsman was chosen president and Leonard Keith, secretary. 
The academy building was completed in 1852, and in the autumn of that 
year the school was opened, with J. S. Spaulding, A. M., principal. Mr. 
Spaulding, before he came to Barre, had earned a high reputation as an able 
educator, by his successful management of the academy of Bakersfield, Vt.; 
and during the twenty-eight years that he was at the head of Barre Academy 
this high reputation was more than sustained. President Buckham, of the 
University of Vermont, at the funeral of Dr. Spaulding, uttered not mere 
words of eulogy when he alluded to Barre Academy as the Rugby of Ver- 
mont, and compared Dr. Spaulding with Dr. Arnold. Many of Dr. Spauld- 
ing's pupils may say of him, as one has said of Carlisle, " He benefitted me 
not so much by what he taught as he did by evoking an energy of purpose 
and will." This energy was impressed upon all who were so fortunate as to 
receive the instructions of Dr. Spaulding. 

Dr. Spaulding was succeeded by A. H. Wheelock, A. M., a graduate of 
the academy and of the University of Vermont, who remained in charge of 
the school a little more than two years. Mr. Wheelock then accepted a 
position in the Institute of Technology at Boston, Mass. The school was con- 
tinued only three years longer. J. R. Slocum, A. B., succeeded Prof. Wheel- 
ock, and remained but one year. It continued its existence the ensuing two 
years, under the management of E. H. Dutcher, A. B., when, because the 
institution was without funds and in debt, the trustees found it impossible to 
continue it longer, and Barre Academy ceased to exist. 

In the fall of 1887 the grounds and buildings were conveyed to the village 
school district (No. 8, of Barre). The district, by vote, had decided to adopt 
a system of graded schools so that, phenix-like, the old institution will be 
perpetuated by the new, in a manner more in accord with the spirit of the 
age, and perhaps will better subserve the needs of the entire community. 

The curriculum of studies prescribed by the academy and mastered by its 
students thoroughly prepared them to enter any and all of the New England 
colleges, and fitted them also to enter into active business, or the learned 
professions. Over three hundred pupils, including both sexes, have gradu- 
ated from this institution, and those who have been enroled as students num- 
ber thousands. The honorable career of many of these affords surest testi- 
mony of the high character of Barre Academy. 

The National Bank of Barre stands in the front rank of financial institu- 
tions in the Green Mountain state, and is the only National bank in Barre. 
It began business July i, 1873, and its interests have been allied to the prog- 
ress and prosperity of the community, its policy being such as to promote 
the general welfare of the village. Its officers are : L. F. Aldrich, president ; 
B. W. Braley, vice-president; F. G. Howland, cashier; F. F. Cave, teller. 
The directors are : L. F. Aldrich, B. W. Braley, J. M. Perry, Charles Tem- 
pleton, and John Lynde. At this writing the loans and discounts of the in- 
stition are $218,000; its deposits, $145,000; its capital, $100,000 ; and its 



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surplus and undivided profits, $31,500. The business of the National Bank 
of Barre covers a wide range of territory, and its depositors are from all towns 
surrounding this village, while many live at remote distances. The bank 
buys and sells government bonds, and sells New England state, county, and 
town bonds, and western state, territory, and school bonds. This institution 
pays interest on certificates of deposit at the rate of three per cent, per annum 
for periods of less than six months; and four per cent, interest on deposits 
remaining six months or longer. Interest deposits draw interest from the 
date of deposit, and no notice is required in the event of withdrawal. This 
bank has a guarantee fund of $200,000. Since its organization the National 
Bank of Barre has paid to its stockholders $164,000. 

In the night of July 5, 1875, an attempt was made by four burglars to rob 
the Bank of Barre. They entered the residence of Cashier Charles A. Black, 
and compelled him, with a rope around his neck, to repair to the bank, and 
■commanded him to open the safe ; but were there convinced of the fact that 
it was secured by a chronometer lock, as Mr. Black had informed them at 
his house. They then returned Mr. Black to his residence, where they had 
left a guard with his family, securely gagged and bound them all, Mr. Black 
with his hands handcuffed behind him. Mr. Black, in time, released himself 
and gave the alarm by informing the officers of the bank, who promptly in- 
stituted a pursuit of the robbers. A telegraph dispatch was sent to the Wells 
River bank next morning, announcing the fact of the burglary, and handed 
to Sheriff John Bailey, of Wells River, who started in pursuit and bravely capt- 
ured Peter Curley before night in a wood lot near Rumney, N. H. By the 
indomitable perseverance of Mr. Bailey, with the aid of other detectives, two 
more of the gang were arrested in the city of New York, in August following. 
One of them, an escaped convict from Smg Sing prison, was handed over to 
the authorities there to serve out his unexpired term. The other, George 
Miles, with several aliases, was tried at Montpelier, convicted, and sentenced 
to serve a term of fifteen years in the state's prison. Peter Curley, the first 
■captured, gave "state's evidence," and was discharged. 

Granite Savings Bank and Trnsi Co. — This bank began business April 
13, 1885, and has already attained a position in the front rank among the 
monetary institutions of the Green Mountain state. The bank has a capital 
of $50,000, and conducts a commercial business in addition to its savings 
bank department. At this writing the institution has $225,000 on deposit, 
$185,000 being interest deposits, and $40,000 business deposits. Its deposi- 
tors number 825 persons. The loans and discounts approximate $250,000. 
The company pays interest on deposits at the rate of three per cent, per an- 
num ; and on deposits remaining six months or longer interest at the rate of 
four per cent, per annum, credited or compounded semi-annually, is allowed. 
The company receives business accounts subject to check, and makes collections 
throughout all parts of the United States and Canada, furnishes Boston and 
New York exchange, buys and sells United States bonds, and bonds of any of 



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the states, counties or towns in New England ; also furnishes drafts on Ireland, 
Scotland, England, and other European points. The officers of the Granite 
Savings Bank and Trust Co. are : John Trow, president ; H. O. Worthen, vice- 
president ; H. W. Blodgett, treasurer ; C. N. Field, teller. The board of 
directors consists of the following gentlemen : John Trow, II. O. Worthen 
A. D. Morse, C. L. Currier, W. E. Whitcomb, A. E. Field. The business of 
the company is steadily increasing, as will be seen by the periodical state- 
ments. 

77ie Barre Water Company was chartered in the autumn of 1886. The res- 
ervoir is formed by damming Jail Branch about three miles above Hotel Barre. 
A sixteen inch water-main connects with the service pipes at the village. The 
head is equal to 260 feet. About si.x miles of service pipe have been laid, 
and there are fifty hydrants. The plant is owned by a private company, with 
the following officers; Dr. J. Henry Jackson, president ; William Birney, 
treasurer; E. W. Bisbee, secretary. Directors: William Birney, Thomas N. 
Birney, C. L. Goodhue, Dr. J. Henry Jackson, and L. F. Aldrich. 

Staffoi-d ts^ Holdeii Mfg. Co. — This industry dates its history to 1861. 
In 1864 it became Stafford, Holden & Co. In 1876 the concern was incor- 
porated under its present title, with a capital of $40,000. The officers of the 
Stafford & Holden Mfg. Co. are : E. B. Wood, president ; Clark Holden, 
secretary and treasurer. Directors : L. F. Aldrich, Horace Fifield, I. L. 
Gale, and J. R. George. The company give employment to sixty hands, and 
their works are fully equipped with every modern facility and appliance for 
the work in hand. The machinery is driven by water-power, with steam as 
auxiliary. The works are in a substantial brick building 200 feet m length, 
with several accessory buildings of wood. The company manufacture 
annually 24,000 dozens forks, rakes, and potato hooks, which find a market 
in all the civilized countries on the globe, large shipments being made to 
Europe and South America. The company is in possession of a prosperous 
business, and its product is held in great favor by the trade. 

William Moorcroft' s 7voolen factory. — Mr. William Moorcroft is proprietor 
of the Moorcroft woolen -mill, located about three-fourths of a mile from the 
postoffice. This mill has been in existence many years, and has been under 
control of Mr. Moorcroft for about thirteen years. Mr. Moorcroft. however, 
had been engaged in business in Montpelier for many years before, 
and has an experience of forty years in this industry. The Moorcroft 
woolen-mill gives employment to twenty hands in the manufacture of all- 
wool white flannel. The capacity of the mill is from 150,000 to 200,000 
yards per annum, and it consumes 75,000 pounds of wool per year. The 
product of the mill is sold through Faulkner, Page & Co., Boston and New 
York. 

Smith, Whitcomb 6^ Cook are the proprietors of the Barre iron works, a 
merchant and custom grist-mill, and a saw-mill. The iron foundry was 
established by Joshua Thwing about 181 8, who, it is said, melted the first iron 



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in the state. Mr. Thwing's business so increased that he enlarged the works 
in 1833. He conducted the business at this old stand about half a century. 
In 1868 the present firm (J. M. Smith, W. E. Whitcomb, and B. B. Cook) 
purchased the property. This firm does a general business as iron founders 
and machinists, and also manufacture several specialties, among them gears, 
shafting, hoisting machines and derricks, and a new superior stone polishing 
machine. They manufacture the North American plow, the improved Barre 
turbine water-wheel, and do millwright work. At the grist-mill they grind 
and retail more than one hundred car loads of corn meal annually. 

J. S. Robinson's sash and blhid factory is located on Stevens Branch, off 
road 48. He manufactures doors, sash, blinds, moldings, and house finish- 
ings, and deals in hard and soft wood lumber. Mr. Robinson came from 
Lowell, Mass., in 1857, and commenced business in the building now 
occupied by the firm of J. H. Batchelder & Co. In 1866 he converted a 
starch factory to his use, and in 1872 removed it to its present site and 
enlarged and improved it to meet the wants of his increasing business. He 
now contemplates erecting another addition of 70x40 feet. 

J. Walter Phelps s saju, planins^, and matching-mills are situated on Jail 
brook, on road 46. Mr. Phelps has been in possession of these mills since 
1873. He manufactures dimension and house finishing lumber, does plan- 
ing and matching and general custom work, and turns out of manufactured 
goods in his line from 250,000 to 300,000 feet annually. 

The National Granite Co. was organized August 23, 1886, with a cash 
capital of $10,000, and was the first granite stock company formed in Barre. 
The officers are : William H. Morse, president; James Haley, vice-presi- 
dent; W. A. Strong, secretary; and C. B. Martin, treasurer. The board of 
directors are William H. Morse, H. N. Parkhurst, R. B. Vaughan, John 
McGlynn, and James Haley. At the end of the first year of success the 
company increased the capital stock to $50,000, and elected its present 
board of officers. It is a leading company in the business, and has a 
pleasant office and shops on the bank of the river. A convenient side track 
to the works, and a steam derrick, give them convenient facilities for loading 
their finished goods for shipping. This company turns out monumental, 
cemetery, fine statuary, and building granite, and employs a force of forty 
men. 

Sumner Kimball's granite shops are located opposite the National Granite 
Co. Mr. Kimball removed his granite works from Montpelier in August, 
1886. He also quarries and manufactures, for the wholesale and retail 
trade, a full line of monumental, cemetery, and building work, and employs 
from thirty to forty men. 

The Barre granite 7vorks have an office and shops opposite the Central 
Vermont railroad station. Messrs. H. A. Duffy and W. S. George are the 
proprietors. The firm owns quarries of dark and light granite, employs from 
fifty to sixty men, manufactures every description of monumental, cemetery, 



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and statuary work, and deals in both rough and finished granite. Mr. Duffy 
is a practical granite and marble cutter. He came to Barre from Syracuse, 
N. Y., where he had nineteen years' experience in the business, and, with 
Daniel J. Francis, was the firm of the "Syracuse Marble and Granite Co." 
The energy and push of this company has made it one of the leading firms 
in Barre. 

The firm of IV. C. Quinlen and T. J. Murphy has granite shops 
located on S. Main street. They are practical granite cutters. They com- 
menced business January i. 1887, and moved to their present location 
May I, 1887. Mr. Quinlen was earlier in the business with J. S. Young, 
now of Montpelier. They manufacture and deal in cemetery and monu- 
mental work, in dark and light granite, wholesale and retail, and employ 
from ten to twelve men. 

Jones Brothers. — The firm of Jones Brothers have been for many years 
the largest dealers in monumental work in Boston, their place of business 
being on Kilby street. They were, likewise, the largest dealers in Barre gran- 
ite in the market, and often had the majority of the stonecutters in Barre 
working on their orders. Desiring to possess quarries and shops of their own 
in Barre, Jones Brothers, in August, 1886, purchased the business of Messrs. 
Mackie & Simpson. Since acquiring the property Jones Brothers have largely 
increased the force at both shops and quarries, and now give employment to 
seventy-five stonecutters and from twenty-five to thirty quarrymen, in addition 
to teamsters, etc. The firm's shops are on the bank of the river, spur 
tracks running thereto. Jones Brothers' quarries are eight acres in extent, 
and the firm deals in both finished and rough stone. They manufacture 
every class of cemetery and architectural work, and their business in Barre 
is managed by competent persons. Jones Brothers are in possession of unex- 
celled facilities for the rapid and economical execution of all orders. They 
employ skilled draughtsmen and designers, and present much originality in 
their work. 

Wells, Lamson &• Co. — This well-known firm, which is particularly well 
qualified to make contracts for the construction of any class of monumental 
work, and furnish original designs on short notice, was established in March, 
1880, by Smith & Wells, the organization of the present firm dating January, 
1882. The members of the firm are S. O. Wells, George Lamson, and 
J. K. Pirie. The location of the firm's shops is near the depot, the office being 
the nearest to the station of any of the granite firms. Two quarries are oper- 
ated by Wells, Lamson &: Co., one embracing fifteen and one half acres of 
dark granite, and the other nine and one-half acres, medium in color. Half 
a hundred men are employed by the firm. The leading business of Wells, 
Lamson & Co. is in dark granite, which is very popular, for the reason that 
the contrast between the polished and the hammered surfaces is very great, 
enabling inscriptions to be distinguished at considerable distances. Every 



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class of monumental work is executed by this firm, but the leading specialty 
is heavy work, for which their stone is perfectly adapted, and in much favor. 

Marr &> Gordon. — On arriving in Barre by train the first granite working 
establishment to attract attention is that of Marr & Gordon, on the right 
hand side of the railroad track, at the end of the village. Two lines of sheds 
stand with gables to the railroad, about forty feet apart. Between these sheds 
is a novelty in the way of a hoisting machine, made in Aberdeen, Scotland. 
A track runs above each building, and spanning the space between is a 
bridge-like structure that can be moved along the tracks. Upon the bridge 
is the hoisting machinery, movable, also, so that blocks of granite can be 
carried from one shed across the court to the other, or from one end of the 
yard to the other. The apparatus extends over the railroad track, and by it 
cars are loaded quickly and easily. The apparatus is capable of lifting and 
carrying twelve tons. Marr & Gordon have been in business in Barre about 
four years. The individual members of the firm are Charles Marr and Alex- 
ander Gordon, both sturdy Scotchmen, who are practical stonecutters, sculp- 
tors, and designers. The firm manufacture for the trade exclusively. At 
their shops Marr & Gordon give employment to fifty men. The firm owns a 
quarry five acres in extent where they employ fifteen men. Marr & Gordon 
turn out all classes of granite monumental and architectural work, and do a 
large business in stone in the rough. 

The Vermont Granite Co. is one of the largest granite working firms in 
Barre. The location of the works is on the opposite side of the railroad 
track from the depot building, and the plant has an area of four acres. The 
Vermont Granite Company was organized April i, 1887, succeeding the 
well-known firm of White Brothers, which began business in March, 1882. 
The company has a capital ot $60,000, and its officers are : S. C. White, presi- 
ident; A. E. Bruce, vice-president; H. K. Bush, secretary. The directory 
consists of S. C. White, George F. White, H, K. Bush, and A. E. Bruce. 
The Messrs. White, named in the directory, were the original proprietors 
of the industry, and both are practical sculptors and stonecutters of over 
forty years' experience. Mr. H. K. Bush has been for many years in hotel 
business at Saratoga Springs and Troy, N. Y., and is a thorough business 
man, who brings rare discernment and executive ability to the company. 
The Messrs. Bruce formerly composed the firm of Bruce Brothers, who con- 
ducted stonecutting works in Barre. The Vermont Granite Co. owns iro 
acres of quarry property, in dilferent parcels, and their wide range covers 
every variety of granite found in Barre. The company gives employment to 
over 100 hands in the various departments of the industry — stonecutting, 
quarrying, polishing, hauling, etc. Every facility here exists for the rapid 
and economical conduct of the business, and the company is able to dress 
granite at the least possible expense. The leading business of the com.pany 
is in furnishing granite monuments at wholesale, and in dealing in rough 
granite, shipped in blocks. The company also sells granite quarries. 



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Forsyth e^ Ingram's granite works are located off Granite street, west of 
the railroad. The members of the firm, S. H. Forsyth and James Ingram, 
are granite cutters of twenty years' experience. They engaged in business in 
Barre in 1882, and now occupy the shops formerly occupied by E. L. Smith 
& Co. They have every desirable facility for successfully carrying on their 
large business, including a derrick operated by steam. They quarry, manu- 
facture, and deal in monumental, fine carved, and statuary work in light and 
dark Barre granite. The firm has established a branch agency at 1,313 
Washington avenue, St. Louis, Mo. They employ forty men. 

Ja77ies Cordiners granite shops are located opposite Central Vermont 
railroad station. Mr. Cordiner is a practical granite cutter and commenced 
business in Barre in 1887, and manufactures for wholesale and retail all kinds 
of monumental and cemetery work. He gives employment to twelve or fif- 
teen hands. 

E. A. Wilkinson s granite works are located on South Main street, where he 
manufactures a full line of monumental and cemetery work, for the wholesale 
and retail trade, and gives employment to from ten to fifteen men. Mr. 
Wilkinson was in business one year with G. W. Mann, previous to 1882. 
They were the first to use steam-power for polishing granite. In 1882 he 
formed a partnership in the business with S. B. Huse. At the end of six 
months he bought Mr. Huse's interest and took as a partner William P. Day. 
The firm of Wilkinson & Day closed in July, 1886. Since then Mr. Wilkin- 
son has continued alone. 

Smith &> Hopkins (E. F. Smith, late of E. L, Smith & Co., and F. H. 
Hopkins) have granite shops north of Marr & Gordon's. This firm com- 
menced busmess May 1, 1887. They turn out monumental, statuary, and 
cemetery work, for wholesale and retail trade, and employ from twelve to 
fifteen men. 

EmsUe Q^ Cobitrri s gra?iite 7vorks are located opposite the Central Ver- 
mont railroad station. The firm, William Emslie and Alexander Coburn, 
practical granite cutters, commenced business in the spring of 1886. They 
turn out monumental and statuary work and all kinds of Barre granite, are 
wholesale and retail dealers, and employ sixteen men. 

W. M. Warleys granite shops are located on Summer street. Mr. Warley 
started the business in Barre in the spring of 1879, when the granite industry- 
was just being developed and only a {^^^ men were engaged in the business. 
Mr. Warley was then of the firm of Batchelder, Warley & Co., and succes- 
sively since of the firms of Warley Bros, and Warley & Williams. Since 
January i, 1887, he has conducted the business alone. He deals in both 
rough and finished granite, and employs sixteen men. 

A. H. Gatnble s granite works 2ixe on South Main street in Barre. Mr. 

Gamble commenced the business with Charles Young, in the winter of 1882 

and '83. In May, 1887, he sold his interest to his partner, intending to 

remove to New York. Circumstances prevented his removal and he re- 

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entered the granite business in Barre. He manufactures monumental and 
cemetery work for the wholesale trade, and employs from ten to fifteen men. 

Carncs &= Kane's granite cutting and polishing shops are located at East 
Barre village. Mr. Carnes commenced business in 1879, and then employed 
but one man. In 1885 he built the shops, 50 by 20 feet, now occupied by 
the firm, and put in two polishing machines. Mr. Kane became his partner 
in 1886. The firm owns two quarries and turns out a general line of monu- 
mental and statuary, rough and polished, granite work, and gives employment 
to twenty men. 

P. O. Wheaton's granite quarry, the first opened in Barre, produces a 
quality adapted to building purposes, of which Mr. Wheaton makes a 
specialty. His shops are located near Cobble hill. Mr. Wheaton employs 
in summer twenty men and in winter from six to eight. 

Mann Brothers granite shops (George W. and Ambrose) are located east 
of the railroad and north of Marr & Gordon. This firm quarrys and manu- 
factures at wholesale and retail, cemetery and monumental granite, and 
employs about twenty-five men. Mr. George W. Mann is one of Barre's 
pioneers in the granite business. 

Fraser 6^ Cassie (James Fraser and George Cassie), both practical granite 
cutters, have shops located just north of Marr & Gordon. They commenced 
business in June, 1887. This firm also manufactures, for the wholesale and 
retail trade, Barre granite, for monumental and cemetery purposes, and em- 
ploys from fifteen to twenty men. 

Littlejohn &= Barclay (S. L. Littlejohn and William Barclay), practical 
granite cutters of fifteen years' experience, have shops on the bank of the river, 
north of Jones Bros. The firm commenced business in April, 1887. They 
manufacture from Barre granite, cemetery, monumental and statuary work, 
for wholesale and retail trade, and employ sixteen men. 

Milne 6^ Connan (Alexander Milne and John Connan), manufacturers of 
Barre granite, have shops just north of Jones Bros. Mr. Milne commenced 
business in Barre in 1886. In May, 1887, Mr. Connan became his partner. 
They are doing a wholesale and retail business in monumental and statuary 
work, and employ about twenty men. 

Milne 6^ IVyllie (George B. Milne and William S. Wyllie) have granite 
shops opposite Lane & Moore's planing-mills. They are young men and 
practical workmen, and natives of Scotland. They began business in Barre 
in April, 1886, and are manufacturing monuments and fine statuary, for 
wholesale and retail trade, and employ twenty men. 

Herlihy 6^ Williatns (M. C. Herlihy and Thomas Williams) formed this 
copartnership January i, 1887. Their shops are opposite the National 
Granite Co. They employ about thirty men in the manufacture of all kinds 
of granite work for building and monumental purposes, and do a wholesale 
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Edgar Norto7is granite shops are just north of Jones Bros., on the river 
bank. Mr. Norton commenced business in Barre January i, 1886, is a prac- 
tical granite cutter, and is acquainted with every detail of the business. He 
employs fifteen men in manufacturing, for the wholesale and retail trade, all 
kinds of cemetery and statuary work. 

J. E. Sullivafi has a granite shop just west of the National Granite Co. 
Mr. Sullivan has had over twenty years' experience as a practical workman 
in the business. He commenced business in Barre in the winter of 1884 and 
1885. He turns out a general line of manufactured goods for the wholesale 
and retail trade, and employs from ten to fifteen men. 

Alexander Grant <>> Co. are sculptors and designers, and make a speci- 
alty of fine carved statuary work. Mr. Grant, the senior member of this 
firm, was born in Parish Alvah, Banffshire, Scotland. He came to America 
in 1872, and learned his trade in Hallowell, Maine. He has the honor of 
carving the first figure in granite in Vermont, and has since executed some of 
the most celebrated pieces of statuary in this country. Mr. A. J. Dingle, the 
junior member of the firm, was born in Cornwall, England, and came to this 
country in 188 r. He has also executed some very fine statuary work. 

Jatnes Ahem, manufacturer of all kinds of quarrymen's and stonecutters' 
tools, came from Rhode Island, and commenced his manufacturing business 
November i, 1886. His shop is located at the foot of Granite street, and is 
furnished with an eight -horse power upright steam engine. Mr. Ahern employs 
four men. 

E. C. French, manufacturer of granite, commenced business in 1883, where 
E. A. Wilkinson is now engiged. In 1885 he moved to his present location, 
on South Main street. He executes monumental and cemetery work of all 
kinds, for wholesale and retail trade, and employs ten men. 

Charles Young' s granite works are located on South Main street. Mr. 
Young commenced business in the spring of 1883, with A. H. Gamble as 
his partner, where H. A. Duffy now has a shop. In the ensuing fall they 
moved to his present quarters. In the fall of 1887 Mr. Gamble retired 
from the firm and Mr. Young continues alone. He turns out all kinds of 
monumental and cemetery work, and employs from fifteen to twenty men. 

L. W. Whitcottib (Sv Son' s granite polishing shops are located on Stevens 
Branch, Factory Village, and are run by a thirty-horse power steam engine. 
Their works contam thirteen polishing machines and employ fifteen men. 
They do all kinds of work in their line. 

John McDonald and Alexander Buchan, natives of Scotland, are both prac- 
tical stonecutters, and commenced business in June, 1884, under the firm name 
of McDonald & Buchan. They then employed one man. Their business 
has increased constantly, and they now employ thirty men in the manufac- 
ture of all kinds of granite, but make a specialty of carved and drapery 
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Staffords 6^ Batchelder manufacture all kinds of polished granite columns 
and pilasters, for buildings. This enterprise is the only one of its kind 
in Barre. The industry was instituted in December, 1886, by the firm 
of Stafford & Ladd. In April, 1887, Mrs. J. H. Batchelder purchased the 
interest of Ladd, and since then the business has been conducted under the 
present firm name. They now also turn out urns, vases, and round work in 
either large or small pieces, rough or polished. The shops are at the foot of 
Granite street. The firm employs five men. 

Hohbs ^ McDonald manufacture, deal in and repair all kinds of stone- 
cutters' and quarrymen's tools. Their shops are located near Forsyth & 
Ingram's granite shops, off the foot of Granite street, and are run by a twelve- 
horse power upright steam engine. They employ four men. Mr. Hobbs 
commenced business January i, 1887, and Mr. McDonald became his partner 
April 15 of the same year. 

Lane cy Moore (\N . A. Lane and A. D. Moore) are proprietors of a steam 
planing-mill, located at the foot of Granite street. They are young men and 
thorough mechanics. They commenced business in September, 1885. They 
are dealers in rough and dressed hard and soft wood lumber, moldings, 
sheathing, and house finishing lumber, and are jobbers in general wood work. 

Do naid McLeod cd^me to Barre from Aberdeen, Scotland, and is a practi- 
cal granite cutter. After working at his trade in Barre four years, he estab- 
lished his present business in April, 1886, at the foot of Granite street. Mr. 
McLeod turns out a general line of monumental and cemetery work, in gran- 
ite, for the wholesale and retail trade. He employs fourteen men. 

E. L. Smith d>' Co. (E. L., John E., and Donald Smith), quarrymen, are 
wholesale and retail dealers in ruugh and finished, light and dark, Barre gran- 
ite, monumental, cemetery, and statuary work. This firm gives employment 
to about forty men. Mr. E. L. Smith began business on Cobble hill, in the 
spring of 1868, and has continued in the granite business from that time to 
the present (1888). He has been associated as partner in several firms, and 
has been in this special business a longer time than any other man in Barre. 
In the long time he has been in the business he has furnished granite for the 
construction of the Methodist seminary and postoffice buildings vn Mont- 
pelier, the Reform school at Waterbury, and an incalculable amount for nu- 
merous other buildings. Mr. Smith was the first in Barre to quarry granite 
in wmter ; first to place on his quarry a permanent derrick ; first to adopt the 
steam drill ; and the first to use the electric battery in blasting. 

John Goldsbury, as seen by the record in the old family Bible, published 
in 1759, and now possessed by his grandson, John A. Goldsbury, was mar- 
ried to Rebecca Hastings, and settled on West hill, in the town of Wilders- 
burgh, now Barre, about 1788. His was the second family in town, having 
been preceded only a short time by Samuel Rogers. Soon after several other 
families came in. They then had to go twenty miles or more to the nearest 
grist-mill, in^ Randolph. Mr. and Mrs. Goldsbury reared a family of nine 



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children. John Goldsbury, Jr., was their third child. His marriage with 
Clarrissa Roundly was blessed with one son, Loren, born in Barre, in Decem- 
ber, 1807. Loren married Sally Heath, and they had two children, John A. 
and Emily C. (Mrs. Oel Town), of Barre. John A. resides on the farm set- 
tled by his grandfather, and in the house which he built. He was born May 
17, 1834, and united in marriage, February 5, 1858, with Louise Preston, who 
bore him six children, viz.: Albert C, Leonard A. (deceased), Clara B. (Mrs. 
W. M. Emerson), of Barre, Willie A., Fred E., and Helen R. John A. Golds- 
bury is a successful farmer and milkman. 

John Sherman, brother of Capt. Joseph Sherman who contested for the 
honor of naming the town of Barre, with Jonathan Sherman, came from Hol- 
den, Mass., and settled in the northeast part of the town, on the farm now 
owned by P. P. Larabee, and where he resided until his death, March 28, 1848, 
aged seventy-eight years. He married, first, Orpha Glidden, who was the 
mother of five children. His second wife, Mrs. Sally (Freeman) Larabee, was 
the mother of his daughter Sadie F., who married Elbridge G. Rosebrook, 
and resides in Guildhall, Vt. 

Isaac S. Thompson and his wife came from Holden, Mass., in the spring 
of 1790, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Major Nathan Harrington. Mr. 
Thompson lived in Harrington's house the first season, and then located on 
the farm now owned by his son Phineas. They made the journey from 
Massachusetts with an ox-team. At that time they had to go to Newbury to 
mill. There were then only four or five families in town, viz.: Capt. Rogers, 
Capt. Hale, Mr. Goldsbury, and Mr. D^vight. Mr. Thompson was constable 
for some years, and went to Plattsburgh, N. Y., with his company, from Barre. 
He died in 1827, aged sixty-three years. 

The Carleton family in America is of English extraction. Jeremiah Carle- 
ton, son of Jeremiah, was born in Newburyport, Mass., and when a child 
accompanied his parents to Lyndeboro, N. H. In 1794, when about twenty 
years of age, he came to B.irre and located on the farm in the northeasterly 
part of the town, which has ever since remained in the possession of the 
family. He felled the first tree in 1795, and, it is said, cut nine acres of 
heavy timber in seventeen days. December 6, 1798, he married Deborah 
Edwards, of Montpelier. , Their children were Jeremiah, Silas, Noah, 
Deborah, Elliott, David, Hiram, Betsey, and Guy. David Carleton resided 
on the homestead where he was born until his decease, which occurred April 
II, 1888. He married Mary Wheeler, daughter of the late^ Benjamin I. 
Wheeler, of East Montpelier, January 31, 1837. Their children were Hiram, 
now judge of probate for the district of Washington; Mrs. Mary Hazen, 
deceased; Mrs. Ellen Osgood; Edwin, who now occupies the old farm; and 
Mrs. Fanny D. Dike. Mr. and Mrs. David Carleton celebrated their golden 
wedding January 31, 1887. 

John and Asa Dodge, sons of Nathaniel Brown Dodge, Sr., were among 
the early settlers of Barre. They came from Winchester, N. H., and settled 



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in the northwest part of the town. Their ancestor, William Dodge, came to- 
America from Lancashire, Eng., in the ship Lion's Whelp, in 1629, and 
settled in Salem, Mass. Later he returned to England, married and brought 
his wife and brothers Richard and John with him. Asa Dodge, before 
mentioned, was born February 13, 1770, and married Abigail Blodgett, who 
was the mother of his twelve children. His son, N. Brown Dodge, married 
Elva Smith, and they were parents of seven children. He is still living, and 
resides with his daughter, Mrs. Ira Benjamin, in Berlin. Wesley Dodge, son 
of Asa, was born July 13, 1803, married Irena Bullock and settled in Barre. 
He died March 4, 1879, and his wife died April 17, 1879. They had one 
child, Abba P., born October 20, 1825, who married Horace W. Soule, and 
lives in Barre. They have three children, all living. 

John Wheaton came with his wife and six children from Leicester, Mass., 
and settled in the eastern part of Barre, about 1793. His first habitation 
was a log cabin in the woods, and he at once set to work clearing his land 
and making a home. All his children lived and married. His four sons 
settled on farms in his school district. His children were Phebe, Pliny, 
Joseph, Benjamin, Sarah, and John. Phebe married Peter Taft and emigrated 
to the West. Pliny married, first, Martha Wheeler, and their union was 
blessed with seven children. His second wife was Mary Catlin, who was the 
mother of one child. Four of his children are now living, Maria (Mrs. 
Nathan Trow), Lorinda (Mrs. C. C. Phelps), John, a successful farmer, who 
married, first, Emeline Perrin and had children Porter Perrin and Eliza E. 
His second wife, Rhoda Reed, was also the mother of three children, two of 
whom, Sarah A. and Eva M., are living, and Charles, who married Harriet 
Eastman and has two children. 

Oren Wheaton, son of Pliny and grandson of John, was born in Barre, 
January i, 1812. He was a practical granite cutter, and with his father 
owned the quarry from which the granite was procured to build the State 
House at Montpelier. He was both farmer and quarryman. He united in 
marriage with Eliza, daughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Parker) Thompson, 
and sister of Hon. D. P. Thompson, lawyer, historian, and novelist. Mr. 
Wheaton died December 6, 1861. Their three children are all living. Pliny 
O. married Hattie Barnes, of Chelsea, and resides on the home farm. Daniel 
T. emigrated to Morris, Minn., married, and settled there. Mary (Mrs. 
Malcolm Crockett) resides in Ohio. Mrs. Wheaton still survives and resides 
with her son Pliny O. 

Erastus Wheaton, son of Benjamin and grandson of John, was born Octo- 
ber 17, 18 1 2. He united in marriage with Nancy C. Clark, January 3, 1839, 
and settled on the homestead of his grandfather where he was born, and 
where he has always lived. Mrs. Wheaton is also living. They are parents 
of five children, three of whom are living and reside in Barre. George E. C, 
who is his only son, is m company with his father on the homestead. He 
married Alice M. Kinney and has one child. Emily married William Clark, 



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and resides in Barre village. Alfaratta married Albert C. Reed, has two 
children, and lives on road 38. 

Benjamin Wood was born in Mendon, Mass., September 30, 1778. At 
the age of twenty-five years he came to Barre from his native town on foot, 
with several others, and brought his axe on his shoulder. He married, first, 
Hannah Clapp, and settled on East hill in Barre. Later he moved to 
Gospel hill, and manufactured woolen and linen spmning wheels, and spin- 
dles for woolen factories. The children of his first marriage were Angeline, 
Lucy, Solomon, and Hiram. His second wife was Jennie C, daughter of 
Richard and Jennie C. Town. Their eight children were Hannah, Orrilla, 
Allen T., Mary T., Benjamin O., Jane M., Elijah B., and Harriet O. The 
latter married William E. Whitcorab. They have one son. Will A., and 
reside in Barre village. 

James Thwing came from Wilbraham, Mass., about 1793, to Willaims- 
town, where he resided two years, and then settled in Barre. His first wife, 
Hannah Carpenter, was the mother of sixteen children. He married, second, 
Mrs. Nancy Carpenter, the mother of his seventeenth child. John Thwing, 
son of James, was nine years old when his father settled in Barre. He was 
a prominent man in his town, and was adjutant of the 3d Regt., 2d Brigade, 
4th Division, Vt. militia, in 1818 and 18 19. He was selectman of the town of 
Barre fifteen years, and a member of the state legislature two years. John 
Thwing married Sarah Smith, and they had seven children, of whom James,, 
the only one now living, is seventy years old, and resides in Barre. He mar- 
ried Eliza C. Peck, and they had three sons and three daughters. All but 
one of the daughters are now living. Joshua Thwing, brother of John, was 
eleven years of age when his father settled in Barre. He was a millwright. 
At the time he commenced his apprenticeship, he and his brother had but 
one hat between them. He started from home bareheaded, met his 
brother, who was returning home from an errand, and took the hat from his 
head and continued his journey. In 1818 he built an iron foundry, and 
grist and saw- mill, which, enlarged and improved, is now the Barre iron 
works. Mr. Thwing married Judith French. Three of their six children 
are now living, viz.: Mary A., Roxana (Mrs. Noah Dodge), and Auraina 
(Mrs. H. S. Loomis) resides in Montpelier. 

Joseph Browning, with his wife and four children, came from Hubbardston, 
Mass., to Barre, in 1793, and settled on the farm now occupied by his son 
Alfred. His wife was the sister of Mr. Sherman, who fought and vanquished 
Mr. Thompson, at the time of the excitement and rivalry for the honor of 
naming the town of Barre. Mr. and Mrs. Browning had a family of twelve 
children, but two of them are now living, Alfred, before mentioned, and 
Emily, who also resides in Barre. 

Timothy Patterson came to Barre about 1794, and settled near John 
Goldsbury, on West hill. Mr. Patterson's parents and four brothers and sis- 
ters came with him. Their bill of fare for the first year was not very exten- 



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sive, and was often bread and water sweetened with maple sugar. For a 
change in diet Mr. Patterson occasionally received three pounds of pork for 
a hard day's work chopping for Judge Paine, in Williamstown ; and this, with 
fresh trout caught from the brook, would give an agreeable change from the 
monotony of "bread and water." Mr. Patterson married Content Cook, 
whose parents were pioneer settlers. They had twelve children. Those now 
living are P. C. and Merrill Patterson, residing in Barre. 

Samuel Doane Cook came from Greenfield, Mass., with quite a large 
family, in 1794, and settled on the farm now owned by C. R. Allen, on road 
;^;^. His children were Content, who married Timothy Patterson ; Samuel, 
who married Mercy Thompson ; Rebecca (Mrs. Carroll Smith) and Doane, 
who settled in Barre ; Phineas, a Methodist minister; Noah and Phebe, who 
emigrated to New York ; and Seth, who settled in Plainfield, and later 
removed to Danville, where he died. Rev. Doane Cook married Miss Polly 
Thwing, and settled in Barre. He entered the ministry of the Methodist 
church, and besides cultivating his farm he preached in Barre and surround- 
ing towns. He was one of the noble and devoted band of workers in the 
Master's vineyard, whose zeal was to preach the gospel, without fee or re- 
ward unless voluntarily contributed. The children of Rev. and Mrs. Cook 
were Mina, Alpheus, William, Truman, John L., Maria, and Benjamin B., 
three of whom are living, viz.: John L. in Haverhill, N. H.; Benjamin B., a 
member of the firm of Smith, VVhitcomb & Cook, of Barre ; and Maria, widow 
of the late Harvey Tilden. 

Ebenezer Fitch Willard was born in Barre in 1795. He married Lovisa 
Clark, and settled on the fine farm in the northwest corner of Barre, where his 
son, Ebenezer Fitch Willard, now lives. [See a more extended sketch in 
East Montpelier, in this work.] His daughter Sophia married Gilbert L. 
Dix. Her children are Addie L., John L., Clara L., and M. Willard. Mrs. 
Dix resides on the homestead of her father in Barre. Ebenezer F. Willard 
married Ruth Page, and resides on the old homestead, as before mentioned. 
He has two sons, C. Fred and George C. 

William Goldsbury, brother of John, the second settler of Barre, was also 
one of the pioneers of the town. January 28, 1794, he married Bathsheba 
Walker, and at once settled on the farm now owned by his grandson, Joel W. 
Goldsbury, on road 7. His first residence was a log cabin. A few years 
later the frame house now occupied by Joel W. was erected. The first glass 
window in their neighborhood was one of the adornments of this house, and 
is still sound and doing service. It was brought by Mrs. Goldsbury on horse- 
back from Brookfield, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Goldsbury were parents of four 
sons, — William, Joel, John, and Oliver. William died at the age of twenty- 
four years. Oliver was killed and entombed at once, and in an instant, 
when he was but five years old. He had accompanied his father to the 
woods. The father was busy cutting off the trunk of a prostrate tree, which 
had been turned out of the ground by the roots. The earth from a deep 



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cavity in the ground adhered to the roots of the tree, and the ill-fated little 
child had stepped into this cavity. As soon as the unwitting father had 
severed the trunk of the tree from the stump, by its own great weight, as 
sudden as the spring of a trap, it sprung back into its original place, crushed, 
and buried the child. John was a merchant at Montpelier, and died at the 
age of thirty-two years, supposed to have been poisoned. December 9, 1819, 
Joel married Charlotte CoUyer. Their children were Maria, Bathsheba, 
Mandama, Orlantha, Julia, Charlotte, Annette, Joel W., John N., Ellen V., 
and William A., six of whom are now living. 

Asaph Sherman married a Miss Norton, of Suffield, Mass., and was an 
early, influential, and prominent settler of Barre. He represented the town 
in the General Assembly in 1794, '95, and '96. He reared five sons and 
three daughters. A granddaughter was the wife of General Stannard. His 
sons all became eminent physicians. His son, Dr. Socrates N. Sherman, was 
medical director of the department of Virginia in the late war, and was a 
member of Congress one term. He settled in Ogdensburg and was the 
postmaster of that city at the time of his death, in 1873. Dr. Mason Sher- 
man settled in Michigan City, Ind., where he still resides. Drs. Minot and 
Bradley Sherman emigrated to Williamsburg, Canada. Minot is dead, and 
Bradley still resides there. Dr. B. Franklin Sherman also located in Ogdens- 
burg, has amassed a fortune, and still resides there 

John Gale came from Walpole, N. H., and settled in Barre, as near as can 
be ascertained, about 1795. He located on the farm where his son Lewis 
now lives, and where he continued to reside until his death, in March, 1842. 
Lewis Gale, son of John and his second wife, Phebe (Bancroft) Gale, resides, 
as before mentioned, on the old homestead. He married Lucinda Pettingill, 
and their children are Clarence A., who married Ellen Woodbury and resides 
in Big Rapids, Mich.; Cortland A., who is now in Chicago; Martin P., who 
married Kate E. Griswold and also resides in Big Rapids; Elgin J., who 
married Clara A. Hatch and resides in Montpelier; Burton L., who lives in 
Port Leyden, N. Y.; and Lillian (Mrs. Fred L. Eaton), who resides in Mont- 
pelier. Lewis Gale owns and cultivates a large farm, and is an extensive 
dairyman. 

Israel Wood came to Barre, from Worcester county, Mass., about 1795, 
and settled in the wilderness on the farm now owned by William Mears, on 
road 16. He was quite successful, and extended his domain until it included 
three other adjoining farms. Such was his benevolence that he gave one-half 
of all he then possessed to build the old church on Gospel hill. His wife v/as 
Abigail Wheeler, and their children were Israel, Abraham, Huldah, Josiah, 
Lewis, Leonard, and Abel, all deceased. Lewis married Ruby Bancroft, and 
settled on the farm now owned by his son Israel. Their children were Eme- 
line (Mrs. Hosea Jacobs), who resides in Cabot; Elizabeth (Mrs. Martin 
Freeman), who died July 4, 1874; Israel, as before mentioned, who resides 
on the homestead, married Emma Willey, of Topsham, Vt.; Ezekiel, who 



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resides in Iowa, married, first, Mary Collins, and second, Mary Degroot ; and 
Albert, who went West and married. 

Calvin Smith came from Wildersburgh, Mass., and made one of the first 
claims, or pitches, in Wildersburgh, now Barre, and assisted in the survey 
of the town soon after. He also performed a journey of thirty miles on 
foot to Royalton, and returned carrying a bushel of corn in an iron kettle. 
Mr. Smith continued to reside on the farm where he first settled until his 
death. John Kelley now owns the farm. The memorable battle at fisticuffs 
for the honor of naming Barre was fought in Mr. Smith's barn. His first 
wife, Miss Sherman, was the mother of seven children, and his second wife, 
Mrs. West, bore him two more. His third wife was Mrs. Wright. Calvin S. 
Smith, son of his first wife, settled in Elmore, but returned to Barre and the 
old home, and cared for his father till his decease. Calvin S. has been mar- 
ried twice, first to Betsey Thompson, and second to Mrs. Mary Sanborn. 
Five of his children survive him, viz. : James, Whitcomb, Cook, Joseph, and 
Maria (Mrs. Wesley Hill), of East MontpeHer. 

Thomas Mower, of Jaffrey, N. H., removed to BerUn about 1797, 
remained one year, and then settled in Birre on the farm now owned by E. T. 
Mower. This farm has been in the Mower family since the settlement of 
Thomas Mower in 1798, and the homestead has sheltered the fifth generation. 
Thomas married a Miss Raymond, and they were parents of three daughters 
and one son. Ezra, the son, was born, lived, and died on the homestead. 
His wife, Sally Webster, was the mother of eight children, four of whom are 
now Hving, viz.: David W., Ezra, Jeanette (Mrs. H. S. Martin) in Barre^ 
and Ann (Mrs Holly Gale) in Williamstown. 

Jacob Worthen and his wife, Betsey, were early pioneers of Barre. They 
came from Cornish, N. H., and settled near the line of the town of Orange. 
Eventually they moved into Orange, where Mr. Worthen died. Their only 
child, Samuel, was born April 28, 1797. His wife was Susan Owen, and 
their children were Eliza, born July 26, 1818, deceased; Andrew, born 
February 16, 1821, deceased; Jacob, born September 7, 1823, who resides in 
Newbury, Vt.; Silas, born March 27, 1826, who lives in Ora-nge ; Linus L.., 
born February 11, 1829, who lives in Barre; Sarah O. (Mrs. Nye), of Barre> 
who was born July 13, 1832 ; George L., born June 23, 1835, who resides 
in East Montpelier ; Hiram O., born August 16, 1838, who is a physician in 
Barre ; and David O., born January 9, 1842, deceased. 

Ezekiel Wood came from Westminster, Mass., to Barre about 1797, on 
horseback, bringing the proverbial axe with which to carve out a home in 
the new country. He located where Perrin Bancroft now lives, made a 
clearing, and put up a house. The next year he married Judith Baker, of 
Westminster, and returned to Barre. and lived on the farm of his choice until 
1800, when he moved to what is known as the "Chubb place." In 1805 he 
moved to " Gospel Village," which then contained but three houses. His 
farm is now occupied by a portion of the village, and his residence was on 



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the site of the cemetery. When the first church was built he gave hberally, 
even denying himself to assist in the project. April 27, 1800, he was elected 
deacon of the Congregational church, which position he held until his death 
in 181 2. He was an industrious, hard working man, cultivated his farm in 
summer, and in winter made woodenware, for which there was quite a demand. 
At his death he left his widow with five small children, and an adopted son. 
Mrs. Wood was equal to the task thus imposed upon her. She remained on 
the farm, and brought up her family, all of whom married and settled within 
one mile of home. Judith, the eldest, married Cheney Keith. She died in 
1886, aged eighty-five years. Drusilla married David Leach, and had seven 
children, three of whom grew to maturity. Her sons settled in Iowa. After 
her husband's death she went to Iowa, and died there. One of her sons, 
Ezekiel E., is now living in California. Ezekiel Wood, the eldest son, mar- 
ried Emily Foss and settled on the homestead. They had eleven children, 
six of whom are living, three, Mrs. Henry P. Gale, Mrs. William Mears, and 
Mrs. H. N. Bailey, in Barre. H. N. Bailey lives on West hill and has two 
children. The other daughter married I. K. Bancroft, and lives in West 
Randolph, Vt. Of the sons J. Orville lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and 
J. B. in Pine Valley, Oregon. Martha, youngest daughter of Deacon Eze- 
kiel Wood, married Artemas Miller, and settled in " Thwingville," and had two 
children, one of whom, Mrs. J. W. Payne, is living in Barre. 

Francis Keith was born in Barre, as near as can be ascertained, in 1797, 
and was thrice married. His first wife, Persis Bigelow, bore him six children, 
viz.: Mary, Charles, Erastus, Lewis, Ellen, and Almira. His second wife was 
the mother of his three children, Clinton, Flora, and Agnes, two of whom are 
living. His third wife, Persis Cock, had no children. Mary Keith first mar- 
ried Henry Taft, of East Montpelier. Her second husband is Dennison 
Batchelder, of Barre, and their only child is Persis (Mrs. William Batchelder), 
Charles Keith married Silence D. Vincent He died in 1858, from injuries 
received while quarrying granite to repiir the State House. Erastus Keith 
married Laura M. Bradford. Their three children are Alm.a, Nellie, and 
Bert M. Lewis Keith married Morancy S. Wilson, and they had one child, 
Mary M., who married Richard A. Hoar. Ellen Keith married J. W. Rollins, 
has four children, anil resides in Elgin, Minn. Almira Keith married Ira 
Trow, has one child, and resides in Weston, Mass. Clinton Keith resides in 
Hardwick, Vt. 

Ira Day and his wife, Martha (Clark), came to Barre from Royalton, Vt., 
about 1797. He located at South Barre, and was for many years the leading 
merchant in Barre. He also bought large droves of beef cattle, which he 
drove to Boston market, and which afforded him an extensive and lucrative 
business. He also, with Mr. Cottrell, of Montpelier, owned the first stage 
and mail route between Boston and Burlington, Vt., and at the time General 
Lafayette made a tour of New England he was the guest of Mr. Day, who 
furnished a splendid coach and six beautiful white horses for the transporta- 



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tion of the General and his suite. His son, Clark Day, born February 5, 
181 r, received his early training for business in his father's store, and with 
whom he was a partner ten or twelve years. In consequence of failing 
health he gave up mercantile business and engaged in farming, cultivating 
and living on the same farm forty-four years. Mr. Day married Emily, 
•daughter of Alvin and Betsey Clark, June 2, 1841. He died March 25, 1886. 
Mrs. Day still survives. They had five children, viz.: Gertrude R. (Mrs. 
Henry H. Wetmore), who resides in Chicago; Alvin C, who married Stella 
Brown ; Martha P., who married Emory L. Smith; William P., who married 
Sadie V. Clark. All reside in Birre. Mary died at the age of five years. 

David Sherburne was born in Goshen, N. H., February 28, 1778, and 
came to Vermont in i8or. He settled in Orange, and bought his farm soon 
after reaching there, but did not take a deed of it until 1806. The farm is 
the one now occupied by Chester Beckley. It was then an entire forest, 
which he cleared and lived upon for more than half a century. He married 
Wealthy, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Kinney, of Plainfield, in 1803, by whom 
he had ten children, four of whom died before reaching adult years. Lydia, 
the eldest, married Andrew F. Waterman and died at Barre in i860. Joel 
married Polly Perkins, of Plainfield, and they have lived on the same farm in 
Plainfield for more than fifty years. They are the parents of the Rev. J. O. 
Sherburne, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Montpelier. Jona- 
than married Eliza Seavy, who died early, leaving one daughter (Mrs. Samuel 
Cutts, of Barre). He died in 1841. Laura married David B. Merrill and 
died in Marshfield, at the age of seventy-one years, leaving three sons. 
Joseph A. was born November 22, 1821, in Orange, Vt. He married 
Miranda Barrows, of Jamaica, Vt., by whom he had one daughter and four 
sons, viz.: Ada J., born August 27, 1850, at Weathersfield, Vt.; Leslie A., 
born March 30, 1853, at Athens, Vt.; Herman K., born July 12, 1855, at 
Wilmington, Vt.; Frank A., born January 11, 1858, at Corinth, Vt.; and 
Fred W., born March 13, i860, at Pittsfield, Vt. She died at Barre in 1884. 
He subsequently married Mrs. Hattie L. Dickey, of Barre. He is pastor of 
the Methodist Episcopal church at Chelsea. George N. married Orlesca A. 
Dodge, of Barre, and is now a successful farmer in Dakota, where he has 
three sons settled near him. David Sherburne died in 1863. His wife, 
Wealthy, died in 1857. When a call was made for men to go to the battle 
of Plattsburgh, N. Y., David Sherburne was one who took his gun and started 
with a company from Barre. When they reached the battlefield it was too 
late to take any part in the engagement. As a reward for services in the war 
the government gave him a land warrent for 160 acres, which he subsequently 
sold for $100. 

Enos Towne came to Barre from Hillsboro, N. H., about 1798, and 
brought his wife and a family of small children with him, and settled on the 
farm where Mr. J. P. Ladd now lives, on road 52. His first crop was corn, 
planted in Indian style, after burning off the brush among the logs and 



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Stumps. His son Thomas M., the eldest of a family of eight children, mar- 
ried Jerusha Dix and settled on the farm where his son Jude now lives, and 
where he spent most of his long life. He died at South Barre, May 7, 1867, 
aged eighty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Towne were parents of ten children, 
two of whom died in infancy and six are now living, viz.: Loantha (Mrs. 
William Bancroft) at South Barre ; Osman, who has been twice married, and 
lives in Brookfield ; Edna (Mrs. L. P. Wood), who lives on road 31 ; Jude, 
before mentioned, occupies the homestead, and has been twice married, first 
to Miss Clarissa Gale, who was the mother of five children, of whom those 
living are George J., of the firm of G. J. Towne & Co., Merton L., and 
Clarissa (Mrs. John Dix), all in Barre. Luke Towne's second wife was 
Lottie Walter. Calista, daughter of Thomas M. Towne, married John 
Colby, of Williamstown, and Hosea Towne resides in Waitsfield. 

Gardner Wheeler and his brother Dodge wended their way from Grafton, 
Mass., with an ox-team, which brought their families and household goods to 
the forests of Barre at a very early date. Their route lay through the woods, 
and a part of the way they were guided by " blazed " trees. Their first night 
in Barre was spent at the hospitable mansion of Maj. C. T. Bond, which was 
a log cabin of but one room. Gardner Wheeler settled on the " Wheeler 
farm, " now owned by Mr. Sumner Kimball, of Montpelier, and Dodge 
located where Albert Paine now lives, and was the father of five children, 
only one of whom is now living. Gardner Wheeler was for many years a 
prominent man in Barre, and conducted very much of the town's business. 
He lived to the ripe age of eighty years. His daughter Mary Ann, aged 
seventy-seven years, is his only surviving child. Only two of his eifht 
children were married, viz.: Patty, who was the wife of Judge Cyrus Ware 
of Montpelier, one of whose daughters, Mrs. Joel Foster, now resides in that 
town; and Elijah, who married Lydia Herrick, who was mother of his ten 
children, three of whom are now living, viz.: Adaline in Barre ; Artemas 
in Wheaton, 111; and Martha (Mrs. Harrison Johnson) in Springfield, Mass. 

William Bradford came from Mt. Vernon, N. H., and settled on the farm 
where L. L. Worthen now lives, on road 43, about 1800. His first residence 
was a log cabin. After living about thirty years on this place he removed to 
the farm now owned by A. S. Parkhurst, on road 44, where he resided until 
his death, March 3, 1866, aged eighty-six years. He, too, was a pioneer in 
hauling freight, and for some ten or fifteen years drove an eight-horse team 
between Montpelier and Boston. The herculean enterprise of his life was 
in fulfilling his contract with the state of Vermont to supply the granite for 
constructing the State House at Montpelier, which was commenced in 1833 
and completed in 1838, and which he executed with integrity, but with heavy 
loss. The granite was obtained at the quarries of P. & O. Wheaton, on 
Cobble hill. The state afterwards made a small appropriation in his favor, 
which partly reimbursed the loss he had sustained. Mr. Bradford married 
Miss Mary Green, and their children were Rodney, Jefferson, Ambrose, 



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William, Alvira, and Mary. The only one now living is Alvira. Rodney was 
twice married, first to Mary Farrington, who bore him three children, and 
second to Maria Bullock, who bore him one child. Jefferson Bradford mar- 
ried Thankful Vincent, and their children are Laura, George, Wilbur, Satira, 
Milinda, and Oscar. Ambrose married Harriet Batchelder, and their child- 
ren are Lucy, Leonora, Charles, Alice, and William A. William was twice 
married, first to Rosalind Smith, the mother of his children Frank and 
Rossie, and second to Lucina Carpenter. Alvira and Mary did not marr)'. 

Jonathan G. Claflin, son of Ephraim, was reared in the family of John 
Gale. Ephraim was twice married, and was the father of fifteen children, 
fourteen of whom lived to maturity, Jonathan G. married Lucy A. Gale, 
and settled in the southwestern corner of the town, where he lived thirty-four 
years. He then removed to a farm on road 56, where he resided until his 
death, March 11, 1880, aged eighty-three years. Mrs. Claflin died in 1863. 
Their children were Augustus, Elbartus T., Byron J., and Lucy C. Augus- 
tus Claflin was born in Barre, October 17, 1822. March 11, 1847, he married 
Rocina, daughter of Jesse and Betsey (Blanchard) Scott, who was born No- 
vember 17, 1824. Mr. Claflin has disposed of his old farm on road 56, where 
he resided the past twenty-nine years, and has erected a pleasant residence at 
South Barre, to which he retires. He has been selectman twelve years, and 
has held other town offices. He has been indrustrious, honest, and worthy, 
and has the confidence and esteem of all who know him. 

Judge Chapin Keith was born in Uxbridge, Mass., May 17, 177 1. He 
came to Barre from his native town in September, i8or, with his family, the 
youngest being only three months old. Judge Chapin Keith was judge of the 
Probate Court many years, and afterwards was sheriff of Washington county 
several years. While he was sheriff it became his duty to proclaim from the 
balcony of the State House thegoverner-elect, after the votes had been counted 
Although he could perform the general duties of his office well, and was at 
home in business transactions, he was not able to speak in public without 
great embarrassment. He intended to finish his proclamation of the election 
of the governor by saying, as was the practice then, " God save the people," 
but instead he cried out " God save the King T' He often said that the mis- 
take cost him several gallons of wine. With the fees that accrued to him as 
sheriff one year, he built his tavern on Gospel hill. When he first arrived in 
Barre he was duly warned out of town lest he should become a charge on the 
tax-payers. Fortunately for him and his family he was always able to take 
care of himself. His great energy and perseverance generally won success in 
all enterprises that he undertook. He was very successful as a tavern-keeper, 
and his wife was truly his helpmeet, and excelled as a landlady. Judge Keith 
was married to Elizabeth Taft, June 24, 1790. They had five sons, viz.: 
Hon. Roswell Keith, who was the late Judge Keith, of Montpelier, where he 
died October 25, 1874, and at his death was in the eighty-fourth year of his 
age; Erasmus, who was born July 23, 1792, and died February 12, 1813. 



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Hon. Leonard Keith, who was born in Daxbury, July 15, 1795, was a lead- 
ing man in Barre, where he resided until his death, January 21, 1868, and was 
many years justice of the peace, represented his town in the state legislature 
and his senatorial district in the Senate. In early life he engaged in the man- 
ufacture of woolen flannels, and in cloth-dressing and wool-carding. He 
also built the first starch factory in town, where all the farmers round about 
found a ready market for thousands of bushels of potatoes, and the product 
of starch yielded a large income to this enterprising manufacturer. In 
religion he affiliated with the Methodist church, and gave liberally for its sup- 
port, was a constant attendant, and the efficient superintendent of its Sab- 
bath-school. In 1824 he married Nancy B. Choate, who died in 1853. She 
was the mother of Orvis C, William H., and Elizabeth, none of whom are 
living. In 1858 he united in marriage with Susan S. Cook, who survives him. 
Cheney Keith, fourth son of Chapin, was born in January, 1798. He married 
Judith Wood, and was a leading man, and active and influential in the affairs 
of his town. He was well educated, industrious, and fairly successful in busi. 
ness. He died August 8, 1864. 

Calvin J. Keith, youngest son of Chapin, was born April 9, 1800. He 
commenced fitting for college at Randolph Academy in the spring of 1816, 
and in 1818 entered Union college, at Schenectady, N. Y., where he gradu- 
ated with honor in 1822. He was a private tutor in the family of a wealthy 
planter in Virginia a year or two. He returned to Montpelier and took up 
the study of law with Hon. W^illiam Upham, was admitted to the bar in 1826, 
and practiced his profession with Mr. Upham three or four years succeeding 
1830. He was secretary of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company 
a year or two, and successfully settled a large estate in St. Louis for a deceased 
brother of C. W. Storrs, of Montpelier, and a much larger one in New Orleans 
for one of the Elkins brothers, of Peacham, Vt. In 1852 he made the tour 
of Europe, returning to Montpelier in 1853, where he was attacked with brain 
fever, and died September 23. 

Rev. William Farwell, a missionary, organized the Universalist church in 
Barre, October 27, 1796. He came from Charlestown, N. H.,in 1803, settled 
in the southeast part of the town, and. was the first resident Universalist 
minister in Barre. He gave the church there much of his labor, and was a 
prominent factor in its growth ; but took long tours in missionary work in 
Vermont and other states. Mr. Farwell was a man of sterling worth, fervent 
piety, and was greatly loved, not only in his society, but by all who knew 
him. He died at the residence of his son, near his old home. His son 
Lemuel came to Barre with his father in 1803, married Patience Walker, and 
settled where his grandson, William Farwell, now lives. Their children were 
William, Enos W., Lemuel, Cynthia, Nancy, Patience, and Caroline. Will- 
iam married Rebecca, daughter of Jacob, Jr., and Katie (Taplin) Davis, who 
were the first couple married m Montpelier. Mr. Farwell was a very success- 
ful teacher, a man of talents and promising usefulness. He died of a malig- 



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nant abscess at the age of twenty-nine years. Only one of his three children 
lived to mature years, viz.: William, who was born in Barre, February 26, 
1829, and was thrice married. His first wife, Martha G. More, was the 
mother of his son George G., now in Oregon. His second wife was Orrilla 
White, of Calais, and the third was Janette Chamberlin, of East Montpelier. 
In 1862 he bought the old homestead, on which he now lives. Mr. Farwell 
has always been an energetic and industrious farmer. 

Zebedee Beckley and his wife, Elizabeth (Dix), emigrated to Weathersneld, 
Vt., from Weathersfield, Conn., about 1785, and settled at the foot of Ascut- 
ney Mountain. In 1803 they removed to Barre and located on the northeast 
lot of the town, which was then a wilderness. Here he made a home and 
spent the remainder of his life. Their children were Horace, Oramel, Samuel, 
Oran, and Luther. Horace settled near his father, on road i, where he re- 
mained until i860, when he removed to the place now owned by his son 
George I., and where he resided until his decease, in 1877, aged eighty-five 
years. He was thrice married. His first wife, and the mother of all his 
children, was Abigail Wellington. Their children are H. Wilson, Solomon 
W., Adaline, Matilda, D. Warren, Abba A., and George I. George I. mar- 
ried Helen E. Wolcott, and their children were Emory, George VV. (de- 
ceased), Georgia A., and one who died in infancy. Oramel, son of Zebedee, 
first settled in Barre, but later removed to Michigan, where he died. Samuel 
also married three times, raised a family, and died in Illinois. Oran married 
twice, had a family of six children, and always resided in Barre. Luther 
married Lovila Goodell, who was the mother of six children, five of whom 
are living, viz.: Viena (Mrs. David Boles), of Berlin; John li., who mar- 
ried Emma C. Batchelder, and has two children; Lizzie (Mrs. L. M. Averill) 
has one child ; Frank and Fred D. reside on the homestead. The latter 
married Ida Hooker, and has three children. Zebedee Beckley was a soldier 
in the Revolutionary war, and his son Horace served in the War of 18 12. 

Mrs. Lucy (Whitney) Wood, the centenarian of Barre, was born at Jaffrey, 
N. H., January 16, 1786, being one of a family of eleven children of Elias 
and Lucy (Barnes) Whitney. When she was an infant her parents moved to 
Sterling, Mass., and after nine years went to the adjoining town of Milford. 
There at the age of seventeen she married John Wood, a native of Milford, 
who died thirty years ago. In 1805 they moved to Barre, where she has 
since resided. She has been the mother of ten children, — six sons and four 
daughters, — of whom there are living three sons, and one daughter, Miss 
Sophia Wood, aged about seventy years, who resides with her mother. She 
has thirty two grandchildren, as many great-grandchildren, and several great- 
great-grandchildren, so that now she is the head of a family of five living 
generations. When she and her husband settled in Barre it was almost a 
wilderness. Mr. Wood and his wife had a horror of living in a log house, and 
with great difficulty procured sawed timber for their first home. One side of 
their abode was open, and as the old lady facetiously observed, afforded a 



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splendid opportunity for ventilation and the escape of smoke which the rude 
chimney failed to carry off. Mr. Wood erected a stone oven outside the 
house, and in this the cooking for the family was done. Mrs. Wood proudly 
declared that she did as good cooking in that oven as she had ever done 
subsequently in the most improved stoves and ranges. Mr. Wood, during 
the War of 1812, drove a team for the government between Wells River and 
Burlington, and on Mrs. Wood, therefore, in a great measure, devolved the 
care of the farm and family. Their house was twice burned, the last time 
during the absence of Mr. Wood on one of his trips ; and in saving an infant 
child from the burning structure, Mrs. Wood was severely burned on her 
hands and arms, the scars remaining to this day as reminders of her maternal 
devotion. Her hair was all burned from her head, so closely was she wrapped 
in the fiery embrace of the flames. This daughter died only a short time ago, 
aged seventy-three years. Mrs. Wood has been a hard-working woman all 
her life, and has never had a fever or other illness, except such as are inci- 
dent to the mother of a large family, and her health is now nearly perfect. 
She has had many thrilling incidents in her long life, especially during the 
early years of her residence in Barre. The country then abounded in game, 
and it was by no means an uncommon thing for her to have to cope with 
bears and other wild beasts, in the protection of her home and the stock on 
the farm. Her nerve never failed, and she invariably came out best in all 
such encounters. Though her life extends so far beyond the number of years 
allotted to mortals, she has not outlived her usefulness. She can thread fine 
needles without the aid of glasses, and has, since she was ninety, pieced up 
two bedquilts, the last one containing nearly 7,000 pieces. This she finished 
on her looth birthday. She still manages her household affairs, attends to 
buying the supplies, and handles the finances herself. Of this privilege she is 
very tenacious, and in her dealings she shows that her business acumen is 
not dulled by years. Her religious views are in accordance with the Metho- 
dist Episcopal church, of which she has been a staunch member ever since 
she settled in Barre. 

George Bradford Nichols, M. D., only child of Joel C. and Clarissa (Barnes) 
Nichols, was born in Montpelier (now East Montpelier), December 23, 1839. 
Until George B. was twenty years of age he remained at home, acquiring his 
early education at a private school in his native town. He attended Barre 
Academy until he graduated ; entered Dartmouth College in the summer of 
i860, and graduated in 1864. He graduated from Eastman Business Col- 
lege in 1865, and while there taught mathematics. In 1881 he entered Rush 
Medical College in Chicago, and graduated in the spring of 1883. In the 
summer following he came to Vermont, and in March, 1884, he moved to 
Barre, where he has built up an extensive practice. Dartmouth College, in 
1882, conferred on him the degree of A. M. November 19, 1866, he mar- 
ried Emma A., youngest daughter of Junius B. and Sarah (Holbrook) Davis, 
of East Montpelier. They have had three children, Myrtie E., who died in 
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childhood, Mortimer G. and Madine C, who are students at Goddard 
Seminary. 

Josiah Gale came to Barre from Warwick, Mass., in 1800, and moved into 
a log cabin on the farm where his grandson, Josiah Gale, now lives. His 
children were nearly full grown, and John, his only son, settled on the farm 
with his father. John Gale was twice married. December 9, 1802, he mar- 
ried Rebecca Boutwell. Their children were Betsey, Polly, Lyman, John, 
Hiram, Rebecca, Sullivan B., and Harriet, three of whom are now living 
(1888). September 12, 1820, he married Sally Taft, who was the mother of 
four children, two of whom are now living. Josiah, before mentioned, resides 
on the homestead. He married, first. Miss Ruth Wilson, who was the mother 
of John W. Gale, and, second, Ellen A. Hancock, who is the mother of one 
child, Nellie R. Ira L. Gale, son of John, resides in Barre village. He mar- 
ried Lydia M. Burrell, and they have an only child, Ida M. 

John and Dolly (Jones) Trow came to Barre in 1807, and settled where his 
son Dexter now lives. They came in early spring, and commenced house- 
keeping in a rough board cabin, which they repaired and occupied the en- 
suing ten years. They reared four sons, viz.: Nathan, Dexter, Luke, and 
Levi. Nathan married Maria Wheaton, who bore him five children, of whom 
John is the only one now living. Luke married Judith French, and Levi 
married Adaline Richardson. They had no issue. 

Dexter Trow, son of John and Dolly (Jones) Trow, was born on the farm 
where he now lives, in Barre, July 10, 1810. His house was built in 1818, 
and, as near as can now be ascertained, was the first house built of brick in 
Barre. Like other farmers' boys of that period, he had more days at hard 
labor than days at school. When he was allowed the luxury of attending the 
common school of his district at Gospel Village, as his father was an exten- 
sive farmer, he assisted in the care of their numerous live stock morning and 
evening, and made the journey of a mile and a half on foot to and from 
school. He remained on the farm and was a hard laborer with his father un- 
til he was thirty-two years of age, when, April 8, 1842, he united in marriage 
with Mary D., daughter of John and Sally (Doton) Chandler, who were early 
settlers in Barre. Mr. Chandler was a native of Kingston, Mass., and a mill- 
wright. Mrs. Chandler was a native of Pomfret, Vt., where they were mar- 
ried. After Dexter Trow was married his father justly rewarded him for his 
years of hard labor by deeding him the homestead and giving him the live 
stock. By his early acquired and continued habits of industry, economy, and 
sterling integrity, and also by his good judgment in making judicious invest- 
ments of his accumulations from time to time, he now ranks with the wealthy 
men of Barre. Mr. Trow has always been systematic in his labor and busi- 
ness, and " everything in order, and a place for everything, and everything in 
its place " is his motto. He has been a director of the Stafford Sz Holden 
Manufacturing Company most of the time since the erection of the new 
buildings after the fire of March 30, 1876, and now owns quite an amount of 





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its Stock. He also owns stock in the National Bank of Barre, and quite an 
amount of western bank stock, and has owned stock in several other Ver- 
mont banks. Mr. and Mrs. Trow are a genial and hospitable couple, and 
■cherish a love for the old home which has sheltered them almost half a cen- 
tury, and where they expect to pass the remainder of their days. Mr. Trow 
has never been so ill as to prevent him from attending to business, and now, 
at the age of seventy-seven years, is so well preserved that he retains much 
of the vigor of early manhood. He has been governed by correct principles 
in all his business transactions, and has built up an enviable reputation. He 
commands the respect of a large circle of acquaintance. The children of 
Mr. and Mrs. Trow are Adela (Mrs. John W. Averill), who resides in Barre 
is and the mother of seven children ; Emma S. (Mrs. James W. Averill), 
who resides in Michigan and is the mother of seven children ; Rosalind (Mrs. 
Byron W. Phelps), who resides in Barre ; and Edgar M., who married Miss 
Clara Richardson, of Orange, has one child, and also resides in Barre. 

Luther Taft and his wife, Deborah (Keith), with their children Amanda, 
Charles and Maria, came from Mendon, Mass., and settled on a lot of wild 
land in the eastern part of Barre, in 1807. The daughters are now living 
(1888). Charles married Cynthia Albee. His children are Emily M., born 
May 23, 1842, married Miles Morrison, and has two children; Joseph M., 
born August 20, 1844, married Ada E. Patterson; and Lyman A., born 
August I, 1848, married Eva Huntington. Maria married Merrill Albee, 
and has two children, Myra and Abbie. Myra married Clark Holden, and 
Abbie married Fred Marcy and lives near Beloit, Wis. 

Stillman Wood, son of Ezekiel and Judith (Baker) Wood, was born in 
Barre, December 6, 1808. His father died when Stillman was a small boy, 
leaving five children, only one of whom is now living. His minority was 
spent in assisting his mother on their farm (on which now is the cemetery), 
and in attendance at the district school, and later in teaching. Soon after 
attaining his majority he married Miss Harriet Clark and settled on a farm, 
which is now included in Clark Averill's. About 1840 he removed to Barre 
village, which then contained scarcely a score of dwellings, and engaged in 
tanning with his brother-in-law, Charles Clark. In 1857, in the evening of 
Freemen's day meetmg, his tannery and the hotel standing on the site of the 
residence of the late E. E. French, Esq., were destroyed by fire. In 1859, in 
company with N. A. Morse, he contracted with the town for the erection of the 
town hall. In 1864 he succeeded G. B. Putnam in the office of postmaster, 
and sale of drugs and notions, which he continued until 1877, when, conscious 
of the approaching infirmities of age, he resigned the office, and retired from 
business. In 1844 he was elected justice of the peace, and for about twenty 
years was the prominent trial justice of Barre. He also gave attention to 
military affairs and held commissions as lieutenant and captain. During the 
year 187 1 he published the Barre News, a monthly sheet, and the first paper 
published in the town. Mr. Wood was an earnest advocate of education, (a 



164 TOWN OF BARRE. 



trustee of the academy,) religion, Sabbath-schools, and the cause of temper- 
ance. He possessed a mind of intense activity, did not fear to investigate 
for himself, put on no man's opinions without, and, in short, he had a mind 
of his own. Mr. Wood married his second wife, Sarah Pinks, in 1875. A 
son, Henry Wood, Esq., of Boston, and a daughter, Mrs. R. B. Fowler, of 
Worcester, Mass.. are now living. 

Cyrus Barber and his wife came to Barre from Warwick, Mass., as near as 
can now be ascertained, in 18 10 or 1812, and settled on the farm with only 
three acres cleared, where his son Cyrus W., and grandson, Charles N. Barber, 
now live. In i860 he left this farm and moved to the village of Barre, where 
he resided until he died, in 1867, aged eighty-three years. Mr. Barber was 
twice married. His first wife, Caroline Bibcock, was the mother of eight 
children, only two of whom are living : Cyrus W. and Patience (Mrs. James 
Holden), in LeOrange, Wis. His second wife was Nancy Cook, of Greens- 
boro, Vt. His son Cyrus W. was born June 19, 1823, and has since resided 
in Barre with the exception of four years spent in Calais. Mr. Barber 
married Elvira Willey. Their children are Charles N., Edwin C, and Ella L., 
all of whom reside in Barre. 

David Weston Averill, son of Daniel and Polly (Weston) Averill, was born 
in Mt. Vernon, N. H. He married Submit French, and in 1810 came to 
Barre and located on a farm in the eastern part of the town. He cleared a 
patch of ground, built a log cabin, roofed it with bark, and returned to New 
Hampshire. Early the next spring he returned with his wife and one child. 
Mrs. Averill was composed of the right material for pioneer life, and worked 
with willing hands and hopeful heart with her industrious husband in making 
a home. Mr. Averill was one of the military company that started from 
Barre for Plattsburgh, N. Y., when it was invaded in the War of 181 2, and 
got only as far as Burlington. Of his large family of eleven children, only 
three are now living, viz.: Lovinia (Mrs. William Paine), of Manitowoc, Wis.; 
Sophronia (Mrs. Stratton Matoon) of Sheboygan, Mich.; and Ambrose B., 
who married Elizabeth, daughter of Orrin and Lucretia (Ball) Meaker, Sep- 
tember 10, 1850. Mr. Averill is a successful farmer, and has always been a 
resident of Barre. In 188 1 he moved to Barre village, where he has dealt 
in real estate, and built and sold about a dozen houses. He now owns several 
farms. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose B. Averill were Ella, who 
died in early childhood; Arthur C, born January 19, 1854, who married 
Stella C. Tilden, March 30, 188 r, resides in Barre, and their children are 
Alice, Nora, and Harvey E,; Charles W., born February 6, 1859, married 
Rose J. Carpenter, April 19, 1882, and has three children, Ivis M., Eula E., 
and an infant; Linly A., born May 13, 1861, married Frankie M. Bigelow, 
July 15, 1885, and has one child, Annie B.; Nora E., born August 21, 1866, 
died November 28, 1878 ; and Sarah P., born March 11, 1873, resides with 
her parents. Weston Averill, son of David W., was born in Barre, was a 
farmer, and spent his whole Ufe in his native town. He married Mercy Wil- 



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son. Of his seven children only John W. resides in Barre. John W. mar- 
ried Adela Trow, is a farmer, and the father of seven children. His brother 
David was killed in the war for the Union. 

Amaziah Peck came to VVildersburgh, now Barre, from Rhode Island, when 
there were only four or five families in the town. He had made a pitch on 
West hill, near the line of Berlin, the summer before, cleared a plot of ground 
and built a log cabin. In the latter part of the winter he left Rhode Island, 
or Rehoboth, Mass., with his wife, four children, and house furniture loaded 
on a stout sled, and drawn by a pair of steers and one horse, Mr. Peck was 
forty years of age when he came to Barre, and died at the age of sixty-six. 
He was an active and vigorous man, with a strong constitution, and applied 
himself closely to business. He met his death by inhaling poisonous gas. 
He had sent a lad to the bottom of his well to clean it, and from whom he 
received no answer from repeated calls. Mr. Peck descended mto the well 
to look after the boy, and met his fate as had the lad before. His estate set- 
tled for $13,000. His children were Hannah, Jonathan, Carpenter, Levi, 
Otis, Orinda, Lewis, and Charlotte. Otis always resided in Barre. He mar- 
ried Miss Sally Bailey, and their children are Austin, unmarried, who resides 
on the old homestead ; Jason, who married twice, first, Miss Martha Fuller, 
whe bore him one child, Martha F., and second, Selina Perkins, who was the 
mother of three children; Eliza (Mrs. James Thwing) was the mother of 
seven children ; Zebitha, unmarried, resides with her brother Austin, on the 
homestead ; Lutheria, who married Daniel E. Bassett ; Lacyra, who married 
A. J. Morse, and had six children ; Heman A., who married Keziah Nye, and 
has four children ; and Oregin O., who married, first, Susan E. Doty, and had 
one child, Heman E., and second, Minerva Morton, of Washoe, Nev. Oregin 
O. Peck has been a miner thirty years in California, Nevada, Washington 
Territory, and Idaho, and owns mines and real estate in Idaho, and at his 
home in Spokane Falls, W. T. 

Enos T. Fuller, son of Emory and Hannah (Towne) Fuller, was born in 
Barre, October 2, 1816. He was the third child in a family of twelve 
children. His parents were early settlers of Barre. His father was a team- 
ster, and drove a team of eight horses, without reins to guide them, and 
carried freight from Montpelier and Barre to Boston, and loaded with mer- 
chandise on the return trip. He also fitted horses for market. Enos T. 
commenced the trade of iron molder when twenty years of age, which has 
been principally the occupation of his life, and now at a little more than 
threescore and ten he is still engaged at his trade and has held his present 
situation seventeen years. Like his father before him he has always been an 
admirer of ^fine horses, always takes pride in owning a good one, and 
occasionally fits one for market. Mr. Fuller married Maryette Walker, and 
three of their six children are now living, viz.: Martha E. (Mrs. A. Patter- 
son), of South Barre; Aurora S. (Mrs. N. S. Robinson); and Edward E., 
a molder residing in Montpelier. 



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Francis Clark, with his wife, Mehitable (Gould), and two children, came ta 
Barre and located in the northeast part of the town at any early day. Eight 
children were afterwards born to them, two of whom are now living, viz.: 
Charles L. in Enfield, N. H., and William, now at the head of an educational 
institution in Florence, Italy. Francis, Jr., fifth child, married Nancy, daugh- 
ter of Capt. John Dodge, who bore him five children: Edward, Mary M., 
William, Elizabeth P., and George F., two of whom are living, viz.: Edward, 
who resides in Brattleboro, and is general agent for the Estey Organ Co.; and 
William, who enlisted, in July, 1862, in Co. B, toth Vt. Vols., and served three 
years. With the exception of the time spent in the army he has always 
resided in Barre. On account of chronic trouble resulting from his army life, 
he was obliged to retire from farming. In 1882 he reluctantly disposed of the 
old homestead, moved to Barre village, and engaged in floriculture and mar- 
ket gardening, at Fairview greenhouse on Clark avenue, corner of Prospect 
street. Mr. Clark married Emma H. Wheaton. 

Nathaniel Lawson came to Barre from New Salem, Mass., starting from 
there January i, 1800, with his wife, Deborah Clark, and two young children, 
making the entire trip with an ox- team. He located where his grandson, 
George W. Lawson, now lives. He rolled up a log cabin and roofed it with 
bark. There were two acres of timber felled on the lot at the time he set- 
tled here. His nearest neighbor was Stephen Everett, one and one-half 
miles distant. Mr. Lawson's wife bore him seven children, four of whom 
lived to maturity, viz.: Elisha C. and Deborah, born in Salem, Mass., and 
Nathaniel and Polly, born in this town. Mr, Lawson always resided where 
he located until his death, in February, 1845, aged seventy-seven years. Mrs. 
Lawson died in May, 1843, aged seventy-three years. D^^borah married 
Samuel Baker, and they had five children, four of whom are living, namely, 
Polly, who maried WiUiam Sherburne, and had two children ; Nathaniel, who 
married Abigail Howland, had no children, and is now living with George W., 
at the age of eighty-eight years; Elisha, who married Lucy T. Freeman, and 
had two children, viz.: George W., born June 18, 1831, who married Eva, 
daughter of John and Rhoda(Reed) Wheaton, March 28, 1887, and is an ex- 
tensive dairyman and breeder of registered and grade Jersey cattle, Morgan 
horses, and Yorkshire swine. He has always lived where he was born, on 
the farm settled by his grandfather, now called " Evergreen Square." 
Olive A., born October 26, 1826, resides with her brother George W. 

Leonard F. Aldrich. — The name Aldrich was originally spelled Aldridge ; 
and, according to " Burke's Landed Gentry," " The Aldridge family was from 
Uxbridge, Middlesex county, England, and inherited the estate of St. Leon- 
ard's Forest about 1750. This was originally royal property, is held under a 
grant from the Crown since the reign of Charles the First. John Aldridge 
was M. P. for Queensborough, from 1784 until 1790, and for Shoreham, from 
1790 to 1792, and was Storekeeper of the Ordnance. Arms : Vert, on a 
fess, between three garbs, or, a crown having two leaves issuant there 



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between two birds of the first, all within a bordure of the second, charged 
with eight pellets, and as many acorns alternately, ppr. Crest — an arm 
couped below the elbow, vested, or, charged with a bezant, the hand holding 
a quill, argent. Motto — Dirigo. Seat. St. Leonard's, Horsham, Sussex." 

Among the early families of Barre, that of Aldrich is a prominent one, their 
characteristics of independent thought, honesty, and industry making them 
important factors in the growth of the newly-settled town. This particular 
family, of which Leonard Frost Aldrich is a representative, emigrated from 
Smithfield, R. I., in 1765, to Richmond, N. H. They were of strong phy- 
sique and large stature. Levi, of Richmond, married into the Ballou family, 
of which the Rev. Hosea Ballou, the beloved Universalist clergyman, was a 
member. Sylvanus, son of Levi, was born in Richmond, N. H., October 
6, 1779. He learned the blacksmiths' trade, married Sarah Wheeler, and, in 
February, 1800, with his wife and two children, came to Barre, and located 
in the northeast corner of the town on the Jerry Batchelder place. Mr- 
Aldrich was accompanied by the father of the noted Daniel P. Thompson* 
Mr. Aldrich was a fine workman and mechanic. He manufactured mill-irons, 
scythes, plows, hoes, axes, cutlery, etc. His shop was the first which con- 
tained a trip-hannmer, and it is said that here he worked the first cast-steel 
wrought in Vermont. He excelled in his workmanship, and had the reputation 
of furnishing the best goods in his line in the country, and continued in 
active business up to the time of his death, March 29, 1850. Mr. Aldrich 
was a man of progressive thought and action, strong convictions and decided 
opinions ; an anti-slavery man, and a practical temperance reformer — inas- 
much as for over forty years he would not have a man in his employ who used 
tobacco or ardent spirits. In politics he was an old-time Whig; in religion an 
Universalist. In his family relations he was kind and affectionate ; with his 
neighbors and friends social and hospitable, enjoying much the "old-fashioned 
visitings and the old people's stories.'' Mrs. Aldrich was born in Holden, 
Mass., June 13, 1784, and died September 13, 1856. She was an energetic 
woman, a good disciplinarian of their large family, but quiet in demeanor, 
and of a deeply religious character, conforming to the Methodist faith, and 
a believer in the religion of love rather than of fea,r. Nine of Mr. Aldrich's 
children attained maturity. Stephen, born in 1798, moved to New Orleans, 
became an engineer, and was captain on a river steamer for many years, and 
afterwards was a member of the celebrated manufacturing firm, " Long, 
Aldrich & Smith" ; Levi, born in 1800, died aged seventeen ; Sylvanus, 
born in 1801, was a resident of Mexico for thirty years, acquired wealth, but 
returned to Barre, where he died in 1865 ; Sarah, born in 1804, died in 1828 ; 
Lydia, born in 1808, died in 1828; J. Wheeler, born in 1810, died in New 
Orleans at the age of thirty-three ; Freelove, born in 181 2 ; Lucy and Lewis 
B., born in 1814. Lucy died in infancy; Lewis in 1856, in New Orleans. 

Leonard Frost Aldrich, youngest child of Sylvanus and Sarah (Wheeler) 
rich, was born in Barre, June 9, 1823. He was educated at the district 



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and select schools, and the academy at Newbury. He also was educated in 
the school of labor, his father's shop offering him an opportunity to 
strengthen his muscles and develope his working powers. At the age of 
twenty-one he had a clerkship in the store of Orvis French. [This store was 
the building now the National bank, and was across the street from his 
father's shop, which occupied the site where the Aldrich block now stands.] 
Here he worked for Mr. French ten years, his indefatigable industry gaining 
for him a good name among business men. The succeeding ten years he was 
manager of the " Union (cooperative) store " in the same building, and under 
his skillful management this enterprise paid a premium to the stockholders 
(the only store of that character in the state which did). The shares at the 
beginning were $3 each; when it was closed the stockholders were paid $66. 
In i860 he made a Journey to Mexico, remaining about eight months. On 
his return in 1862 the excitement relative to the great Rebellion was moving 
the hearts of loyal, patriotic men, and Mr. Aldrich, by his own personal exer- 
tions, raised $725 when the Tenth Regiment was organized, for the twenty- 
seven men enlisted in the town, and in September of this year he enlisted in 
the Thirteenth Regiment, received the commission of quartermaster, and 
accompanied his regiment to Washington where they were placed in the de- 
fences of that city. After five months' service he was taken ill, discharged, 
and returned home, where he regained his health in the vigorous northern 
climate. For the next two years he was in the store of J. M. & G. C. French 
& Co. 

Mr. Aldrich has always been interested in educational work, and was one 
of the first donors and incorporators of the Barre Academy ; was long on its 
executive committte and generous in his support of that institution. At the 
time when the question of securing a seminary at Barre was agitated, he with 
others was instrumental in getting it located, and for two years devoted him- 
self to the supervising and construction of the seminary building, which is 
now such an attractive feature of the town. He went into the woods and 
selected the trees for the entire finishing, had them cut, drawn, and seasoned; 
(75,000 feet of ash and 30,000 feet of butternut were used). He also super- 
intended the making and burning of the brick, which were made on the place. 
He supervised the putting in the steam heating apparatus, which was the first 
introduced into this part of the state. During the time of building there was 
no public house in Barre, and Mr. Aldrich's house was the hotel for the 
builders and contractors. His home was that of his sister, Freelove, who was 
its valued mistress, and their work was a labor of love. They provided and 
made the entire furnishing for the seventy-five rooms. [A icw words in rela- 
tion to this worthy woman are in place here. Miss Freelove Aldrich is most 
remarkable for her industry, neatness, and order; and although at the present 
writing in her seventy-fifth year, the amount of fine sewing, embroidery, and 
other kinds of needle-work she accomplishes far exceeds that of much 
younger women, and she " worketh willingly with her hands."] The Aldrich 




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household comprises the brother and sister and a niece, and is a most com- 
fortable and pleasant home. 

In the public welfare of Barre Mr. Aldrich has done his part faithfully. 
When the Orange County bank was removed from Chelsea, and establised 
at Barre, in 1873, he was on the first board of directors, and is now the only 
one remaining of the original board. In i88o he was made its president, and 
from its organization he has devoted his time to its interests. Republican in 
his politics, he represented Birre in 1859-60 ; has served as justice of the 
peace and other town offices. He has been from the age of ten years identi- 
fied with the temperance cause, and has done much to advance and promul- 
gate its principles. He served as temperance county commissioner for 187 1- 
72. He is like his father, — strong and positive in his convictions, temperate 
in all things, never using tobacco, and never drank a drop of liquor, or any- 
thmg sold over a bar; his personal habits are excellent, and his robust 
physique and clear, healthful complexion are the result. Universalist in his 
religious belief, he has been treasurer of the society of that faith, and trustee 
of Goddard Seminary, and its treasurer for the last nine years. 

Mr. Aldrich has been successful financially, owns much real estate, and his 
prosperity is the reward of well-directed efforts. Trained in the school of 
experience and labor, his judgment of men is practical and seldom misleads 
him. Self-reliant, systematic, tenacious of his rights, a marked individuality 
are among his prominent characteristics. The example of such men should 
be recorded as an incentive to young men to follow, who would gain esteem, 
confidence, and a high place in the community. 

William Bassett, originally from Massachusetts, came to Barre from Pomfret, 
Windsor county, about i8ir. In his early life he was a sailor on a mer- 
chant trader plying between Boston and the West Indies. He first settled 
in the eastern part of the town, and later removed to Gospel Village, where 
his grandson, C. H. Bassett, now lives, and where he died. He married 
Lucy Russell, who purchased her wedding trousseau with funds she had 
earned at housework at fifty cents per week. Their children were William, 
Jr., Lucy, Ira, George W., and Merrill. Ira is a natural mechanic and musi- 
cian, and resides in Chicago. Without mstruction he has made three pipe 
organs. One of them is still in use in the Congregational church and another 
in the Methodist church of Barre. George W. read law in the office of L. B. 
Wheelock, Esq., and has practiced in the courts of the state, but is not a 
member of the bar. Merrill married Mary Keene, of Penobscot, Me., and 
now resides in Augusta, Me. Their children are C. H. Bassett, before men- 
tioned, who married Mary Beckley ; Gerald, who was killed by the acci- 
dental discharge of a gun in the hands of a companion ; Calvij^ who married 
Mary J. Prescott, and is a farmer on road 41 ; and Amanda (Mrs. Chester 
H. Beckley), who resides in Orange, Orange county. 

Justus Ketchum, son of Roger W., was born in Athol, Mass., and came to 
Barre with his grandfather, Justus, in 1815. His father, Roger'W., had pre- 



170 TOWN OF BARRE. 



ceded him in town five or six years. His grandfather purchased the farm 
where Mr. Ketchum now lives, and with who n he lived until the decease of 
the former. Mr. Ketchum then settled the claims of the other heirs and 
retained the homestead, where he has lived seventy-three consecutive years. 
He is now eighty-nine years of age, and the oldest man in Barre. January 
6, 1820, he married Miss Lydia Dod^e, who died December 4, 1874, aged 
seventy-five years. Four of their five children grew to maturity and married, 
viz.: Caroline (Mrs. Charles Q. Reed), who is the mother of three children, 
and resides in Birre; Loren (deceased), who married Martha Cook, and 
was the father of five children ; Justus N., who married Leonora Bradford, 
and has three children ; and Henry C, who married Lucilla French, and 
was the father of four children. 

Stephen Morrison was born in Windham, N. H., in 1788 or 1789. He left 
home at the age of eighteen years, and resided the ensuing seven years in 
Salem and Danvers, Mass. In 18 12 he married Eurydice Earle, of this town. 
About 1 8 16 Mr. Morrison bought the farm of Oliver Earle, his wife's father, 
and removed to it from Concord, Essex county, and here he resided the 
ensuing forty-three years. He then went to Chicago and resided with his 
daughter, Mrs. L. B. Walker, several years, but eventually had a home with 
his son Stephen, in Saugatuck, Mich., where he died in November, 1884, 
aged ninety-seven years. Mrs. Morrison died October 27, 1867. Their chil- 
dren were Stephen A., a prominent business man of Saugatuck, Mich.- Samuel, 
who died in Topeka, Kan.; Cyrus, who died in childhood ; Miles, who 
resides on the old homestead; Martha, who died, aged twenty-three years; 
and Myra (Mrs. L. B. Walker), of Chicago. Miles Morrison is a successful 
farmer, and has accumulated a fine estate in rearing live stock and dairying. 
He now has a fine flock of more than 300 sheep. Mr. Morrison is a staunch 
Democrat in a strong Republican town, but such is his popularity and 
ability that he has been selectman, lister, and justice of the peace many 
terms. He married, first. Miss Sabrina Gale, who was the mother of 
M. Eugene, now employed in the office of the C, R. I. & P. R. R. Co., in 
Chicago, and John Gale, of the firm of Rawson & Morrison, manufacturers 
of portable and stationary steam engines and machinery, and dealers in 
boilers, etc. He is also of the firms of Morrison & Fitts, dry goods, and 
G. J. Towne & Co., grocers, of Barre. His second wife, Mary Taft, is the 
mother of his children Maud M. and Merle M. 

Webber Tilden, son of Leonard and Phebe Tilden, was born in Williams- 
town, Orange county, January 6, 1804. At the age of twenty years his 
father gave him his time. He worked at brickmaking the ensuing two 
seasons, at Springfield. For several years he was engaged in the manufacture 
of stoves and tinware at South Barre, with his brothers Lester and Harvey. 
Their buildings were burned, Lester retired from the firm, and Dennis 
became a member. A few years later Webber and Dennis purchased Harvey's 
interest and have continued in company since, but neither of them are in active 



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business at present. Now at the age of eighty-three years he is reraarkably 
well preserved. Webber Tilden married, first, Nancy Patterson, of Barre, 
who was the mother of three children, only one of whom, Calista (Mrs. C. W. 
Hall), is living. His second wife, Abbie W. Cushman, of Randolph, was the 
mother of his children Ella C, Phebe C, and Frank W., all of whom are 
living. 

Dennis Tiiden, the twelfth child of Leonard and Phebe Tilden, who 
were early settlers in Williamstown, was born October 12, 182 1. ^ In 1829 
his father moved to Ba.rre, where he died in November, 1848. Dennis 
Tilden, when sixteen years of age, commenced an apprenticeship with a tin- 
smith, and continued it five years. He then learned iron molding and con- 
ducted a foundry at South Barre several years, until his works were destroyed 
by fire. He was associated in business with his brothers Webber and the late 
Judge Harvey. Soon after the fire he purchased the foundry at Factory 
Village and made extensive repairs and additions, and continued in the busi- 
ness eighteen or twenty years. He also carried on wool-carding with his 
brother Webber from 1855 until 1885. He has now retired from business. 
January 17, 1849, he married Mary A. Walker. Their only child, Carrie A. 
(Mrs. Frank H. Carleton), of Boston, died February 8, 1885, and left three 
little daughters. 

A. M, Jackman was born in Corinth, Orange county, and came to Barre 
in 1830, at the age of seventeen years, and learned the trade of wool-carding 
and cloth-dressing. In 1836 he bought the mills of his employer, and con- 
ducted the business alone, until his mills were destroyed by fire in 1853, and 
were never rebuilt. With the exception of the minister, lawyer, and 
doctor, all the people then wore " homespun " clothing, spun, woven, and 
made "to fit" by the deft hands of the industrious housewives and their 
daughters. Mr. Jackman has seen an entire change in the population 
of Barre since he came in 1830. He and one other are all that now 
remain. At that time the South village was the location of the postoffice 
and the center of business. He has taken an active interest in town and 
county affairs, and has had a long and busy official career. He has been deputy 
sheriff twenty years, and is now acting in that capacity (1888). He was 
sheriff of Washington county a term of two years, and was also justice of the 
peace and constable. Mr. Jackman has been interested in the welfare of 
Barre, and has been one of its reliable citizens nearly threescore years. Over 
fifty years ago, April 11, 1837, he was united in marriage with Miss Christina 
French, of Barre, and they now reside at their pleasant home on North Main 
street. Their five children were Eva J., Orvis F., deceased, John M., George 
W., and Charlie E., who died at an early age. 

Capt. Albert F. Dodge was born in Barre, September 23, 1833. At the 
age of twenty-three years he enlisted as a private in Co. B, loth Regt. Vt. 
Vols., and left the state a corporal. He was sergeant February 19, 1863, 
and for meritorious conduct was promoted to the oflfice of captain in the 39th 



172 TOWN OF BARRE. 



Regl. U. S. Colored Troops. He remained in command of his company 
until disbanded at Wilmington, N. C, December 4, 1865. He returned from 
the war, married Miss Laura Bacon, and settled in Barre^ where he now lives. 
They have two sons, Frank E. and Oramel J. Mr. Dodge is a carpenter and 
joiner. 

Ozias H. Thompson, son of Hiram and Lovinia Thompson, was born in 
Plainfield, March 21, 1833. Mr. Thompson married Diana S. Lamson, 
February 25, 1855, ^'^'-^ resided in Plainfield until 1861, when, in July, he 
enlisted in the array for the Union and served his country the next four 
years, and was engaged in twenty-four battles and several skirmishes. Mr. 
Thompson had charge of the line when private William Scott was detailed 
for sentinel duty and found sleeping at his post, court-martialed, and sentenced 
to be shot. Mr. Thompson prevailed upon the chaplain to visit the Presi- 
dent, and he was successful in gaining a reprieve for poor Scott. Scott was 
afterwards shot while crossing the river at Yorktown ; and Mr. Thompson, on 
seeing him fall, sprang into the river and caught him in his arms, and 
succeeded in bringing his lifeless comrade to the shore, although the shower 
of the enemy's bullets made the water boil like a kettle. Mr. Thompson 
escaped unhurt with a number of bullet-holes in his clothes. 

Eli Holden was born in Barre, December 21, 1834. His father, Ira, was 
a substantial farmer, honored by his fellow-citizens by election to various 
town ofifices, and chosen as their representative in the state legislature. His 
mother's maiden name was Abigail Wates. His early years were passed in 
laboring on the farm with his father during the summer, and his education, 
with the exception of a few terms at the academy, was acquired at the 
district school. After attaining his majority he went West, there remained 
several years, then returned to Vermont, and engaged as a laborer in the 
woolen factory at Gouldsville, where he was employed when the war broke 
out in 1861. He was one of the first to respond to the call for volunteers, 
and after serving three months in the ist Vt. Regt., raised under the Presi- 
dent's call, he reenlisted in Co. C, ist Vt. Cavalry, and served as drill- 
master of the company until mustered into service. He was, on the organi- 
zation of the company, elected ist sergeant, and on the organization of the 
regiment his captain was chosen major, and he was elected 2d lieutenant and 
afterwards promoted to ist lieutenant. September 25, 1863, while engaged 
with a party of Moosby's command, he was taken prisoner and sent to Libby 
prison ; afterwards transferred to Danville, Macon, and Columbia. While at 
Columbia he and a party of others bribed a guard, by the payment of fifteen 
dollars each in Confederate money, to allow them to escape ; but after wan- 
dering for a week in the country they were recaptured, and he remained a 
prisoner until the spring of 1865, when he was parolled, and the 15th of March 
was mustered out of service, and returned to Barre. He purchased the farm 
on which his father had resided, and which had been settled by his grand- 
father, and where he now resides. He has been chosen by his townsmen 



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to various positions of responsibility and trust, and represented them in the 
state legislature. Lieutenant Holden was the only Barre boy who enlisted 
under Lincoln's first call for troops. He united in marriage with Miss Lucy 
Howard, of Barre. 

Warren C. Nye, son of Flavel and Aurelia Nye, was born in Orange, Orange 
county, June 2, 1838. His parents moved to Barre when he was four years 
old. By his course of honest dealing, and for his sound judgment, he has been 
appointed executor or administrator of about fifty estates ; and although he is 
quite an extensive farmer, he gives a large share of his time to the settlement 
of estates and official business. He has served the town as selectman, lister, 
grand juror, overseer of the poor fourteen years, and justice of the peace 
about ten years. Mr. Nye has been twice married. His first wife, Nancy 
(Abbott) Wheaton, was the mother of his children Arthur W., May W., and 
George S. He married, second, Mrs. Lydia Smith, of Northfield. 

Amos E. Bigelow, M. D., son of Asa and Annie (Payne) Bigelow, was born 
in Brookfield, Orange county, February 23, 1819. Dr. Bigelow acquired his 
preparatory education in the district schools of his native town, at Thetford 
Academy, and at Randolph Center. He was a student of Dr. Horace Smith, 
of Brookfield ; attended Dartmouth Medical school at Hanover. N. H.; and 
graduated from the Vermont Medical school at Woodstock, in June, 1845. 
In the following August he came to Barre, where he has since been in con- 
tinual practice. August 25, 1863, he married Nancy M. Richardson, of 
Barre, who died December 15, 1871, aged thirty-six years. They had but 
one child, Frankie M., who married Linly A. Averill, who has one child and 
lives in Barre. 

Col. Samuel Fifield was a native of Hopkinton, N. H., and early in his 
life went to Norwich, Vt., where he remained a few years. Such was his in- 
dustry and economy that he walked twice daily two miles and returned to 
ring the church bell, receiving therefor the sum of $12 per year. March 2, 
1797, he united in marriage with Sarah Davis, of Norwich, and immediately 
settled in Orange, Orange county. His employer. Major Murdock, and 
others, contributed an outfit of a horse, sled, and a few house goods that en- 
abled them to " keep house " in their home in the woods, to which they 
wended their way thus equipped, guided by "blazed" trees. They were 
among the first pioneers of Orange, and at once commenced a successful ca- 
reer. Mr. Fifield gave his attention to trading and land speculations, and 
amassed a large fortune for his day. He gave some attention to military 
affairs, and rose to the rank of colonel ; hence his title. His brother, Col. 
Edward Fifield, of Wheelock, presented him a fine saddle-horse which he 
delighted to ride on all occasions of military parade, and which he rode at 
the battle of Plattsburgh, N. Y. A revengeful neighbor sought to deprive 
him of the use of his favorite charger, at an annual muster and parade, by 
cutting off one-half of one ear of the horse. Col. Fifield made matters even 
by cutting off the remaining ear to match, and rode him on that occasion and. 



174 TOWN OF BARRE. 



at subsequent parades. Thus the " war horse " gained the sobriquet of 
"Crop Ear." Col. Fifield, at his death, left an estate valued at about $20,000, 
consisting of a well-stocked store and a large land property. His real estate 
of 140 acres, in Barre, is now covered by that part of the village lying north 
of Main and between Church street and the residence of Mrs. Anette Wheel- 
ock. The only building then on the property is the one now occupied by 
the National bank, which has since been so much enlarged and remodeled 
that it exhibits but little of its original style. Col. Fifield never mingled in 
poHtics, but chose rather to give his attention and energies to his large busi- 
ness. He certainly possessed a very comprehensive business mind, and ac- 
complished much in his quite short business career. The great wonder is 
that with such a beginning he succeeded so well and accomplished so much. 
He died May 31, 1824, aged fifty-six years. Of his large family only two 
sons and a daughter are now living, viz.: Col. Orange Fifield, of Montpelier, 
Hon. Horace Fifield, of Barre, and Mrs. Randall Gale, of Orange. 

Hon. Horace Fifield was born in Orange, Orange county, February i, 1807. 
His boyhood was not unlike that of other boys of that period, and was spent 
at home until he was fifteen years of age. Having heard from his neighbors' 
sons who had visited Boston, some interesting accounts of that city, he con- 
ceived the idea that he would visit the " Hub," and communicated his inten- 
tions to his mother, but not to his father, fearing his opposition to the plan. 
His mother gave him her aid in the matter, and just before his preparations 
for the journey were completed, the project was laid before his father, who 
gave him permission to go. In Boston he at once secured the position of 
coach-boy in the employ of a brother of Dr. Parkman, who was murdered by 
Prof. Webster. He saved his earnings, and returned to his home in the fall, 
the proud possessor of $72 in silver tied up securely in his pocket handker- 
chief. His father's death, which occurred when he was but seventeen years 
of age. and the force of circumstances in which he and the family were then 
placed, changed his predetermined plans for a thorough school course. He 
had even packed his trunk and engaged passage to Montpelier, where he 
mtended to enter school. His brother Orange, m the meantime, saw the 
driver of the old stage coach, and informed him that Horace would not go, 
and he was left at home. Thus, by this little circumstance, his plans for a 
life time were all changed. Before the close of that day he had purchased 
the interst of all the other heirs to the homestead, and incurred the further 
obligation to give a home to his mother and four sisters, which duty he faith- 
fully performed. His mother died in 1844. Besides giving his attention to 
his farm, he was an extensive dealer in live stock, which he drove to Brighton 
market. He also had a contract to furnish beef and mutton for several regi- 
ments of soldiers in Montreal, and for twenty-eight consecutive winters he 
fattened and slaughtered large numbers of beef cattle and sheep, and sent 
them, frozen, to Montreal and Boston. In this extensive trade some seasons 
he slaughtered 4,000 sheep, and large numbers of beef cattle. 




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In 1868 Mr. Fifield sold the old homestead in Orange and removed to 
Barre, and thus severed his connections with the town — the first sixty-one 
yearsof his active, industrious, and enterprising life. Mr. Fifield went to Barre, 
as he says, "to take life easy." But his active mind and industrious habits 
would not allow him to rest or rust, and the following season found him again 
in an extensive business, dealing in agricultural implements, grass seed, wool, 
and buying and shipping large amounts of maple sugar. And now, at the 
great age of eighty-one years, he has the vitality and force of a man of but 
sixty, and is still actively engaged in dealing with his numerous old customers, 
the farmers, and others. Mr. Fifield has a considerable interest in the bank 
of Barre, and is the chairman of the board of directors of the Stafford & 
Holden Manufacturing Co., and was its president several years. 

Mr. Fifield is a staunch old-school Jacksonian Democrat, but has given his 
attention to the good of the town rather than to the party. In 1841 and 1842 
he represented his native town in the popular branch of the state legislature, 
and was senator of his district in 1845 and 1846. Among his associate sen- 
ators were Judge Vilas, Judge Kidder, and Judge Blodgett. When Mr. 
Fifield became a citizen of Barre he became thoroughly identified with all its 
interests. He advocated the building of the Barre railroad from the first 
inception to the final completion of this important enterprise. He was a 
co-worker with that eminent educator, Dr. Spaulding, in the interests of Barre 
Academy, and after his death the chairman of the board of trustees. He has 
always been a zealous advocate of temperance, and gives his time, influence, 
and money to all the genuine reforms and the building up of the educational 
and moral interests of Barre. 

December 3, 1835, M^- Fifield united in marriage with Hester A., daughter 
of Rev. Zadoc and Abigail Hubbard, of Barre, and their union has been 
blessed with three sons and five daughters, viz.: (i) Jennie S., born October 
17, 1836, married, October 29. 1881, S. E. Howe, Esq., who is station 
agent for the Central Vermont railroad at Montpelier ; (2) Helen M., born 
July 17, 1838, married William M. Hurlburt, of Winona, Minn., January 16, 
1866, and died August 20, 1885, and left one child, Abbie E.; (3) Abbie I., 
born March 14, 1840, married Henny Safford, of Springfield, Vt., December 

27, 1865, died April i, 1870, leaving one child, Helen T.; (4) a son, born 
October 20, 1842, died at birth; (5) Hester, born December 10, 1843, mar- 
ried Victor Richardson, of Corinth, Vt., June 10, 1869, and has one son, 
Horace A., now a clerk in Barre postoffice ; (6) Ella M., born May 7, 1846, mar- 
ried, April 9, 1879, J. W. Hosmer, of Chicago, 111.; (7) George H., born May 

28, 1849, married, January i, 1872, Emma Wheeler, of Winona, Minn. 
Their children are Frank H., Ella, and Edna. George H. Fifield owns an ex- 
tensive stock farm and is a large dealer in milk. He resides three miles from 
Winona city. (8) DeWitt Clinton, born October 13, 1852, died in Winona, 
unmarried, October 7, 1878. 



176 TOWN OF BARRE. 



Richard Sawyer Currier, the subject of this sketch, was born in Orange, 
Orange county, June 22, 1803. His father, Rev. Ezekiel Currier, was born 
June 19, 1773, and immigrated from Hampstead, N. H., and purchased a 
tract of land near East Orange, of John Porter, one of the original grantees 
of the township, and gave the horse with which he had made the journey together 
with the saddle and saddle-bags in payment. On this place he established a 
home where all but two of his eleven children were born. Rev. Ezekiel 
Currier was a circuit preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in the 
itineracy traveled over much of Eastern Vermont. He died September 27, 
1851. His wife, Hannah (Sawyer) Currier, died many years earlier. Their 
children were John, Hannah, Betsey, Nancy, Richard S., Lurinda, Sabin, 
Susan, Newel S., Filura, and James M. 

When Richard S. Currier was but eleven years of age he had the great 
misfortune to lose his mother, and he was called to assist in the management 
and rearing of this large family. This care matured him early, and developed 
his judgment far in advance of his years, but contributed greatly to his suc- 
cess in after life. He generously devoted his time and energies, until he was 
nearly thirty years of age, to the aid of his father and younger brothers and 
sisters, and taught district schools in the winters. January 31, 1833, he 
united in marriage with Miss Fanny B. Pratt, a lady several years his junior, 
and of rare personal beauty, whose unusual business capacity and persever- 
ing industry contributed largely to Mr. Currier's success through life. 

After the next four years spent on his father's farm he removed to Wash- 
ington, but in the near neighborhood of the old home, where he spent six- 
teen years in successful farming and dealing in real estate, quite extensively 
in live stock, farm produce, and lumber, and also operated a mill. In 1853 
he disposed of his real estate in Washington and removed to Barre, for the 
purpose of giving his children all the educational advantages afforded by 
Barre Academy. His purchase in Barre was the '• Ripley farm," now Currier 
park, where he resided the remainder of his life. In politics Mr. Currier was 
a Republican, but not an office seeker. He was active in all the real inter- 
ests for the good of the public, and his good common sense, sound judgment, 
and honesty made him a safe advisor, and an essential advantage to his town- 
He despised pomp and show and hated shams. His analytical mind traced 
causes to their legitimate effects, and enabled him to forecast events likely to 
follow. Mr. Currier was thorough in all things, and a champion for right 
and when he had decided on a course of action he was not easily turned 
aside. Waste of time, talents, or property he abhorred, and he desired to 
turn everything to the best possible advantage of his community and the 
whole world. And consequently his benefits, not few nor small, were be- 
stowed in a way to help men to help themselves. He was bold and self- 
reliant in his own business, but reluctant in assumming responsibilities for 
others. Mr. Currier was a devoted husband and an indulgent father, but 
insisted on receiving the loving obedience of his children, and considered it a 



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most important duty to so instruct his children in early life as to insure to 
them a fair prospect of success and happiness. This is the testimony of one 
of them : "We were taught that an untruth was never to be excused or 
palliated, hardly to be forgiven." Mr. Currier served as the efficient treas- 
urer of Barre Academy, and gave to its financial interests the same faithful 
attention that he did to his own affairs. He foresaw that Barre's granite 
would make the town rich, and often said his farm would ultimately be cov- 
ered with d.vellings. He died in Barre, June 9, 1875. ^^s- Currier still 
survives. Their children are (i) Caroline Fidelia, born December 23, 1833^ 
married Stedman C. Chubb, August 14, 1856, (a sketch of whom appears 
elsewhere in this work). (2) Charles L., born August 25, 1836, married Ce- 
linda Dickey, March 30, 1858, and settled in Hardwick, Caledonia county,, 
where he remained until 1874, when he returned to Barre. Their childreni 
are Richard S., born May 15, 1859, was educated at Barre Academy and 
Dartmouth College, graduated in the class of 1885, is a merchant in Barre, 
married Miss Julia A. McCarty, November 27, 1886, and has a son, George 
R. ; Fannie E., born March 3, 1862, graduated at Barre Academy in 1881, 
married John W. Connell, December 26, 1885, and has one child, John V. ; 
Laura E., born June i6, 1866, graduated at Barre Academy in 1885; and 
Charles S., born December 16, 1867, graduated at Barre Academy and is now 
a student at Dartniouth College, class of 1890. (3) Fannie E., born October 
3, 1847, married George F. Commings, October 12, 1874, and has six chil- 
dren, Mary, Alice, Ellen, Benjamin, Fannie, and George, and lives in St. 
Joseph, Mich. (4) Ella V., born October 2, 1851, married Gilbert Hutchin- 
son, July 22, 1870, has two children, Arthur and Chattie Fidelia, and also 
lives in St. Joseph, Mich. 

Charles Templeton was born in East Montpelier, October 10, 1822, where 
he resided, with the exception of three years, until 1867. He was three years 
in Wisconsin dealing in wheat and flour. He has since dealt extensively in 
real estate, and superintended the sinking of an oil well, for a company of which 
he was a member, in Petrolia, Canada West, and which was a success. He 
came to look after his landed property in Barre village, where he now lives. 
His tract in Barre was the lands now occupied by nearly all the granite cut- 
ting firms, besides thirty house lots. At the time Goddard Seminary was built, 
besides contributing liberally, he served on the executive committee, gave 
most of his time for three years to its completion, and still is interested in the 
success of the institution, and is yet one of its executive committee. He is 
vice-president of the Ansable Granite Co., of Keeseville, N. Y., a director of 
the National Bank of Barre, and owns quite an amount of real estate in farms. 
Mr. Templeton has been married twice. His first wife, Lucy L. Bassett, of 
East Montpelier, died in 1848. His second wife, Mary J. Copeland, was 
the daughter of Rev. E. Copeland, and the mother of his daughters Jennie 
L. and Mary E., who reside with their father at 160 North Main street. Mrs. 
Templeton died June 25, 1882. 
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John Henry Jackson, the subject of this sketch, is a descendant of James 
Jackson, an EngHshman and a tory who came to this country in early h^e 
and died in Petersham, Mass., in 18 10, at the age of eighty years. He was 
the father of ten children — two sons and eight daughters. John Jackson, the 
younger of the two sons, was born July 16, 1771; graduated from Dart- 
mouth College in 1792 ; was ordained pastor of the Congregational church 
in Gill, Mass., January 10, 1798; and, February 27th, of the same year, 
married Rebecca Rodgers, of New Ipswich, Mass., a descendant of John 
Rodgers the martyr. In 181 2 he removed from Gill to Stukely, " Lower 
Canada," and in 18 r 5 settled in Brome of the same province, where he died 
March 18, 1844, For nearly thirty years he was an active missionary in that 
region, at the same time performing the duties of a justice of the peace. 
To this day his memory is revered in scores of homes in Brome and vicinity 
for his devotion and sacrifices to estabUsh the Redeemer's kingdom. When 
the Congregational church was organized in Brome, after years of toil and 
sacrifices for this object, he is reported to have said, as one of old, " Lord, 
now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." Of his five sons and three 
daughters but one son is living, the father of Dr. Jackson. 

Horatio Nelson Jackson was born March 5, 1810. He married Eliza 
Maria HoUister, July 15, 1833, and lived in Brome for the next thirty-seven 
years. Mr. Jackson was made a justice of the peace soon after his father's 
death, and held the office till his removal to Montreal, in 1870, where he still 
resides. Mrs. Jackson's life was a beautiful one, showing all the fullness 
and fervor of a strong Christian character combined with the strength and 
ability of a cultivated scholar. She sweetly " fell asleep " April 14, 1881. 
Three sons were left to rejoice in the memory of so blessed a mother. The 
eldest, Joseph Addison Jackson, M. D., a graduate of McGill College, has 
been a successful physician and surgeon in Lawrenceville, N. Y., and in 
Manchester, N. H. The second son, Rev. Samuel Nelson Jackson, M. D., 
is pastor of the First Congregational church in Kingston, Ontario, and lec- 
turer in the Congregational College of British North America, Montreal. 
Previous to his present charge he held pulpits in Montreal and Toronto. In 
addition to pulpit and parish work he was for years editor of the Canadian 
Independent and of the Cafiadian Year Book. He was secretary of the 
missionary society of the denomination for four years and now holds the posi- 
tion of treasurer. 

John Henry Jackson, M. D., the youngest son, subject of this sketch, was 
born in Brome, Province of Quebec, April 19, 1844. He, as his brothers, 
received an academic education under Dr. Spaulding, graduating from Barre 
Academy in 1862 and from the Medical department of the University of Ver- 
mont in 1865, also receiving the honorary degree of Master of Arts from 
the latter institution in 1882. He began his professional career in Stock- 
holm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., in 1865. June 24, 1867, he married Anna 
Dutton Wells, of Brasher Falls, N. Y., who died November 29, 1868. In 




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1869, December 34th, he married Cora A. Wood, and removed to Barre 
December 30, 1870, where he continues to reside. 

Dr. Jackson's early career in Barre was beset with more than the usual dif- 
ficulties and obstacle^ in the way of a young physician, but by sheer force of 
merit he has gained the foremost position and practice of his town, together 
with a name for professional skill and scholarly attainments that reaches be- 
yond the state. In these years of increasing professional duties he has, never- 
theless, devoted himself to the advancement of the religious, educational, and 
material interests of the community. He joined the Congregational church 
of Brome at an early age, and became an active member of the Barre Con- 
gregational church on making this place his home. From 1873 to 1875 he 
was superintendent of the Sunday-school, and for many years was a member 
of the executive committee of the society; in this position he was largely 
instrumental in maturing the plans and bringing to successful completion the 
extensive remodeling of the church in the years 1885-87. Dr. Jackson was 
elected superintendent of public schools m 1 88 r-82. For many years he was a 
trustee and treasurer of Barre Academy. It was due to his untiring industry 
that the beautiful monument to Dr. and Mrs. Spaulding, in Barre cemetery, was 
erected, through the contributions he secured from students to whom the mem- 
ories of their loved teacher and friend are precious. Dr. Jackson was elected 
representative to the Vermont legislature in 1878-79, and has always main- 
tained a lively interest in the prosperity of the town. It was due to his per- 
sonal oversight and watchfulness that the bills granting the village charter 
and incorporating the Barre water works passed the legislature of 1886. He 
was elected the first bailift" of the village under the charter, but was compelled 
to decline on account of other duties, though he retains the position of presi- 
dent of the water works company. Among the secret and benevolent orders 
Dr. Jackson is claimed as a member of the I. O. O. F., Clan Gordon of O. 
S. C, and is prominent in the Masonic circles of New England. He was 
master of Granite Lodge several years, and district deputy five years. At the 
annual session of the Supreme Council, S. G. I. G. N. M. J., held in Boston, 
Mass., September 18, 1888, "The 33d and last degree was conferred upon 
him in full form, and he was received, welcomed, and proclaimed S. G. I. G. 
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and enrolled as an honorary mem- 
ber of the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction." 

In 188 r, as president of the Vermont State Medical society, he addressed 
the medical students of the University of Vermontj and the following year 
was elected professor of physiology in that institution. Each year has but 
added to the popularity which he gained through his first course of clear, 
scholarly, and eloquent lectures in 1882. The success attending his practice 
at home, together with his popularity in the medical college, where his skill 
and scholarship are recognized and honored, have brought him many flatter- 
ing invitations to remove to larger fields, but we are glad to see in the erec- 
tion of his beautiful home on South Main street, which now engages his atten- 



l8o TOWN OF BARRE. 



tion, the evidence that he intends to remain in the field, where the difficulties 
of his life and profession have been mastered, and where his skill and learn- 
ing are meeting their reward. 

Andrew E. Field, M. D., son of Alpheus and Rhoda (Emerson) Field, 
was born in Berlin, December 21, 1820. Until he was twenty years old he 
attended school and worked at farming. He was a student at Thetford 
Academy and the old Washington County Grammar school at Montpelier. 
He studied medicine with Dr. Orren Smith, of Berlin, attended medical 
college at Woodstock, and graduated at Dartmonth Medical College in 1845. 
He located in Orange, Orange county, where he practiced about five years. 
He then purchased the practice of Dr. Braley, of Washington, and removed 
to that town, where he practiced until 1 87 1 . He then located in Barre, where 
he is now engaged in the practice of his profession In connection with his 
professional duties, the first seven years of his residence in Barre he was a 
druggist. February 29, 1848, he married Clarinda, daughter of David Nelson, 
of Orange, who has borne him three children. Edna L., who married Dr. 
H. O. Worthen, and Clinton N. are now living. 

Dr. Norman W. Braley, son of George H. and Desire Braley, was born in 
Pomfret, Windsor county, August 14, 1823. He studied medicine with Prof. 
Benjamin R. Palmer and graduated from the Vermont Medical College in 
1844. For some months after he graduated he rode with Dr. Chandler, of 
Montpelier. In 1845 he settled in Washington, Orange county, and remained 
there until 185 1, when he removed to Chelsea, where he built up an extensive 
practice, and won a reputation and standing among the leading and most 
successful physicians in his county and state. In 1872 he removed to Barre, 
to be relieved of his laborious practice, which he had continued for the whole 
time he resided in Washington, and to give his sons the advantages afforded 
by Goddard Seminary. He at once identified himself with the interests of 
his adopted town, and united with her enterprisir.g citizens to push to a suc- 
cessful issue the long projected railroad which existed then only on paper. 
Recognizing the great benefits that would accrue to the town on its comple- 
tion he gave it his hearty support, and that he and the people were enabled 
to celebrate its completion July 4, 1875, was largely due to his exertions. 
With the cooperation of Hon. B. W. Bartholomew, of Washington, the old 
bank of Chelsea was removed to Barre and chartered as the National Bank 
of Barre. Dr. Braley was its efficient president at the time of his death. 
He advised the moneyed men of Barre to take the stock and organize the 
Stafford & Holden Manufacturing Co., and as its efficient president he was 
succesful to place it on the prosperous business basis that it has enjoyed. 
As a trustee of Goddard Seminary he was untiring in his labors for its success, 
and was a generous contributor to defray its current expenses, deficits, and to 
create a ten thousand dollar endowment fund. He was also a liberal 
supporter of the Universalist church and society, and the chairman of the 
committee on repairs, which put the church edifice in its present fine condi- 



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tion. Although much engrossed in his own large business affairs, he found 
time to investigate all questions of general interest, and gave respectful atten- 
tion, aid, and advice to numerous friends, neighbors, and townsmen who often 
sought it. At his death, which occurred September ii, 1880, Barre lost one 
of its most esteemed, enterprising, and generous citizens. November 16, 
1852, he united in marriage with Miss Arminia P. Calef, of Washington. 
Three of their four children are now living. The eldest, Bather W., is a 
physician and surgeon in successful practice of his profession in Barre. 
George H. is in the West, and contemplates entering banking business. 
Fred N. is a student at Goddard Seminary. 

John Chubb, whose ancestors came from England, came from Charlton, 
Mass., about 1790, and located on a farm in the northwest part of Corinth, 
Orange county, where he resided the remainder of his life. His children 
were Chester, Joseph, Phebe, Louise, John, Jr., and Aaron. Oaly Aaron is 
now living. John Chubb, Jr., was born in 1799. He married Lucy, daughter 
of Capt. George Wood, of Lyme, N. H., who was lost at sea. Mr. Chubb, 
besides cultivating his farm, manufactured shoes for a firm in Salem, Mass. 
Mr. and Mrs. Chubb had nine children, three of whom are now living. 

Stedrnan C. Chubb, son of John, Jr., was born on the old homestead in 
Corinth, September 19, 1828. When he was seventeen years of age he com- 
menced the trade of mason, and for his first season's service received five 
dollars per month. In winter he taught penmanship. After he had acquired 
his trade he spent seven years in Manchester, N. H. August 14, 1856, he 
united in marriage with Miss Caroline F. Currier, of Barre, and went to St. 
Johnsbury, where he engaged to superintend the mason work of E. & T. 
Fairbanks & Co. This position he filled the ensuing twenty-four years. In 
the time he rebuilt and enlarged the scale works, built the academy build- 
ings, court-house, Atheneum, and numerous other buildings in St. Johnsbury 
and in Hanover, N. H. Mr. Chubb came to Barre in 1880, and was in the 
granite business with J. P. Harrington one year. He then bought the R. S. 
Currier property, and for three years was engaged in breeding full blood Jersey 
cattle. In 1884 he presented to the town of Barre two acres of land to be 
used for a public park. About this park he laid out building lots, upon which 
have been erected many elegant and beautiful residences, and now Currier 
park is one of the pleasantest locations of Barre village. Mr. and Mrs. 
Chubb are now (1888) enjoying an extended tour through the countries of 
Europe, and anticipate a visit to the Holy Land before they return to Ver- 
mont. 

In the War of 1812 Birre responded to the call for volunteers with loyal 
zeal, and when the news came that the British were about to invade Platts- 
burgh the excitement was intense; and the universal response was "To 
arms." The military company that left Barre for Burlington to defend Pitts- 
burgh numbered 117 men. This took nearly all the young men who were of 
suitable age for military duty, and a few of the Revolutionary soldiers who 



TOWN OF BARRE. 



desired to have one more tilt at arms with British red-coats. All parts of the 
town were represented in this company. The farmer left his farm, the me- 
chanic his shop, and the merchant his store. The company hastened on foot 
and arrived in Burlington, on^Saturday, the day before the battle. But, for 
lack of means of transportation across the lake, none of the company partici- 
pated in the fight. Most of the men returned home without crossing the 
lake. Some went over and enlisted in the regular army. 

A carefully prepared report from Augustus Claflin, Esq., which we subjoin, 
will show how efficiently and patriotically Barre did her whole duty in the sup- 
pression of the late Rebellion :— 

" Whole number of three years men enhsted and credited to the town, 125; 
one year men, 21 ; nine months men, 38 ; drafted men held to service, 17 ; 
total. 201. Of the 17 drafted men 8 furnished substitutes, 8 paid commuta- 
tion money, and i only entered the service. The number of men who were 
killed or died was ^^ ; the number wounded and living, 15. Albert Gobar, a 
bounty jumper, who afterwards returned under the President's proclamation 
of pardon, is the only deserter reported. 

" Bounties were paid to 23 men. Co. B, roth Regt., raised by subscription 
$575 j to 29 nine months men $25 each, by subscription, $725 ; to 10 nine 
months men $50 each, $500; to 28 three years men $300 each, $8,400 ; to 
14 three months men $200 each, $2,800; to Albert and Anson French, twm 
brothers, one of whom was drafted, and the other enlisted to be with him, 
$600; to C. H. Richardson, who reenlisted, $300; to 19 one year men, 
$11,060; to 2 men mustered at Windsor, $r,225; to i colored recruit, $400; 
to 9 navy men, $7,200; to Byron Carlton, James Powers, C. Woodward, 
$1,524.50; to those who went in 2d Regt. Vt. Vols., June, 1861, by subscrip- 
tion, $55 ; total, $35,364.50. 

"The total expense to the town, for selectmen's and surgeons' services, for 
subsistence of recruits, and other incidental expenses in raising the quota of 
troops, under different calls, is given at $35,995.24; total public expense, 
$71,369.74. Money was paid by individuals as follows ; Amount paid by 
enrolled men who furnished substitutes, $600 ; amount paid by drafted men 
who furnished substitutes, $2,600; amount paid by drafted men as commuta- 
tion, $2,400 ; total, $5,600." 

The Barre Cojigregatiotial church was organized November 14, 1799, with 
twelve members, two of whom, Ezekiel Wood and Nathaniel Killam, were 
chosen for the office of deacon. No minister was settled over the church till 
1807. In the meantime Father Hobart, of Berlin, held frequent services in 
some house, school, or barn, till the erection of a church and the settlement 
of a pastor. Aaron Palmer became the first pastor in 1807 and remained in 
office till his death in 1821. Justus W. French became the second pastor in 
1822 and remained till the close of 1831. The order and dates of the other 
pastors are as follows : Joseph Thatcher, 1835-38 ; J. R. Wheelock, 1838-39 ; 
Andrew Royce, 1841-56; E. I. Carpenter, 1857-67; Leonard Tenney, 
1868-81; P. McMillan, 1881. The erection of the first house of worship 
was begun in 1804 and was completed in 1808. It was situated on what is 
now the common in Gospel Village. This name was given to that section 
because the church was located there. Barre cemetery is the old church-yard 



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enlarged, occupying a part of the farm of the first deacon, Ezekiel Wood. 
The old house adjoining the cemetery in Gospel Village was long used as the 
parsonage. The first church building far exceeded the second, or " Old brick 
church," in capacity and finish. In 1840 the erection of the " Brick church " 
was begun on the present site, under the conviction that the mass of the 
town's business and population was destined to circle around it. The wis- 
dom of the change is now apparent to all, though at the time " there was no 
small stir about that way." The work of enlarging and remodeling the brick 
church began in July. 1885, and was rededicated October 20, 1887. Nearly 
twelve thousand dollars were expended in the alterations. The church is now 
the chief architectual attraction of the village. While the church was without 
a pastor from 1799 to 1807, the membership increased from twelve to sixty- 
six. In 1826 the church was blessed with a great revival, and on the first 
Sunday in January, 1827, over seventy united with the church. In 1840 the 
church was again greatly increased by the addition of more than forty in one 
day, and since then the church has experienced seasons of great quickening 
when many were added to is membership. 

The church has felt the influence of the increasing population and has pre- 
pared itself to meet the growth of the community. Its membership is larger 
than in any period of its history, having received fifty-one to its communion 
in 1888. Its various departments of work, such as the Sunday-school, Ladies' 
Aid society, Ladies' Missionary society, and Young People's Society of Chris- 
tian Endeavor, are all flourishing and earnestly pushing their work, while the 
Sunday services keep pace with the increase of population. 

The Methodist Episcopal church of Barre* — At a conference held at 
Thompson, Conn., commencing September 20, 1796, Nicholas Siiethen was 
appointed to Vershire circuit, and soon after took up his journey for Ver- 
mont. Joshua Hall had been previously appointed by the Connecticut con- 
ference, in 1794, but failed to respond. There is no certain record of the 
scene of the first sermon in Vermont preached by Nicholas Snethen, but we 
may reasonably suppose that it was in the house of John Langdon, of Vershire, 
in answer to whose persistent calls for a minister Mr. Snethen was sent. Jesse 
Lee, who had been the first Methodist preacher in New England, was the 
presiding elder, and visited Vermont during the conference year, and there is 
reason to suppose that he came to Vermont soon after Mr. Snethen came to 
Vershire circuit. According to the memory of the early residents of Barre, 
Mr. Lee was one of the first Methodist preachers to appear in this town, and 
it is a well authenticated fact that he made an appointment to preach at the 
house of Col. John Walker, in the south part of the town. 

At the conference of 1797 Ralph WiUiston was appointed to Vershire cir- 
cuit, and during the year organized the germ of the Methodist Episcopal 

* This sketch was condensed from an interesting article published in The Itinerant, 
at Chelsea, Vt., April 29, 1886. 



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church in Barre. The members were Nathan Howard, Mary Howard, Isaac 
S. Thompson, Catherine Thompson, Timothy Patterson, Elizabeth Patterson, 
Jotham Carpenter, Reuben Carpenter, Ruby Colton, Samuel D. Cook, and 
Polly Boutwell. This was either the second or third Methodist class organ- 
ized in Vermont, the Vershire class being the first and the class at Barnard 
the second, unless the class at Barre can claim precedence, which is doubt- 
ful. However this may be, the class at Barre is recorded as the first in 
organization between Vershire and Montreal. 

At the conference of 1798 Joseph Crawford became the preacher on 
Vershire circuit; and as the town meeting of 1799 approached, he caused to 
be placed on record some evidence of the existence of the Methodist 
church in the town, as follows : " To all people to whom these presents shall 
come, greeting : — Know ye that I, Joseph Crawford, of the town of Barre, 
minister of the sect of Christians known by the name of Methodists, do 
hereby certify that Isaac S. Thompson, Jotham Carpenter, Timothy Patter- 
son, Samuel D. Cook, and Nathan Howard is of the same sect of the sub- 
scriber, and that I, the said Joseph Crawford, am minister of the said sect in 
the town of Birre, in the county of Orange, in the state of Vermont. Attest, 
Joseph Crawford, minister of the town of Barre. Dated this 23d day of Feb- 
ruary, A. D. 1799. N. Car[)enter, Town Clerk." 

The land records give the date of the first lot of land purchased by the 
Methodist society, as March 30, 1801. The plot is now the park in Barre 
village, and the church was built upon the southwest corner, directly opposite 
the site of the Universalist church now standing. It was the first public build- 
ing in Barre , and was the first church erected in the towns which now com- 
prise Washington county, and probably the first public building, having been 
erected five years previous to the building of the first State House, and one 
year previous to the occupancy of the old Quaker meeting-house at North 
Montpelier for religious purposes. In 1804 the Vershire circuit was divided, 
and the Barre circuit was organized, including Barre, Plainfield, Middlesex, 
Northfield, Williamstown, Montpelier, Washington, Berlin, Orange, Brookfield, 
Moretown, Calais, and Waitsfield, and 257 names are recorded as in mem- 
bership on the circuit, of which seventy-three were members at Barre, and is 
the largest number recorded in any one church in the circuit. The church 
building at Barre was not completed for some years after it was commenced. 
Barre enjoyed the proud distinction of having a preacher every Sunday some 
years before any other town upon the circuit attained to this high privilege. 
About 18 19, through the instrumentality of Presiding Elder John Lindsley, 
the church was removed from its location on the common to a plot of land 
which adjoins the Congregational parsonage lot. 

In 1826 the Williamstown circuit was set off from the Barre circuit, and in 
1828 the Montpelier circuit was also set off. The Barre society continued to 
occupy the old church until 1837, when plans were inaugurated to erect a new 
church. These plans resulted in the purchase of the lot on which the Meth- 



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odist church now stands, the deed being made February i, 1838. The new 
church was completed in the fall of 1838, and for thirty years served the 
society and congregation in substantially the same form as originally built, 
and in 1868 was moved a few feet to the rear, the vestry, in the form of an 
ell, having been removed, and the main building was then raised su as to ar- 
range the present vestries under the audience room, the expense of the change 
being some $7,000. The church is now in a prosperous condition, under the 
efficient pastorate of Rev. Leonard L. Beeman. 



BERLIN lies in the southern part of the county, and near the center of 
the state, m latitude 44" 13 and longitude 4° 25', and is bounded 
northerly by the Winooski river which separates it from Montpelier, 
and a portion of Middlesex, easterly by Birre and a small part of Williams- 
town, southerly by a small portion of Williamstown and the town of North- 
field, and westerly by Moretown. 

Its charter was granted in the third year of the reign of King George IIL, 
by his excellency Benning Wentworth, of New Hampshire, to Rev. Dr. 
Chauncey Graham and sixty-three others, June 8, 1763, and is six miles 
square. 

The first proprietors' meeting was held at Arlington, Vt., May 17, 1785, 
at the inn of Eliakim Stoddard. His excellency Gov. Thomas Chittenden 
was chosen moderator, and Thomas Toiman, clerk. This meeting also 
appointed Gov. Chittenden, Marston Cabot, Moses Moss, and Samuel Hors- 
ford a committee to lay out the first division of sixty-four lots to contain 103 
acres each. 

The first settlement was made by Ebenezer Sanborn and Joseph Thurber, in 
the summer of 1785. Mr. Sinborn came from Corinth and located on what 
was afterward known as the " Bradford farm," about half a mile from the 
mouth of Dog river, and where C. B. Martin now lives. Mr. Thurber came 
from New Hampshire and made his " pitch " near the mouth of the same 
river. The next year Sanborn and Thurber removed to the state of New 
York, and Jacob Fowler, from Corinth, moved onto the farm vacated by 
Sanborn. 

Berlin may properly be classed with the "hilly towns," although it has 
fertile valleys of considerable extent along Dog river, on Berlin pond, and 
along its northern border on Winooski river. The views from its highest 
hills are grand and extensive; among the best in the Green Mountain state. 

The geological construction of this town is formed of calciferoiis mica 
schist in the southeastern part, a broad belt of clay slate extends across the 
town north and south, and viica schist in the western part. Granite in consid- 
erable quantity is found, and traces of gold in alluvium on the branches of 
Dog river. 



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The principal water-courses traversing the town are the Winooski, which 
washes its northern boundary ; Dog river, which enters the town from North- 
field, flows nearly north, entirely across the town, and falls into the Winooski 
about half a mile below Montpelier village ; Pond brook, the outlet of Berhn 
pond, flows in a northerly direction and enters Stevens Branch ; and Stevens 
Branch, which enters the town from Barre, crossing its eastern boundary, and 
flows across the northeastern corner of Berlin and joins the Winooski. Berlin 
pond lies a little southeast of the center of the town, is about two miles long 
and half a mile wide, and is in the midst of a beautiful and fertile valley, at 
an elevation of about 400 feet above Montpelier. A few pretty summer cot- 
tages are located near its shores. Pond brook in its descent to the Winooski 
forms several magnificent cascades and is a miniature Niagara. 

Jacob Fowler was the first permanent settler of Berlin. He was a hunter, 
and was familiar with the streams and ponds as early, or earlier, than 1780. 
At the time of the burning of Royalton, when the Indians were returning 
down the Winooski, he was up Waterbury river, and on returning to its mouth 
discovered their trail and followed it back as far as Berlin pond. Although 
he was accused of being a tory, in the latter part of the Revolutionary war, 
he enlisted in the garrison stationed at Corinth, and did service as an Indian 
scout, under the command of Gen. Wait. Hon. D. P. Thompson relates the 
following incident of Fowler: "I used to think," said the hunter, "that I 
had as much wit as any wild varmint as was ever scared up in our woods ; 
but a sly old moose once completely baffled me, in trying to get a shot at 
him. This animal's usual range was on Irish hill, in the vicinity of Berlin 
pond. This I discovered by finding one day, as I was coming along the 
margin of the pond, a path leading down to the water which I knew by the 
tracks of great size, and of different degrees of freshness, were made by a large 
moose, that must have come down daily to drink. On making this discovery 
I resolved to have him. But after trying on three different days to get a shot 
at him, I utterly failed ; for either by the keenness of his sight, or smell, or 
hearing, he always took the alarm and made off, without allowing me more 
than a mere glimpse of him. As I was turning away from the last attempt, 
it occurred to me there might be other ways to choke a dog than by giving 
him bread and butter, so I laid a plan my moose would not be looking for. 
The next day I shouldered a bear trap I possessed, weighing nearly forty 
pounds, with the iron teeth more than an inch long, went up to the pond and 
set it at the water's edge in the path where he came down to drink, chained it 
securely to a sapling, and went home. The next day I went there again, and 
as I drew near my trap, I saw a monstrous moose standing over the spot 
where I had set it. He had got one fore-foot into it, and those murderous 
interlocking teeth had clinched his fetlock, and held him like a vise. The 
next moment I put a bullet through his heart, and brought him to the ground, 
when, cutting out his tongue, lips, and the best part of a round, I went home, 
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eventually went to Canada, it is said, where he spent the last years of his 
life, and where he died at an advanced age. 

Mrs. Titcomb kept the first school in Berlin, in a log school-house, in the 
summer of 1794, and the wife of Dr. Collins taught it the ensuing year. The 
school-house stood near the " brick residence " built by Dea. David Nye. 
The first school on Dog river was taught by Gershom Heaton in the winter 
of 1784-85 in a log house. 

For some time after the first settlement of the town the nearest grist-mill 
was at Corinth, more than twenty-eight miles distant, and as a substitute for 
one, the settlers made themselves a huge mortar in a large and solid stump, 
in which they reduced the grain to meal by pounding it with a large and 
heavy pestle attached to a spring-pole. The first grist-mill was built in 1792, 
on the upper falls of Pond brook, now known as Benjamin falls. The first 
saw-mill was built the year before by Eleazer Hubbard a little above the 
grist-mill. 

The first marriage of persons living in town was that of Joshua Swan and 
Miss Collins. Tradition says the gallant bridegroom, with one or two friends 
to assist, drew the charmmg bride on a hand sled to the residence of the 
justice of the peace in Middlesex, where the twain were made one flesh 
(probably by Esq. Putnam). After the ceremony the party returned home 
in the same manner as they came, having made a bridal tour of about fifteen 
miles. 

The first child born in Berlin was Abigail K., daughter of Jacob and Abi- 
gail Block, in 1789. She became the wife of Ira Andrews and died in 1864. 
The first male child born in town was Porter Perrin, in February, 1790, who 
died May 17, 1871. , The first death was that of an infant child of John 
Lathrop, in 1789, and a little later in the same year Widow Collins died at 
the age of eighty-eight years. 

The first store and tavern was opened by Jonas Parker about 1800. The 
next store was opened about 1806, by Charles Huntoon. These were suc- 
ceeded by several others. Since about 1850 there has been no general 
merchant in Berlin. 

The first settled minister was the Rev. James Hobart, who was ordained 
and installed pastor November 7,1798. The first church (Congregational) 
was organized October 13, 1798, with three members. 

The first town meeting was held at the house of Aaron Strong, March 31, 
1791. Capt. James Sawyer was elected moderator; David Nye, town clerk ; 
Zachariah Perrin, Eleazer Hubbard, and James Sawyer, selectmen ; and 
Micajah Ingham, constable. 

In 1880 Berlin had a population of 1,380. The town now (1888) has 
twelve school districts, which were taught the past school year by two male 
and twelve female teachers. The average weekly wages paid to male teachers, 
including board, was $6 80, and to female teachers $5.24 ; aggregate amount 
paid all teachers during the year, $1,658.42. Whole amount paid for all 



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•school purposes during the past year was $2,253.78. The whole number of 
<:hildren of school age was 304, of whom 283 attended the district schools 
and eighteen attended private schools. Arthur L. Hewitt was the efficient 
superintendent. 

Colby Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of Colby's improved wringers, 
was organized by Colby Brothers in 1872, in Waterbury. In June, 1882, it 
was removed to Boston and chartered under Massachusetts laws. The com- 
pany returned to Vermont in August, 1887, and though ostensibly doing busi- 
ness in Montpelier, established the manufactory on the south bank of the 
Winooski river, in Berlin, and just across the bridge near the station of the 
Montpelier & Wells River R. R. In Waterbury the company manufac- 
tured washing machines in connection with the wringers. They have had 
and still have agencies established in many of the cities in the United States. 
The company was re-formed and the Colby Brothers retired. Previous to 
1872, when the company was organized under the laws of Vermont, the 
Colby wringers were manufactured by Colby Brothers alone. Col. Fred E. 
Smith has been president of tlie company since its organization in Water- 
bury, and Mr. J. S. Batchelder, treasurer. 

B. J. Reed's granite polishing-mills are located at the Pioneer Mills, on 
the Winooski river, which furnishes an adequate power. Mr. Reed began 
business at his present location in April, 1884. He does the polishing for 
all the granite shops in Montpelier. His mills are furnished with six fine 
polishing machines, and turn out a large amount of work. Mr. Reed gives 
employment to six men. 

Wilbur Brown, successor to J. S. Wheelock, has saw, cider, and grist-mills 
located on Dog river, road 10, about a mile and a half south of Montpelier. 
The river furnishes a constant power. Mr. Brown manufactures dimension 
lumber to order as a specialty, also hard wood and basswood, and shingles. 
He turns out about 200,000 feet per annum. The grist-mill is furnished 
with two runs of stones and does custom grinding of meal and feed. Mr. 
Brown gives employment to an average of twelve men. 

T/iomas Gisborne' s molditig and planing-jnill is located on Winooski 
river, opposite Montpelier village, where he does a moderate business, and 
■deals in both dressed and rough lumber. 

The Excelsior Granite Co. was organized in April, 1888, by the present 
proprietors, Messrs. S. I. Staples and M. A. Copeland. They manufacture 
everything in the line of granite work, with monumental work as a specialty. 
The location is at the Pioneer Mills, on the Barre branch of the C. V. R. R. 
Their polishing machine runs by water-power, and they have every facility for 
turning out work of superior quality. They have a branch track, and a der- 
rick capable of lifting fifteen tons for loading and unloading. They employ 
eighteen skilled workmen. 

Berlin (p. o.), generally designated as Berlin Corners, is a small village, 
situated a little east of the center of the town, on the outlet of Berlin pond. 



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It contains ttvo churches (Congregational and Methodist) and about twenty 
dwellings. 

West Berlin (p. o.) is a hamlet on Dog river. It contains two churches 
(Congregational and Methodist), a butter factory or creamery, a few shops, 
and about twenty dwellings. 

Berlin Street, situated on the VVinooski river, is the most populous por- 
tion of the town, and is the location of the town house, a tannery, and several 
manufacturing enterprises. The manufacturers all reside in Montpelier. The 
business interests of the location are so much identified with Montpelier that 
it is really a part of that village. The inhabitants receive their mail by the 
carriers from Montpelier postoffice. 

Capt. James Hobart, with his son James, came from Plymouth, N. H., in 
1787, and settled near the mouth of Jones brook, in Berlin. Capt. Hobart 
died February 2, 1834, at the advanced age of ninety-five years. His son 
James, born in Plymouth, N. H., August 2, 1766, graduated at Dartmouth 
College as A B., in 1794; studied theology with Rev. Asa Burton, of Thet- 
ford. The people of Berlin gave him a call to settle as their minister in 
August, 1798, and November 7, 1798, he was ordained pastor of the Con- 
gregational church of Berlin, which j position he filled until May, 1829. He 
afterwards preached in several of the New England states. In the ninety-sixth 
year of his life he preached well-connected discourses, and was able to walk 
six or eight miles in a day. He was below the average height, stood erect, 
and was blessed with a retentive memory, strong voice, and good delivery. In 
1804 he married Betsey, daughter of Zachariah Perrin, Esq,, of Berlin, and 
they had five S3ns and seven daughters. Three of their daughters married 
clergymen, one a physician, and one a judge, and after he died a merchant. 
The eldest son was the editor of the Mound Clfy, a paper published in St. 
Louis, Mo. The second is a farmer, now living (1888), aged over eighty 
years. O.ie son died soon after he had graduated at Dartmouth ; and the 
youngest died when nearly fitted to enter college. The third son, David Ho- 
bart, married Miss Reed, a teacher in the graded school of Gardiner, Me., 
November 10, 1853, and settled on the old Hobart place, where his father. 
Rev. James Hobart, and grandfather, Capt. James Hobart, passed the last 
years of their lives. The children of David and Caroline E. Hobart are T. D. 
Hobart, who was educated in the common schools, Barre Academy, and Ver- 
mont Methodist Seminary. He was, for some lime, superintendent and teacher 
of common schools in Berlin, and is now a civil engineer in Mobeetie, Texas. 
The second child, Lizzie M., educated in Berlin common schools and Ver- 
mont Methodist Seminary, has also taught public schools. Their youngest 
child, Clara, remains at home with her parents. 

Abel Sawyer, a native of Lancaster, Mass., with his wife, a native of Shrews- 
bury, Mass., and their two sons, John and Moses Hastings, moved from Hart- 
land, Vt., to Barre, in 1788, and located on what is now known as the oldi 
Beckley farm. There he lived a short time, and then removed to Berlin, 



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where he settled permanently. Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer came to Barre in com- 
pany with the family of John Goldsbury, who was the father of Mrs. Sawyer. 
The homestead in Berlin is known as the Sawyer farm, and is owned and oc- 
cupied by his grandson, David Boles. Here Mr. Sawyer first erected a log 
cabin, and here he reared eight children. The mother of Mr. Boles was his 
fifth child. Mr. Sawyer planted, on his farm, apple seeds brought from Lan- 
caster, Mass., which produced the finest orchard and best fruit in town. Mr. 
Sawyer served seven years in the Revolutionary war in the capacity of black- 
smith, and continued his trade for many years after he settled in Berlin. At 
the time he settled in his forest home bears were numerous, and Mr. Boles 
says he often heard his grandmother relate that she frequently saw them, and 
noted particularly one with a white face. The brooks and ponds swarmed 
with speckled trout. On their journey from Hartland they camped over night 
near Berlin pond. A pail of water which had been dipped from the brook in 
the evening was found in the morning to be alive with small trout. The 
family, like most of the pioneer settlers, was very poor, and the sons, John 
and M. Hastings, frequently caught the " speckled beauties " from Onion river 
and carried them througn the woods to Capt. Ayers, and exchanged with him 
even weight for pork. Mr. Sawyer had a happy disposition, was genial, kind, 
and hospitable, in religious opinions a Universalist, but highly respected the 
ministers of every denomination. Moses Hastings Sawyer, the second son, 
when quite a young man, undertook the task, by hard labor and careful 
economy, to clear the homestead of a heavy mortgage, which he eventually 
accomplished and saved the home for the family. He never married. With 
the aid of his maiden sister, Rebecca, he reared David Boles, son of his sister 
Mary, as his own son, and left the farm to him, which has been in possession 
of the family about loo years. Mr. Boles was born on the farm. 

Zachariah Perrin, with his family, came to Berlin from Hebron, Conn., in 
March, 1789, and settled in the east part of the town, where his grandson, 
J. N. Perrin, now lives. He came with two yoke of oxen, up the Connect- 
icut and White rivers, to Brookfield, which was then the end of the road. 
Hi^ sled was loaded with provisions and his wife and two children. From 
Brookfield his route was a line of blazed trees, and the snow was from three 
to four feet deep. Mr. Perrin was an influential citizen and aided in the 
settlement and organization of the town, and support of the Congregational 
church. He died in May, 1838, aged eighty-eight years. His second son. 
Porter Perrin, born February t, 1790, was the first male child born in Berlin. 
He married Lucy, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Kinney, of Plainfield. He 
was a worthy man and dealt justly with his fellow-men. He died in May, 
1871, aged eighty-one years. His brother. Rev. William Perrin, born in 
1793, graduated at Middlehury College in 18 13, entered the ministry of the 
Congregational church, was an elocjuent speaker, and a poet. He married 
Fanny, daughter of Capt. Daniel Thompson, and died in 1824, aged thirty- 
one years. Rev. Truman Perrin, fourth son of Zachariah, was born in Berlin, 



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April 28, 1796. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 181 7, preached in 
various places in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York, spent several 
years in Indiana, Georgia, and Alabama, and returned to Vermont in 1850. 
He died in Washington, Mass., November 19, 1869, aged seventy-three 
years. 

William Flagg and Jacob Black, both natives of Holden, Mass., were born 
the same year, and died in 1838, aged eighty-four years. The life of each 
one was almost a counterpart of that of the other. They enlisted in the 
service of their country about the same time, and participated in the same 
battles. They were both at the battle of Bunker Hill and again under 
General Washington at Monmouth Court House. They both settled in Berlin 
in 1789. 

Eleazer Hubbard, when about sixty years of age, came from Glastenbury, 
Conn., to Berlin, with an ox-team freiglited with mill-irons and gearing for a 
saw and grist-mill, which he erected on Pond brook, near the head of Ben- 
jamin falls, in 1790 or '91. Mr. Hubbard died in 1819, aged eighty-nine 
years. His mills were continued in operation several years after his death. 
They were the first mills erected in Berlin. 

David Nye, son of Melatiah, came to Berlin from Glastenbury, Conn., in 
1790. He had served several years in the war for Independence, as a musi- 
cian, and was present at the battle on Long Island. At the organization of 
the town, in 1791, he was elected clerk and reelected several succeeding 
years. In addition to cultivating his farm he was for several years engaged 
in buying and driving beef cattle to the Boston market. He died in Septem- 
ber, 1832, aged seventy- two years. His brother, Elijah Nye, came to Berlin 
with him, and settled in the southeast part of the town. In 1825 he re- 
moved to Montpelier and died therein 1852, aged eighty-four years. Solo- 
mon Nye, brother of David and Elijah, enlisted and served in the Continental 
army as teamster when he was but eighteen years old. He came to Berlin 
about 1808, and engaged in farming. He died in 1857, at the extreme age 
of ninety-three years. 

Lieut. Ebenezer Bailey, brother of Joshua, came to Berlin from Newbury, 
Mass.; as near as can now be ascertained, about 1790, and made a perma- 
nent pitch on the East road. His farm contained 300 acres which he mainly 
cleared. He was one of the prominent men of his town, and held most of 
the town offices, and was also an influential member of the Methodist church, 
and gave liberally for the construction of their first meeting-house. He died 
on his farm at the age of eighty-seven years. He had a family of thirteen 
children, several of whom settled in town. His son Ebenezer, born in Ber- 
lin May 30, 1796, married Sally Benjamin, daughter of Maj. Josiah, and 
settled on a farm on the opposite side of the road from his father. He was 
always a farmer and resided in Berlin from his birth to the close of his long 
life, August 13, 1885, aged eighty-nine years. He was the father often 
children, all of whom lived to mature age. Mr. Bailey was a man of sterling 



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integrity, a good citizen, and obliging neighbor. Ozias B. Bailey is the only 
one of his sons now residing in Berlin. He is now a justice of the peace and 
is engaged in farming. 

Safford Cummings was born in Massachusetts, June 15, 1784. He lost his 
father in his early childhood, and in 1791 came to Berlin with his older 
brother when he was only seven years old. He married, early in life, Miss 
Polly Stickney, and settled in a log house on the farm where L. P. Lawrence 
now lives. Later he built the commodious farm house now occupied by Mr. 
Lawrence. He was a well-to-do farmer, and a man prominent in the affairs 
of the town. He died on the homestead aged eighty-two years. His oldest 
son, Kimball, born May 19, 180S, married Catherine Drury, of Barre, Sep- 
tember 4, 1834, and settled on the farm where his son Albert D. now lives. 
He gave his attention to the cultivation of his farm. He was fond of music, 
and was especially noted as a drummer, and was always one of the military 
band at the masters of the militia. Mr. Cummings was a thrifty farmer, ab- 
horred debt, and always " paid down." Mr. and Mrs. Cummings reared three 
children to mature age, viz.: Albert D., born February 21, 1836, married 
Miss Sophrcnia Arbuckle, of Middlesex, December 18, 1862, and brought his 
wife to the homestead, where they now live. They have one son, Alvin, who 
married Miss Adah Goodenough, of Walden, and lives in the near neighbor- 
hood, and has an infant sra, Harry. Julia, born June 21, 1842, married, De- 
cember 22, 1863, George Richardson, and resides in Barre. Her children 
are Addie and Blanche. Emsline, born January i, 1838, married John Golds- 
bury, of Barre. Their children are Joel, Katie, and Hattie. 

Hon. Salvin Collins was born in Southboro, March 6, i 768. About 1 79 1 he 
settled on a farm in Berlin, adjoining Zachariah Perrin, which is still known 
as the Collins farm, where he resided the ensuing fourteen or fifteen years. 
He then sold his farm to Mr. Perrin and moved to the " Corners." He rep- 
resented Berlin in the legislature in 1805 and 1806, and in 1811 was assist- 
ant judge of the new county of Jefferson, now Washington, and removed to 
Montpelier. In 1812 he was reelected county judge, and m 1815 was judge 
of probate for Washington county, and received five successive elections. The 
last twenty years of his life he was justice of the peace, and did a large share 
of the justice business of Montpelier. Judge Collins was quiet and unassum- 
ing, social, honest, and few men were better calculated to win friends and re- 
tain them. He died November 9, 1831, aged sixty-three years. 

Abel Knapp, a native of Rehoboth, Mass., and his wife, Miriam (Hawks), 
of Charlemont, Mass., were very early settlers in Berlin. They located their 
farm at the cross-roads at the Center. Mr. Knapp was town clerk from 1795 
to 1845. except one year, when Dr. Greshom Heaton held the position. 
He was justice of the peace fifty years, judge of probate in 1813 and '14, a 
member of the Constitutional Convention in 1836, town treasurer several 
years, and representative fourteen years, from 1809 to 1823. He was also a 
surveyor, and because he preserved his field notes was able to settle many 



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disputes about surveys. His son Chauncey L. was born in Berlin, February 
26, 1809. He commenced a seven years' apprenticeship in the printing 
oflSce of E. P. Walton, in Montpelier, when he was but fourteen years old. 
He was reporter for the legislature in 1833, and was for some years co-editor 
and proprietor of the Voice of Freedom and the State Journal. He was 
elected secretary of state in 1836, '37, 't^%, and '39. He removed to Massa- 
chusetts and was secretary of the Massachusetts Senate in 1851, elected rep- 
resentative to the 34th and reelected to the 35th Congress of the United 
States. 

Maj. Josiah Benjamin, son of William, was born in Ashburnham, Mass.,, 
June 19, 1769. October 10, 1791, he married Lucy Banning. In Novem- 
ber, 1793, he removed from Woodstock to Berlin and settled on lot 5, in the 
second range. In February, 1795, ^^ removed to lot 5, third range, and 
April 26, 1800, he made his permanent home on lot i, first range, and first 
division, of the township, where his grandson S. W. Benjamin now lives, and 
where he died January 26, 1836. His wife, Lucy, died October 26, 1844.. 
Their children were Lucy, born in Woodstock, April 22, 1792 ; Clara, born 
March 8, 1795: Ozias, born April 13, 1797; Sally, born in May, 1798; 
Josiah, born November 28^ 1801, died November 15, 1803 ; Josiah, born 
July 6, 1803; Eliza, born July 31, 1805; Matilda, born March 26, 1807; 
and Hannah, born July 10, 181 1. Maj. Benjamin succeeded Eleazer Hub- 
bard on lot r, which includes Benjamin falls on Pond brook. Mr. Hubbard 
had erected the first saw-mill and grist-mill in Berlin at the falls, about 1791 
or '92. Maj. Benjamin rebuilt the mills near the foot of the falls and kept 
them up for many years. He was always a farmer, and a man of great 
energy. He was the major of the state militia, and went with his command 
to Plattsburgh in September, 1814, but did not reach that place until after 
the battle had been fought, on Sunday, September ir, 1814, and a signal 
victory won. In religion he was a Congregationalist, and a member of that 
church. In politics he was an earnest worker in the " Old Line Whig " party, 
and prominent in town affairs. Maj. Benjamin was succeeded on the home- 
stead by his son Josiah, who married Rebecca Emerson, December 25, 1827, 
Their children are Chauncey E., Lucy Ann, John E., Charles K., Philena 
R., Samuel Webster, Ira A., and Elizabeth B. Josiah Benjamin, Jr., was a 
very successful farmer and gave to each of his sons $1,000, and to each of 
his daughters $500, on their wedding day. Mr. Benjamin was a constant 
and regular attendant at the Congregational church, began in politics with 
the Whig party, joined the ranks of the Republican party at its organization, 
and was in every respect an honest, upright, and respected citizen. He 
represented Berlin in the state legislature and held other offices of responsi- 
bility and trust in his town. He died October 4, 1884. His wife died in 
December, 1873. Chauncey E. Benjamin, born February i, 1829, married 
Lucy J. Stanwood, January 22, 1846, and resides in Maiden, Mass., where 
he is engaged in the express business, and employs sixteen men and twenty- 

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six horses. Lucy Ann, born April 2, 183 1, married E. E. Andrews, Sep- 
tember 13, 1843, a farmer and nurseryman, and resides in her native town. 
John E. Benjamin, born July 19, 1833, married Sarah F. Perrin, November 
8, 1858, and resides on a fine farm near the old homestead. Besides giving 
his attention to his farm he has served his town as their representative in the 
state legislature, and as lister, but declined to be selectman. His son Forest 
E. graduated at Barre Academy, and is now a commercial traveler in the 
vicinity of Boston, and resides at Maiden, Mass. He was elected captain of 
the Walden militia at a younger age than any who ever held the position. 
The only daughter of John E. Benjamin, Myrtie S., also graduated at Barre 
Academy and is a teacher. Charles K. Benjamin, born November 20, 1836, 
married Emeline S. Goodhue, March 11, 186 1, has been a farmer and is now 
a granite worker in Barre. Philena R., born July 18, 1839, married Eleazer 
House, December 22, 1859. Mr. House is a farmer in Berlin. Samuel 
Webster Benjamin, born May i, 1842, married Edna L. Downing, March 2, 
1865, and settled on the old homestead. He is now chairman of the board 
•of selectmen and has been one of its members several years. Mr. and Mrs. 
Benjamin have one daughter. Ira A. Benjamin, born January 26, 1845, 
married Emma F. Dodge, September 22, 1867. He is a reliable citizen of 
Berlin, a successful farmer, and is blessed with three sons. Elizabeth B., 
born November 3, 1847, married Abel H. Stewart, a farmer of Berlin, 
April 4, 1867. 

Elijah Andrews was born in Eastbury, Conn., in 1758, and was one of the 
early and stalwart pioneers of Berlin. He moved into the town in 1796, and 
settled on the farm now owned by his grandson, E. E. Andrews, wliere he 
lived the remainder of his life. He built a log cabin on his farm, in which he 
and his family lived several years. He died January 19, 1826. His son Asa, 
born May 28, 1787, married Margaret Strong, of Berhn, January i, i8r2, and 
settled on a farm in the 'western part of the town, where he cleared eighty 
acres of land. Not having all the modern improved farming implements, he 
commenced drawing his hay from his field on a harrow turned bottom side 
up. After eight years he returned to his father's farm, where he spent the 
remainder of his long life. He died September 14, 1878, aged ninety-one 
years and three months. Mrs. Andrews died March 20, 1856. Mr. Andrews 
was an honest, industrious farmer, liberal in his contributions for benevolent 
objects, and won the respect and esteem of the people of his town. He was 
a lieutenant of militia, was representative two years in the Vermont legisla- 
ture, and held several prominent positions of trust in town ofl!ices. The chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Andrews were Aaron S., born January 23, 18 15, 
married Betsey Andrews (not of kin), March 5, 1840, and settled on a farm 
half a mile from the homestead, where they spent their Hves ; Eliza M., born 
February 18, 18 17, married, first, Arad Bennett, and second, William H. 
Loomis, a farmer, with whom she now lives in the adjoining town of North- 
field, a mile and a half south of the old homestead ; William L., born Feb- 



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Tuary 9, 18 19, married Harriet M. Steward, and settled on a farm adjoining 
and half a mile north of the homestead, where he has since resided. His 
wife died about two years ago. E. E. Andrews, before mentioned, was born 
January 17, 1823. He removed to South Reading, Mass., April 1, 1846, and 
September 14, 1852, he married Miss Lucy A. Benjamin, of Berlin, and moved 
to Maiden, Mass.^ where he engaged in hardware business. He bought the 
old homestead and returned to Berlin in February, 1858, where he now re- 
sides. He is a farmer and nurseryman, is a prominent citizen of Berlin, rep- 
resented his town in the stale legislature in 1866-67, and has also held other 
town offices. He has held office in Eagle Grange, of Berlin, since its organ- 
ization, and has been chaplain of Vermont State Grange several years. 
Martin Andrews, born September 28, 1825, married Caroline M. Ellis, March 
27, 1 85 1, and settled on a farm in Barre, where they lived several years. They 
now reside in Massachusetts. Lucina was born October 30^ 1827, and is now 
residing and keeping house in North held with her widowed sister, Mrs. Aus- 
tin. The youngest son, Stephen, was born August 12, 1829. He married 
Fanny B. Pike, February 10, 1853, and bought a farm in the western part of 
Barre, where he died August 6, i860. Martha, the youngest, was born Au- 
gust 20, 183 1, married Chester R. Austin, of Berlin, January 6, 1S57, and is 
now a widow, and resides in Northfield. 

Esq. Joel Warren, born in Northborough, Mass., November 28, 1772, went 
to Weathersfield, Vt., and worked for his brother John, about six months, 
and then came to Berlin, as near as can now be ascertained, in 1797 or '98. 
He located a farm where his youngest son. Judge Abel K. Warren, now lives, 
.and where he commenced to make a home by cutting the first tree, clearing 
a plot of ground, and building a log cabin. February 14, 1799, he married 
Rebecca P. ToUes, of Weathersfield, Vt., who was born in New Haven, 
Conn., May 4, 1776, and moved his bride into his "lodge in the wilderness," 
where he made a good home, and where he lived the remainder of his life. 
He died April 24, 1849, aged seventy-six years. Mrs. Warren died May 24, 
i8oo, and was the mother of his son Toiles. March 29, 1801, Mr. Warren 
married Hannah Knapp, of Willington, Conn., who died November 21, 185 1, 
aged seventy-eight years. Their children were Rebecca, Betsey, Joel, Jr., 
Hannah, and Abel Knapp. Esq. Warren was an intelligent, well-informed 
man, and was prominent in the affairs of his town. He served in the official 
positions of justice of the peace, representative in the state legislature, and 
other important town offices. Judge Abel K. Warren, before mentioned, 
residing on the homestead, is the only member of the family except his father 
who made a home in Berlin. He was born July 15, 1813, on the homestead, 
and has never had any other home. He married Laura A. House, January 
25, 1842. Like his father, Judge Warren is a prominent and influential 
■citizen of his town, and has served in the offices of justice of the peace and 
associate judge of Washington county. Judge Warren has always been a 
farmer. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Warren are Isabel (Mrs. H. N. Dustin), 



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who resides in Michigan; Ferrand, of Fargo, Dakota; Ella (Mrs. G. W. 
Dustin), who resides in Berlin ; Alice, a teacher, resides with her parents, and 
has been a missionary teacher in Utah; Lizzie died in 1879; Frederick 
resides in Kansas City, and is cashier of the Barber Asphalt Paving Co.; and 
Minnie, who resides with her parents. 

Abraham Townsend was born in Holden, Mass., October 25, 1792, and 
came to Berlin with his father in 1803, when but eleven years of age. His 
father, Abraham Townsend, settled in a log cabin on a farm in the woods 
with a clearing of about one acre. In 1819 he emigrated to Ohio, but was 
recalled at the death of his youngest brother. In 1822 he married Lovinia 
Hayward, who was born in Barre, November ir, 1801. He bought out the 
heirs and settled on the homestead, and provided for the wants of his aged 
parents in their declining years. He was always a farmer, and gave his at- 
tention to the cultivation of his farm and the comfort of his family. Mr. 
Townsend was always a citizen of Berlin, but died in Brookfield at the home 
of his daughter, Mrs. Willard Snow, while there on a visit, June 23, 1874. Mrs. 
Townsend died at the old home in Berlin, October 4, 1868. Their children 
are Betsey, who was born September it, 1833, married Willard Snow, Sep- 
tember 10, 1843, is a widow, and resides in Brookfield, Vt.; Martha Lovinia 
(Mrs. A. H. Holt), born November 14, 1825, resides in Woodbury, Vt.; and 
Sarah S. (Mrs. P. S. Pained, burn March 7, 1828, resides in Hardwick, 
Vt. ; and Rebecca S., born May i, 1850, married Joseph W. Norton, is a 
widow, and resides on the Townsend homestead in Berlin. 

Daniel Chandler was born in Pomfret, Conn., January 21, 1784. VVhen 
he was an infant his parents removed from Connecticut to Hanover, N. H., 
and his mother brought him in her lap on horseback. He came from Han- 
over to Berlin, it is believed, in 1806, and purchased the farm where his son 
Lemuel now lives. His place then contained a log house and a small clear- 
ing. He remained through that season and enlarged his clearing; and in the 
fall returned to Hanover, married Hannah Sloan, of Lyme, and next spring 
settled permanently on his farm where he spent the rest of his long life. He 
died October 3, i860, aged nearly eighty-two years. He was one of the promi- 
nent and sturdy pioneer citizens of Berlin, and gave his influence to build up 
the town. His integrity was uncjuestioned — his word was as good as his 
bond. He reared nine children to mature age, viz.: Daniel, Joseph, Hannah, 
Harriet. Temperance, Samuel, Levinus, Mary, and Lemuel. Lemuel, the 
youngest, born September 29, 1832, settled on the homestead where he was 
born, and where he has since lived. May i, 186 r, he married Lucretia 
E. Crossett, of Duxbury, and they have three sons and two daughters, viz.: 
Myron L., Ervin L., George W., Marion L., and Mabel W. Mr. Chandler 
is among the well-to-do farmers of his town and prominent in all its interests. 
He is now justice of the peace, has served as selectman four years, and has 
filled other town offices. 

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served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war four or five years. At one time 
he was a prisoner of war, and confined in a prison ship, by the British, on the 
Delaware river. One night he managed to escape by swimming, as near as 
he could judge, about three miles, and towed his knapsack behind him by a 
string, the end of which he held in his mouth. In 1780, when Royalton was 
burned, Mr. Bosworth was stationed at Corinth. He came to Berlin in 1806 
and settled at the " Corners." He was a blacksmith, and died in 1844, aged 
ninety-one years. His son, Dea. Jonathan Bosworth, was born in Lebanon, 
N. H., in 1787, and came to Berlin with his father, and followed the same 
trade. After a few years at custom work he began the manufacture of axes 
and scythes, with trip-hammers worked by water-power. About 1830 he 
added more machinery and did a large business. He also manufactured 
cast-steel and steel-plated hoes. His four suns worked in his shops, and all, 
in turn, became partners in the business, which was conducted with success. 
The business was discontinued about 1870. Mr. Bosworth was a deacon of 
the Congregational church many years. He died in April, 1878, aged ninety- 
one years. 

Dr. John Winslow was born in Pomfret, Vt., March 10, 1787. In 181 r 
he married Sarah Bishop, who was the mother of one daughter who died at 
the age of about five years. In January, 1837, he married his second wife, 
Keziah Heaton, who was the mother of one son, John F., who resides in 
Berlin. Dr. Winslow remained on his father's farm until he was about nine- 
teen years of age. He then entered the office of his uncle, Dr. Winslow, of 
Windsor, as a student of medicine, and gra^luated from the Medical depart- 
ment of Dartmouth College. In 18 13, after two years' practice in Windsor, 
he settled in Berlin, where for many years he was a successful practitioner. 
About twenty years before his death he retired from active practice and de- 
voted his time to farming. Dr. Winslow was often called by his townsmen 
to fill offices of trust. 

Aaron Martin, born in Connecticut, was the third child in a family of 
eight sons and eight daughters. He came to Williamstown, Vt , with a 
knapsack on his back containing a small amount of clothing and his provis- 
ions for the journey, which he performed on foot. He was one of the hard- 
iest of the pioneers and could travel sixty miles on foot in a day. He located 
in the woods on West hill, the only road to his home being a foot path in- 
dicated by marked trees. He carried a bushel of corn or wheat on his back 
to the mill three miles distant and then continued three miles further and 
peformed a day's work, and returned at night, took his grist at the mill and 
carried it home. He was never confined to his house by illness of any kind 
until after he was seventy years old, when he was so unfortunate as to break 
his hip. He remained on the farm of 200 acres, which he settled, cleared, 
and improved, and fenced it with more than a thousand rods of stone 
wall, which he laid with his own hands. He owned the farm at the time of 
his death, which occurred when eighty-eight years of age. He was the father 



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of a large family, eight of whom lived to mature age. He was prominent in 
town affairs and served as selectman a number of years. Campbell B. Martin, 
the son of Aaron's third wife, Polly Burnham, was born in Williamstown, 
November 27, 1814. He married Miss Persis D. Davis, April 29, 1855, 
and they lived to celebrate their golden wedding, in 1S85, at which time they 
were kindly remembered by their friends, and Mr. Martin received a gold 
headed cane from the selectmen of Berlin. Mr. Martin has spent nearly all 
of his active life in Berlin, and now resides on a fine farm about a mile from 
the pleasant village of Montpelier. where he has lived forty-three years. Be- 
sides cultivating his tarm he has dealt in horses, and largely in sheep. One 
season he handled 4,700, and had extensive dealings in mutton and tallow in 
Montreal. His great knowledge of horses makes his services sought for as a 
veterinary surgeon by the farmers in this and surrounding towns. Berlin is 
a strong Republican town. Mr. Martin is a Jacksonian Democrat, but has 
been honored with the offices of justice of the peace and selectman until he 
refused to hold these positions longer. 

Asa Loveland, one of the first settlers of Berlin, came from Glastenbury, 
Conn. He was a blacksmith and one of the best, and made dentists' tools 
and used them. He bought land from time to time until he had over 200 
acres, which cost only about $1.00 per acre. One field of about five acres 
he bought for a log chain. He was a worthy man and a class-leader of the 
Methodist church. His son Charles succeeded him on the homestead. He 
married Mrs. Louisa (Powell) Huse, daughter of Dr. Moses Powell, of 
Corinth, who was of Scotch descent. Mr. Loveland was always a farmer and 
lived on the homestead. He died in 1856. Their daughter died in 1879, 
aged twenty-six years. 

Ebenezer Eastman, son of Col. Theodore Eastman, 'oorn in Sanbornton, 
N. H., located in Berlin when he was a young man and unmarried, and a few 
years later he married Roxana Shurtleff. Their children were Ezra, Emeline, 
Rudolphus T., Anna M., Caroline, Jane, Omri, Paulina, and Harmon. Mr. 
Eastman came to his death by being crushed by a falling mill at the time of 
a freshet in 1841. All of his four sons served in the late war. Ezra and 
Harmon died of illness at the front, and Omri was killed in battle. 

Frederick Marsh came to Montpelier from Hartford, Conn., about 1833, 
and bought the farm now familiarly known as the Coffee House place. Mr. 
Marsh built an addition to the house, and at the solicitation of Gov. Erastus 
Fairbanks opened it as the Montpelier Temperance Coffee House. Gov. 
Fairbanks promised him his patronage and influence. About 1870 Mr. 
Marsh sold the place and resided in the village of Montpelier until his death. 
His first wife, Harriet Hill, was the mother of all iiis children, four of whona 
are living, viz.: Susan, Ann M., Eli F., and Burridge D. Four are deceased. 
His second wife, Chloe Robbins, survives him. Burridge D. Marsh was born 
in Montpelier, April 26, 1827. April 2, 1853, he married EvaHne E. Perrin. 



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Their children are Hattie, who died in infancy, WiUie D., Hattie M., and 
Annie J. (Mrs. James Pollock), of Clinton, Mass. 

Alanson M. Slocum, born in Sharon, Windsor county, August 7, 1827, 
received a common school education. A.t the age of nineteen years he was 
proprietor of a livery stable at Hanover, N. H., and was agent of the Rut- 
land and Albany stage line. At the age of twenty-four years he went to 
Geneva, 111., and engaged in building the Dixon Air Line railroad, and com- 
pleted fifty-eight miles, and built the second track of thirty miles, from Chicago 
to Turner.' He also built for the same company the levee at Fulton, on the 
Mississippi river, put in 485,000 yards of embankment at La Salle, on the 
Illinois Central, and built eight miles of the Burlington & Missouri River 
railroad. In i860 he was an extensive mail contractor, which business he 
continued eight consecutive years. In 1864, on account of lung troubles, he 
returned East. He then contracted with the Rochester & State Line railway 
to build 107^ miles of their road. When his work was more than two- 
thirds done the company suspended business. He next graded two tracks 
of road for the N. Y. C. from Rochester to Lyons, a distance of thirty-eight 
miles, and ballasted and laid the iron for the same company from Little 
Falls to St. Johnsville. He has been since 1865 a farmer in Berlin. 

Twenty-four citizens of Berlin volunteered and went to Plattsburgh to aid 
in defending our country from a foreign foe in the War of 181 2, but, like 
most of their neighbors, they were too late to participate in the battle. 

In the late war of the Rebellion this town sent her full quota to the front, 
and fully sustained her part in the patriotic record of Washington county. 

The First Congregational church of Berlin was organized October 13, 
1798, by Rev. E. Lyman, of Brookfield, with but three members, viz.: Mr. 
Gofif, Mr. Stewart, and Mr. Flagg. The Congregational church in Waitsfield 
had been organized two years before, and probably this was the second church 
of any denomination organized in the limits of Washington county. About 
1800 the town selected a commanding and pleasant site for a meeting-house, 
near the center of the town, and completed a house 58 by 48 feet in 1803. 
This meeting-house was the property of the town, and was finished in the 
prevailing style, with a tall steeple, and galleries on three sides. It was opened 
for worship, town meetings, theatrical performances, and military drill, and 
was burned in 1838. In 1839, O'' 1840, the Congregational church completed 
their present house of worship at Berlin Corners, at a cost of $2,000. The 
first pastor was Rev. James Hobart, who was ordained November 7, 1798, 
and continued pastor of the church until May, 1829. The present pastor is 
Rev. John J. Hall. The church will seat 250 persons, and together with 
grounds and other church property is valued at $3,000. The Sunday-school 
has 116 scholars, with an average attendance of about seventy-five, and ten 
teachers. This church has sustained worship almost without cessation since 
its organization in 1798. 

In February, 1803, the late Hon. Daniel Baldwin, then a resolute lad of 



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eleven years, who had been attending a school on the lower part of Dog river, 
concluded he would visit his sister, Mrs. Israel Dewey, who lived three or 
four miles up the river, and over a road that mainly led throught a dense for- 
est to his destination near the line of Northfield. He set off about dark, not 
expecting any difficulty in accomplishing his journey, and made good prog- 
ress until he reached the log cabin of Seth Johnson, who, on learning the 
destination of the intrepid boy, shook his head and said, " Daniel, you must 
not try to go through the long woods to your sister's, for if you do the var- 
mints will catch you." But the courageous boy was decided to go on. Where- 
upon Mr. Johnson put a blazing fire-brand into his hand, with these direc- 
tions how to use it : " There, now take it and swing it enough to keep it burn- 
ing, and if the savage brutes beset you, swing it like fury and I'll warrant they 
won't touch you." He had not proceeded more than half a mile before he 
was greeted by a long, dismal howl, off to his left, which was almost instantly 
answered by a chorus of a dozen responsive howls from the side of Irish hill, 
and these ominous howls became more distinct as the hungry pack every 
moment drew nearer. The boy then realized that a large troop of wolves, 
against which he had been warned, were rapidly closing in upon him. He 
quickened his pace to a run for life, and swung his fire-brand as he went, 
while in front, and in rear, to the right and to the left, came the same shrill 
and hungry howl. He leaped forward with the speed of an antelope, the 
next mile, shouting at every bound to keep his own courage up and hoping to 
frighten away his pursuers, until almost overcome by fright and exhaustion he 
succeeded in reaching the home of his brother-in-law. Several settlers in 
the vicinity of the extensive mountain forest of Irish hill had lost sheep, and 
the news of this perilous adventure of young Bildwin spread rapidly in the 
adjacent settlements, and established the fact that a pack of destructive 
wolves really existed in their vicinity, and that Irish hill was their head- 
quarters. The inhabitants in concert joined for their destruction, and assem- 
bled, from miles around, to the number of 400 or 500, the ensuing Saturday, 
early in the morning, at the house of Abel Knapp, Esq. They chose two 
captains, and a general officer to remain at the starting point. The captains 
divided the men into two equal companies, and each led off with a company 
in opposite directions along the borders of the woods, and each left a man 
every fifty or sixty rods, with orders to keep his station until ordered to march 
into the woods. In this manner Irish hill was surrounded. Next came the 
command, " Prepare to march," from the general officer, which was repeated 
by the next stationed at the south, and in succession until the sound died 
away in the distance. In a short time a faint sound was heard in nearly the 
opposite direction, which grew louder and louder until it reached the starting 
point, and p)roved that the ring was complete. Then came the stirring com- 
mand "march," and, as each man sent the order to his next neighbor, he 
marched rapidly towards the center of the ring, as near as he could judge a 
quarter of a mile, and as instructed commanded " halt." And thus rapidly 



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came the commands " march" and " halt " until the ring was so nearly closed 
that it was seen that several wolves were enclosed. The cowed and frightened 
brutes ran galloping round the circle, seeking a place, but in vain, to escape. 
Bullets flew promiscuously and it was discovered that men as well as wolves 
were in danger. At this crisis Thomas Davis, an acknowledged marksman, 
was delegated to go inside of the ring and shoot the wolves. This he did, 
dispatched them all, and endangered no man. We are informed that the 
trophies of the day were seven wolves and ten foxes. The company then 
made the house of the town clerk the objective point. It was soon announced 
that the amount of bounties was sufficient to pay for a supper for the whole 
company ; and while they awaited the cooking, a five gallon keg of rum was 
opened and distributed, which, taken in their exhausted condition, and on 
empty stomachs, upset many never upset by rum before. Thus ended the 
great wolf hunt of 1803, and completely routed the last of these unwelcome 
varmints in Berlin. 



CABOT lies in the eastern part of the county, in latitude 44° 23' and 
longitude 4" 42', and is bounded north by Walden, east by Danville 
and Peacham, south by Marshfield, and west by Woodbury. It is 
located about twenty-one rniles easterly from Montpelier, and seventeen miles 
westerly from St. Johnsbury. It was granted November 6, 1780, and char- 
tered August 17, 1 78 1, to Jesse Leavenworth and sixty-five associates. Mr. 
Leavenworth never lived in Cabot, but settled in West Danville, where he 
built some mills. The town received its name from Mr. Lyman Hitchcock, 
one of the grantees, in honor of his intended bride, Miss Cabot, of Connecti- 
cut, a descendant of Sebastian Cabot. 

The town is six miles square, and contains 23,040 acres. It was surveyed 
into six divisions, of twelve lots each, with an average of 320 acres to each 
lot. November 3, 1786, the proprietors met at the house of Gov. Thomas 
Chittenden, in Arlington, after the survey of the township had been com- 
pleted, and there " Voted, that Giles Chittenden and Truman Chittenden, 
being indifferent persons, be a committee to draw the lots," which they pro- 
ceeded to do in presence of the meeting, " and according to law." Lots 71 
and 72 were set aside for town schools, lot 3 for a college, lot 69 for the 
County Grammar school, the rent of which goes to Peacham Academy, and 
lots 62 and 63 were the minister's lots, the rents to be applied to the support of 
preaching in Cabot. 

The surface of this township is uneven and somewhat broken, yet very lit- 
tle of it is unfit for either cultivation or pasturage. The soil is strong, and 
produces abundant crops of hay. Stock growing and the dairy are the lead- 
ing industries. The timber was mostly haid wood, with some spruce and 
hemlock. The township is well watered by numerous branches, which unite 



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in the southern part of the town and form the Winooski river, which takes a 
southerly course and enters Marshfield. Joe's pond, in the northeast corner 
of the town, and partly in Danville, discharges its waters through Joe's brook 
into the Passumpsic river, and wends its way to the ocean through the Con- 
necticut river. Molly's pond lies about half a mile south of Joe's pond, forms 
Molly's brook, and flows southwesterly and joins the Winooski in Marshfield, 
about half a mile from the south line of Cabot. These streams furnish the 
town a fair supply of water-power. The ponds were favorite resorts of the 
famous Indian, Capt. Joe, and his wife, Molly, whose permanent home was 
in Newbury, and were named for them. Coit's pond is a pretty sheet of water, 
circular in form, and half a mile in diameter, in the northwest part of the town^ 
named for surveyor Coit. West Hill pond originally covered about four acres. 
It is now used for a reservoir, has a dam at the outlet, now covers one hundred 
acres, and supplies the mills with power in the dry season. 

There is nothing remarkable in the mineralogy of Cabot. There is a bed 
of marl near Joe's pond, a small bed of granite, syenite, z.nA protogene near the 
northeastern corner, and a bell of granite in the southeastern corner. The 
principal rock formation is calciferous fnica schist. 

In the spring of 1776 Gen. Jacob Bailey, of Newbury, had orders to con- 
struct a road from Newbury, on the Connecticut river, to St. Johns, in Can- 
ada, for the purpose of conveying troops and provisions to the American army 
in Canada. He built the road into Peacham, when he learned that our army 
had retreated from Canada, and the enterprise was abandoned. 

In 1779 Gen. Hazen was ordered to Peacham with a part of a regiment 
to complete the road commenced by Gen. Bailey in 1776. Gen. Hazen con- 
structed a passable road fifty miles from Peacham through the northeast part 
of Cabot, and over Cabot Plain, through Walden, Hardwick, Greensborough, 
Craftsbury, Albany, and Lowell^ to near Hazen's Notch in Westfield. This 
road was of great advantage to the early settlers, and is still known as the 
Hazen road. The first settlement in Cabot was made on this road, on Cabot 
Plain, and the highest land in the town. In 1781 Col. Thomas Johnson, of 
Newbury, and Col. Jonathan Elkins, of Peacham, were taken by the British 
and marched to Canada. They camped the first night of this journey on this 
location, and when Col. Johnson returned on parole soon after, he again 
camped there ; hence, for many years after, it was known as Johnson's Plain. 
This commanding elevation is the division of the waters that flow easterly 
into Connecticut river, southerly into the Winooski, and westerly into the 
Lamoille. Looking eastward from this plateau the majestic peaks of the 
White Mountains stretch out before you in the distance. Turn to the west- 
ward and your vision is bounded by the western range of the Green Mount- 
ains, the whole forming a panorama of magnificent scenic beauty. 

Benjamin Webster, uncle of the renowned orator and statesman, Daniel 
Webster, came to Cabot in 1782, and made a pitch on this Plain on the 
Hazen road, and commenced an onslaught on the forest ; and in the midst of 



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this opening built the first log cabin in the town. In the spring of 1783 
he moved his family to his cabin. He had been preceded two days by Lieut. 
Jonathan Heath, and the same season they were joined by Nathaniel 
Webster and Lieut. Thomas Lyford and their families. About 1787 six 
families were added to the colony, viz. : David Blanchard, Lyman Hitchcock, 
John Lyford, Jeremiah McDaniels, James Bruce, and Thomas Batchelder. 
All located on the Plain and in the near neighborhood on the Hazen road. 

The town was organized at the first town meeting of Cabot, held at the 
house of Thomas Lyford, the last Saturday of March, 1788. At this meeting 
the following list of town ofificers were elected and duly sworn into office by 
Walter Brock, justice of the peace: Captain Jesse Leavenworth, moderator ; 
Lieut. Jonathan Heath, Lieut. Thomas Lyford, and Lieut. David Blanchard, 
selectmen; Maj. Lyman Hitchcock, treasurer; Ensign Jeremiah McDaniels, 
constable; Edmund Chapman, surveyor of highways; and Ensign Jeremiah 
McDaniels, collector of taxes. At this organization the number of voters in 
the town could not have been more than ten or twelve, and of the seven 
officers elected six held military commissions. At this time Cabot was 
included in Orange county. In 1792 Caledonia county was formed from a 
part of Orange, and Cabot formed a part of the new organization until after 
the county seat was changed from Danville to St. Johnsbury, in 1855, when, 
by the exertions and influence of Cabot's representative, Dr. M. P. Wallace, 
the town was transferred to Washington county. 

About the time Caledonia county was set ofif from Orange, Dr. Greshom 
and Horace Beardsley entertained so sanguine an opinion that Cabot would 
be the shire town, that they proceeded to clear two acres of land in a pasture 
now owned by S. S. Batchelder, for the county buildings. The ground was 
thoroughly prepared by taking out the stumps of the trees, and removing all 
obstructions. On this site they raised the first frame house in town. This 
frame was all hard wood and two stories high, and it required a large force of 
men, and a corresponding quantity of rum, to raise it. All the men and 
women in Cabot, Peacham, and Danville were invited to the raising, and two 
barrels of rum was provided for the occasion, (to meet the threats that those 
invited " would drink the Beardsleys dry,") and all were invited to help them- 
selves. The rum there imbibed lasted a great many two days, and in after 
years they enjoyed rehearsing the incidents of this " raising." The Beardsleys 
did not realize their hopes in the location of the county site, and their build- 
ing was not finished where it was raised. In about two years it was removed 
to the Plain, nicely finished, and became the renowned " Yellow House," and 
the favorite inn of the travelers passing between the north and Connecticut 
river. The Plain was the " hub " of the town for about eighteen years, when, 
like other " cities set on a hill," the business gradually slid into the valleys, and 
now there remains but a single farm house to mark the place of its departed 
glory. 

The first child born in town was a daughter to Thomas Blanchard, October 



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3, 1787. The first death was that of Benjamin West, who was crushed by 
the falling of a large tree, in the winter of 1786. The first marriage was 
David Lyford to Judith Heath, July 23, 1^95, by James Morse, Esq. Mr. 
Morse came from Barre, Mass., in 1789, and settled at the center of the town. 
He built the first house (of logs) in that locality, and later kept in it the first 
tavern in town. He was the first justice of the peace and received his 
appointment in 1792. He foresaw that he would be called on to officiate at 
weddings, and felt that he could do better if he had some experience. He 
accordingly placed his son David beside the stump of a tree, and proceeded 
to marry him to it. David, as directed, assented that he would love, cherish, 
and protect her, and David and the stump were solemnly pronounced hus- 
band and wife. David would not marry until the stump rotted down. This 
nervous justice became confused when performing a real ceremony next time 
and made the groom promise to " forsake her and cleave to all other women." 
Thomas Lyford was elected first representative in 1791, but failed to attend 
the legislature. In 1792 Mr. Morse, above mentioned, was elected, and after 
his election his wife spun and wove the flax from which she made new 
"trowsers " for him to wear to the session which met at Rutland, October 1 1. 
The day before he started he killed a lamb, and Mrs. Morse cooked luncheon 
enough to last him through the journey. Clad in the new trowsers with a 
pack on his back, he made the journey to Rutland and home again on foot. 
He was a smoker, and in some way drew his picture on the fence with his 
pipe in his mouth and his pack on his back, and over it wrote in large letters, 
" Going to Rutland." James Morse also owned the first wagon in town. 
The box or body is said to have been about six feet long, bolted tight to the 
axle, and it was considered a gay vehicle. 

The first stove in town was possessed- by Dea. James Marsh, cost $80, and 
was long enough to take wood three feet long. The first clock in town, a 
tall, cased, brass one, was owned by Hon. John W. Dana. Mrs. John W. 
Dana had the first carpet, which came to her in the division of her mother's 
things. 

In 1788 Lieut. Thomas Lyford, the third settler in town, bought the land 
where the village of Cabot now stands, and in 1789 completed the first saw- 
mill in Cabot, on the Winooski, at this place. The irons for this mill were 
made at Newbury and drawn on a hand sled to the mill the previous winter- 
Mr. Lyford and his son Thomas, Jr., soon after built a grist-mill with one run 
of stones split out of granite. It occupied the site of the present grist-mill. 
This mill did grinding not only for Cabot, but for towns miles around. 

At the first town meeting, held in 1788, a vote was passed to raise twenty 
bushels of wheat, to be expended for the support of a town school ; but this 
vote was recinded at the next town meeting, held in March, 1789, on account 
of the great scarcity of wheat. At the same meeting the town voted thirty 
bushels of wheat for a summer and winter school ; but the matter was re- 
luctantly deferred on account of the inability of the people to meet the ex- 



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pense. The first school-house stood at the foot of Shephard hill, and was 
built of logs, benches were used for seats, wooden pins were driven into holes 
bored into the logs, and boards laid on them for writing-desks. The first 
school was taught by John Gunn in the summer of 1792. 

The first settled minister was Rev. Benjamin Page, pastor of the Freewill 
Baptist church, in 1803. Mr. Nicholas Warner was the first postmaster, in 

1808. The first mail carrier, Henry Denny, rode on horseback, and his 
route extended to the Canada line. The carriers continued to carry the 
mail on horseback until 1827, when Dea. Adams, then the carrier, tried the 
experiment of a stage, and put on a two-horse team for the purpose of carry- 
ing passengers. His conveyance was a wagon with the body firmly bolted to 
the axles. This uncomfortable kind of vehicle was continued in use until 
1830, and was then superseded by a line of good coaches, which ran from. 
Moritpelier to Danville, and returned next day. This arrangement continued 
the ensuing two years, when Cabot received a daily mail from Montpelier,, 
and it now receives a daily mail from both the Boston & Lowell and Mont- 
pelier «Sr Wells River railroads. 

The first distillery was erected on Cabot Plain by Hanson Rogers, in. 

1809. Until the time of the War of 1812, the surplus product of the distil- 
leries, after supplying a brisk home market, had been hauled by teams to 
Boston and Portland. Then large quantities of whiskey were smuggled 
across the Canada line and sold to the British soldiers. This, although risky^ 
was a very lucrative business, and at one time there were twelve distilleries 
in full blast manufacturing potato whiskey in Cabot. 

In 1 819 Robert Lance built the first cider mill. The young orchards 
were then bearing abundantly, and the inhabitants had cider as well as whis- 
key. Mr. J. M. Fisher says in his history of Cabot : " Cider and whiskey 
were the staple commodities of the times, and were regarded very much as 
United States currency in these days. No farmer thought of beginning 
winter with less than twelve or fifteen barrels of cider, and one or two barrels 
of whiskey in his cellar. No occasion was perfect without it." It was indis- 
pensible at friendly visits, at births, weddings^ funerals, raisings, bees, and 
when the pastor made a call. When the ladies collected at a " quilting," 
every time they rolled the quilt, all must take some toddy. Frequently when 
this process had been repeated three or four times, the ladies were ready to 
stop work, tell stories, and have a good jolly time. 

In 1880 Cabot had a population of 1,242. In October, 1888, the town, 
contained fourteen school districts, and employed during the school year 
three male and twenty-three female teachers, some portion of the year, at an 
average weekly salary of $8.00 and $4.70, respectively. There were 335. 
scholars, twelve of whom attended private schools. The entire income for 
school purposes was $2,224.74, and the whole sum expended for school 
purposes was $2,485.55. J. P. Lamson was superintendent. 



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Cabot village is located on the main branch of the Winooski river in the 
southwest part of the town. The saw and grist-mills built by the Lyfords, 
before mentioned, in 1789, proved the nucleus of the present beautiful and 
thrifty village. In 1794 Mr. Lyford built the first dweUing house, in the 
garden in front of the house where Mrs. J. Lance now resides. Some twelve 
or fifteen years later John W. Dana, the leading business man of the town, 
foreseeing that this place would be the business center of the town, bought 
an extensive tract of land where the village now stands, removed from the 
Plain to this place and opened a store, and builr a potash and pearlash manu- 
factory, and distillery, and from this time onward the business of the town 
has centered here. A hotel was soon opened by John Damon, a cloth-dress- 
ing and wool carding mill by George Fielding, a blacksmith shop with atrip- 
hammer and small foundry by William Scales. The village thus located 
about midway between Montpelier and St. Johnsbury, the travel, stage line, 
and freight for the two places passed through here and made inn-keeping a 
lucrative business; and many an old-time traveler refers with pleasant 
memories to "mine host'' Bliss, and his genial wife. Other industries and 
managers have come and gone. 

November 19, 1866, the village was incorporated, and now (1888) it con- 
tains a population of 260 souls. It has a well equipped fire department, a 
well fenced and shady public park, which contains a fine Barre granite soldiers' 
monument twenty-five feet high and a good band stand. It also has two 
church edifices (Congregational and Methodist), a fine graded school, a grist- 
mill, a hotel, several stores, sixty-six neat and tidy dwelling houses, and the 
usual number of shops, mechanics, and artisans. 

Lower Cabot, on the Winooski river, one mile southwest from Cabot 
village, is a post village, and contains two meeting-houses, a woolen-mill, a 
dry goods and a grocery store, a blacksmith shop, and about thirty dwellings. 
The first settlement here was commenced by Reuben Atkins, in 1799. 

South Cabot (p. o.) is located on Molly's brook, in the southeastern part 
of the town, and was formerly called Flookersville. Parker Hooker settled 
here in 1810 and built up the place. This village contains the Hooker saw- 
mill, owned by Harvey Clark, a carriage repair shop, a blacksmith shop, one 
store, a school-house, and thirteen dwellings. 

East Cabot (p. o.) is a hamlet on Molly's brook, a short distance below 
the outlet of Molly's pond. John Heath commenced here in 18 [7. His 
team with which he cleared land, went to mill, and to meeting, was one stag. 

Ira F. Haines's liioolenmills are located on road 41, at Lower Cabot, and 
on the Winooski river, which furnishes the motive power. Mr. Haines man- 
ufactures cassimeres and flannels and does custom carding. These mills were 
built about 1825, by Horace Haines and William Ensign, for the purpose of 
wool-carding and cloth-dressing. After a number of years Mr. Haines sold 
his interest, but in 1849 became its owner, and since then the business has 
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Fowler S. Ford manufactures butter boxes and dairy utensils, and makes 
a specialty of stamping designs, at Lower Cabot, at tiie shop formerly occupied 
by True A.. Town, in the manufacture of boot-trees and novelties. Mr. Ford 
commenced this branch of business in South Peacham in 1878, and pur- 
chased and removed to his present quarters in 1885. 

Two of the earliest settlers, David Lyford and his neighbor Blanchard, had 
each built a log cabin and barn of the same material partly in rear of the 
house. These pioneers were separated by a narrow swail, and their cabins 
stood facing each other, not more than thirty rods apart. This low ground 
was still a bit of the forest, with large trees and thick bushes on either side of 
the narrow foot path. These neighbors had held peaceable possession of their 
claims, without molestation, and had been prosperous • each had cleared sev- 
eral acres around his buildings, and had enough for the support of his family. 
About the middle of one afternoon in August of the third year of this embryo 
settlement, David Lyford and his efficient helpmeet, Judith, had just finished 
a job of dressing flax. Mr. Lyford had plied the heavy break, and Judith had 
performed her part by hatcheling the flax. Judith remarked to David that 
while he was putting the break away she would run across to neighbor 
Blanchard's and return the borrowed hatchel. Mrs. Lyford carried the dressed 
flax into the house and laid it away until she could spin it, and started on her 
errand, fortunately leaving the heavy plank door open. About half way home, 
in passing a short curve in the path, she found herself in arm's length of a 
cub bear, weighing fifteen or twenty pounds, and through the thick bushes 
she caught a glimpse of the old bear and another cub. Not the least intimi- 
dated, in a defiant way, she caught up the cub by the hind legs and ran. The 
cub squealed and began to scratch and bite ; she instantly wrapped him in 
her stout homespun apron, and kept on at her utmost speed. She heard the 
old bear crashing through the bushes m hot pursuit. The impulse that im- 
pelled her to seize the cub prompted her to keep it, and keep it she did. 
With a determination to win the race she dashed along the pathway, con- 
scious that the furious beast was gaining on her at every leap. She reached 
the house, darted through the open doorway, flung the cub from her, swung 
the plank door to, and dropped the wooden bar into its socket, but none 
too soon. The enraged mother bear instantly threw her great weight against 
it, but it was made for just such an emergency, and did not yield. Imagine 
the surprise and anxiety of her husband, as he caught a glimpse of his wife 
darting in at the door with a full-grown and furious bear not a rod behind her ! 
He ran to the window behind the house ; but Judith was there before him, 
with their trusty gun, always kept loaded for instant use. The cries of the 
cub had rendered the bear frantic. In her efforts to break through the door 
she did not see David, who, with a well-directed shot, laid her dead. The 
cub in the house shared the fate of its dam, and David went to the swamp in 
search of the other, but it had escaped. 

Nathaniel Webster, a Revolutionary soldier, was born in Chester, N. PI., in 



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1753, and settled in Cabot in 1783. He married Mahitabel Smith, of Hol- 
derness, and twelve children were born to them. Their sons Abel, Harvey, 
and Alpheus settled in Cabot, and were identified with the early interests of 
the town. 

Lieut. Fifield Lyford was born in Exeter, N. H., in 1763. At the age of 
thirteen years he entered the Revolutionary war as a servant to his father, 
Lieut. Thomas Lyford, and was with him one year at Ticonderoga. He then 
went to West Point and was one of Gen. Arnold's hfe-guards, until the Gen- 
eral proved a traitor to our country. He remained with the army until the 
close of the war. He married and settled in Cabot in 1788, and built on 
his farm the first framed barn in town. He served as a lieutenant in the War 
of 18 1 2, was honorably discharged, and received a pension. He died at the 
home of his son-in-law, T. E. Wilson, in Cabot, April 18, 1846, aged seventy- 
nine years. 

Hector McLean was born in Milton, Mass., in 1790, and came into this 
town on foot at a very early date. He married Lucretia, daughter of Salmon 
Elkins, of Greensboro, and four of their seven children are now living (1888). 
He was a merchant over forty years in Lower Cabot and Peacham. In 1836 
he opened a hotel and aided in building up the village by starting a potash 
manufactory and blacksmith shop. He was also postmaster. He was hon- 
est and careful in deal and made his contracts in writing. His son Samuel 
E., who resides at Lower Cabot, says that his father would draw a written 
contract so binding and strong that it would ruin both parties to it. Samuel 
E. McLean is a farmer and painter, and was a soldier in the late war. 

Thomas Osgood came to Cabot from Claremont, N. H., about 1793, and 
settled where his grandson, Albert Osgood, now lives. He commenced clear- 
ing a farm when there were but few settlers in town and was obliged to 
encounter all the hardships and inconveniences incidental to this new settle- 
ment. He married a Miss Catlin, and eleven children blessed their union. 
Mr. Osgood served the town as clerk from 1795 ^o 1832, with the single ex- 
ception of 1822, v/hen Josiah Fisher held the office. He was town treasurer 
in all forty-two years. His son Thomas, Jr., born here June 19, 1804, suc- 
ceeded him on the homestead, and, because of the infirmities of his age, he 
also succeeded his father as town clerk, and served until 1858, a term of 
twenty-six years, when, on account of illness, he resigned, dying soon after. 
He too was town treasurer and held the position fifteen years. December 
9, 1829, he married Almira Buck, and six children were born to them, viz.: 
Albert, born October 7, 1830; Fanny, born April 12, 1834; Joshua, born 
February 18, 1840; Emily, born February 5, 1843; William H., born 
August 26, 1845; Benjamin F., born March 18, 1849. Thomas Osgood, Jr., 
died June g, 1858, and his wife died July 31, 1858. His sons Albert and 
Benjamin F. now live on the old homestead. Albert married Mrs. Fanny 
P. Hall, and five of their eight children are living. 

Dr. Parley Scott was born in Worcester, Mass., in July, 1765. He married 



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Lydia Day, about 1790, and settled for the practice of medicine on Cabot 
Plain, in 1794, and removed to the village in 1804. He died in 1850, aged 
eighty-four years. Mrs. Scott died before him at the age of eighty-three. 
They had eight children, only one of whom, Mr. George W. Scott, of Mont- 
pelier, is now living. Dr. Scott was a successful physician more than fifty 
years in Cabot. He made his professional visits on horseback, and was the 
physician of the poor as well as of the rich. 

Joseph Fisher, born in Dedham, Mass., in 1769, remembered distinctly the 
battle of Bunker Hill. He married Sarah Osgood, and settled in Cabot soon 
after he attained his majority. He died in 1853, aged eighty-seven years, 
Mrs. Fisher died in 1839, aged seventy years. They had four sons and three 
daughters. Mr. Fisher and his sons were public-spirited and enterprising, 
men, and filled many of the offices in town. 

John Stone was born in the town of Claremont, N. H.. January 15, 1775, 
and about 1797 settled in Cabot, on the " Dean farm." where he resided about 
forty years, and then removed to the farm where his son Matthias Jones Stone 
now lives, and where he spent the remainder of his life. About 1803 he mar- 
ried Betsey Huntoon, of Kingston, N. H. They had ten children, all of 
whom lived to be over sixty-three years of age, and six are yet living. Four 
of their sons were ministers of the gospel. Matthias J. Stone, before men- 
tioned, was born in Cabut, February 24, 1818. In April, 1843, he married 
Adaline Kennon, of Cabot. Their children are William L., Susie A., and 
Justin. Mrs. Stone died October 28, 1866. February 29, 1876, Mr. Stone 
married Sarah C. Gove. He possesses a comfortable competence for his ap- 
proaching old age. 

Ezra Hoyt was born in Deerfield, N. H., in September, 1776. In March, 
1802, he married Sarah Cram, of Meredith, N. H., who was born in February, 
1 78 1. Mr. Hoyt was a farmer, and settled in Cabot in 1797, and experi- 
enced the hardships and privations of a pioneer settler. Their children were 
Sarah, Mary, Sophronia, Enoch, and Asenath. Enoch was born on the home- 
stead, January 15, 181 2, where he resided until December, 1863. He was 
four times married, first, to Huldah Kenaston ; second, to Lucia (Hop- 
kins) Orcutt ; third, to Irena Lyford ; and fourth, to Ann Lyford. He was 
the father of three children. His first wife was the mother of his daughters 
Emily A. and Martha S. His second wife was the mother of his only son, 
George, who resides with his father. In 1863 Mr. Hoyt removed to the place 
where he now resides. He enjoys the confidence and respect of his towns- 
men, was captain of a company of artillery, has served as selectman for a 
number of years, and in other town offices. His son George married Eva 
Seabury, daughter of C. M. Seabury, who died in March, 1888. They are 
the parents of a son and daughter. 

Dea. Joseph Blanchard and his wife, Phebe (Abbott), from Plainfield, N. H., 
settled in Cabot about 1797, on the farm where James Marsh now Uves. He 
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and in the War of 1812. He was one 
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of the first deacons of the Freewill Baptist church (the first church organized in 
Cabot), and selectman in 1808-09. Late in life he was a pensioner. He 
died in 1833, aged seventy-seven years. Mrs. Blanchard died in 183 i, aged 
seventy-one. His oldest son was a soldier in the War of 181 2. His daughter 
Hannah, born in Cabot, August 3, 1806, married Horace Beckley, of Barre. 

Elihu Coburn, born in Charlton, Mass., came to Cabot on horseback in 
the summer of 1799, and selected the pleasant valley among the hills where 
his son Elihu F. Coburn now lives and where Elihu was born in 1815. Mr. 
Coburn commenced immediately to clear a space in the forest and build a 
frame house, one of the first in town. He remained until winter, when he 
returned to Massachusetts and married Abigail Putnam, and in January they 
came to their abode m the wilderness. Four years after his parents followed 
him to Cabot, and a few years later her parents joined them. Mr. Coburn 
converted his wilderness into fertile fields, and surrounded himself and family 
with the comforts of a farmer's home. He was highly respected and a most 
estimable man. Eight children were born to them. Mr. Coburn died at the 
age of seventy years. Mrs. Coburn survived him about six years. They kept 
the celebrated " Farmers' Tavern " about thirty years. 

Reuben Atkins was the first to settle in Lower Cabot. In 1799 he built a 
log house on the site where his grandson, the late William S. Atkins, lived. 
He made maple sugar in his door-yard the first season. The next year he 
built the framed barn now standing on the place and in good condition. Mr. 
Atkins was prominent in town affairs and was one of the board of selectmen 
in 1799 ^"d 1800. His son Jeremiah was born on the farm in 1800, and 
here resided his entire life. He married Serepta Hincher, of Bethel, Vt. 
They had eight children, four of whom lived to rear families. Col. Atkins 
took an active interest in the military organizations of Cabot, and rose to the 
rank of colonel, by which title he was afterwards distinguished. He died in 
August, 1873, ^.nd Mrs. Atkins died in July, 1879. His son William S. was 
born in 1832. He married Mary Converse, of Lyme, N. H., who survives 
him and resides on the homestead. They were parents of four children, one 
of whom is a son. William S. Atkins was a true Christian gentleman, of 
sterling integrity, and the religion that he professed attended him in his 
daily fife and governed him in his dealings with others. He was a faithful 
and earnest worker in the M. E. church, and superintendent of the Sunday- 
school twenty years. 

Nathaniel Farrington, a native of Dedham, Mass., married Elizabeth 
Whiting, of his native town, and settled, first, in Lyndeboro, N. H. About 
1799 they settled in the southern part of Walden, Vt., near where the South 
Walden church now stands, and kept the first public house in the town, in 
their log cabin. This was soon replaced by a framed building ; and still later 
by the present house, at the Corners, which was kept in the Farrington name 
about seventy years. Edward W. Farrington, the only surviving son of 
Nathaniel, was born August 26, 1804, and has always been a farmer. He 



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resided in Waldeii until 1867, when he removed to Cabot, where he now re- 
sides, aged eighty-four years. He married Sarah M. Rogers, whose mother 
was the daughter of Benjamin Webster, one of the first settlers of Cabot. 
She was a cousin of Daniel Webster. Mr. and Mrs. Farrington had born to 
them nine children, five of whom are now living. His son John A. is a 
merchant in Cabot. Mr. Farrington is well preserved for one of his great 
age, and takes great interest in current events. 

James Marsh was born in Salisbury, N. H., July 23, 1775. In 1801 he 
married Miriam Walbridge, and in that year settled in Cabot. Only three of 
their eight children are living. Henry, their son, lost his life in the service of 
his country in the late war. James, the youngest of this family, also enlisted, 
in Co. G, 4th Vt. Regt., and received a gun-shot wound in his hip, and for 
this disability he is now a pensioner. He united in marriage with Lydia 
Merrill, of Cabot. Their only surviving son, Fred, married Bertha Lance, 
October 26, 1886, and resides with his father. 

David Curmingham and his wife, Jane (Ritchie), natives of Scotland, 
settled in Cabot on the farm now occupied by their son David about 1842. 
Their children were Jane (Mrs. Roswell Laird), of Cabot; Lizzie (Mrs. 
Robert Urie), of Craftsbury ; Janet and Margaret, also of Craftsbury ; and 
David, before mentioned. The* latter married Selah A. Knapp, of Moretown. 
David, Sr., died at the age of sixty years, and his wife at the age of sixty-five. 

Matthias Stone, son of Matthias, was born in Cabot on the " Payne farm," 
April 21, 1802, and here he lived twenty-three years, when he settled on the 
farm now occupied by his son EH H. B. Stone. He married Perrilla Davi- 
son, and reared a family of six children, viz.: Charles, Henry, Huldah J., 
Matthias, Eli H. B., Annette, and Demis. There were but few farms cleared 
in town when Mr. Stone was born, and he experienced with others many 
hardships incident to new settlements. He was possessed of great courage 
and energy. His daring sometimes led him into dangerous encounters with 
the bears which then inhabited the forest. As an illustration, at an organized 
bear hunt he had only a pitch-fork for a weapon, with which he bravely 
attacked bruin, who refused to surrender, and closed in for a genuine tussle. 
Mr. Stone was a match in strength and grit for his shaggy adversary, and he 
conquered, but carried the scars of a wound on his hip to his grave. He 
died at his home, March 2, 1888, aged eighty-six years. His wife died 
December 20, 1882. Eli H. B. Stone resides on the homestead as before 
mentioned. He married Martha Badger, of Danville, and they have three 
children. 

Hon. John W. Dana, son of John W. Dana and Hannah, daughter of 
Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame, was born in Pomfret, Vt., 
in 1777, and settled in Cabot in the spring of 1802, and very soon became 
its most prominent citizen. He settled on the Plain, and was an extensive 
dealer in real estate, cattle, and produce, and conducted a well stocked store 
for the times. About 18 12 Mr. Dana moved from the Plain, to the valley 



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where the village of Cabot now stands, and was largely instrumental in build- 
ing it. He gave to the town the land which now constitutes the beautiful 
Village park, furnished most of the means to build the first Methodist church, 
and gave liberally to benevolent objects. He was respected and honored by 
his townsmen, and was chosen to all the important offices in their gift. His 
wife was the daughter of Rev. Mr. Damon, of Woodstock, Vt. They had 
born to them four sons and four daughters. One daughter still survives and 
resides in Wisconsin, and also one son, the Hon. O. F. Dana, for many years 
a trusted and efficient officer in the treasury department at Washington, D. C. 
In 1839 Mr. Dana sold his property in Cabot and removed to Wisconsin,, 
where some of his married daughters had settled. He died in 1850. Mrs. 
Dana survived until 1872. 

Moses, son of Reuben Clark, was born in Cabot, November 14, 1803. Mr. 
Clark has been married four times and has outlived his early associates. He 
commenced active life when Cabot was very sparsely settled and has seen the 
forests disappear, and generations come and go. He says there is not one 
person living on the road between Cabot and Peacham villages that was there 
in his early recollection. Mr. Clark has in his day given his influence in 
molding affairs of his town, and now, in his well preserved old age, is fond of 
giving incidents, reminiscences, and anecdotes of the early times and early 
settlers. 

Abiah Colburn came from Hartford to Cabot in 1804, and settled on the 
farm now owned by S. S. Batchelder. September i, 1804, their son Zerah. 
the world-renowned boy mathematician, was born. His parents were poor 
and obscure, but respectable. It is said they considered Zerah the most 
backward of any of their children, until in the beginning of August, 1810, 
when he was a little less than six years old, while his father was at work at 
a joiner's bench, the child was at play on the floor with chips, the father was 
astonished by hearing Zerah, saying to himself, " 5 times 7 are 35 ; 6 times S 
are 48," etc. Mr. Colburn at once proceeded to examine him in the multi- 
plication table, and found him perfect in that, and then asked the product of 
13 by 97, to which 1,261 was instantly given. In twelve months his fame as 
a mathematical prodigy spread over America and all Europe, without the aid 
of a telegraph. His father soon had him on exhibition in Danville at the 
time of the session of the court, at Montpelier before the legislature, and at 
Boston. Questions of two and three places in figures in multiplication, in 
proportion, extraction of the roots, exact squares and cubes, were proposed and 
correct answers given without apparent effort. In Boston he received Hberal 
offers to educate his son. One was to raise $5,000, and give the father 
$2,500, the remaining $2,500 to be devoted to Zerah's education; but to 
these proposals Mr. Colburn would not accede. From Boston Mr. Colburn 
took his son to New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. In these places he 
did not receive the encouragement that he hoped for pecuniarily. April 3, 
181 2, he embarked for England, and arrived in London May 24. Here 



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Zerah was called upon by the high and the noble, and invited to visit the 
crowned heads. Here his mathematical powers were subjected to the sever- 
est tests. He was able to solve the most difficult questions. 

During all this time his education had been neglected, and men of influ- 
ence generously offered the means for his education. After a delay of about 
four years, when the lad was twelve years old, he was placed at school, and 
while in school received liberal gifts of money for his support. He was moved 
from school to school by his father and consequently was often in straitened 
circumstances. Suffice it to say Mr. Colburn died February 14, 1823, and in 
destitute circumstances. By the contributions of Zerah's friends he was en- 
abled to sail for America July 3, 1825, and arrived in Cabot after an absence 
of thirteen years. In a few months he connected with the Methodist church 
as a preacher, and in his ministry of seven years he had as many different 
appointments. On account of poor health he gave up preaching in 1834, and 
accepted a professorship in Norwich University. He died March 2, 1839, of 
consumption, at the early age of thirty-four years and six months. 

He did not retain his wonderful mathematical powers after he was educated 
and entered the ministry. So said his daughter to Mr. J. M. Fisher, to whom 
we are indebted for this sketch. 

Robert Lance was born in England in 177 1. He emigrated to America, 
and married Hannah Heath, of Chester, N. H., and in 1804 removed to 
Cabot. He was the first to make regular trips to Boston to haul freight. His 
team was a pair of horses and two pairs of oxen. He carried whiskey, salts, 
and pork to Boston and returned with molasses, codfish, and other goods in- 
dispensable to new settlements. It then required from four to six weeks to 
make the round trip. Mr. Lance died in 1847, aged seventy-six years. Mrs. 
Lance died several years earlier. Four sons and five daughters were born to 
them. One of the daughters, Mrs. Dean, is now living in Cabot, aged eighty- 
one years. The sons, William, Robert, Joseph, and John, were all citizens 
of Cabot and identified with the growth and prosperity of the town. Joseph 
was born in Chester, N. H., in 1799. In 1830 he engaged in mercantile 
business in Calais. He represented Calais in the legislature of 1837 and '38, 
and held many other offices of trust. In 1839 ^^ purchased the entire estate 
of Hon. John W. Dana, in Cabot, and in 1845 removed to this town where 
he held many town offices, and managed all these interests with marked 
ability. He dealt largely in real estate and live stock, and was a successful 
financier. He was liberal to the poor and gave freely to benevolent objects, 
and often remarked that the money thus spent was well invested. He mar- 
ried Cynthia Tucker in 1833. They had four children, three of whom are 
now living. Mr. Lance died in October, 1865. Mrs. Lance still survives. 

John D. Lance, the youngest son of Robert, was born in Cabot, August 
27, 1812, and died April 2, 1886. March 12, 1833, he was united in mar- 
riage with Prudence, daughter of Dea. Silas Jacobs, who was born June 22, 
18 18, and who still survives. At the time of his marriage Mr. Lance settled 



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on a farm, but devoted most of his time in speculation in cattle, sheep, and 
horses, and two or three years later, in addition, he was a heavy dealer in 
butter. In 1838, to secure a debt, he came in possession of a store and a 
heavy stock of goods at Lower Cabot, and was from necessity, not choice, a 
merchant the ensuing two years. From 1862 until the close of the late war 
he was United States agent in the purchase of horses for the army. Mr. 
Lance continued to deal successfully in live stock up to 1870, when he retired 
to his farm. On account of his practical knowledge of men and business he 
was kept by his town at the head of the board of selectmen, and in the office 
of town agent. He is now represented by four sons, viz.: George Lance, 
born November 17, 1836, resides in South Woodbury, where he has been 
postmaster the last twelve years, and town clerk the last six ye^irs. He con- 
ducts a country store, and is a trainer, breeder, and dealer in fine horses. 
Paul Lance, born September it, 1841, is an enterprising farmer, and resides 
in Cabot. Dr. Robert W. Lance, born May 28, 1848, is a practicing physi- 
cian, and resides at South Woodbury. Dr. John B. Lance was born in 
Marshfield, March 13, 185 1, commenced the study of medicine at the Hom- 
eopathic Medical College of New York, and graduated from the Huron Hos- 
pital College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1877. ^^ commenced the practice of 
his profession in Cabot, and subsequently removed to Campton village, where 
he had a large practice. September g, 1888, he located in Montpelier, where 
he has every prospect of success. April 15, 1885, Dr. Lance united in mar- 
riage with Miss Emma F. Wood, of Campton, N. H. 

John Damon was an early settler of Cabot Plain. He was a man of energy 
and ability, and opened a store. He had been preceded in the business by 
John W. Dana, also a man of ability, and in a short time they owned nearly 
all the land in the vicinity, comprised in 1,000 acres. They often wintered 
one hundred head of cattle. Mr. Damon also opened his house as a tavern. 
Later he built a hotel at the village, which he conducted. Mr. Damon was a 
son of Rev. George Damon, of Woodstock, Vt. He married Nancy Strong, 
of Connecticut. His son John H., born in 1822, married Nancy T. Coffin, 
of Cabot, and has always resided in his native town except two years spent 
in Michigan. His children are George F., who resides in Kansas Cityj 
Lizzie C. (Mrs. M. M. Whitney), of Marshfield; and Julia H. (Mrs. Albert 
H. Steele), of Worcester, Mass. 

Benjamin Smith, born in Claremont, N. H., came to Cabot in his early 
boyhood. In 1826 he married Betsey C. Grant, and reared ten children, all 
of whom were born in the same house. Joseph V. Smith, their eldest son, 
was born April 17, 1828. He married Orilla St. Clair, of Cabot, and 
resides on road 71 (Molly Brook road). They have two children, Laura G. 
(Mrs. Hiram A. Wilson) and Albert J., both of whom reside with their 
father. 

James Patterson was born in Annandale, Scotland, in 1818. When he was 
nmeteen years old he immigrated to America and lived in the vicinity of Bos- 



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ton about a year. He then went to Ryegate, Vt., married Mary Jane 
Whitehill, and settled m that town. In 1847 he removed to Cabot, where 
Mrs. Patterson died. He afterward married Laurie A. Berret, who was the 
mother of his two children. Mr. Patterson has been industrious and prudent, 
and the aggregate of his savings is now a fine competence. 

Abel Merrill, of Cabot, son of Abel, was an early settler of Danville. He 
married Margaret McLean, daughter of Capt. Donald McLean, a Scotchman, 
and captain in the Revolutionary war. The three eldest of their eight children 
died early. The oldest of the survivors, Edwin Jack Merrill, enlisted in the 
2d Vt. Artillery, and was commissioned captain of Co. A. This regiment was 
stationed at Washington two years to guard the Capitol. Gen. Grant called 
them to the field. They were so unfortunate as to be captured by the enemy, 
on the VVeldon railroad. Capt. Merrill was shot and fatally wounded in an 
attempt to escape, en route with other prisoners, to Macon, Georgia. Hec- 
tor McClure Merrill left home for CaUfornia, and the family have had no 
tidings from him for years. Oscar F. Merrill married Clara B. Kimball, of 
Cabot, and remained at the old home on the farm with his father. Their 
children are Edwin Jack, who is married and resides with his father, and 
Charles Oscar, a school boy. Abel Merrill, Jr., enlisted as a private in the 
3d Regt. Vt. Vols., left Vermont with his regiment when it went to the 
field, remained with it through all vicissitudes, and for his courage at the battle 
of Antietam he received a lieutenant's commission, and was later adjutant of 
the regiment. He fell in the terrible battle of the Wilderness. Merrill 
Post, G. A. R., No. 71, of Cabot, was named in honor of these brave soldiers. 
Jennie Merrill, their sister, married Dr. A. M. Ruggles, of Barton. 

Ames Walbridge, son of Eleazer, who was an early settler of Randolph, Vt., 
was born in Randolph, and was an early settler of Cabot. He married 
Rachel Laird and settled on the farm where Levi J. Walbridge now lives. 
He was a man of great physical strength, just the right material for a pio- 
neer. He was greatly interested in fruit growing, and planted seeds which 
he brought from Randolph, and in time he had a large and thrifty orchard. 
He died of measles April 2, 1833, aged fifty-six years. His wife survived him 
fourteen years. They were parents of fourteen children, eleven of whom 
married and raised families. Only four are living. Leander and Lyman reside 
in Cabot. Leander married Nancy J. Wood, of Greensboro, who is a lineal 
descendant of Robert Johnston, one of the earliest settlers of Newbury, Vt. 
They have two children, Robert P., who married Lilla E. Farr, of Craftsbury, 
January i, 1887, and Gertrude J. 

Allen Perry was born in Cabot, October 29, 1815. He was a son of 
Anthony and Submit (Wheatly) Perry, who were among the first settlers in 
town. Mr. Perry was from Waterbury, Me.; his wife from Brookfield, Vt. 
They located where Addison Laird now lives. They had nine children, 
seven of whom lived to maturity, viz.: Nathaniel W., Anthony P., Mary V. 
(Mrs. Joseph Hoyt), of Cameron, Mo., Elijah, Susan (Mrs. Ames Walbridge), 



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Charles, and Allen. Nathaniel W., a physician, is deceased. Elijah was for thirty 
years in business in Cabot. Allen is the youngest child and the only son living. 
At the age of twenty-three he engaged in freighting between Cabot and 
Boston. He drove a six-horse team without lines, and his was the first covered 
wagon, which created quite a sensation when it arrived in town. It took 
three weeks to make the round trip at an expense of $75. Mr. Perry handled 
freight nine years. He has always taken an active interest in town affairs, 
and held ijiany town offices; represented the town in 1846-47 ; was town 
treasurer over twenty years, and town clerk twenty-seven years. He mar- 
ried Almira Philpot, of Limerick, Me., who was a daughter of Andrew and 
Martha Philpot. 

Benjamin Cate came to Cabot in 1818, when a lad of twelve years. In 
1830 he married Samantha Goodell and settled on the farm where their son 
Joshua now lives. Seven of their ten children lived and raised families. Mr. 
Cate cleared the farm and built the stone house. This aged pair resides in 
Littleton, N. H. Mr. Cate is now eighty-two and Mrs. Cate eighty-four years 
old. Joshua Cate, before mentioned, resides on the homestead. In January, 
1868, he married Mary L., daughter of Saulsbury Bullock, of Bethlehem, N. H. 
Mr. Cate is a highly respected citizen, and a good representative of the Cate 
family. 

Joseph Hopkins was born in Strafford, Vt., September 15, 1806. His wife 
was born in Walden, Vt., October 4, 1810. They were parents of nine 
children. Their only daughter and one son died in childhood. The others 
lived to adult age. Mr. Hopkins died in Cabot, March 16, 1884, and Mrs. 
Hopkins died April 19, 1884. Their son Eastman T. Hopkins, born in Cabot, 
February 21, 1834, married Miss Mary Laird, daughter of John Laird, of 
Woodbury. Their children are a son and daughter. Mr. Hopkins is a 
practical farmer, and thorough in all the details of his business. He consid- 
ers that the best of farm implements and stock are none too good. Besides 
giving close attention to his farm, he has aided in town affairs and other busi- 
ness interests. 

Calvin Whittier was born in Cabot in 1802. His wife, Martha Lyford, was 
born September 24, 1803. Their children were Frederick, William P., 
Harry H., Sylvester D.,and Lewis H., who died in Cabot, January 10, 1865. 
Harry H. Whittier, born December 3T, 1833, married Helen Cate, Novem- 
ber 13, 1875, and settled on the homestead where he now resides. His 
father married in 1823, and resided on the homestead until his death, 
November 17, 1879, 3-"^ by hard work and economy amassed a comfortable 
fortune. 

James Stevenson was born in Barnet, Vt., September 26, 1824. At the 
age of twenty-one years he came to Cabot with his brother William, and 
bought a tract of wild land, and cleared it, which James still owns. He also 
owns a saw-mill at the outlet of Onion River pond and 400 acres of timber- 
land in Peacham. Mr. Stevenson is a man of sterling integrity and is highly 



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esteemed. His father, William Stevenson, was born in Barnet in 1792, and 
■spent his whole life on the farm where he was born. His mother, now ninety- 
seven years old, resides at the old home in Barnet, where she reared eight 
<:hildren to maturity, only one of whom ever married. 

Jesse Mason, son of Nathaniel and Sally Mason, of Fitzwilliam, N. H., was 
born in Sullivan, N. H., in November, 1802. About 1831 he settled as a 
farmer in Cabot. He married, in the " Yellow Hotel," Mary Leavitt. In 
1842 he removed from the farm where Frank Paquin now lives to the one 
where his youngest child, Nathaniel, now lives. He improved his farm and 
made it is home, and died here in 1877. His widow is living with her son 
before mentioned. Nathaniel Mason married Sarah Scott, of Niles, Mich., 
October 29, 1870. 

Daniel Gould was born in Stoneham, Mass., September 5, T799. He mar- 
ried Betsey, daughter of Joseph Smith, and they settled in Cabot in 1836, on 
the farm where their son George now lives. He was very industrious, and 
was probably able to perform more manual labor than any other man in town, 
and was acknowledged the champion chopper. His integrity and ability 
commanded the confidence of his townsmen, who chose him to represent 
them in the legislature of 1850 and 185 1. Mr. Gould was father of five 
children. His son David died in California. Another son is a lawyer with a 
lucrative business in Los Angeles, Cal. George, born in Cabot, July i, 1840, 
went to Calif9rnia in i860, remained there seven years, and returned to the 
old farm in Cabot where he now resides. He has been selectman seven years, 
held other town offices, and represented Cabot in the legislature in 1880. In 
1869 he married Olive A., daughter of Walter Stone, who lost his life in 
Libby prison in the late war. Daniel Gould was one of the trustees who 
built the first Congregational church in town, and was a liberal contributor 
for its erection. 

Moses S. Haines, son of Horace and Lucinda (Stone) Haines, was born 
on the farm where he now lives, November 27, 1842. He married Delia, 
daughter of Stephen Hoyt, and they have three sons. Mr. Haines is a prac- 
tical farmer. He is an affable Christian gentleman, and a worthy successor 
of his late father who died in 1862. 

Eben Bruce and Elmira (Blackmer), his wife, were natives of Greenwich, 
Mass. They emigrated to Woodbury, Vt., in 1825. Their children were 
Warren, Edwin, Lucius, Charles, Mariva, and Roland B. Mr. Bruce repre- 
sented Woodbury several times in the legislature, and although he was not a 
member of the bar his advice was often sought on questions of law, and he 
had quite a practice in justice courts. He was an assistant judge of the 
County Court for a term of years. Roland B , his son, born in Woodbury, 
December 24, 1832, married Sarah R. Ball, of his native town, who is the 
mother of two children. He represented Woodbury in the legislature of 1866, 
and has since held offices of trust in Cabot. 

Dr. M. P. Wallace commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Asa George, 



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of Calais, attended lectures at the Medical department of Dartmouth College, 
and commenced the practice of his profession in Cabot in 1843, which he 
continued until 1S64. January 8, 1839, he married Mary L. Tucker, and 
resided at Lower Cabot until the decease of his wife, December 19, 1884. 
Since then he has resided with his only child, Mrs. L. C. Fisher. Besides 
giving attention to his duties as a physician, Dr. Wallace has filled many of 
the offices in his town, and represented Cabot in the legislature of 1863-64. 

John M. Stone, son of Rev. John F. Stone, of Montpelier, (deceased,) was 
born September 18, 1835. He served as a soldier three months in Co. F, 
ist Vt. Regt., and was then transferred to the quartermaster's department, 
where he remained to the close of his term of service. Mr. Stone is a pen- 
sioner. He married Miss Harriet L. Kimball, daughter of Dea. John H. 
Kimball, of Berlin, and settled on the farm where he now lives. Mr. and 
Mrs. Stone are parents of six sons. 

Francis L. Knapp, son of Liscomb and Rebecca (Langmaid) Knapp, was 
born in Waterbury, July 6, 1838. He married Elvira Eddy, of Peacham,. 
and settled in Cabot soon after he attained his majority. Mr. James Eddy, 
aged ninety-six years (1888), the father of Mrs. Eddy, resides with them. 
Mr. Knapp enlisted in Co. D, 6th Vt. Regt., August 21, 1864, and was 
wounded at Charlestown, Va., and in consequence of his wound and other 
disabilities was discharged April 5, 1865. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Knapp were Eliza G., who died at the age of eighteen years ; 'Ellen E. (Mrs. 
Clarence Knapp), of Moretown ; Caroline G. (Mrs. Byron Webster), of 
Cabot ; and Myra L., who died aged about fifteen years. 

N. K. Abbott is a farmer, born in 1825, and one of twelve children born 
to Amos W. and Betsey (Knight) Abbott, of Ryegate, Vt. April 6, 1852, he 
married Miss Sarah C, daughter of Capt. Leonard Johnson, of Peacham, 
and on their wedding day settled on the farm which has since beer\ their 
home. Mr. Abbott's abilities are so much appreciated by his townsmen that 
they chose him to represent them in the legislature of 1874-75. He has also 
served as justice of the peace for twenty-five years, and has been selectman, 
lister, etc. In 1856 Mr. and Mrs. Abbott united with the Congregational 
church, which he has served as deacon twenty years, and of which they have 
been worthy members. They are parents of seven children, viz.: Mary P., 
Elizabeth M., Charles K., Willie S., Jane S., Lester K., and Walter L 

Mrs. Rebecca Goodwin was born in Danville, Vt., June 12, 18 17. She 
was the eleventh child of Capt. Solomon Langmaid, who was the father of 
thirteen children, twelve of whom lived to adult age. Rebecca was ambitious, 
and at the tender age of nine years commenced to assist in providing for her 
own support, by working out. At the age of thirteen years she was living 
with the family of Mr. Phillips, of Danville, where her Hfe was not a flowery 
one. In addition to the general house work she fed a large pen of swine 
with potatoes that she carried from the cellar and boiled for that purpose, 
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and boys. Neither was her diet such as is found on the tables at first-class 
hotels. But it was of the coarsest kind, and partaken of at a table by herself. 
The little time she attended school she arose early in the morning to do these 
chores, and walked one mile and a half to the school-house. At the age of 
eighteen she married Liscomb Knapp, of VVaterbury, Vt., who died in 1840, 
and left a son, Erancis L., who now, resides in Cabot. In 1841 she married 
Jotham Goodwin, of Waterbury, and were parents of one daughter, Mrs. Abbie 
J. Yaw, of Plainfield. In 1846 Mr. Goodwin and family removed to Peacham, 
Vt., where they remained about ten years, and then removed to Cabot, where 
the family has since resided, Mr. Goodwin died in 18S4, after an illness of 
three years. Only Mrs. Goodwin and an older sister are now living of this 
large family. 

S. L. VViswell, M. D., son of Leonard and Lucy (Perry) Wiswell, was born 
December 19, 1826. He attended school at Hyde Park, and graduated 
from the academy at Johnson, Vt. He commenced the study of medicine 
with Dr. A. P. Barber, of Johnson, and continued with Dr. Ariel Huntoon, 
of Hyde Park. He attended a course of lectures at the medical college in 
Woodstock, Vt., and at the medical college in Pittsfield, Mass., and gradu- 
ated in 1 85 1. He then spent six months at Deer Island hospital, Boston. 
He commenced practice at Wolcott, remained one year, practiced four years 
in Hyde Park, and in 1861 succeeded Dr. D. M. Goodwin in Cabot, and has 
proved himself a skillful physician ; and, as a consequence, he has an exten- 
sive and very lucrative practice. Dr. Wiswell has been a pension examiner 
since 1868. In 1885 he was appointed by the U. S. pension department a 
member of the Montpelier board of examining surgeons. He married 
Seraphina J. Crosby, of Hardwick, and they have a daughter, L. Gertrude. 

E. D. Waldo, son of William E. and Mary (Kimball) Waldo, was born in 
Cabot, January 4, 1845. His parents removed to Peacham in 1852. At an 
early age he enlisted in Co. D, ist Regt. Vt. Cav., and served to the close of 
the war. He then returned to Peacham and engaged in farming. He mar- 
ried Mary L., daughter of Capt. Ira Stevens, of North Danville. In 1870 
they settled in Cabot, where they have since lived. Mr. Waldo is notary 
public, and since 1883 he has spent some time at Washington, D. C, prose- 
cuting pension claims. 

Andrew and Margaret (Stevens) Barr immigrated from Dunlope, Scotland, 
to America, in 1840, and settled in Walden, Vt. In 1851 they removed to 
Greensboro, and seventeen years later he went to Nebraska, where he died 
in 187 1. Robert S. Barr, their son, born in Scotland, May 30, 1840, bought 
the farm known as the Bickford place, where he now lives, in Cabot. He 
came to this town about 1866, and in 1874 married Miss Julia A., daughter 
of William M. Davis, of Northfield. They have one son. R. S. Barr started 
to make the voyage across the Atlantic when he was only two weeks old. 

Mial D. Warren, M. D., was born in Denmark, Maine, May 20, 1853. At 
the age of twenty-three he went to Brattleboro, Vt., and was employed in the 



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asylum about two years. He then entered Dr. Henry D. Holton's office as 
a medical student, and graduated from the medical college at Burlington, 
Vt., in the class of 1879. He practiced medicine in VVolcott about two years, 
and in December, 1S80, settled in Cabot, where he has constantly gained in 
the estimation of the people, and has a large practice, not only in Cabot, but 
in adjoining towns. Dr. Warren united in marriage with Miss Orcenia 
B. Foss, of Hyde Park, Vt., and they have one child. 

Fred P. Gale, M. D., son of Dea. Sullivan B. and Laura (Bailey) Gale, 
was born in Plainfield, May 5, 1853. He studied in the office of Dr. W. F. 
Lazell, of Plainfield, and graduated from the medical college of Burlington, 
Vt., in the class of 1880, and at once settled in Cabot, where he has a large 
practice, and in some of the best families in town, and is always in readiness 
to respond to the calls of those who need his aid. Dr. Gale married Mary, 
daughter of the late David Nevins, of Cabot. 

The " Green Mountain Boys " have always been patriotic, and without a 
doubt. Cabot may well be proud of her military record. The following is a 
list of Revolutionary soldiers who settled in town : Lieut. Thomas Lyford, 
Jonathan Heath, Starling Heath, Thomas Osgood, Samuel Warner, Nathaniel 
Webster, Fifield Lyford, Nathan Edson, Trueworthy Durgin, Lieut. John 
Whittier, Maj. Lyman Hitchcock, Lieut. David Blanchard, and Ensign Jerry 
McDaniels. 

The volunteer soldiers of 1812 were Luther Swan, Simon Walker, Leander 
Corlis, Samuel Dutton, Ezra Kennerson, Peter Lyford, Jesse Webster, David 
Lyford, Royal Gilbert. 

At the commencement of hostilities with the South, Cabot at once called 
a war meeting, when stirring and patriotic speeches were made by some of 
her citizens, and a vote was passed to raise a company and offer its services 
to the governor. The followmg list of young men enrolled their names: 
J. P. Lamson, John Derine, F. L. Drown, H. L. Collins, H. M. Paige, G. W. 
Wright, E. S. Hoyt, Nathaniel Perry, Charles H. Newton, L. B. Scott, S. H. 
Bradish, L. S. Gerry, H. Perkins, Horace Carpenter, Luke A. Davis, C. H. 
Goodale, G. P. Hopkins, E. H. Scott, E. Gerry, Lyman Hopkins, Fayette 
Hopkins. 

The total number of soldiers furnished during the war was 138. Of this 
number nine were killed in battle, eighteen died of disease, five of wounds 
received in battle, and of the number who returned many had contracted 
diseases from which they have since died, or are now suffering. The town 
paid $9,000 bounty to soldiers, and at the close of the war had paid it all. 

In the warning for the March meeting of the town, in 1873, an article was 
inserted for considering the subject of erecting a monument to the memory 
of these soldiers. Final action was taken on the question in 1875, when an 
appropriation of $1,500 was made, and the town's committee, J. P. Lamson, 
M. P. Wallace, and Milton Fisher, purchased a Barre granite monument at 



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the cost of the appropriation, and placed it on the highest ground on the 
common. 

The Congregational church of Cabot is located in the village of Cabot. 
This church was organized October 25, 1801, at the old school-house at the 
Center, by Rev. Mr. Ransom, of Rochester, and Rev. Mr. Hallock, a mis- 
sionary from Connecticut, with thirteen members, viz.: Clement Coburn, 
Gershom Beardsley, Stephen Clark, Oliver Walbridge, Elias Hitchcock, Lene 
Orcutt, Hepzebah Osgood, Ruth Beardsley, Miriam Clark, Elizabeth Wal- 
bridge, Peggy Hitchcock, Anna Church, and Lucy Osgood. Clement Coburn, 
who had been a deacon in Massachusetts, was first deacon and moderator. 
They held meetings at the Center school-house, and at a dwelling house in 
that vicinity, and in Esquire Mercer's and Oliver Walbridge's barns, until 
about 1810, when their first house of worship was completed. In 1824 it was 
removed to the village, and in 1849 it was taken down, and their present 
edifice was built on the same site, at a cost of $3,500, which, including grounds 
and other church property, is valued at $4,000. The church is built of wood, 
and will comfortably seat 275. This church was without a settled pastor until 
October 27, 1823, when Rev. Moses Ingalls was ordained and installed. Rev. 
Henry A. Russell is now acting pastor. The church has 153 members, and 
the Sunday-school 150, with thirteen teachers. 

The Methodist Episcopal church of Cabot was organized in 181 1, and as 
near as can be ascertained consisted of eight members. Judge J. W. Dana,. 
Daniel Smith, and Dr. Scott joined soon after. The first Methodist sermon 
in town was preached by Rev. Thomas Branch, in 1807 or '08. The first 
pastor of the church was Rev. Stearns. The first presiding elder who offici- 
ated on the circuit including Cabot was Rev. Eleazer Wells. The first house 
of worship was erected of wood in 1822 or '23. The land and timber were 
given by Judge Dana, and by his influence and liberality the church was 
built. Up to this time their meetings had been held in houses and barns, 
and in the summer of 1816 in the tannery. Their present nice and commo- 
dious church edifice was completed in 1853. The society is indebted to the 
late Joseph Lance, for by his liberality and efforts its completion was secured. 
The estimated value of the property now, including buildings and grounds, is 
$5,500. There are now 113 members of the church and eight probationers. 
Rev. James E. Knapp is their pastor. 

The Advent church, in Cabot, was organized February 16, 1858, with forty 
members, Nathan Wheeler and Erasmus L. Burnap, deacons, and M. P. 
Wallace, scribe. Samuel W. Thurber was the first pastor. Their meeting- 
house was built in 1857, mainly through the efforts of Dr. M. P. Wallace, and 
dedicated in June, 1858. Then followed a powerful revival. The church has 
suffered severely by deaths and removals, and at present it has no regular 
pastor. The Sunday-school was organized before the church, and has the 
largest library of any in town. The largest number of scholars enrolled was- 
about fifty. 



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The Freewill Baptist church was organized in 1803, at the house of Lieut. 
Thomas Lyford, by Elders Benjamin Page and Aaron Buel, of Strafford, Vt.. 
with eighteen members. Rev. Benjamin Page was ordained pastor the same 
year, and as he was the first settled minister in town, he had a clear title to 
the minister's lot, which he received. But he left his charge about as soon as 
he got his farm in condition to sell. Their first and only meeting-house on 
the west hill was built in 1829, and about 1850 the church lost its organi- 
zation. 



CALAIS lies in the northeasterly part of the county, in latitude 44° 22' 
and longitude 4° 42', and is bounded northerly by Woodbury, easterly 
by Marshfield, southerly by East Montpelier, and westerly by Wor- 
cester. It was granted October 21, 1780, and chartered to Jacob Davis and 
Stephen Fay and associates to the number of sixty, and contains 23,040 
acres. 

The charter was granted pursuant with the following resolution passed by 
the General Assembly of the state in session at Arlington, Vt., October 21, 
1780 :— 

^^ Resolved, That there be, and we Do hereby, grant unto Colonel Jacob 
Davis, Mr. Stephen Fay, and Company to the number of Sixty, a Township 
of Land, by the Name of Calais, Situated in this State, Bounded as follows, 
and lying East and adjoining to Worcester, and north of Montpelier, Con- 
taining Twenty-three Thousand and forty acres, and the Governor and Coun- 
cil are hereby Requested, to State the fees for Granting Said tract, and Isue 
a Grant under such Restrictions and Regulations as they shall Judge Proper." 

The same date the Council 

" Resolved that the fees for granting the said tract be, and they are hereby, 
set at four hundred and Eighty Pounds Lawful Money in silver, or an Equiv- 
alent in Continental Currency, to be Paid by the said Jacob Davis, Stephen 
Fay, or their Attorney, on the Execution of the Charter of incorporation on 
or before the first Day of January Next." 

" At Public Meeting of the Proprietors of the Township of Calais, at the 
house of Mr. Elisha Thomson, Inholder in Charlton, Mass., November 
20th, 1780, came to the following votes, [viz.] [58 Present] : istly. Voted 
and Chose Colo. Jacob Davis, Moderator. 

" 2dly. Voted and Chose Stephen Fay, Proprietor's Clerk. 

" 3dly. Voted that Mr. Stephen Fay to apply to the Authority of the State 
of A'ermont for the Charter of incorporation of s'd Township, and for Each 
Proprietor to pay their Money to him, the s'd Fay, the sum of Eight Pounds 
silver money, or Cont'l Currency equivalent thereto, it being in full for Grant- 
ing fees for each Right in said Township. By the thirtieth day of December 
Next (or be excluded from any further Right or Property in Said Township). 

" 4thly. for the Clerk to give Notice of the above article by Posting. 

" 5thly. Voted for each Proprietor to Pay their Equal Proportion of their 
Agents time and expenses to obtain the grant of said Township by the nth 



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Day of December next, and for the Clerk to enter their names, or cause their 
names to be entered, in the Charter of said Township. 

"6thly. Voted to adjourn this Meeting to the first Wednesday in April 
next, at one o'clock afternoon, to this place. 

" Errors Excepted. Attest, 

" Ste'n. Fay, 

"Pro. Clerk." 
"Arlington 29th of Jan'y., 1781. 

" Rec'd of Mr. Stephen Fay, Two Hundred and Thirty-three Pounds, four- 
teen Shillings and three Pence, Lawful Money, Towards Granting fees of the 
town of Calais. 

" Rec'd. Pr. Me. Thomas Chittenden, 

"Committee." 

The time for paying the balance due the state was extended to the ensuing 
March. The charter was granted August 15, 1781. 

" Arlington loth of September, 1781. 

" Rec'd of Stephen Fay, By the hand of Noah Chittenden, three Pounds, 
thirteen Shillings, as Part of the Granting fees of the Town of Calais. Rec'd 
by me, 

" Thomas Chittenden." 
"Boston 28th of September, 1781. 

" Rec'd of Col. Jacob Davis, Two Hundred and forty- two Pounds, Twelve 
Shillings and Ninepence in full of the Granting fees of the Town of Calais, in 
the State of Vermont, within mentioned. 

'■' Pr. Noah Chittenden." 

We copy the following from Thompson's Gazetteer : — 

"In the summer of 1783, the proprietors sent a committee consisting of 
Colonel Jacob Davis, Capt. Samuel Robinson, and others, to survey a divi- 
sion of this town of 160 acres to the right. A Mr. Brush, from Bennington, 
was the surveyor. The committee and surveyor found their way to Calais 
with their necessary stores, and after running four lines on the north side of 
the first division, they abandoned the survey. Of their stores, then left, was 
a much valued keg, containing about 10 gallons of good W. I. run, which, 
in council, they determined should be buried, which ceremony was said to 
have been performed with much solemnity, and a sturdy maple, towering 
above the surrounding trees, on the westerly side of Long Pond, with its 
ancient and honorable scars, still marks the consecrated spot. 

"In August, 1786, Capt. Samuel Robinson, E. Waters, J. Tucker, E. 
Stone, Gen. Parley Davis, came from Charleston to this town, to complete 
the survey of the first division and survey another. 

"This party, after arriving at the settlement nearest this place, which was 
at Middlesex, laden with provision, cooking utensils, blankets, axes, survey- 
ing instruments, etc., passed a distance of 13 or 14 miles to the camp, 
erected by the party who commenced the survey three years previous ; often 
on the way expressing their anxiety to arrive, that they might regale them- 
selves with the pure spirit which had been permitted to slumber three years ; 
and which they imagined must be much improved in quality by its long 
rest j but judge of their surprise, astonishment, and chagrin, when on raising 
the earth, they discovered the hoops had become rotten — the staves parted, 
and the long anticipated beverage had escaped. 

" Whatever tears were shed, or groans uttered at the burial of the keg, 
they were not to be compared with the bitter agony of its disinterment.'' 



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The surface of Calais is quite uneven and hilly. The easterly boundary 
runs along the sun;mit of a high ridge; but the highest elevation in the town 
is found on the range of hills in the west part. From these elevated posi- 
tions the views are grandly picturesque. Looking eastward the beholder 
commands a view of nearly the whole town, and sweeping onward rests upon 
the eastern range of the Green Mountains and a "glimpse of the White 
Mountains in the far distance." Then turning westward the whole of 
Worcester is "unrolled" to view. Although the town is somewhat broken, 
it contains but little, if any, waste land. 

The rocks that enter into the geological formation of Calais are calciferotis 
mica schist in the eastern half, a broad belt of clay slate in the central extend- 
ing into the western part, and talcose schist in the western part. A belt of 
granite runs through the calciferols itiica schist. 

The soil is generally rich and fertile. Dairying is the leading industry, 
while stock growing receives considerable attention. The water supply is 
abundant. The principal stream is Kingsbury Branch, the outlet of Sabin 
pond, which receives the waters of numerous other ponds in Woodbury, 
and also, with its numerous tributaries, drains most of the surface of Calais. 
It flows in a southerly direction and passes through the hamlet of North 
Montpelier, and falls into Winooski river about two miles below. 

Calais may justly boast of its numerous and beautiful ponds. Sabin and 
Nelson ponds lie on the northern boundary, but mostly in Woodbury. Those 
wholly within the town are VVheelock, Curtis (Long pond), and Bliss ponds. 

It is presumed that Col. Jacob Davis, who was interested in the settlement 
of this town and Montpelier, suggested the name Calais as he did Montpelier, 
and consequently two old French cities had namesakes in the Green Mount- 
ain state. 

The first permanent settlement made in Calais was in the last part of June, 
1787, by Abijah, Asa, and Peter Wheelock. Francis West had begun to fell 
timber on a lot joining Montpelier in the spring of the same year. The 
Messrs. Wheelock started from Charlton, June 5, 1787, with two yoke of 
oxen and a wagon, and reached Williamstown on the 19th. They were laden 
with provisions, tools, etc. At Williamstown they were obliged to leave their 
wagon and take a sled, and cut their way through the woods, which con- 
sumed two days, and necessarily they encamped two nights in the woods, and 
reached Col. Davis's camp m Montpelier. Here they left their oxen to 
graze in the woods, proceeded on to their pitch in Calais, and commenced a 
vigorous onslaught upon the forest. They returned to Charlton in October. 
Abijah and Peter Wheelock returned in the spring, accompanied by Moses 
Stone. This season they built log houses, and the Wheelocks and Stone re- 
turned to Charlton to spend the winter. Mr. West went to Middlesex. In 
March, 1789, Abijah Wheelock, with his family, Samuel Twiss, with his newly- 
married bride, Moses Stone, and Gen. Davis arrived at Col. Davis's house in 
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about two weeks. On the 13th of April Messrs. Wheelock, Stone, and 
Twiss, with their beds and some light goods loaded upon hand sleds, accom- 
panied by Mrs. Wheelock, Mrs. Twiss, and Gen. Davis, on the crust over 
snow three feet deep, went on foot to their home in the forest of Calais. Mrs. 
Wheelock carried in her arms an infant four months old, while their son two 
years old was drawn on the hand sled. They reached their destination the 
same day, and thus commenced the permanent settlement of Calais. 

In February or March, 1789, Francis West moved his family to his claim, 
where he lived several years. 

The first grist-mill and saw-mill in Calais were built near the center of the 
town by Col. Jacob Davis and Samuel Twiss, in 1793. Messrs. Holbrook 
and Waters were the first to card wool. They began in 1802 or 1803. They 
also manufactured wooden clocks, and cast bells up to 200 pounds weight. 
As early as 1800 Lemuel Perry made potash. About 1812 Jonas Hall man- 
ufactured axes and scythes, but his was not a large establishment. The 
first distillery was started in 1812. At one time there were seven, all doing: 
a flourishing business. Lucinda, daughter of Peter Wheelock, born in 1790^ 
was the first child born in Calais. Calais was first represented in the legis- 
lature, October, 1795, by Peter Wheelock. Dr. Samuel Danforth was the 
first physician. He settled in Calais in 1800. 

The first town meeting of Calais was held at the house of Peter Wheelock,^ 
March 23, 1795. The following list of town officers were then elected: 
Joshua Bliss, moderator ; Peter Wheelock, town clerk ; Joshua Bliss, Edward 
Tucker, and Jonas Comins, selectmen ; Samuel Fay, treasurer ; Jonas 
Comins, collector and constable j Jedediah Fay, Abijah Wheelock, and 
Aaron Bliss, listers; Amos Ginnings, grand juryman; Edward Tucker^ 
Frederick Bliss, and Goddard Wheelock, surveyors of highways ; Amos 
Ginnings, sealer of leather ; Moses Haskell, keeper of the pound; John 
Crain, tithingman ; Aaron Bliss, James Ginnings, Samuel Fay, and Jennison 
Wheelock, hay wardens ; Asa Wheelock, Stephen Fay, and Abraham 
Howland, fence viewers ; Jonathan Tucker, sealer of weights and measures. 

In 1880 Calais had a population of 1,253. ^^ 1888 the town had eleven 
school districts and maintained ten common schools, in all thirty-one terms, 
and employed two male teachers and twenty female teachers, who received an 
average weekly salary of $6.39 for male and $5.26 for female teachers. There 
were 265 scholars, ten of whom attended private schools. The entire income 
for school purposes was $1,994.14, and the amount expended was $1,945.36. 
M. S. Hathaway was superintendent. 

East Calais is a post village in the eastern part of the town, on Kings- 
bury Branch. The nearest railroad station is Plainfield (six miles distant), 
on the Montpelier & Wells River railroad. Formerly this was a place of 
considerable manufacturing. It now contains a Union church, two general 
stores, a saw-mill, a box manufactory, a grist-mill, a wood turning shop for 
manufacturing handles for hoes, rakes, and forks, a shingle-mill, and several 
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mechanics' shops. It is also noted for its neat residences and well-kept 
yards. 

North Calais is a post village situated at the outlet of Wheelock pond, 
in the northern part of the town. It has a daily mail, and contains two 
stores, a sawmill, and about thirty dwelling houses. 

Kent's Corners (Calais p. o.) is a hamlet situated on the " old County 
road," about one mile west of the center of the town. It is noted as the 
place where Abijah Wheelock settled with his family in a log house, April 13, 
1789. This place was built up by Remembrance Kent and his descendants. 
Mr. L. A. Kent is the only merchant of the place, and is also the post- 
master. 

Beniah Shortt, son of Shubael, was born in Calais, February 14, 1788. He 
was a farmer and blacksmith, settled in Calais, and went from there to Bethel 
in 1821, where he remained until about 1844. He then returned to Calais, 
settled on a good farm to which he gave most of his attention until his death, 
November 17, i86r. He was a good and energetic farmer, an upright 
citizen, and a kind neighbor. Mr. Shortt was three times married, first to Miss 
Sarah Bagbee, who died March 18, 181 4. He then married Mrs. Olive 
(Ainsworth) Wilder, who died March 16, 1841. His third wife was Miss 
Lavonia Burt, who still survives (188S). His second wife was the mother of 
all his children. Sarah (Mrs. Alonzo Snow), of East Montpelier, is the only 
one who resides in Washington county. 

Abijah Wheelock was born in Charlton, Mass., in 1764, married Lois 
Nichols m 1786, and came to Calais in the spring of 1789 with his family: 
Mrs. Wheelock, a son two years old, and a daughter only four months old. 
They settled on the farm now owned by Benjamin Wheeler, near Kent's 
Corners. Here he cleared a farm and reared to maturity eleven children, 
none of whom died under forty years of age. After a residence of many 
years on this farm he sold it and next settled on the farm now owned by 
W. V. Peck, and commenced anew. Here he planted a large orchard, and 
enjoyed this home quite a number of years. This he sold, and bought 
the farm now owned by Mrs. Achsa Button in the northeasterly part of the 
town, where he spent the remainder of his long and active life. He died in 
April, 1846, aged eighty-two years. Mrs. Wheelock died in 1847, aged 
eighty-three years. Mr. Wheelock was distinguished for his honesty and 
sterling integrity, and was appreciated and honored by his townsmen, who 
placed him in several of the offices in their gift. He possessed a fund of 
quaint, dry humor that was really origin^.! and quite pleasing, and made him 
a favorite with children especially in his old age. He related to them many 
of the early incidents of his life, and boasted that at one time he was the 
likeliest and wisest man in the whole town of Calais. This is literally true. 
Mr. Wheelock was for a week the sole inhabitant of Calais, before he brought 
his family into the town. His children were Jonathan, Lucy, Laura, Alynda, 
Cyrus, Perry, Elfrida, Titus, Jairus, Rachel, and Abijah. 



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Titus Wheelock, son of Abijah the pioneer, was born in 1802, and married 
Eliza, daughter of EHas Heath, of Woodbury. He died September 12, 1850. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wheelock were parents of five children, of whom all but Julius 
S. died young. The latter was born in 1834, and married Hattie N. Blod- 
gett, of Somerville, Mass. At the age of eighteen years he became the ap- 
prentice of the late Dennis Lane, of Montpelier, then of Plainfield, and 
assisted him to build the first board-mill which made Mr. Lane so famous as 
an inventor. After three years' service with Mr. Lane, Mr. Wheelock began 
the manufacture of doors, sash, and blinds at East Calais. In 1863, in com- 
pany with J. O. Lamb, he manufactured shoe pegs, continued this till 1866 or 
'67, and then sold to the late Joel Wheeler. In 1870 he bought the lumber 
and grist-mills on Dog river, in Berlin, where he had a successful business 
the next sixteen years. He then sold the mills and retired to his farm near 
by. In the spring of 1888 the inhabitants of East Montpelier induced him, 
by very liberal inducements, to rebuild the mills at the East village recently 
destroyed by fire. He has just completed a very substantial building, with 
a foundation of stone work that cost $r,ooo, and equipped the mills with the 
latest improved machinery. Mr. Wheelock is a thorough business man, and 
quite popular with the people. He is a RepubUcan in politics, and while a 
citizen of Berlin was most of the time in town office. He was one of the 
board of selectmen four years, chairman three years of the time, served as 
lister, justice of th 3 peace, and represented that town in the legislature of 
1S86-87. He now resides at East Montpelier. 

Moses Haskell, of Rochester, Mass., was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
war, and after its close he returned to Massachusetts, married Hannah 
Lebaron, and in the fall of 1789 settled in the forest of Calais. They en- 
dured the hardships of pioneer life ; began in the woods, cleared a farm, 
made a comfortable home, and were the parents of eleven children, nine of 
whom attained adult age. John, their third child, was born August 19, 1793, 
and spent his whole life in Calais. About 182 1, when he was twenty-eight 
years of age, he married Polly McKnight, and reared to maturity five of their 
eight children, viz. : Andrew J., Mary, Delia, John Q., and Irena. John 
Q. Haskell was born in September, 1833. At the age of twenty-seven years 
he married Lavina Rideout, of Cabot, who died March 13, 1862. She was 
the mother of one daughter, Clara E. (Mrs. Jared Holt), of Middlesex. In 
April, 187 I, Mr. Haskell married Kate A. Slayton, who has borne him two 
children, Dora B. and Robert L. Mr. Haskell is a worthy citizen, and an en- 
terprising farmer on one of the best farms in Calais. 

Walter P. Slayton, son of Jerry and Betsey (Kendall) Slayton, grandson of 
Simeon, and great-grandson of Phineas who came to Calais in 1790, was born 
on the farm where he now resides, July i, 1831. Mr. Slayton is a thorough 
and practical farmer, and a very capable and influential citizen. He has held 
the office of constable ten years, and has served in all other town oflices ex- 
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Slayton, his great-grandfather, was an officer in the Revolutionary war. His 
maternal grandfather, Isaac Kendall, was also a soldier, and present at the 
battle of Bunker Hill, and was then nineteen years of age. The remains of 
both these veteran patriots repose on the farm of Walter P. Slayton. 

Phineas Slayton, son of Thomas and grandson of Thomas, from England, 
was born in Barre, Mass., in 1736. In 1761 he married Jane Gray. He 
was an officer in the Revolutionary war and a magistrate of his town. He 
moved to Montpelier in 1790 and settled near the Calais line. He dressed 
in old English style : wore short velvet breeches, with long stockings that 
reached above his knees, fastened with silver knee buckles. Hence he was 
called "Long Stockmg." His son Jesse, born in Barre, Mass., in 1764, 
married Betsey Bucklin, and settled in Calais about 1790. He was a Revo- 
lutionary soldier, and a voter at the organization of the town. Bucklin 
Slayton, son of Jesse, was born in Brookfield, Mass., in 1783, and in 
1804 he married Sally WiUiams. He was a carpenter. Up to his time 
buildings were framed by scribe rule. He was the first, or among the first, 
who could lay out a frame by square rule ; and he planned and set out many 
of the frame buildings (stores and dwellings) in Montpelier and Calais. He 
laid out the factories in Nashua, N. H., in 1823 and 1829. He was a volun- 
teer in the War of 18 12. 

Col. Caleb Curtis, son of Rev. Caleb Curtis, the first minister of Charlton, 
Mass., was born March 12, 1770, and was three times married. His first 
wife was Polly, a daughter of Levi Davis, who was a brother of Col. Jacob 
Davis. Col. Curtis and his wife settled in Calais, at the head of the pond 
named for him, as early as 1795. His second wife was Miss Anna Robinson ; 
the third was a Mrs. Daggett. He was father of two sons and seven daugh- 
ters. Col. Curtis was prominent in town affairs, held both civil and military 
offices, and was one of the most influential promoters of education and re- 
ligion, and largely through his influence and liberality the fine Union meeting- 
house was built in the west part of the town. Col. Curtis, in religion, was a 
Universalist, as was his remote ancestry. This is the faith of a large major- 
ity of the inhabitants of West Calais, and was also the faith of the first 
settlers. The Union church is now owned and controlled by them. This 
has always been a liberal, moral, intelligent, and independent neighborhood. 

Remember Kent, son of Ezekiel, was born in Rehoboth, Mass., June 11, 
1775, and came to Calais in 1798. In 1799 he married Rachel, daughter of 
Abdiel Bliss. He settled at the location of what is now known as Kent's 
Corners, so-named in honor of him and the family. There he cleared a large 
farm and spent the remainder of his days. He was successively ensign, lieu- 
tenant, and captain of the militia, and filled various town offices. Their 
children were Remember, born in June, 1799; Rachel Bliss, born in 
September, 1800; Ira, born in April, 1803; Abdiel, born m November, 
1805; Georgia, born in September, 1808; Ezekiel, born in May, 1811; 
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died in June, 1835. Mr. Kent died May 13, 1855, and Mrs. Kent Novem- 
ber 2, 1843. Their son Remember was a farmer and millwright. In fanuary, 
1824, he married Delia Tucker, and spent the most of his life in Calais. He 
died February 19, 1881. Ira married Polly, daughter of Col. Caleb Curtis, 
and always resided on the homestead where he was born. He was one of 
the firm of I. & A. Kent, manufacturers of boots and shoes, and merchants, 
and was postmaster sixteen years, and held several town offices. Abdiel 
married, first, June 7, 1845, Fanny H., daughter of Caleb Curtis, who died 
December 24, 1854, and second, Lucy A., daughter of Vial A. Bliss. At 
the age of twenty-one years he went to Nashua, N. H., and worked on the 
foundation of the first factory built there. He continued to work at the 
masons' trade summers and taught school winters until about 1830. He 
then returned to Calais, and built a shop where the store and postoffice now 
stands, and established the boot and shoe manufactory, later forming the 
partnership of I. & A. Kent. In 1832 they added merchandise. In 1837 
he built the brick house and kept a hotel until 1847. In 1844 this company, 
with other persons, built a starch factory. In 1847 they put iron working 
machinery into the red shop at Maple Corners, which was run by N. W. 
Bancroft about four years. They owned a woolen factory, mills, and hotel at 
Craftsbury, built and stocked a store in Woodbury, owned the Norcross mill 
in Woodbury, the Ira Brown saw-mill in the northwestern part of Calais, and 
the old saw-«iill at Maple Corners. They were also large owners of real 
•estate in this and other towns. Besides transacting this large amount of 
business for himself, he found time to fill most of the offices in town, in an 
acceptable manner. George, son of Remember Kent, married Mehitable 
Hill, April 24, 1835. He was a successful farmer in his native town. 

Ira Richardson Kent, son of Ira, familiarly known as "Rich Kent,'' was 
never of robust health, but possessed great energy, and comprehensive busi- 
ness ability, which, in a great measure, compensated for his lack of physical 
strength. At the age of tvventy years he assumed the entire management of 
the mercantile business of I. & A. Kent, which he continued about six years. 
He next engaged in buying and selling cattle and horses, and at the same 
time was an acceptable town officer. In i860 he formed a partnership with 
J. E. Bacon, of Spencer, Mass., in the manufacture of boots, and did an 
extensive bnsiness until he died, October 9, 1875. 

J. V. R. Kent, son of Remember and Rachel (Bliss) Kent, married, first, 
Laura A. Curtis, who died August 31, 1851. December 26, 1856, he married 
Mrs. Catherine Morse, to whom was born a son, Charles V., December 19, 
1858. Mr. Kent was in the employ of his brothers, I. & A. Kent, as their 
foreman in the shoe factory fifteen years. He then settled on a farm at 
Maple Corners, where he resided until 1887, when he retired from active 
business. He represented Calais in the legislature of 1862-63, ^.nd has 
done a great amount of town business and settled numerous estates. His 
son Charles V. married, November 23, 1882, M. Martella Peck, of Calais, 



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and is a dealer in fine stock horses. Several fine " high bloods " can be seen 
at his stables in Calais. 

Gideon Hicks, born in Taunton, Mass., emigrated to Calais in 1800. In 
September, 1804, he married Sally Peck, of Rehoboth, Mass., and they were 
parents of eight children, six of whom lived to raise families, viz.: Clarissa, 
Emeline, Gideon W., Alfred P., Celia M., and Fanny M. Mr. Hicks cleared 
a large farm, and lived to see the town converted from the wilderness into 
well cultivated farms. He was the third town clerk of Calais, and held the 
position thirty-six years, and also served as selectman and justice many years. 
Alfred P. Hicks succeeded his father on the farm and in town affairs, and 
held many positions of public trust. January 8, 1837, he married Elnora 
Wing, of New Bedford, Mass., and reared a family of three children. He was 
engaged in mercantile business fifteen years ; afterwards he devoted his whole 
time to his farm. He died June 6, 1886. His wife survives him, and with 
the aid of her nephew carries on the farm with success. 

Amasa Ainsworth married Hannah Bancroft, and came from Petersham, 
Mass., to Calais, at an early date. He was in the battle of Plattsburgh, and 
died at Calais Center soon after. His son Harry was born in Calais, September 
23, 1807. In 1828 he married Mary Ann G. Spalding, of Plainfield, N. H., 
settled in Waterbury, Vt., and resided there four years. He cleared and put in 
order the grounds for the second State House and labored on its construction. 
In 1840 he resided in Burlington, and voted for Gen. W. H. Harrison for Pres- 
ident. About 1843 he returned to Calais, with his family, but went to Boston 
to work on Fort Warren. He also assisted in building the Central Vermont 
and other railroads. After he had finished work on Fort Warren he returned 
to his family in Calais, and finally settled on a farm near Kent's Corners. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ainsworth were blessed with a family of nine children, seven 
of whom are living (1888). Mrs. Ainsworth died September i, 1874. She 
was an amiable lady of fine mental abilities. Six of her children taught 
school. 

Isaac Robinson, son of Capt. Samuel Robinson, of Charlton, Mass., was 
born July 8, 1781. He married Julia Harwood, October 21, 1808, and 
some time in that year emigrated to Calais. They were parents of five chil- 
dren. Mr. Robinson died July 30, 1826. His widow married Col. Cyrus 
Johnston, and died, a widow, July 27, 1878. Samuel Robinson, born Decem- 
ber 27, 1816, is the only one of this family now living in Calais. He married 
Mrs. Harriet (Arnold) Simpson, of Boston. Mr. Robinson followed harness- 
making until 1 84 1. Since then he has been engaged in farming. He is a 
highly respected citizen, was elected town clerk in 1875, treasurer in 1876, 
and has since continually held both of these offices. 

John Mower, of Greene, Kenebeck county, Maine, was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary army. He married Elizabeth Edwards. Their son Jabez 
was born in Greene, Me., April 4, 1787. About 1810 he came on horseback 
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served in the War of 1 8 1 2 as first sergeant ; participated in the battles of Pitts- 
burgh, Stone Mills, and at other locations in the Chateaugay country, 
N. Y. With his savings in this service he bought a lot in Calais. About 18 16 
he married Ruth, daughter of Peter Wheelock, the first town clerk and repre- 
sentative of Calais. Three of their seven children lived to mature age, viz.: 
Jerry W. was a merchant in Boston and <lied in Woburn, Mass., in 1879 '■> 
Mary A. died in Calais in 1874; and Albion J. resides in Calais. He en- 
Hsted, in May, 1862, in Co. I, 9th Regt. Vt. Vols., and went out as captain,, 
served about a year, and was captured by the enemy at the battle at Harper's 
Ferry. After he was exchanged he served as a recruiting officer for the 3d,. 
6th^ and 9th Regiments, and was in the state service one year. Mr. Mower 
married Relief W. Smith, of Cabot, and they have five children. His sword 
has turned to a plowshare and he is a peaceable tiller of the soil. Either 
the military spirit is rife in this family, or their patriotism is beyond and above 
a doubt or question. John Mower served our country in the war that gained 
our independence. His son Jabez was a sergeant in the War of 1H12. His^ 
grandson, Albion J. Mower, was a captain, and gave his service to preserve 
the Union which his grandfather fought to establish. And now his great- 
grandson is learning the art of war at Norwich University. 

Thomas Fair, a native of Scotland and a tailor, was taken from a shop in 
London and impressed into the British army, served under Gen. John Bur- 
goyne, and was a prisoner of war at Saratoga. About 1791 he married 
Rhoda Mallard, in Warwick, Mass. He settled in Barre in 1801, and re- 
moved to Woodbury in 1810. He died at Black Rock, N. Y., in 1838. Mr. 
Fair was the father of eight children. His son David was born in Warwick 
in 1793, and removed to Woodbury with his father. In 181 7 he married 

Hannah Blake, and settled in -. He returned to Woodbury in 1837, 

where he resided until his death in 1872. He was the father of nine 
children. Three of his sons were volunteer soldiers in the late war, viz.: Mar- 
tial in Co. I, nth Vt. Regt.; Simon C. in the 2d Vt. Battery; and Shubael 
B., who was born in Calais, October 6, 1834, followed the occupation of shoe- 
making until he enlisted, July 21, 1862, in Co. I, nth Vt. Regt., and served 
to the close of the war, in 1865. He then returned to Calais, and most of 
the time since has been in mercantile business. He has served as justice of 
the peace several years, and postmaster of North Calais since the office was 
estabUshed in 1879. May 23, 1857, he married Matilda A. McKnight, and 
they are parents of one daughter, Edith L., born November 5, 1859, who 
married C. F. Beard, October 31, 1881. 

George W. Foster was born in Vershire, Orange county, in 1795. At the 
age of twelve years he went to Calais, and in 1822 he married Polly Kelton,. 
of that town, and they were the parents of eleven children, nine of whon> 
lived and raised families. Sydney H. Foster, son of George W., married 
Miss Louise R. Dudley, and engaged in farming. July 22, 1862, Mr. Foster 
responded to his country's call for volunteers and enlisted, a private, in Co. I» 



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nth Vt. Regt., was first promoted to the office of sergeant, and next was 
made second lieutenant. At the close of the war, in 1865, he bought the in- 
terest of his brother, Alonzo M., lu the farm where he now lives, and which 
they owned jointly. Mr. Foster is a practical, energetic, and successful 
farmer, and one of the most extensive maple sugar makers in Vermont. He 
is deservedly popular with his townsmen, and represented them in the legisla- 
ture of 1866 and '67, and has held other town offices. The children of Mr. 
and Mrs. Foster are Herbert S. and Nervie L. The former married Laura 
A. Kent, of Calais, graduated at West Point Military Academy, is first lieu- 
tenant in the regular army, and is stationed in Montana. He had before 
served as messenger in the House of Representatives three terms. Miss 
Nervie L. Foster resides with her parents. 

Israel Dwinell was born in Croydon, N. H., Octobers, 1785. He married 
Phila Oilman, of Marshfield, April i, 1813, and on their wedding day settled 
on a farm on East hill, in Calais, where he resided until his death, February 
20, 1874. Mrs. Dwinell was born in Hartford, Conn., September 17, 1793, 
and died June i, 1864. Their ten children were all born in the house where 
they moved the day they were married. They endured the hardships common 
to early settlers, but found means and gave educational advantages to their 
children, above most others, and two of their sons were given a college course. 

Albert Dwinell, the subject of this sketch, was born in East Calais, Jan- 
uary 15, 1823, the fifth son of Dea. Israel and Phila (Oillman) Dwinell. He 
was one of a family of nine brothers and one sister, all born on the old home 
farm at East Calais, now in the possession of L. O. Dwinell, the seventh son 
of the family. Israel, the father, was born in Corydon, N. H., October 8, 
1785, and died February 20, 1874, aged eighty-eight years. Phila Gillman, 
the mother, was born in Hartford, Conn., September 17, 1793, and died June 
I, 1863, at the age of sixty-nine years. They were married April i, 1813, 
and unitedly began life's work on the farm which they occupied till the time 
of their death. Albert, the fifth son, served his early years, and up to the 
time of his majority, on his father's farm, attending the common and select 
schools, with one term at Peacham Academy, and spending the winter 
months for five seasons in teaching district schools. In April, 1845, at the 
age of twenty-two, he was married to Irene Davis Rich, daughter of Capt. 
Samuel Rich and Dolly Davis, his wife, into whose service he enlisted, taking 
charge of the saw-mill and grist-mill at East Calais. In the year 1850 the 
estate, together with the mills belonging to Samuel Rich, came into his 
possession by purchase. During this ownership of the mills lumbering was 
made a specialty. In 1856, having disposed of his mill property, he gave 
more attention to general farming; and in i860, in connection with farming, 
he engaged in mercantile and produce business in his country village, at 
which business he continued for twenty years. 

Mr. Dwinell was chosen to represent his town in the General Assembly 
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under General P. P. Pitkin, in the quartermaster's department, and reported 
for duty at Harrison's Landing when General McClellan was in command 
of the Army of the Potomac. He served in this capacity until obliged by 
sickness to leave the service. He was elected state senator in 1878, and 
reelected in 1880. In the latter year he was chairman of the Grand List 
committee, and was one of the special commission appointed to formulate and 
introduce a bill to equalize taxation, resulting in the bill reported by that 
commission, and the establishing of the present tax law, to regulate taxation, 
known as the tax law of 1880. In January, i88r, Mr. Dwinell was commis- 
sioned by Gov. Farnham one of three state appraisers to appraise railroad 
beds, trestles, and bridges, so that they be set in the Grand Lists of their 
respective towns for the purpose of taxation. In January, 1882, he was 
reappointed on the same state board of railroad appraisers. Mr. Dwinell 
and wife now (i 888) reside on the same homestead they occupied at the time 
of their marriage. They have three children, Franklin Albert, Clarence 
Rich, and Dell Burton. Franklin A., born May 23, 1847, resides at Plain- 
field, and is interested in, and at present is president of, the Farmers' Loan 
and Trust Co., of Fargo, Dak. He was married to Harriet A. Hammett, 
December 15, 1869, She died at Plainfield, November 15, 1884, leaving 
him two boys, Elbert Hammett, born April 6, 1874, and Melvin Raymond, 
born April 10, 1878. 

Clarence R. Dwinell, the second son of Albert Dwinell, born May i, 1850, is 
now in mercantile business at East Calais, occupying the same stores and 
continuing the same business formerly conducted by his father. He was 
married, March 27, 1878, to Ella H. Hammond. 

Dell Burton, the youngest, born April 10, 1867, is at present with his 
father, at the old home, assisting in the farming and saw-mill now connected 
with the place. 

The two older boys, Frank A. and Clarence R., were graduated from Barre 
Academy, under Prof. Spaulding. The youngest, Dell B., graduated at the 
Methodist Seminary at Montpelier, under Prof. Bishop. 

James Morse and Lucy Bliss, his wife, came from Marshfield to Calais 
in 1814. Mr. Morse died September 30, 1840. Mrs. Morse died June 26, 
1830. Their soh Ira A. was born in 1813. In 1841 he married Elsie M., 
daughter of Jonas and Sarah (Holbrook) Davis, of Plainfield. Their chil- 
dren were Paul H., who died in infancy, and Ada L. (Mrs. Henry W. Town), 
who resides on the Morse homestead. Mrs. Morse died February 14, 1859, 
aged thirty-one years. In 1867 Mr. Morse married Mrs. Sophia E. Gould, 
of Cabot, who survives her husband. Mr. Morse died May 7, 1883. He 
was prominent in military, political, and society affairs. He was captain of a 
company of cavalry, held many of the town offices, and represented Calais in 
the legislature of 1868-69. He loved his home which he beautified, and de- 
lighted in rearing and owning fine horses. 

John Taylor Gilman, M. D., son of Jonathan, was born in Gilmanton, 



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N. H., July 24, 1 791. He graduated in the medical profession at Dartntiouth 
College in 1814, and began practice in East Calais in 1815. Dr. Oilman 
was the pioneer physician of Calais, and had a wide field for practice quite 
to himself, until 1823, when Dr. Charles Clark settled in Calais and became 
a formidable rival by putting down the price of professional visits to the pit- 
tance of twenty-five cents. Dr. Oilman matched his competitor by reducing 
rates to the same price. He was successful, and for the times left a fair 
property. He died, a martyr to the profession, at the age of thirty-four years. 
He married Ruth, daughter of Col. Caleb Curtis, in May, 181 9. Their 
children were Marcus Davis and John Melvin. 

William and James Hersey emigrated to America from Scotland about the 
beginning of the seventeenth century, t'or we find that Ej^jah, son of William, 
was born in Hingham, Mass., May 18, 17 13. His son, Elijah Hersey, Jr., 
was born February 3, 1752, settled in Leicester, Mass., and was father often 
children. His son, Nathaniel Stone Hersey, born September 29, 1788, came 
to Calais when a young man. About 18 17 he married Asenath, daughter of 
Jesse and Betsey (BuckUn) Slayton, who was born May 14, 1799. They 
were blessed with a family of seven sons and six daughters, eleven of whom 
are living. Mr. Hersey settled on wild land, which he cleared, and was a 
citizen of Calais over fifty years. He died November 13, 1866, aged seventy- 
eight years. Asenath, his wife, died April 10, 1862, aged nearly sixty-three 
years. Their daughter Laura A. (Mrs. Grin Davis), born September 10, 
1827, and their son Nathaniel Stone Hersey, Jr., born March 7, 1829, are all 
of this large family that now (August, 1888) reside in Calais. 

Isaac Davis, born January 20, 1782, married Esther Kendall, who was born 
December 22, 1785, and settled in Calais at an early date. He held the 
offices of justice of the peace and lister, and died September 8, 1832. Mrs. 
Davis died December 7, 1851. They were parents of four children, viz.: 
Kendall T., born December 15, 1805 ; Grin, born August 22, 1808 ; Zilpha, 
born December 2, 1814; and Miranda, born September 6, 1824. Rev. Grin 
Davis married Roxana P. Ware, May 4, 1835, who died September 19, 1844. 
Their only child, Malvina, born October 27, 1835, died May 28, 1858. 
December 19, 1850, Mr. Davis married Laura A., daughter of Nathaniel S. 
and Asenath Hersey. Rev. Grin Davis was an early member of the Christian 
church of Calais, and did much for its prosperity. He was ordained a min- 
ister of that denomination in 1850; and since i860 he has been the pastor 
of the church in Calais. 

Arc P. Slayton, son of Bucklin and Sally (Willis) Slayton, was born in 
Calais, September 16, 1818. His great-grandfather was a soldier in the 
French and Indian war; his grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
war ; his father was a soldier in the War of 181 2 ; and he aided in recruit- 
ing Co. H, of the 13th Vt. Regt., in 1862. He went to the front as first 
lieutenant of his company, was promoted a captain, and came home without 
a wound or scratch, but with ruined health. In 1846 he married Lucy B., 



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daughter of John White, Jr. In i860 Mr. Slay ton moved to Elmore, built 
a saw-mill, and did an extensive lumber business, was also a successful bridge 
builder, and has erected a great number of railroad bridges. He represented 
Elmore in the legislature of 186S. In 1885 he removed to Calais onto the 
farm where he now lives, and is giving his attention to its cultivation. His 
children are Mark L., a lumberman in Elmore; Herman A. and William T., 
bridge builders in Blackstone, Mass.; Clara (Mrs. Herbert Baker), of Chippe- 
way Falls, Wis.; Calvin A., a lumberman in Cambridge, Vt.; Florence (Mrs. 
William Howieson), also of Chippeway Falls ; Kate (Mrs. Augustus A. Bliss), 
who died in March, 1885 ; and Lucy, a teacher, and Orin L., who reside at 
home with their parents. 

Stephen Hall was born in Barrington, N. H., January 20, 1764. He mar- 
ried Anna Lougee, of Exeter, N. H., and settled, when a young man, in 
Starksboru, where he cleared a farm from the first, and accumulated a com- 
petency. In 181 1 he removed to Marshfield, and in 18 19 came to Calais 
and settled on a small farm, where he died August 30, 1856. His children 
were Edmund, born July 3, 1803, died in Chelsea in 1859 ; Henry T., born 
June 25, 1810, died in i88r ; Stephen N., born December 21, 1812, died in 
Reading, Mass., in 1888; and Polly, born March 24, i8o8, married Henry 
W. Sumner, who was born in Boston, December 7, i8or. Mr. Sumner was 
a shoemaker, came to Plainfield in 1829, and was in the employ of Harvey 
Bancroft when he was married. Two years afterward he settled in Calais, 
where he continued to reside until his death, October 26, i88r. The chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Sumner are all living. Their oldest son is in business 
in Boston, the other in Pennsylvania, one daughter, Mrs. George Bamis, 
resides in Marshfield, and the other is the widow of George Lovell, and resides 
on the homestead and makes a home for her aged mother. 

Gilbert Leonard, an early settler of Calais, married, first. Miss Eliza Sales, of 
Massachusetts, who died about 1820. About 1822 he married Elfrida, daughter 
of Abijah Wheelock, one of the colony of first settlers in the town. Mr. 
Leonard settled on the farm where George Pierce no lives, and twenty years 
after he removed to the farm where his son Joseph W. now resides. His 
second wife bore him ten children. Joseph W., before mentioned, resides on 
the homestead. He married Dolly A., daughter of S imuel and Dolly (Davis) 
Rich. This union has been blessed with four children, viz.; Alma Davis, 
born June 26, 1854; Florence Rich and Howard Ray, twins, born January 
27, 1856; and Warren Irving, born July 22, 1861. Mr. Leonard gave faith- 
ful service under " the old flag," as first lieutenant in the Union army. He 
represented Calais in 1880-81, and has honorably discharged the duties of 
several town offices. He is an upright, reliable citizen, and a substantial 
farmer. 

Lewis O. Leonard, son of Gilbert and Elfrida (Wheelock) Leonard, was born 
in Calais, January 19, 1S40. He married Hortense Cole, and settled in 
Woodbury. Mrs. Leonard died October 9, 1864, at the age of twenty-two 



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years, and left one daughter. Mr. Leonard's second wife (Lucia J. Stoddard, 
of Calais) bore him two sons, one of whom is now living. The other died 
March 7, 1887. Mrs. Leonard, the mother of his sons, died March 18, 1887, 
and his only daughter died July 27, 1888. 

Thomas McKnight, son of Thomas, was born in Montpeher, June 6, 1806. 
In 182 1 his father moved to Calais. He has been a noted joiner. At the 
age of twenty-two he married Adaline McKnight, of Montpelier, and five of 
their eight children Uved to adult age, viz.: Harriet (Mrs. Charles R. White), 
of Calais; Clarinda P. (Mrs. Roderic Holton), also of Calais; Annette (Mrs. 
V. B. Ainsworth), of Craftsbury; Laura A. (Mrs. S. K. Cameron), of Wood- 
bury ; and Charles E., 3d sergeant of Co. H, 13th Regt. Vt. Vols., who died 
in Camp Cornish, Va., March 23, 1863. Mr. McKnight died September i, 
1888, aged eighty-two years. For the last thirty-three years he resided with 
his daughter, Mrs. White. 

Zephaniah G., son of Noah and Ruth Pierce, was born in Calais, December 
■16, 1822, and died May 27, 1880. He was a farmer in his native town 
until he was thirty years of age, when he went West and engaged in the hard- 
ware trade. He returned to Calais in 1855, and continued in mercantile 
business till his death. April 22, 1845, he married Eliza S. Leonard. Their 
only child is Walter L. Pierce, born October 20, 1855, married Miss Annie 
F. Tabor, of East Montpeher, in November, 1875, and has two children, 
Maud L. and Charlie T. Mr. Pierce is of the firm of White &)Pierce, general 
merchants, of East Calais. 

John and Lucy (Blanchard) White, of New Boston, Mass., were parents of 
fourteen children and grandparents of eighty-one grandchildren. Their son 
Henry was father of twenty-one children. Jacob White, another son of John 
and Lucy, was born March 22, 1806, and came to Calais in 1826, where he 
has since resided. In February, 1826, he married Clariss Porter, who died 
March 23, 1858, and left five children. In 1861 Mr. White married Widow 
Elvira Goodell, who died May 6, 1880, on her seventy-sixth birthday. Ben- 
jamin P. White, son of Jacob, is of the firm of White & Pierce, merchants, 
of East Calais, is an influential citizen, and holds the positions of town agent 
and postmaster. He served as constable ten years, and has represented 
Calais in the legislature. He married Christina Wheelock, and three children 
were born to them. After her death Mr. White married Amelia Pierce, of 
Cabot, who is the mother of one child. 

Dr. Asa Worthley George, son of Asa and Sally (Worthley) George, was 
born in Washington, Vt., September 24, 1797, and at the age of nineteen 
years married Miss Betsey E. Brayman, of his native town. He began life 
as a wheelwright, but commenced the study of medicine while at work at his 
bench. He commenced to practice with Dr. Sargent, of Sandwich, N. H., and 
took a yearly course of lectures at Hanover, until he graduated, in 1824. In 
February, 1825, he settled in Calais, as the successor of Dr. Gilman, where 
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In 1849 he received a second diploma, and afterwards gave instructions to 
numerous students, whom he gave a fine set off in the profession. The Doc- 
tor was industrious and indefatigable in his attendance on his patients. 
Neither bad roads, storms, or dark nights kept him from their bedside. He 
was constant in attention to the poor as well as the rich. Indeed, the poor 
he never oppressed. He was brusque in manners, but warm, kind, and sym- 
pathetic, and had a wide reputation as a physician. Dr. George cast the only 
Republican vote in Calais several years, when he was joined by Dea. George 
Foster. Dr. George prophesied from the first that he would live to see Calais 
represented in the legislature by a Republican, and he had that honor in 1854 
and '55. He also held all the important offices in his town. He died Au- 
gust 23, 18S0, aged eighty-three years. His wife, Betsey E., died October 2, 
1872. In October, 1873, he married Maria P. Braman, of Washington, who 
died in March, 1879. -^'^ first marriage was blessed with three daughters, 
namely, Achsah W., Henrietta B., and Helen M. Achsah VV. married George 
L. Dutton, of Walden, Vt., in 1841. Their children are Asa George Dut- 
ton, who married Mary J. Davis, of Little Valley, N. Y., and owns and 
resides on the farm recently owned by his grandfather. Dr. George ; William 
H. Dutton, who married Mary E. Boyce, of Hyde Park ; and the sister, who 
married Albert George, of Calais. In 1849 Henrietta B., daughter of Dr. 
George, married James R. George, of Berlin. Helen M., in 1846, married 
Dr. Hiram C. Orcutt. 

Hon. Alonzo D. Pearce, a native of CalaiS; and son of Alonzo and Thirza 
(Dkvinell) Pearce, and grandson of Asahel and Clarissa (Peck) Pearce, who 
was one of the pioneers of Calais, was born September 17, 1825, and has 
been a prominent man. He was constable and collector a long time, post- 
master ten years, sheriff of Washington county in 1870-71, and represented 
his town in the legislature of 1886. Mr. Pearce was of the firm of Pearce & 
Pitkin, merchants, which firm was discontinued at the death of Mr. Pitkin, 
and since then Mr. Pearce has not engaged extensively in business. Hon. 
Alonzo D. Pearce is one who is held in high esteem in Calais. In 1856 he 
united in marriage with Dulcena Nelson. Their children are Harley N., 
born May 24, 1855, graduated at Tufts College, class of 1880, and is now a 
teacher in the State Normal school at Morehead, Minn.; and Inez M., born 
June 27, 1857, is a dressmaker, and resides with her parents. She is also 
librarian of the circulating library. 

John A. Chapin, born in Belchertown, Mass., in 1790, married Diadama 
Merrill, who was born in 1801, emigrated to Calais in 1832, and settled on 
the James Lebarron farm, where his grandson, Henry A. Chapin, now lives. 
They were parents of ten children. Mr. Chapin died in Westfield, Mass., in 
1879. ^''S- Chapin died in Calais in 1872. His son Alvin M. was born 
in Stanstead, Canada, June 18, 1822, In 1843 he married Diana Goodell, 
of Calais, and settled on the homestead. Their children now living are John. 



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E., who resides in Montpelier ; Henry A. in Calais as before mentioned; 
Alvin in Massachusetts; and Ida V. and Albertin Calais. 

WilUam H. Chapin, son of John A., was born September 20, 1840. He 
enlisted as a private in the Springfield Heavy Artillery in 1863. He was then 
engaged at Springfield, Mass., as a machinist. He left the shops and went 
to the front with his battery, and served until July, 1865, when he was dis- 
charged. He returned to Calais, and May 18, i86g, married Ellen J. Carnes, 
of Barre. Their children were Jennie M., born April 21, 1870, and Georgie 
W., born February 6, 1872, who died at the age of two years. Mrs. Chapin 
died September 25, 1874, aged- twenty-eight years. February 29, 1876, he 
married Mrs. Martha (VVhitehill) Edwards, widow of Rowland Edwards. Mr. 
Chapin is now living on road 76, and is engaged in farming. 

Matthew Jack, son of Matthew, was born in Marshfield, September 14, 18 15. 
At the age of twenty-one years he moved to the central part of Calais. In 
1847 h^ married T. Celinda, daughter of Charles Wheeler, of Woodbury. In 
1867 he purchased the farm of James Hammond where his widow now lives. 
Mr. Jack was honest and upright in dealing with his neighbors, and gave his 
attention to his own business. He died September 13, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. 
Jack were parents of an only son, Lewis L., who died September 13, 1871. 
Lewis L. Jack was a youth of amiable, filial, and scholarly qualities, and was 
admired and respected by his entire circle of acquaintances. 

Charles S. Bennett, son of Ira and Huldah (Hersey) Bennett, was born in 
Caliis, September 17, 1825. Mr. Bennett is a skillful and popular carpen- 
ter, joiner, and builder. He married Caroline Lebarron, of Calais. Eight 
of their ten children are living, viz. : Ellen C, wife of Fred Snow; Elia A. 
(Mrs. Frank J. Parker) ; Ella H. (Mrs. E. Templeton) ; Etta C. (Mrs. George 
H. Clark), all of whom reside in East Montpelier; Carrie E. (Mrs. Leander 
Coburn), of Minnesota ; Cassius C, of Dakota ; and Ina B. and Van F., 
who resides with their parents. 

Isaac Gray was born in East Montpelier, married Martha Billings, and set- 
tled in the little hamlet of Pekin, in Calais. Their children are Ira B., a busi- 
ness man in Boston; Martha (Mrs. Stephen Bates), of Harkwick, Vt.; John, 
a carpenter, who resides in Oregon; and George S., who resides on road 80, 
in Calais, and is engaged in farming. He married Sarah Bugbee, of this town, 
daughter of Chester and Amanda (Daggett) Bugbee, and granddaughter of 
Lyman Daggett, who came to Calais with his uncle, Peter Wheelock, in 1789, 
when only twelve years old, and who lived to the great age of ninety-four 
years. Mr. and Mrs. Gray were married December 10, 1866. 

Luther Converse was born in Elmore, and came to Calais when a young 
man. His father, Ira, died in February, 1887, aged eighty years. His mother, 
of the Lamberton family of Marshfield, still survives (1888), aged nearly 
eighty-one years. Luther Converse married Asenath W. Shortt, of Calais. 
Four of their six children are living, viz.: Jesse O., Elmer P., Albert J., and 
Homer L. Jesse O. married Miss E. Pray, of East Montpelier. 



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Capt. William V. Peck, son of William and Hannah (Hackett) Peck, was 
born in Wolcott, Vt., February 8, 1834. His parents removed to Calais in 
1841. February 6, 1858, Mr. Peck married Helen M. Dudley, of Calais. 
He served as captain of Co. H. 13th Regt. Vt. Vols., four months, under the 
command of Col. F. V. Randall, and returned in broken health. Mr. Peck 
is a practical farmer, on road 45, and is the inventor of the noted odorless 
fertilizer, and is of the firm of Peck & Dudley, of Montpelier. 

Oilman Guernsey was born in Haverhill. N. H., came to Calais when a boy, 
and learned the joiners' trade of Salera Goodenough. About 1837 he mar- 
ried Clotina Southwick, and continued to reside in Calais to the close of his 
life. Their children are Mahala, who married Abram J. Wallace, a contractor 
and builder, of Waterloo, P. Q.; George H., the celebrated architect and 
builder, of Montpelier; and Oscar W., born January 22, 1847, who is a farmer 
in Calais. February 15, 1873, he married Sarah J. Leach, and they have three 
children, Myrtie M., Alice M., and George H. 

Charles S. Guernsey settled as a farmer in Calais, on the farm where his 
son A. C. now lives, about 1843. He married Cynthia Hanks, of Duxbury, 
a descendant of the Sprague family of that town. They had born to them 
the son before mentioned, and a daughter, who married Carlos Wheelock in 
1848. Her home is in Boston, Mass. Mrs. Wheelock is the guardian of an 
orphan child, Hope Clement, who owns a residence on road 45, where Mrs. 
Wheelock makes a summer resort. 

Austin H. Sanders was born in East Montpelier, January 4, 1839, where he 
resided until 1867, when he bought a farm on road 45, in Calais, which has 
been his home since that date. Mr. Sanders, in June, 1863, married Mary, 
daughter of H.-D. Sinclair, of East Montpelier, who served as a soldier in 
the late war, under Gen. Thomas, and in the military printing office at New 
Orleans. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Sanders are Arthur L., born August 
16, 1865, and George E., born January 28, 1868, both of whom reside with 
their parents. Mr. Sanders is honest, upright, and highly respected. His 
parents were Peter and Hannah (Pike) Sanders. 

J. K. Toby, son of R. W. Toby, was born in Calais, June 17, 1845, and 
received his education in the common schools and at the Union school of 
Montpelier. He engaged in land surveying and school teaching, and was a 
teacher in New Jersey from 1865 to 1870. He married Miss Sherill Rob- 
inson, and settled on a farm at Maple Corners, where in the last years of his 
life he engaged in raising seeds for the firm of B. K. Bliss & Son, of New 
York. Mr. Toby was entrusted with many of the offices of his town, and 
interested in educational affairs. 

Sargent F. Bailey was born in Danville, in 1814. His parents removed to 
Woodbury when he was two years old, and where he resided until he was 
twenty. He then went to Barre and learned the trade of mason. He trav- 
eled in thirteen states, and labored at his trade in each. In December, 1847, 
he married Carohne Edson, of Cabot, and has had born to him five children, 



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only two of whom are living, viz.: Sarah C, who married Chauncey C. 
Haskell, in May, 1877, and is the mother of a daughter, Helen S., born in 
October, 1878; the other married O. S. Joslyn, of Waitsfield, in January, 
1878, and is the mother of four children. Mr. Bailey settled on the farm 
where he now lives, in Calais, in 1882, and since then he has been a farmer. 
He was a resident of West Woodbury forty years, and one of the highly 
respected citizens of that neighborhood. 

Erasmus L. Burnap, son of Ebenezer and Ruth (Tucker) Burnap, was 
born in Auburn, Mass., in 1813. He removed to Cabot in 1837, where he 
resided until 1859, when he settled in Calais, which has since been his home. 
December 17, 1834, he married Susan Hawes, of Wrentham, Mass. Five of 
their seven children are now hving, viz.: Charles H., born in December, 
1839, learned the joiners' and carriagemikers' trade when twenty years of 
age, and went to reside in California, but found the climate uncongenial and 
returned to Calais. July 17, 1862, he enlisted in Co. I, nth Vt. Regt., 
served to the close of the war, and was discharged June 24, 1865. He mar- 
ried Sarah W. Leonard, of Calais, and is father of one daughter. He is a 
farmer with his father on road 56. Isabel F. is the wife of O. H. Leonard. 
Harvey E. married Mira L. Jacobs. Anna E. resides at the old home. 
Mary H., the eldest, married Levi W. Pitkin, and resides in Marshfield. The 
others all reside in Calais. Mrs. Susan Burnap died August 2, 1862. 
April 17, 1867, Mr. Burnap married Elsie A. Shortt. He has been promi- 
nent in town affairs, and represented Calais in the legislature of 1876-77. 

George C. Slayton, son of Joseph A. and Lucinda (Hackett) Slayton, was 
born November 14, i860. He acquired his education at the graded school 
at Maple Corners, where he prepared himself to teach, and has taught in 
Calais and adjacent towns. November 14, t88i, he united in marriage with 
Lovinia A. Goodell, and both taught the ensuing four years. He then bought 
the farm on road 48, where they now reside, and are engaged in securing a 
comfortable home. 

Joseph A. Slayton, son of Orin and Dulcena (Andrus) Slayton, and grand- 
son of Bucklin Slayton, the carpenter, and an early settler of Calais, was born 
in East Montpelier, December 6, 1833. In 1859 ^e married Lucinda Hack- 
ett, of Calais. In i860 they settled in the western part of this town. In 1867 
they removed to the farm where they now live, on road 10. Mr. Slayton is a 
thorough farmer and stock grower. His marriage has been blessed by the 
birth of two sons, viz.: George C, a farmer on road 48; and Mahlon A., who 
lives with his parents. 

E. D. Haskell, son of Daniel and Betsey (Spaulding) Haskell, was born in 
St. Johnsbury, July 16, 1833, where his mother was born about 1803. At 
the age of twenty-one he married Lorinda P. Hoyt, and the same year com- 
menced the manufacture of doors, sash, and blinds at Woodbury, which he 
continued six years, when he sold to Alonzo A. Clark, and bought the farm 
where Harley Rickard now lives. He conducted the farm three years, sold 



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it, and entered the mercantile business at North Calais, in March, 1863, and 
is a merchant at the precent time (1888). Mr. Haskell was also a manufac- 
turer of woolen goods three years. He bought the mills of George White, 
pat in machinery, employed from eight to ten hands, but after three years it 
passed into the hands of G. Ormsbee. Mrs. Haskell died January 9, 1885. 
Their only child, Charlie E., was born June 8, 1856, and is now of the firm! 
of E. D. Haskell & Son, merchants, doing business at Wolcott, Vt. Both 
father and son are energetic business men. 

Albert George, son of Rufus, was born in Chelsea. This George family i.s 
of unmistakable English origin and of noble blood. Mr. George has in his 
possession the family coat of arms. At the age of twenty-five years, after a 
sojourn in Boston, he came to Calais, and June 3, 1866, united in mar- 
riage with Miss Lucretia Button. This marriage is blessed with one son. 
Mr. and Mrs. George have a beautiful home and good farm, one mile from 
East Calais, where they dispense a generous hospitality. Mr. George is 
genial, kind, a good neighbor, and reliable citizen. He defended the " old flag," 
in the late war, and at the expense of two severe gun-shot wounds — one in 
his thigh and the other in his right shoulder. He now receives a pension 
from his country which he so heroically defended. 

Curtis O. Eastman was born in Compton, P. Q His parents removed to 
Walden, Vt., when he was but two years old, and from there to Woodbury. 
At the age of fifteen he left home, and married Sarah Thompson, of Glover, 
when he was twenty-three years of age, and two children were born to them. 
In 1862 he enlisted in the nth Vt. Regt., and served the ensuingthree years. 
While he was in the service of his country his wife and children died. In 
1865 he married Emma S., daughter of Elias Smith, who was a son of one of 
the earliest settlers of Marshfield. Elias Smith settled in Calais in 1830, on 
the farm where he spent the remainder of his life. He died in November, 
1879. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman, with their family of si.x children, have, since 
his death, occupied the homestead. 

The soldiers in the Revolutionary war who were afterwards citizens of 
Calais were John Beattis, who deserted from the British, Seth Doan, Jonas 
Comins, Backus Gary, Ebenezer Goodenough, Stephen Hall, Moses Haskell, 
Francis Lebarron, Job Macomber, John Martin, ShubaelShortt, Jesse Slayton, 
Samuel White, Edmund Willis, Duncan Young, who also deserted from the 
British, David Fuller, Asa Wheelock, and Joshua Bliss. 

The soldiers in the War of 1812, who went from Calais, were Danforth 
Ainsworth, Welcome Ainsworth, Benjamin Bancroft, John Goodell. David 
Green, Isaac Hawkins, Enoch Kelton, Ansel Lebarron, Shubael Lewis, Azael 
Lyon, Jason Marsh, Perry Marsh, Dwight Marsh, John Martin, Jr., Jabez 
Mower, Ephraim Pray, Isaac Robinson, Joel Tucker, Josiah White, and 
Daniel Young. 

In the late civil war Calais did her duty promptly and well. Ninety-six sol- 
diers enlisted for three years, twenty-three for one year, and twenty-seven for 

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tiine months. Of the thirty drafted men, six entered the service and twenty- 
four paid commutation. Thus the town furnished three in excess of the 
<luota of 173. 

In August, 1823, a call was issued, signed by Caleb Curtis, Midad Wright, 
and Nathan Bancroft, inviting all interested in building a meeting-house to 
meet at the house of Midad Wright on the i8th of that month. The meet- 
ing was accordingly held and the First Meeting-house Society of Calais was 
then formed, by-laws adopted, and officers elected as follows : Caleb Curtis, 
moderator ; William Dana, clerk ; and Joshua Bliss, treasurer. A commit- 
tee was appointed to select a site and draw a plan for the meeting-house. 
On the 30th of the month a meeting was held, and the committee reported 
that they had agreed upon a building lot, and had drawn a plan for a house 
" 40 by 42 feet, with 40 pews on the lower floor, 5 by 6 feet, and 18 above of 
the same bigness." This report was accepted. The house was to be three 
years in construction ; one-half the expense to be paid in three installments : 
half in neat cattle and the other half in grain. The house was completed, ac- 
■cepted, and dedicated in November, 1825. Six religious societies owned the 
house, and its occupancy was apportioned to them according to the amount 
that each had contributed. The first recorded apportionment was in 1828, 
when the Universalists had twenty Sundays, Baptists ten, Congregationalists 
nine. Christians six, Freewill Baptists four, and Methodists three. In 1848 
there was another apportionment made, which was Universalists thirty-two, 
Congregationalists seven, Methodists five. Baptists four, Christians four. 
The house was used almost every Sunday, summer and winter, without a stove, 
until 1831. It is still in fine condition, and kept nicely painted and repaired, 
-although it has been but very little used for a number of years. 

The Christian church, located at Calais Center, was organized in 18 10, by 
Rev. B. Putnam and Rev. R. Dodge, with about fifty members. Rev. B. 
Putnam was the first pastor. At its organization there was a monthly con- 
ference established, and maintained to the present time. The church has 
•sustained preaching nearly all the time of its existence of nearly eighty years. 
Their house of worship was erected, of wood, in 1866, at a cost of about 
$2,000. The membership is about sixty, with Rev. Orin Davis, pastor. The 
■value of church property, including grounds and buildings, is $2,000. The 
house will comfortably seat 300. For the past twenty-five years their Sunday- 
school has numbered from 100 to 130 members, and at present has about 
100. 



DUXBURY is located in the northwestern part of the county, in latitude 
44° 18' and longitude 4" 12', and is bounded north by Waterbury and 
a part of Bolton, from which town it is separated by the Winooski 
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a part of Bolton. The town was granted by his excellency Gov. Benning 
Wentworth, of the Province of New Hampshire, June 7, 1763, to Rev. Isaac 
Brown, John Winnie, Abraham Gadwin, Samuel Averill, Stephen Tuttle, 
Nicholas Joralemon, Daniel Riggs, Josiah Gilbert, Lodwick Rice, Phillip 
Schuyler, Daniel Wardner, Nathan Phillip Earle, Daniel Gessup, Job Brown, 
Richard Webart, John Vance, Daniel Isaac Brown, John Kingsland, Daniel 
Farrand, Barnt Van Thorn, William Provoost, John Joralemon, Thomas 
Cadmar, Jr., Tunis Joralemon, Edward McAllister, John Spear, Elias M. 
Vreelandt, Thomas Walbrook Waldran, Dirick Joralemon, Thomas Cadmus, 
Theodorus Van Wyk, Gabriel Ogden, Jacob Tilsort, Henry King, James 
Nesbit, Hendrick O. Gessen, Samuel Jacob Demorett, James Obrian, 
Abraham Van Wyke, Dirick Brinkerhoof, Kendrick Van Gessen, Jr., Abraham 
Ackerman, Jacob Joralemon, Arey King, James Van Burn, John Wentworth, 
William Barber, John Downing, Henry Joralemon, Garret Hopper, John 
Chaple, John Berdan, Barnt Governeur, Partridge Thatcher, William Camp, 
John Devoir, William Browne, Ann Van Dyk, Isaac Van Gessen, Abraham 
Governeur, Peter Zebrisco, Johanis Schuyler, Harper Joralemon, and Joseph 
Browne. The township was to be six miles square and to contain 23.040 
acres, and divided into seventy-one shares — one for each of the sixty-five pro- 
prietors, two rights, or 500 acres, for Gov. Wentworth, one for the support of 
schools, one for the County Grammar school, one for the first settled minister, 
and one for the propagation of the gospel. 

The first meeting of the proprietors to organize the company was held 
seven years after the date of the charter, and is on record as follows : — 

*' At a meeting of the Proprietors of the Township of Duxbury on Onion 
River in the Province of New York, legally warned in the public News-Papers, 
holden at the Dwelling- House of Samuel Canfield Esq. in New Milford in 
Connecticut on Thursday the tenth Day of May Anno Domini One Thous- 
and Seven Hundred and Seventy — Proceeded as followeth, (Viz) Voted ist. 
Mr. Partridge Thatcher Esq. of New Milford to be Moderator of said Meet- 
ing. 

" Voted 2d. Samuel Averill of Kent to be clerk of said Township. 

" Voted 3d. To Lay out said Township and to Lot out one Division of 
One hundred acres to Each Right. 

" Voted 4th. That Samuel Averill should be a Committee man or Agent 
to Agree with two Surveyors and a sufficient Number of Chain Bearers to do 
said Business. 

"Voted 5th. To Lay a Tax of three Dollars on Each Right to Defray the 
Charges of Laying out said Township. 

" Voted 6th. Adjourned unto the fourth Tuesday of September Next unto 
the Dwelling house of Samuel Averill in Kent. 

"On Tuesday ye 25th Day of September, A. D. 1770 met according to 
adjournment, the meeting being opened was adjourned to house of Capt. 
John Robinson of Newark, in the Province of New Jersey to Thursday the 
25th Day of October Next, at one of the Clock in the afternoon." 

In the summer of 1770 Jedediah Hubbell, with eight assistants, surveyed 
the township and laid out the first division of lots, and made the following 
report : — 



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" A survey of the Township of Daxbury a Township Lately Granted by his 
Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq'r Governor of the Province of New 
Hampshire &c. 

"Beginning at the Eastward Corner of the Township of New Huntington 
on the south west Bank of Onion River, thence Running south west by said 
Township six miles, to the south Corner of said township, thence running 
south eastward a Line Parallel to Onion River, Six miles, then North east 
Six miles to the Bank of Onion River, then by and with the Bank of said River 
to the first mentioned Station, and on Each of said Lines Marked Trees at one 
Mile Distance from Each other, with the Number of Miles on said Trees. 
And then we proceeded to Layout one Division of Hundred acre Lots (Viz) 
Seventy Two Hundred acre Lots Lying in Length from S )utheast to North- 
west Two Hundred Rods and m Width from Northeast to South West Eighty 
Rods, the first Lot Lying in the North Corner of said Township, and Twenty 
Four Lots, Buting on the North West Line of Said Township for the First 
Tier of Lots, and between the first and Second Tier of Lots we Laid out on 
Highway Six Rods Wide Extending through said Township and the second 
Tier of Lots Begins on the South West Line of Slid Township, with Num- 
ber Twenty Five, and Continues in Succession of Numbers to the River, and 
between the Second and third Tier of Lots we Laid out an Highway extend- 
ing through the Township of Six Rods Wide, and Butted the third Tier of 
Lots on Said Highway, beginning with Number Forty Nine Extending South 
West in Succession of Numbers, to Number S;;venty Two on the South West 
Line of Said Township, and also Laid out a Cross Highway through Said 
three Tiers of Lots Six Rods wide in the Centre of said Tiers — the above 
Work was Done and Completed June ye 5th A. D. 1770 with the assistance 
of Messrs. Moses Crane, John Ranger, Samuel Frost, Nathan Price, Charles 
Townsed, Caleb Ball, Jonathan Wilkerson, and Samuel Filer. 
" By Jedediah Hubbell Surveyor of Land. 
'• Recorded by 

" Samuel Averill Jun'r, Register." 

The proprietors met in Newark, N. J., pursuant to adjournment, at the 
house of Capt. John Robinson, in November. 1770, accepted the surveyor's 
report, and each proprietor drew his lot or "right." 

Charters of Duxbury, Waterbury, Middlesex, and Moretown bear date the 
same month, and that of Middlesex contains some names of the Duxbury 
syndicate. The two companies were organized at the house of Samuel Can- 
field, at the same date, in New Milford, Mass., and Partridge Thatcher, of that 
town, and Samuel Averill, of Kent, were respectively moderator and clerk of 
the two organizations. Later, Partridge Th itcher assisted in the survey of 
Waterbury. Besides many familiar Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New 
Jersey names, there appears in the Duxbury list that of Col. John Wentworth, 
of New Hampshire, the brother of the Governor, and numerous New York 
Dutch Knickerbocker names, —PhiHp Schuyler, Hon. Richard Webart, Abram 
Governeur, Hendrick Van Gessen, and one lady, Ann Van Wyke, and several 
others. 

During the French and Indian war the soldiers from Massachusetts and 
Connecticut passed through the fertile valleys of the Connecticut and Wi- 
nooski rivers on their route to and from the seat of war, and at the close of 



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that war the tide of emigration rushed to these rich and desirable locations, 
from these older colonies, and surpassed all that was ever before witnessed. 
It is said of Governor Wentworth that " He did not let slip the golden op- 
portunity of filling his coffers." " In every township granted to petitioners, 
five hundred acres of land were reserved for the Governor, without fees or 
charges, and he was well rewarded by petitioners for his services." The Gov- 
ernor's specific lands were located in the charter, and he secured the best 500 
acres, in a body, in each town. In these old proprietors' records we get a 
glimpse of the controversy between New York and New Hampshire concern- 
ing the ownership and jurisdiction of the Green Mountain territory. While 
the proprietors received their charter of 1763, which described Duxbury ter- 
ritory as being under the jurisdiction of New Hampshire, yet in their first 
record and organization they described it as " On Onion River in the Province 
of New York.'' Vermont, however, during the confederation, assumed to 
govern herself, and became a state of the Union in 1791. 

The next meeting of the proprietors was held April 13, 1773, at the house 
of Samuel Averill, in Kent, Mass., where they found that the amount voted 
to defray expenses of surveying, at the first meeting held at the house of 
Samuel Canfield, May 10, 1770, exceeded the amount required by about half 
a dollar on each right. 

"Whereupon we vote to Lay a Tax of two Dollars and half, one Dollar 
on each Right in Lieu of said Former Tax amounting to 170 Dollars." 

" Elected Samuel Averill assessor, with instructions to proceed and assess 
the proprietors of the township agreeable to a Certain act or Law of the 
Province of New Hampshire^ in such case made and Provided. Samuel 
Averill, Jun'r, was chosen collector, and the meeting adjourned to the second 
Tuesday of May following." 

The first deed of land in Duxbury, after the charter, was executed by 
Samuel Averill, Jr., collector of taxes, to Partridge Thatcher, conveying nine 
full rights or shares in the township for non-payment of taxes, "in consider- 
ation of the sum of Nine Pounds Eighteen Shillings New York money," 
dated May 30, 1774. 

The first meeting of the proprietors in Vermont was held at Bennington, 
March 26, 1784. The next meeting of which we find a record was warned 
by William Coit, justice of the peace, of Burlington, notifying the proprietors 
to meet at the house of Walter Avery, in Duxbury, July 31, 1795. The 
meeting was covened according to notice. Walter Avery was moderator and 
Daniel Kennon was chosen proprietors' clerk ; both were residents of Dux- 
bury. All subsequent meetings were held in Duxbury. The last one was 
held July 26, 1798. The proprietors found it necessary to resurvey the 
entire township, and several tax sales occurred, to raise the funds to pay for 
surveying. The following are among the items of expense : — 



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Sept. 15, 1795. To Walter Avery, 8 days, as supt $ 8 00 

" " " To provisions for the hands 15 17 

" " " To 6^ gallons of rum, $2 per gal 13 00 

" " " To Roswell Wells, for 22 days board, 25c 5 5° 

" " " To cash paid for rum 5 08 

" " '' To Jesse Arms, for 4 days work, $1 per day.. . 4 00 

To " " " 5 lbs. butter 12IC 62|- 

" •' " To " " " I qt. rum 50c., and 30 lbs. 

bread $2 2 50 

This town was probably named after Duxbury, Mass., which was a dupli- 
cate of Duxbury, England. In old Saxon^" Bury " signifies a fortification, 
or fortified place, and Dux, or duke, meaning a chieftain or leader. Hence 
Duke's fort, or Duxbury. 

The surface of the tov/n is decidedly mountainous ; so much so that not 
more than one-half of its area is fit for cultivation. The settled portion of 
the town lies along the Winooski river, which includes the most valuable part. 
Clark's, Crossett's, and Ward's hills embrace many productive farms, and 
extend across the eastern border of the town ; and the valley, elevated more 
than a thousand feet above the Winooski river, lies between the mountains 
along Ridley's brook, and bears the significant name of " Hardscrabble." 
The remainder of the town is comprised in the mountain district and mainly 
covered with forest. 

The geological formations of Duxbury are gneiss underlaying about one- 
third of the town in the western part, with talcose schist in the remaining part. 
There is a small outcrop of steatite in the southeastern part. On a line of 
this strata north from this one near the town line of Duxbury and Moretown 
are several small outcrops of steatite in connection with serpentine. In one 
case the steatite was found interstratified with talcose slate. If we are not 
mistaken this deposit is on lands owned by Deavitt Brothers. It is near the 
highway, and in or near the northwest corner of Moretown. An opening of 
the quarry has been made and soapstone taken out twenty-five feet in length, 
twelve feet wide, and about ten feet deep. The stone removed was very pure. 
The enterprise was abandoned. At the north it passes into a sparry serpen- 
tine, and at the south into chlorite. 

Camel's Hump is situated on the line that divides Duxbury from Hunting- 
ton, and next to Mt. Mansfield, in Stowe, is the most elevated peak of the 
Green Mountains. Its height above the sea has been computed to be 4,188 
feet. It is the most conspicuous and best defined mountain in Vermont, and 
is clearly seen from the whole valley of Lake Champlain, and from most parts 
of Washington county. The ascent is usually made from the Duxbury side. 
Samuel Ridley, Jr., who kept a hotel at Ridley's Station, in stage coach days, 
built a carriage road to within three miles of the summit, and a bridle road 
to near the dizzy peak, and a house at this terminus for the entertainment of 
those who made the ascent. Mr. Wells and his worthy wife, Mary L. (Arms) 
Wells, conducted it for some time, and were its last proprietors. The house 



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has been burned, and the road is not kept in good condition. Of Camel's 
Hump, and the high ana secluded valley of Hardscrabble at its foot, F. T. 
Wallace, a native of Duxbury, in a communication to the Rural Vertftonter, 
says : '■' It is the scene of Daniel P. Thompson's famous novel, May Martin, 
or the Money Diggers. About 1824 a few wise men, inspired by some gifted 
Witch of Endor, who could discern money in a mountain by looking into a 
hat or a millstone, pitched their cabin under the awful southern cliff of the 
Hump, and for a season professed to dig for hidden treasure — Kidd's, of 
course. There are many now living (1886) who remember the excitement in 
the surrounding regions caused by the eccentricities and mystery of the 
' Money Diggers,' who answered to the names of Clogston, Shackford, 
Friezell, and Eastman. The latter was the recognized gallant of the party. 
If May Martin was purely an imaginary heroine of the novel, and not one of 
the many bright and vivacious girls of Hardscrabble, certainly the historical 
evidence of the reality of the ' Money Diggers ' remains to this day in their 
several unpaid board bills in that neighborhood." 

The rocky caverns of Camel's Hump in the early days of the settlement of 
Duxbury were the home for the bears, and " Honest John," or " Bear John 
Kennedy/' as he was designated to distinguish him from relatives of the same- 
name, a pioneer and famous hunter, killed upwards of eighty bears in this 
vicinity. 

Duxbury is watered by the Winooski river, which separates it from Water- 
bury and Bolton, and numerous brooks and springs that have their source in 
the mountains. Among the largest are Ridley's brook, which drains the 
valley of Hardscrabble, runs in a northerly direction, and enters the Wi- 
nooski river at Ridley's Station ; Munson's brook rises high up the mountain 
near the lumber region known as Dowsville, takes an eastern course through 
the neighborhood and the little hamlet of South Duxbury, enters Moretown, 
and unites with Mad river about half a mile above Moretown village. There 
are two considerable streams that rise in the middle of the east side of the 
town and flow north into the Winooski river at the northeast corner of the 
town. 

The first settlement was made by Walter Avery and Stephen Tilden, about 
1786, who were soon after followed by Benjamin Davis, John Morse, Samuel 
Ridley, Sr., Josiah Towle, Daniel Kennon, Jeremiah Bryant, Isaiah Huntley, 
Jesse Arms, Curwin Wallace, and Ebenezer Corse. Mr. Kennon built a 
house of hewn timber, and of immense size, which had the sobriquet of " Old 
Fort," on account of its invulnerable appearance, or because of the hospi- 
tality of its owner, who never turned the wayfarer from his door. 

The first town meeting was held at the house of Walter Avery, March 26, 
1792. 

" The meeting opened according to the time and place Mentioned in the 
warning ; Chose Walter Avery, Moderator ; Chose Walter Avery, Town 
Clerk; Chose Daniel Kennon, John Morse, and Stephen Tilden, Selectmen ; 



TOWN OK DUXBURY. 



Chose Daniel Kennon, Town Treasurer ; Chose Walter Avery, Asa Johnson, 
and John Morse, Listers; Chose Walter Avery, Constable; Chose Jeremiah 
Bryant and George Shepard, Highway-Surveyors." 

The town was first represented in the state legislature by Benjamin Davis, 
in 1794. The first proprietors' clerk was Samuel Averill, of Kent, Mass. 
Walter Avery, the first town clerk, held the office one year, then Daniel 
Kennon was clerk four years, Joseph Nash five years, Jesse Arms eleven 
years, Ebenezer Corse one year, Joseph Nash two years, James Somerville 
one year, Pliny Nash one year, Calvin Huntley two years, Ira Arms twenty- 
five years, Nathan Huntley ten years, Isaiah Huntley sixteen years, and the 
present incumbent, Eber W. Huntley, has held the position the last seven- 
teen years. 

The first birth in town on record is that of Lucy, daughter of Jeremiah 
and Lucy Bryant, born September g, 1791. The second is that of George, 
son of Daniel Kennon, born November 9, 1792. 

School districts No's i and 2 were formed at the annual town meeting, 
held the first Tuesday in March, 1796. Jesse Arms's mark on his creatures 
was entered on record August i, 1795, and is a square crop off" the left ear- 
Daniel Kennon's, entered September 4, 1795, ^^ a half crop off" the left ear. 
Joseph Nash's mark, entered on record September 4, 1798, is a swallow's 
tail in the left ear. Jason Crossett owned and run the first and only distillery 
in town. 

In 1 79 1 Duxbury had a population of thirty-nine souls. In 1880 it con- 
tained a population of 884. In 1888 the town had eight school districts, 
and maintained a school in all of them, taught by two male and fifteen fe- 
male teachers, at an average weekly salary, including board, of $4.78. The 
whole number of scholars who attended any school was 214, of whom twelve 
attended private schools. The entire income for all school purposes was 
$1,124.46, while the whole amount expended was $1,159.08, with A. A. 
Lewis, superintendent. 

Duxbury has no villages, and but one postoffice, which was established 
soon after the advent of the railroad. 

North Duxbury (p. o.) is a small hamlet and railroad station (Ridley's) 
situated at the mouth of Ridley's brook, in the northwestern part of the town. 
It is the location of W. R. Elliott's saw-mills and box factory, and also 
the " Ridley " mills, owned by E. S. White 

South Duxbury is a pleasant hamlet near the corner of Waitsfield and 
Moretown, and contains the only church edifice in the township. 

Duxbury can justly be proud of her war record. " Its cemeteries are the 
final resting places of a few soldiers of the Revolution, and of many of the 
volunteer militia company of the town that served at Plattsburgh in the War 
1812, under the immediate command of Captain Isaac Smalley, in the regi- 
ment of Colonel James Smalley, and in the brigade of General John Peck, 
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for aid, to the number of 150, in the late war for our Union, and the town as 
readily seconded the efforts of her soldiers by handing to the support of this 
sanguinary struggle the sum of $ro,ooo. 

William R. Elliott' s sazv-mill, and clapboard, dressing, and boxmaking- 
mills are located at North Duxbury. The saw-mill was first built by Moses 
Shurtletf, thirty-four or thirty-five years ago. When the property eame into 
the hands of Mr. Elliott he rebuilt it, and built a mill below it on the stream 
for the purpose of dressing lumber. In 1885 this building was burned and 
a new one built within a month. Mr. Elliott manufactures boxes, dresses 
lumber, and saws out from 1,000,000 to 1,300,000 feet of clapboards annually. 
He also buys and sells lumber. He employs a force of eighteen or 
twenty men. 

Johi B. Phillips's circular saiv-tnili was erected on the site of the George 
Hills saw-mill, which was built about thirty-five years ago. The present mill 
has a capacity for sawing from 100,000 to 300,000 feet of lumber per year. 

E. L. IV/iites saiv-mill is situated on the brook at Ridley's Station, North 
Duxbury. It was built by Samuel Ridley before the completion of the Cen- 
tral Vermont railroad. At first it contained only an " up and down " saw. 
Later Mr. Ridley put in a circular saw, and fitted the mill to saw dimension 
lumber. After the death of Mr. Ridley his sons transferred the property to 
the Winooski Lumber Co. In 1885 Mr. White bought it, with 1,300 acres 
of timberland, and is now manufacturing and dealing in all kinds of lumber, 
with dimension lumber a specialty. He is giving employment to an average 
of fifteen men, and turns out about 500,000 feet of lumber per year. 

A. A. Leivis' s cider and provender-mills are located about halfway between 
North Duxbury and Waterbury villages. Mr. Lewis built the buildings in 
1884, and used them for manufacturing cider and apple jelly. In the winter 
of i888 he added a steam engine, and now manufactures cider and grinds 
provender. 

J. A. ^ L. J. Durkee's steam saw-mill was built by the firm in 1882, for 
the mmufacture of barrel staves, shingles, and clapboards. In 1883 this 
building was consumed by fire, and in about six weeks their present mill was 
built and in operation. The mill requires a force of six or seven men, be- 
sides about a dozen men in the woods. 

J. A. Durkee is also proprietor of a circular saw-mill where he employs 
five men in sawing dimension lumber. This property Mr. Durkee bought in 
1875. The site had been used for mills about forty years. Mr. Durkee 
rebuilt and put in a circular saw, and is now doing quite a business. 

H. O. Ward's saw and clapboard mills occupy the site of a saw-mill built 
some forty years ago. Mr. Ward became the proprietor of the property in 
1874, put in a circular saw, and in 1884 added the clapboard-mill. He now 
manufactures about 1,000,000 feet of lumber annually. Mr. Ward also 
manufactures packing boxes in his box-mill at Moretown. 



250 TOWN OF DUXBURY. 



Eber W. Huntley's saw-77iill is located on the site of the first mill built 
in the town. About sixty-five or seventy years ago W. E. Corse built the 
first mill on this site. It had an upright saw, run by the old style undershot 
water-wheel. This property remained in the hands of Mr. Corse until October 
27, 1867, when it became the property of D. E. Farrand, who placed in it 
one of Lane's circular mills and an improved water-wheel. Mr. Farrand 
sold it to George B. VVrisley in 187 1, and Mr. Wrisley conveyed it to Samuel 
S. Foster in 1872. In the fall of 1886 the mill was consumed by fire, and 
Mr. Foster sold the site and grounds to Mr. Huntley, who built the present 
mill on the old site. Mr. Huntley is doing a good business in dressed lum- 
ber, chair stock, and hard wood fi coring. He employs seven or eight men, 
and his output is about 500,000 feet per year. 

James E. Crossetfs saivftiill is on the site of a mill built by his father, 
and was first furnished with the old style upright saw. This was changed to 
a muley mill, and ten years later again changed and a circular saw took the 
place. Mr. Crossett is engaged in manufacturing dimension lumber to order, 
and converts the hard wood into plank for manufacturers, and into lumber 
for chair stock. He employs ten men, and turns out about 400,000 feet of 
lumber of all kinds annually. 

Jesse Arms, born m Greenfield, Mass., in 1772, married Lucretia Craig, of 
Windsor, Vt., about 1796. The first book of records for Duxbury shows that 
he was here as early as May 22, 1794., when Walter Avery conveyed to him, 
by deed, 116 acres of land in the northeast corner of the township, the same 
being a part of the governor's right. He was one of the prominent early set- 
tlers of the town, and quite an extensive land owner, having purchased several 
of the original proprietors' rights at tax sales. He died in Duxbury, May 16, 
1848. The children of Jesse and Lucretia (Craig) Arms were Ira; Orrin, 
born about iSoo; Charles C, born in April, 1802, who was a successful phy- 
sician, and settled in Waterbury, where he practiced his profession until he 
died of consumption (the scourge of the family) in 1854; Lucretia, born in 
1804, who married Dr. O. W. Drew, and died of consumption in 1836; 
Albert, who resides in Kalamazoo, Mich.; Emily, who died in Wisconsin ; 
Laura (Mrs. T. Kendall), who resides in Janesville, Wis.; Esther (Mrs. W. 
Wells), who is a widow in Wisconsin; Alonzo, who went West, married, 
entered the Union army, and died serving his country; Ambrose, who died 
in Chicago; and Jesse, Jr., who went West, residence unknown. 

Deacon Ira Arms was born in Duxbury, April 30, 1798, and resided in 
his native town until his death. He married Permele Atherton, of Duxbury, 
who bore him five children, viz.: Curtis N., born in December, 182 1, has been 
an enterprising merchant, and resides in Waterbury ; Philo, born in June, 
1824, died in April, 1877; George C, born in March, 1827, is a marble 
dealer in Bristol, Conn.; Mary L., born in January, 1830; and Lucretia D., 
born in September, 1834, died in April, 1856. Dea. Arms died in April, 
1862. Mrs. Arms survives at the great age of eighty-nine years, and is the 



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oldest woman now living in Duxbury. She and her daughter, Mrs. Mary L. 
Wells, reside on the old homestead. Dea. Arms was a highly influential marv 
in both church and town affairs. He had the entire confidence of all who 
knew him, and was universally esteemed and respected. He was a consistent 
Christian gentleman, a deacon of the Congregational church for years, was 
town clerk and treasurer twenty-five years, and justice of the peace quite as 
long. 

Curwin Wallace, born in Lunenburg, Mass., April 22, 1759, was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary war. He married Thankful Bennett, of Leominster, Mass., 
in 1 781, and settled, first, in Massachusetts, whence he removed to Fitzwilliam, 
N. H., and finally settled in Duxbury in 1 793, on the farm now owned by Sheriff 
Atherton. This farm was then an uncultivated wilderness. He built a log 
cabin and spent his active life on his farm. He was a leader in town affairs, 
and represented Duxbury in the legislature several sessions. He died No- 
vember 3, 1833. Mrs. Wallace survived until January 3, 1845. They reared 
six children to maturity. Their son Frederick, born September 24, 1787, 
married Sylvia, daughter of Amasa Marshall, and settled on the homestead 
with his father, where he spent most of his active life. Ultimately he 
removed to Waterbury, where he died in April, 1873. Their children are 
Julia (Mrs. S. C. Hutchins), a poetess of considerable merit; Frederick T., 
a lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio, who has filled important positions; and William,, 
a farmer in Duxbury. 

Edward Crossett, born in Ireland, July 25, 1749, married Elizabeth Allen, 
February 24, 1774, who was born in Killingby, July 25, 1754, and they com- 
menced housekeeping April 12, 1774. They emigrated to America and 
eventually settled in Duxbury, and resided on the farm now owned by 
B. N. Phillips. About 1827 they removed to Crossett hill, where Mr. Crossett 
cleared a large farm and reared his nine children. His son James was born 
on the first named place November 12, 1823, and at the age of twenty one 
years married Miss Euretta Crosby, of Duxbury. This union was blessed 
with two children. Mrs. Crossett died August 15, 1878. Mr. Crossett now 
resides with his son James E. He has been an active and energetic business 
man, has been an extensive lumberman, and one of the best farmers in town. 
He filled most of the offices of responsibility in the gift of his townsmen, has 
served as selectman a number of years, justice of the peace forty years, repre- 
sented Duxbury in the legislature of 1855, '56, '57, and was associate judge 
of Washington County Court two years. His children are Menta J. (Mrs. 
E. W. Huntley) and James E., before mentioned. The latter married Mary 
J. McMuUen, and they have one child. Tenia May, born December 10, 1876. 
Mr. Crossett is now one of the board of selectmen, and an influential man in 
society and town affairs. He is engaged largely in the lumber business. 

Rev. Nathan Huntley, son of Isaiah, was born in Marlow, N.H., about 1782. 
He married Eunice Way, and first settled in Middlesex, where he organized 
a religious society commonly called Eider Huntley's church, which in belief 



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and form of worship was nearest that of the Freewill Baptist. Elder Huntley 
preached regularly to his church until about 1 B 19, when he removed to a farm 
in this town, and occasionally preached. He became a prominent citizen 
of Duxbury, was its representative in three sessions of the legislature, and 
held most of the town offices. About 1824 he built a hotel and was its pro- 
prietor a few years. Elder Huntley died in June, 1858. 

Isaiah Huitley, son of Nathan and Eanice (Way) Huntley, was born in 
Middlesex, June 19, 1806. About 1819 his father removed to Duxbury and 
settled on a farm in '• Duxbury Corner." At the death of his father Isaiah 
came into possession of his father's property, and now resides on road 19, 
near where his father first settled. Mr. Huntley has been honest and straight- 
forward. He possessed sound judgment and his counsel has been often 
sought by his neighbors. He has filled the important ofiires of the town — 
was town clerk and treasurer fifteen years, represented the town in the legis- 
lature of 1 86 1, and has served as selectman a number of years. He is now 
living a retired life and is universally respected. January 25, 183 i, he mar- 
ried Paulina Corse, who has borne him three children, of whom Mrs. Joseph 
Somerville, of Waterbury, is the only one now living. 

Adonijah Atherton was born in Greenfield, Mass., April 4, 1775. He mar- 
ried Polly Chamberlain, of Dunham, Conn., October 16, 1796, and emigrated 
to Moretown, Vt. He removed from Moretown to Duxbury in 1803, and 
here resided the remainder of his life. He died December 31, 1858. Mrs. 
Atherton died September 30. 1863, aged eighty-eight years. Mr. Atherton 
was a man of good native ability, a great reader, and a safe counselor. He 
was one of the most prominent early settlers, and held many positions of re- 
sponsibility and trust. His children who grew to maturity were Permele, 
born February 24, 1800, who married Ira Arms, February 5, 182 1, and still 
survives; Chloe, born June 24, 1804; Asenath, born September 30, 1807; 
Samuel B., born January 16, 1809 ; Alpha A., born July 31, 1812 ; Asa C, 
born November 2, 1814; Abner Newton, born April 6, 1816; and Charles 
C, born April 25, 1819. Samuel B. Atherton married Mary Straw, settled 
on a farm in the southern part of the town, and died in 186 1. Alpha A. mar- 
ried and settled in Waterbury. He was a cabinetmaker and dealer in furni- 
ture many years. In 1885 he retired from business, and now resides with his 
son at E-^sex Junction. Asa C. died July 12, 1836. A. Newton Atherton 
married Mary Henry, of Waterbury, in 1842, and settled on a fine farm on 
Winooski river, but has since removed to Waterbury village. His son Frank 
H. is a highly respected citizen of Washington county, has held the position 
of sheriff" for six years, and has been reelected for another term. Charles C. 
married Emeline Sprague, was a farmer in his native town, and died Novem- 
ber 8, 1S46. 

Rev. Calvin Huntley, son of Isaiah, was born in Marlow, N. H., August 
II, 1780. He married Elizabeth Miller, November 4, 1804, and removed to 
Duxbury soon after, settling first on Ward's hill, and subsequently on the 



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farm now owned by Martin L. Henry. He cleared it mainly, and died there 
August J 3, 1856. He was a Freewill Biptist preacher, and, as near as can 
be ascertained, the first settled minister in Duxbury. Elder Huntley pos- 
sessed rare and excellent qualities of "head and heart," and left a frat^rant 
memory. His son Gilbert, born in Duxbury, in October, 1806, succeeded 
his father on the homestead, and was always a farmer and a prominent man 
in town affairs. He represented Duxbury in the legislature of 1858 and 1859, 
and was nearly all the time in town offices. He married Mary E. Nash, De- 
cember 14, i8?5, and died on the homestead August 22, 1862. E. W. Hunt- 
ley, son of Gilbert and Mary (Nash) Huntley, was born in Duxbury. Novem- 
ber ri, 1839. At the age of t.venty-four years he united in marriage with 
Menta Crossett, of Duxbury. They are parents of an only daughter, 
Mertie E., born March 25, 1870. Mr. Huntley followed the trade of wheel- 
wright, and engaged in manufacturing chair stock untd 1886. Since then he 
has been proprietor of a saw-mill. He is a thorough business man, is iden- 
tified with the interests of Duxbury, and has filled miny of the offices of 
trust in the gift of his townsmen. He has been clerk and treasurer of the 
town seventeen years, and was representative in 1882. 

Albert Morse, son of Walter and Betsey (Hobbs) Morse, was born in Bol- 
ton, Vt., November 21, 1812. About 1823 the family moved to the farm 
now occupied by Michael O'Brien. Albert Morse cleared a farm in that 
vicinity, and resided there about thirty years. He then bought the place 
where he now lives, on road 4. Mr. Morse has been married twice. About 
1839 he married Eunice Pineo, who was the mother of six of his children. 
Mrs. Morse died in August, 1849, and four of her children died at the same 
time. In 1850 he married Adaline Butler, his present wife, who has borne 
him one child, who now resides with them. Mr. Morse has been somewhat 
prominent in his town, has been a permanent and reliable citizen, and served 
his town as selectman, juror, and in other offices. He has lived to witness many 
important changes in Duxbury. 

William Crosby, son of Amos and Fanny Crosby, was born in Duxbury, 
September 22, 1826. Mr. Crosby has been a railroad employee since he left 
his paternal roof. He commenced as brakeman on the Central Vermont, 
and was promoted to conductor. In 1861 he accepted the position of con- 
ductor on a western railroad, and there remained twenty-three years. He 
was obliged to retire on account of impaired health. In 1884 he returned 
to his native town. In 1849 or 1850 he united in marriage with Harriet 
Avery, of Duxbury. They have no children. 

Rutty Lewis, son of Samuel and Sarah (Rutty) Lewis, was born in Bolton, 
Vt, December 11, 1804. About 1826 or 1827 he settled in Duxbury on 
the farm now owned by William Casey, where he resided the ensuing fortv- 
nine years. He then moved to the place where his son A. A. Lewis now 
lives, on road 6. About the tmie he settled in Duxbury he married Dorcas 
Bennett, of this town, and they were parents of three sons and three daugh- 



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ters, of whom all but one of the daughters are now living. Mr. Lewis was 
so popular with his townsmen that he was town clerk twelve years. He died 
June 7, 1885, aged eighty years. Mrs. Lewis died August 15, 1887. Since 
the death of his parents his son A. A. has resided on the place. He is a 
surveyor, and is now superintendent of the schools of Duxbury. He is en- 
gaged in his custom grist-mill, and manufactures cider and apple jelly. De- 
cember 29, 1875, he married Florence E. Sturtevant, of New Haven, Vt., 
and they have three children. 

William E. Ward, son of Earl and Elizabeth (Munson) Ward, was born in 
Duxbury, June 3, 1829. He resided on the farm with his father until he was 
twenty-one years of age. In 1861 he married Mary Marble. He now owns 
the homestead where he was born, and has always resided on the same road. 
Mr. Ward is a pominent citizen and an influential member of the Congrega- 
tional church, of which he has been a deacon for many years. The children 
of Mr. and Mrs. Ward are William N., born January 5, 1862; Lizzie, born 
December 21, 1864; and Herbert G., born December 3, 1871. 

Hiram O. Ward, son of Earl and Elizabeth (Munson) Ward, was born in 
Duxbury, January 10, 1842. He received his education in the district 
•schools and Barre Academy, and graduated at Eastman Business College. 
About 1866 he married Mary A. Smith, of Hopkinton, N. Y., and they are 
the parents of three sons. Mr. Ward is now settled on road 27, and is the 
leading business man of the town. He is an extensive dealer in and man- 
ufacturer of lumber, owns several saw-mills in Duxbury and other towns, 
manufactures packing boxes, and deals in pianos and organs. He is de- 
servedly popular with his townsmen, is now chairman of the board of select- 
men, and represented Duxbury in the legislature of 1886 and 1888. 

John B. Shonio and his wife, Lucy (Boyden), emigrated from New Hamp- 
shire about 1837, to the southern part of Duxbury, and were among the first 
settlers in that neighborhood. Mr. Shonio began in the wilderness, built a 
log house, resided there until about ten years ago, and has always lived in a 
log house. They reared a family of fifteen sons and daughters to mature 
years. Mrs. Shonio, besides doing the ordinary work of housekeeping for 
this numerous family, spun and wove the cloth to clothe them. Five of the 
sons entered the Union army and fought for the preservation of our country ; 
four returned. Arnold B. was one of the number who responded to his 
country's call, and enlisted in Co. G, 6th Vt. Vols., was one year in the ranks, 
and one year a hospital steward. May 4, 1863, he lost a leg, and has since 
that time walked on crutches. He was born in Danbury, N. H., October 
29, 1835, and was but two years old when the family settled in Duxbury. 
About 1855 or 1856 he married Phebe Mann, and they are parents of eight 
children, all of whom are living. Mr. Shonio owns a small farm, and with 
the aid of one of his sons is enabled to cultivate it. He resides on road 20, 
corner of 16. 

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Brookfield, Vt., in 1836. In 1843 ^'s parents removed to Fayston. At the 
age of twenty years he married Mary F. Boyden, of Duxbury, and became a 
citizen of that town. Mr. and Mrs. Durkee have had born to them six sons, 
four of whom are living. His son L. J. is of the firm of J. A. & L. J. Durkee, 
manufacturers of hmiber. Mr. Durkee enlisted in Co. I, gth Vt. Vols., and 
served as a soldier two years. Since then he has been engaged in farming, 
and in the manufacture and sale of lumber. He is now one of the board of 
selectmen of Duxbury, and is the commander of Dillingham Post, No. 22, 
G. A. R., of VVaterbury. 

William Casey, born in Ireland, emigrated to America with his parents 
when he was eighteen years old. At the age of twenty-five years he married 
Fanny Roddy, of Eden, Vt., and in i860 settled in Duxbury. He is an in- 
dustrious and enterprising farmer, and owns a good farm on road 9, where he 
now resides. Mr. and Mrs. Casey have been blessed with eight children. 

The Congregational church is located at South Duxbury, and is the only 
church in the town. It was organized by Samuel G. Tenney, January 18, 
1836, with only nine members. The first pastor was Lyndon S. French. 
They erected their first meeiing-house, of wood, in 1855, at a cost of $1,000, 
which they occupy at the present time. The church property, including 
buildings and grounds, is estimated at $1,500. The membership at this time 
is twenty-one, and never has been large. This church has the most cordial 
relations with the M. E. church at Moretown, and for several years the 
pastor of the latter church has been the acting pastor of this church. This 
arrangement is still continued, and Rev. William H. Dean is their officiating 
pastor at the present time. The house has comfortable seats for 150 persons. 
The Sunday-school has twenty-seven scholars, and an average attendance of 
nineteen. 



EAST MONTPELIER lies in the central part of the county, in latitude 
44° 17' and longitude 4° 25', and is bounded northerly by Calais, 
easterly by Plainfield and a small part of Marshfield, southerly by 
Berlin, from which it is separated by the Winooski river, and a part of Barre, 
and westerly by Montpelier and Middlesex. 

East Montpelier is the youngest town in Washington county, and at the 
same time one of the first settled. It was set off from Montpelier by the act 
of the legislature of 1848, and contains 18,670 acres — a little more than 
four-fifths of the territory of the original town. There was a petition for this 
division, signed by the majority of the legal voters of the village, and a 
remonstrance to the measure, signed by the whole mass, in the part proposed 
to be set off, and a respectable minority of the voters in the village. Not- 
withstanding, the legislature passed the act and the division was made. The 
Green Mountain Boys have always been tenacious of their rights, and some 



256 TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 



who were thus arbitrarily set off at first exhibited a httle warm blood. But 
time is a healer, and now both towns see that the division is a mutual benefit. 

The town has a hilly and uneven surface, but has very little, if any, waste 
land. The soil is strong and rich, and produces bountiful crops. The town 
has no large villages, and agriculture is the leading industry. Grass is king, 
and the dairy takes the lead ; but large crops of spring wheat, corn, oats, and 
potatoes are also raised. Nearly every farm has a fine sugar orchard, sup- 
plied with a convenient sugar house, and fixtures necessary for the successful 
manufacture of maple sugar. This industry is the source of quite a large 
income. The town is abundantly watered by numerous streams and springs, 
the largest of which are the VVinooski river and Kingsbury Branch. The 
Winooski enters the town from the northwesterly corner of Plainfield, after 
draining Cabot and Marshfield, and flows in a southwest direction to the line 
of Berlin. In its course through the town it affords many fine water-powers, 
notably at East MontpeHer village. Kingsbury Branch is the outlet of 
numerous ponds in Woodbury and several in Calais, turns the Sibley woolen- 
mills and other mills at North Montpelier, crosses the northeasterly part of 
the town, and joins the Winooski. 

The geological formation in this town are talcose schist underlaying the 
western part, a broad belt of clay slate in the central, and calciferous mica 
schist in the western part. Beds of limestone are also found in the central 
part of the town. 

January i, 1849, East Montpelier was organized into a separate munici- 
pality by the election of the following board of town officers : Addison Peck, 
moderator ; Royal Wheeler, town clerk ; Stephen F. Stevens, Isaac Cate, 
and J. C. Nichols, selectmen ; A. Peck, treasurer and overseer of the poor ; 
and J. P. W. Vincent, constable. 

Clara Davis, daughter of Gen. Parley and Cynthia Davis, was born Jan- 
uary 19, 1849, ^"'-^ ^'^s th^ ^''St child born in town after the new organi- 
zation. The first marriage ceremony was performed by Charles Sibley, jus- 
tice of the peace, January 21, 1849, and the parties most interested in the 
ceremony were Rodney G. Bassett and L. Amelia WiUard. 

In 1880 the population of East Montpelier numbered 972 souls. In 1888 
the town had ten school districts and maintained schools in nine of them. 
The whole number of scholars who attended school was 177, eleven of whom 
attended private school. The schools were taught by one male and fifteen 
female teachers. The male teacher received a weekly salary of $9.41^, and 
the female teachers received an average weekly salary of $4.70. The whole 
amount paid teachers, including board, was $1,242. The entire income for 
all school purposes was $i,4io.r7, and the whole amount paid for all school 
purposes was $1,520.22. 

East Montpelier (p. o.) village is pleasantly situated on the Winooski 
river, about one mile from the railroad depot on the Montpelier & Wells 
River railroad. It contains one meeting-house (Universalist), a school-house, 



TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIEK. 257 

Store, postoffice, a saw-mill with planer and shingle-mill, a grist-mill, one feed- 
mill, a blacksmith shop, several mechanics, and fifteen or twenty dwelling 
houses. This village in the past has sutfered heavy losses by fire. 

North Montpelier (p. o.)is located in the northeasterly corner of the 
town, on Kingsbury Branch, which furnishes the village an excellent water- 
power. It contains a pretty meeting-house (Universalist), the Sibley woolen- 
mills, grist-mill, saw-mill, store, blacksmith shop, and from twenty to twenty- 
five dwellings. 

The Sibley woolen-milis, G. F. Sibley, proprietor, are located at North 
Montpelier, on Kingsbury Branch, which affords a fine power, being the out- 
let of twenty or more natural ponds or lakes. The principal ones are located 
in Woodbury and Calais. The factory buildings were completed in 1840 by- 
Col. Nathaniel Davis, Jr., and were operated by several proprietors, without 
much success, until 1849, when Mr. Walter Ijttle became its owner, and con- 
ducted it with fine success until his death in 1859. In the spring of 1880 
Mr. Sibley came into possession of the property, and has run the mills to 
their full capacity and with fair success to the present time (fall of 1888). 
Mr. Sibley is manufacturing white flannels of fine quality, which command 
ready sale. He consumes over 50,000 pounds of wool annually, and gives 
employment to twenty-five hands. 

Hollisters mills, erected by Horace HoUister in 1855, and now owned by 
his son, Martin V. B. Hollister, are located in the village of North Montpe- 
lier, on Kingsbury Branch, which furnishes a constant and ample power. The 
mills are supplied with three runs of stones, and are celebrated for making an 
excellent quality of flour, and have ground for customers 10,000 bushels of 
wheat in one year. These mills also do a large business in grinding corn and 
feed. Their capacity for grinding is not less than 500 bushels per day. In 
connection with the grist-mill Mr. Hollister has a saw-mill, where he does a 
considerable business in sawing hard and soft wood lumber. 

/. S. Wheelocli s mills (just erected) are located on the VVinooski river, in 
the little village of East Montpelier. The mills are furnished with the best 
modern and improved machinery. Mr. Wheelock is a manufacturer of ex- 
perience, and will furnish all kinds of lumber and shingles. Builders can 
have jobs in dimension lumber manufactured to order on short notice. The 
grist-mill will be ready to grind corn and feed for customers, and those who 
wish to purchase flour, feed, and grain will find Mr. Wheelock ready to supply 
their wants. 

Gen. Parley Davis, son of Nathaniel and Sarah Davis, was born in Charl- 
ton, Mass., March 31, 1766. He received a good English education at the 
academy, in the town of Leicester, which included a knowledge of land sur- 
veying. He came into town with his cousin. Col. Jacob Davis, for the pur- 
pose of assisting in the original survey of the town, and soon rose to princi- 
pal surveyor of the town and county. It was while thus engaged that he 
located his pitch of 300 acres in the center of the town, an elevated plateau 

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258 TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 

then covered with a growth of stately maples and very little undergrowth or 
brush. Here he thought he foresaw the seat of the most populous village of 
Montpelier, and the location for transacting its business. His anticipations, 
so far as the seat for town business were concerned, were fulfilled. He built 
on his place a commodious house, in which the town meetings were held for 
many years, and afterwards in the basement of the Methodist meeting- 
house, up to the present. In all the interests of his town he was an active 
and influential participator. For the success of the common schools, the 
education and welfare of the young people, and in establishing a town 
library, he was found the most active and liberal. In 1790, at the organiza- 
tion of the first military company in the town, he was elected captain, and 
rose by rapid promotions to the position of general in 1799. He held many 
of the important offices of trust in his town, and was its representative in 
the legislature of 1799, and was again reelected. In 1794 Gen. Davis mar- 
ried Rebecca, daughter of Col. Stephen Peabody, of Amherst, N. H., a 
Revolutionary officer, and especially distinguished as one of the most active 
field officers under Gen. Stark at the battle of Bennington. Miss Peabody 
was a sister of Dr. Peabody, with whom she had studied and practiced, mainly 
in surgery. After her marriage her reputation for surgical skill brought to 
her the unfortunate from all parts of the state. She not only acted well her 
part in society, but diffused blessings to the sick and afflicted. General and 
Mrs. Parley Davis were parents of seven daughters, and in their education 
these enterprising parents liberally patronized the academy at Montpelier. 
Gen. Davis died April 14, 1848, at the age of eighty-two years. Mrs. Davis 
died February 5, 1854, aged eighty-three years. 

Jonathan Cutler, a pioneer settler, located his farm in the woods where 
Mrs. Eliza A. Cummings now lives, and where he afterwards resided until 
he died. His son David married Abigail Carroll, and settled adjoining his 
father. He never moved, and died there November 21, 1840. Only three 
of his ten children are now living, viz.: Philura (Mrs. Samuel Templeton), a 
widow residing in Calais ; Leonard, a bachelor, who resides on Berlin street 
in Berlin ; and Laura L. (Mrs. Augustus F. Batchelder), a widow, who resides 
on a farm in East Montpelier. 

John Templeton and Solomon Dodge came from Peterboro, N. H., to 
East Montpelier, in June, 1788, and selected adjacent lots for their future 
homes. Mr. Templeton selected the place where hisgandson Austin Temple- 
ton now lives, and Mr. Dodge located on the farm where his youngest daughter, 
Mrs. J. R. Young, resided. They commenced to fell the forest at once, but 
soon after returned to Peterboro to do their haying. After that was accom- 
plished they spent the remainder of the season on their lots in East Mont- 
pelier, clearing land, and in building each of them a log house. In the fol- 
lowing spring, March, 1789, they returned with their families and made East 
Montpelier their permanent home. They had married sisters, and were ac- 
companied by their father-in-law, James Taggart. The party stopped awhile 



TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 259 

with Col. Davis at Montpelier ; but as soon as practicable they wended their 
way through the snow two feet deep, to their cabins in the wilderness, five 
miles away. On their arrival at their destination Mr. Templeton found that 
the bark roof of his log cabin had in part been blown away or crushed by the 
weight of the sno^v, so that the snow was nearly as deep inside of his house 
as outside. They had no other alternative but to clear out the snow, build a 
fire, and repair damages at their leisure. And on this farm Mr. and Mrs. 
Templeton spent the remainder of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Dodge also oc- 
cupied their farm until the close of their lives. Thus began the first perma- 
nent settlement in East Montpelier. All of that season, until in the fall, when 
Col. Davis had completed his grist-mill, they were obliged to carry their flour 
and meal from the nearest mill, at Williamstown, on their backs, a distance 
of twenty miles. 

The next year, 1790, Jonathan Snow, the third settler, moved into town. 
Until then their nearest neighbors were the family of Col. Davis, five miles 
distant. Mrs. Templeton often said that for a year, lacking only one day, 
she saw no woman except Mrs. Dodge and her sister, Jenna Taggart, who 
lived with her. Mr. Templeton died May 18, 18 13, aged forty-eight years. 
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Templeton were John, Jr., Samuel, Miles, 
James, Hiram, Paul, and a daughter who died in childhood. 

John Templeton, Jr., was born in Peterboro, N. H., May 18, 1784, and 
was nearly five years old when his parents settled in East Montpelier. He 
died February i, 1855. He married Lorany White, who was born July 10 
1785, and died May 3, 1879. Mr. Temoleton was the oldest of the family, 
and his father was in poor health. In winter, when he was nine years old, he 
drew hay alone, with one ox, from the beaver meadow two miles away. He 
was a farmer and also teamed to Burlington, Montreal, and Boston. He 
■settled estates and was often a referee. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Tem- 
pleton were Polly, born May 12, 1803; Nahum, born May 18, 1805 ; Mary 
Ann, born December 31, 1806; Lucy, born November 25, 1809; John, born 
August 28, 181 1 ; Fanny, born November 24, 1814, died August 9, 1854; 
Samuel, born April 10, 1816, died May 12, 1875 ; Hiram, born June i, 1817 ; 
James, born January 29, 1822, died September 22, 1842 ; and Charles Clark, 
born September 10, 1826. Of these Hiram and Charles Clark now reside 
in Montpelier. Hiram married Miss Mary A. Vincent, January 2, 1845, who 
was born August 11, 1824. 

Hiram Templeton has always been a farmer, and by his untiring industry, 
superior management, and sound judgment, has saved a competency. He 
is universally respected, and an honest man. Their children are Mrs. Spar- 
row, residing in the neighborhood with her husband, and Lee, who is engaged 
in farming with his father. Charles Clark Templeton married Phebe S. 
Vincent, March 24, 1852, who was born October 2, 1826, and is a farmer in 
the neighborhood of his brother. 

Samuel Templeton, son of John the pioneer, was born in Peterboro, N. H., 



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November 15, 1788, and was only four months old when his parents settled in 
East Montpelier. He died on the homestead which his father had cleared, 
at the advanced age of eighty-nine years seven and one-half months. 
Although he always resided in the same place, he had resided in four counties 
and two towns. Mr. Templeton was a reliable citizen. His ciiildren are his 
son Austin, who succeeds him on the old homestead, and his daughter, Mrs. 
James M. Howland, of Montpelier. 

Maj. Nathaniel Davis, brother of Gen. Parley Davis, was born in Oxford,. 
Mass., November 25, 1769. He was a man of great energy and compre- 
hensive business ability. In 1789 he came to East Montpelier, bought a 
farm in the northeastern part of the town, and at once commenced to clear 
it. In 1792 he married Dolly Davis, of his native town. The ne.xt year he 
built a saw-mill on his farm, and before 1800 was doing a large mercantile 
business and manufacturing potash. About i8ro he commenced the village 
of East Calais by building there a grist-mill, saw-mill, nail and scythe factory, 
and opening a store. Later this property passed into the possession of his sons- 
in-law, 'Shubael Wheeler and Samuel Rich. His daughter, Mrs. N. C. King,, 
was as generously remembered. In 1825 Mr. Davis, in company with his son, 
bought farm after farm, and were farmers on a large scale, and marketed more 
than 100 beef cattle yearly. In 1838 they built the woolen-mills at North 
Montpelier, which proved an unsuccessful enterprise. Mr. Davis died in 
1843, aged seventy-four years. 

Jonathan Snow, born in Rochester, Mass., July 12, 1768, married Lydia 
Hunnett, of Middleboro, February 1 1, 1790. She was born August 18, 1771. 
In 1789 Mr. Snow came to East Montpelier, then Montpelier, and worked for 
Col. Davis. In the fall he located his far.n where his youngest son, Alonzo 
Snow, now lives, cleared about an acre, built a log house, and returned to 
Massachusetts. Immediately after his marriage, in February, he started for 
his wilderness home with an ox- team, and brought his wife and goods. His 
was the sixth family in town. In time a frame dwelling took the place of the 
log cabin, where Mr. Snow carried on the double occupation of farmer and 
shoemaker. At the breaking out of the War of 181 2 he enlarged his house 
by the addition of another story, and opened it for a tavern, which he con- 
tinued with success about twenty-eight years. He died at the home where he 
first settled, March 31, 1846. Mrs. Snow died March 31, 1843. Their chil- 
dren were Hannah, Polly, Charity, Barnabas H., Abner H., Mark, Avis H., 
Horace, Elias S., Nancy, Jonathan, and Alonzo. All are dead except Alonzo, 
who was born September 2, 1811, received a common school education, and 
has been twice married, first to Ruby Bassett, October 29, 1839, who was the 
mother of all his children. At the time of his marriage he purchased and 
settled on the homestead, and added to it until he owned 150 acres. Mr. Snow 
has been a hard worker, and has the name of being the most industrious man 
in town. About thirty years ago he displaced the old two-story dwelling, and 
erected in its stead his present fine house. In 1876 he built a new set of con- 




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venient barns, and is noA^ enjoying the fruits of his industry. Mrs. Snow 
died June 2, 1859. June \2, 1862, he married his present wife, Mrs. Sarah 
{Shortt) Ainsworth, svho was born November 4, 1819. His children are 
Alonzo ]., born October 4, 1840, who resides in Chicago; Fred M., born 
August 10, 1845, "^^^ resides in his native town ; and Mary R. (Mrs. George 
E. HoHister), born February 24, 1858, whose husband is an enterprising 
farmer in Marshfield. 

Benjamin I. Wheeler was born in Rehoboth, Mass , September 19, 1766. 
He settled at Montpelier, now East Montpelier, about the year 1790, on the 
farm where he lived until his death. His father and grandfather were named 
Philip Wheeler. He was one of a large family, two brothers of which came 
to Montpelier at an early date and lived to an advanced age. At the ort^an- 
ization of the town of Montpelier, in 1791, he was elected one of the listers 
and one of the highway surveyors, and the same year town grand juror. In 
1792 he was elected selectman, and held that office sixteen years previous to 
18 18. In the spring of 1793 he married Huldah French, of Attlebord. 
Mass. They had tive sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to maturitv 
except three sons, who died while quite young. He died March 7, 1845. 
His wife died February 8, 1856, aged eighty-four years. Royal Wheeler, 
second son of Benjamin I. and Huldah (French) Wheeler, was born at 
Montpelier, now East Montpelier, December 15, 1799. He taught school in 
young manhood, but adopted farming as his occupation for life. He was 
•selectman from i83t to 1836, several years moderator of town meetings, 
representative to the state legislature in 1838 and 1839, and state senator in 
1852 and 1853. At the organization of the town of East Montpelier, in 
1849, he ^V3.s chosen clerk, which office he held until 1855. October 31, 
1827, he married Lucy, daughter of Parley and Rebecca (Peabody) Davis, 
born at Montpelier, now East Montpelier, February 5, 1802. He died March 
4, 1874, and she September 16, 1878, both at East Montpelier. They had 
two children, viz.: Benjamin I., born September 12, 1828, now living at East 
Montpelier; and Sarah D., born November 18, 1835, ^^^ died August 14, 
1884. Royal Wheeler was mentally a strong man. He was active in pro- 
moting the educational and religious interests of his town, an eminent and 
and faithful public officer, an honest, upright business man, and a generous 
and valuable citizen. His son Benjamin I. is a man thoroughly well in- 
formed, a great reader, often asked and always ready to give information to 
his neighbors, and is one of East Montpelier's most reliable citizens. 

The Pecks of Montpelier and East Montpelier were descended from 
Joseph Peck, who was in the twenty-first generation from John Peck, of Bol- 
ton, Yorkshire county, England. It is said that the genealogy of the Pecks 
has probably been traced back farther than that of any other Vermont family. 

Nathaniel Peck came to Montpelier from Royalston, Mass , in 1790, and 
cleared the farm still owned and occupied by his descendants His brother 
Hiram came about the same time and settled on the farm next south, now 



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owned by Enoch H. Vincent. Like several other of the early settlers, viz.: 
John Templeton, Duncan Young, and Solomon Dodge, Nathaniel married 
one of the daughters of James Taggart. His first wife was Jane Taggart, 
by whom he had several children, of whom only Mary and Laura grew to 
maturity. Mary died, unmarried, in 1877, and liaura married Stephen 
Wright, of Berlin. The second wife of Nathaniel Peck was the widow of 
Remember Carpenter, of Barre, nee Phebe Smith, formerly of Rehoboth, 
Mass. The children by this marriage who attained majority were Addison, 
Russel, and Sharlock. Nathaniel Peck was a man of integrity and religious 
principle, a member of the Methodist church, and for many years class-leader 
of that society in this town. He belonged to the order of Free Masons. 
■His early struggles in clearing and settling a farm in the wilderness were 
similar to those of other pioneers. He drew a brass kettle from Brookfield 
on a hand sled, and went there to mill, one ox ahead to break the road, 
followed by another with grain on his back. He died April 10, 1827, aged 
sixty-two years. 

Addison Peck, oldest son of Nathaniel and Phebe Peck, was born Sep- 
tember 6, 1807, and with the exception of two years spent his whole life on 
the farm where he was born, and his history for over forty years is closely identi- 
fied with that of his town and county. With no schooling outside the dis- 
trict school of seventy years ago, except a term or two at the academy in 
Montpelier, he early fitted himself as a teacher, and taught winters for several 
years in the towns of Montpelier and Waterbury, working hard on the farm 
during most of the year, as his father, after an illness of some four years^ 
died when Addison was in his twentieth year. He chose law as his profes- 
sion, and studied law a year after attaining his majority; but in accordance 
with his widowed mother's wishes he gave it up and consented to remain on 
the farm. But nature had eminently fitted him for public work to which he 
was constantly called. He was captain of the cavalry company, 5th Regi- 
ment and 4th Division of the state militia, receiving his commission from 
Gov. William A. Palmer, in April, 1833. He was constable and sheriff for 
years after 1835, represented the town of Montpelier in the legislature in 
1842 and 1843, and was high sheriff for Washington county for three years, 
beginning in the fall of 1846. After the separation of the town in 1848 he 
was the first town treasurer of East Montpelier, and the first overseer of the 
poor, elected in 1849, holding the offices for three years, when, in 1852, he 
left town, being absent twoyears. In i860 he was again overseer and agent, 
retaining the offices for years. He took the census in ten towns in Wash- 
ington county in i860, and was state senator for this county in 1862 and '63. 

Interested in politics, a Democrat before the civil war, but ever and always 
for the Union, he was an ardent laborer in the Union cause during the war, 
acting as recruiting officer from the fall of 1863 to the close of the war, 
speaking often at the war meetings, sometimes making, from his own purse. 



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little additions to the soldiers' bounties. He was a natural and easy public 
speaker, often called upon without any previous notice, and always ready. 

In all measures for the public good he heartily cooperated. Well versed 
in laws relating to ordinary business, and for nearly half his life justice of 
the peace, he was constantly called upon to make out legal documents, and 
give advice on legal questions, which with the settlement of estates and fre- 
quent calls to more public work at political meetings and conventions, made 
his life one of constant labor. As a man he was generous and kind hearted, 
an obliging neighbor, and a friend of the poor. Many a time did he pay the 
debt that saved the penniless debtor from jail or redeemed for him his last 
cow. Hundreds of dollars spent in this way were never recovered. He mar- 
ried, in 1837, Mary Hammond Dodge, daughter of Solomon Dodge, Jr., and 
his wife, Rebecca Hammond, and granddaughter of Solomon Dodge and his 
wife, Mollie Taggart. In his wife he found a helpmeet indeed. Called so 
much from his farm work, ///a/ must have suffered but for her clear head and 
skillful management. After a trying illness of more than five years Mr. Peck 
died, September 22, 1881, and his wife, after his death, faded year by year, 
and died March 13, 1888. Only four of their children lived to maturity, all 
of whom, following in the steps of their ancestors, took up for a time the 
vocation of teaching. The youngest daughter died in 1872. 

John Howard peck, son of Addison and Mary Peck, was born March 8, 
1843, ^^^ ^^^^^ November 30, 1879. He was a cadet at Norwich in 1862 
and 1863, and received from that university the degree of Bachelor of Sci- 
ence. He graduated at Dartmouth Medical College, October 31, 1866, and 
commenced practice in Concord, Vt., in January, 1867, and subsequently fol- 
lowed his profession successfully in St. Johnsbury, Derby, and Janesville, 
Wis., leaving the last named place after a brief stay, to care for his invalid 
father and the affairs of the family, spending the last three years of his life in 
his childhood's home. He was twice married, first to Hannah M. Bailey, of 
Hartford, who died a little more than a year after marriage, and afterwards 
to Florence Bates, of Derby. He belonged to the order of Free Masons, and 
helped organize a lodge at West Concord, Vt., himself being its first Master. 
What was said of him in life may not be out of place in this sketch : " He 
was a well read and skillful physician, a courteous gentleman, and a reliable 
business man." 

Hiram married Wealthy Kilburn. He was one of the first selectmen of 
the town of Montpelier, in 1791 . He removed to Waterbury, and from there 
to Parishville, N. Y., where he died in 1831, having filled offices of honor and 
trust in the towns where he had resided. In 1806 the father of Nathaniel 
and Hiram, John Peck, came in old age with another son. Squire Peck, from. 
Royalston, Mass., and settled on the farm of Nathaniel, who built a framed 
house for him, which is still standing in a dilapidated condition across the 
road from the present residence. John Peck had been a prominent man ir> 
the town from which he moved. He was for years a school teacher, and also 



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something of a poet. His poem on Universalism, an ingenious Calvinistic 
production, was published in 18 13, and republished by John P. Jewett & Co., 
in Boston, in 1858. The original manuscripts of several long poems are in 
the hands of his descendants. His wife was Mary Drown. Their graves in 
the little grave-yard on the farm where they spent their last days are marked 
by the old-fashioned slate head-stones, bearing their names, ages, and verses 
he himself composed. He died March 4, 1812. Squire Peck settled on the 
farm, a portion of which, including the buildings, is now owned by Sharlock 
Peck, just north of the house which Nathaniel built for their father. He 
married Elizabeth Godard, and was the father of one of Vermont's most illus- 
trious men, Gov. Asahel Peck, who was three years old when the family 
moved to Montpelier. There were seven children, one of whom died young, 
and another son who died in 1838. The three daughters moved to Hines- 
burgh and died there. The eldest son, Nahum, was a prominent lawyer in 
Hinesburgh, with whom Asahel studied law. Both in their youth pored over 
their books by the light of the old fireplace in their home on the hill, and both 
took their turns as teachers in the district schools in the vicinity. Nahum 
married, first, Lucinda Wheeler, of this town, by whom he had one son, Cicero 
Peck, of Hinesburgh. She died in 1854, and he afterwards married Marcia 
Wood, of Keeseville, N. Y. He died in Hinesburgh in 1883, aged eighty- 
six years. Before the house are two elegant elm trees, one of which in 
Asahel's boyhood sprang up in the brush fence that separated the door-yard 
from the highway, and the other he set out with his own hands where it stands 
to-day to speak of the boy who, by his own earnest efforts, rose from this 
humble home to the first place in the state. Studying and teaching in the 
common schools, he fitted for college in the Washington County Grammar 
school, entered the University of Vermont, studied French in Canada and 
law in Hinesburgh, and in 1833 removed to Burlington, where he spent 
his professional life. The eminent Rufus Choate, on his first acquain- 
tance with Mr. Peck, was surprised to find such a lawyer in Vermont, and 
urged him to go to Boston, assuring him he would there wm fame and for- 
tune. But he preferred to remain in Burlington. It has been said " that no 
man in New England since Judge Story has equalled Judge Peck in his 
knowledge of the common law of England and the law of equity. His fame 
belongs to the state, and East Montpelier can only claim the honor of nurturing 
the early forming season of his life and character." He was judge of the 
Circuit Court from 1851 until December, 1857; judge of the Supreme 
Court from i860 to 1874 ; and governor for the term 1874-76. He died on 
his own farm in Jericho, May 18, 1878. His life was blameless, and his last 
words, subHme as his life had been, v/ere to his brother : " I hope to and have 
no fears but that I shall fare well before and in thehandsof the great Judge." 
The home of Squire Peck was next occupied by Russel Peck, who died in 
September, 1877. His only son, Charles M. Peck, born here December 7, 



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1843, Js now a wholesale merchant in Morrisville, of the firm of H. A. Slay- 
ton & Co. 

Clark Stevens was born in Rochester, Mass., November 15, 1764. He was 
drafted as a soldier at the age of eighteen, and served a few months in that 
capacity, near the close of the war for our independence. At the close of the 
war he shipped from the port of New Bedford, in the capacity of a seaman, 
and spent a few years in the whaling and coasting service. On one occasion, 
while in the discharge of his duty as a sailor, he narrowly escaped drowning. 
This perhaps led him to leave the perils of the sea, and adopt the quiet occu- 
pation of a tiller of the soil. In 1790 he emigrated to the forests of Mont- 
pelier, purchased and cleared up the fine farm where his grandson, Thomas 
B. Stevens, now lives, and where he spent the remainder of a long and useful 
life. After he had made proper preparation for such an important event, by 
clearing several acres and building a comfortable log house and barn, he re- 
turned to the place of his nativity, and December 30, 1792, married Miss 
Huldah Foster, also of Rochester, Mass., and immediately brought his bride 
to his humble cabin. Mr. Clark seems to have been early in life inclined to 
a religion, and lived it in spirit, without forms and show. He with some of 
his neighbors united and formed a society of Friends, and with their aid he 
built a log meetinghouse, on the bank of a little brook, on his farm, and near 
his house. Here this little band of congenial worshipers, under his leadership, 
established the first altar for public worship in Washington county. He 
cheerfully became their instructor, and on horseback frequently rode a dis- 
tance of nearly one hundred miles to attend the monthly meeting of which he 
was a member. O.i these occasions he had established his ability as a speaker 
and faithful laborer. In 18 15, at a convocation of the Starksboro Associa- 
tion of Friends (or Quakers), he was acknowledged as a regular and accepted 
minister of the gospel. In this capacity he traveled hundreds of miles yearly, 
to attend monthly and yearly meetings. The little band in Montpelier pros- 
pered, increased, and built a commodious meeting-house, about half a mile 
from the first humble structure. In the unstability of the affairs of earth this 
band of informal worshipers one by one have come and gone, the " old meet- 
ing-house " is dilapidated, and no society of Friends now exist in East Mont- 
pelier. Clark Stevens is described as " a prince in appearance, but a child 
in humility, and one of the finest looking of men. Full six feet high and 
finely proportioned, dark eyes, thoughtful, sedate countenance, his presence 
was dignified and imposing." He was a man of superior intellect, and well 
balanced. But it was his great and good heart that made him conspicuous, 
and in truth he was a great man. The reason that he did not hold public 
offices was simply because he declined firmly to accept them. He died at his 
home, November 20, 1853. 

Elisha Cummins was born in the town of Ward, Mass., in 1768. He came 
to East Montpelier, then Montpelier, in 1790 or 1791, and settled perma- 
nently on one-half of a lot of land adjoining his brother, John Cummins. He 



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spent one or two seasons on his place clearing land, and built a log house. 
He then returned to Massachusetts and married Miss Rachel Eddy. They 
set out for their wilderness home with all their household goods on one load, 
not omitting the woolen and linen spinning-wheels, indispensable articles in 
all the pioneer families. With the aid of his prudent and very efficient wife, 
who was most truly a helpmate, they soon surrounded themselves with an 
abundant supply of allthe comforts of well-to-do farmers. They never moved, 
but lived on the place where they first settled to the close of their long lives. 
Mr. Cummings died in the fall of i860, aged ninety-three. Mrs. Cummings 
died seven or eight years before her husband, aged eighty-four years. They 
were of the old school type, industrious, honest, and upright. Mr. Cum- 
mings adopted the motto " Pay as you go," and owed no man ; never was sued, 
nor never sued any man. He gave liberally to the church of his choice, and 
was the obliging neighbor and reliable citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Cummings 
impressed their children, whom they gave a good practical education, with 
their own correct principles. They reared a family of nine to mature age, 
viz.: Joel, who was a farmer, settled in Middlesex, and died aged about 
seventy-six years ; Sophia, who was a teacher, and the weaver for the family, 
died at the age of thirty-six years ; Oren, who settled about a half mile from 
the old home, was noted for inventive genius, produced several articles of 
practical value, and also raised very fine cattle, and carried off many premiums 
at the county fairs. Only one of his sons, Timothy S. Cumings, reside in 
this town. He is now a farmer, but has been a railroad engineer. He inherits 
from his father fine mechanical genius. Avery was a successful farmer on the 
homestead, until the death of his father, and afterwards on a farm in that 
neighborhood. He died at the age of about seventy-five years. Amasa Cum- 
mins married Lucy Holbrook, and is a successful farmer. He has a fine farm, 
where he settled about 1835. He has a son, Lawson C, in California, with 
his permanent home in St. Paul, Minn. He is an extensive dealer in monu- 
mental and ornamental marble. His only daughter, Elsie (Mrs. G. A. Bruce), 
and her husband reside with her aged father. Elmira resided on the home- 
stead, and died at the age of seventy-three years. Lorinda (Mrs. Bowen) is 
a widow, and resides in Montpelier. Luman and Lucius Cummings were 
twins, and were born on the homestead, March 10, 181 2. Luman spent most 
of his life on the home farm, but died at the home of his twin brother. 
Lucius united in marriage with Lucina, daughter of Benjamin Ellis, and on 
their wedding day went to housekeeping on the farm where they now live. 
Their children were Luman L., born April 30, 1847, died April 6, 1870; 
Walter S., born December 28, 1848, died May 7, 1867 ; and Edgar A., born 
February 6, 1853. The latter received his education at the common schools 
and the Methodist Seminary at Montpelier. He is a farmer, and is giving 
efficient aid to his aged father. Lucius Cummings, like his father and 
brothers, abhors debt, and " pays as he goes." In religious sentiment he is 
liberal, and an attendant at the Unitarian church. In politics he is a decided 



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Republican, but is not an office seeker. He is a careful and constant reader^ 
when not engaged in his business, has gained a practical education, and is 
quite proficient in mathematics. 

Nathaniel Clark came from Rochester, Mass., and settled in East Mont- 
pelier, then Montpelier, in 1792, and made the first settlement in town on 
the east side of the VVinooski river, where he died in 1810. He was father 
of two sons and four daughters, viz. : George, Sally, Lovisa, Lucy, Charles, 
and Adaline. George Clark, son of the pioneer Nathaniel, was born in Mont- 
pelier in 1794, on the farm settled by his father, and lived there his entire 
life. He died July 18, 188 r, aged eighty-six years. He married Betsey 
Miller, of Bridgewater, Vt. They were parents of six children, three of 
whom arrived at mature age, viz.: George H., Nathaniel M., and Salvin C. 
Nathaniel M. is the only survivor, and was born on the old homestead which 
he still owns, and where he lived until 1863, when he moved to the farm 
where he now resides, in Plainfield. December 25, 1859, he married Cath- 
erine A., daughter of Junius B. and Sarah (Holbrook) Davis, of East Mont- 
pelier. Their children are C. Murray, born January 15, 1861, in the same 
room of the old home where his father was born ; and Genevieve, born De- 
cember 16, 1865, and in the same room of the Davis mansion where her 
mother was born. In the barn on the Clark homestead is stored about one- 
fourth of a ton of hay cut and put there by Nathaniel over seventy-five years 
ago, and which retains its brightness to this day. C. Murray Clark resides 
on the old homestead. 

Samuel Rich, whose ancestors emigrated from England and settled in Sut- 
ton, Mass., about 1683, was born in Sutton, Mass., February 24, 1769. De- 
cember I, 1790, he married Margaret McCloud, who was born in Greenfield, 
N. H., May 9, 1772. In 1792 Mr. Rich emigrated from Sutton to East 
Montpelier, then Montpelier, purchased a tract of 700 acres of wild land on 
Kingsbury Branch, including the village of North Montpelier and its excel- 
lent water-power. His first labor was to cut down the forest and clear a 
place for his house and a saw-mill, which were built near each other. Mrs. 
Rich used a tool-chest for a table when they partook of their first meal at 
their forest home. Mr. Rich was a farmer and mephanic, and a man of 
sound mind, good judgment, and possessed great energy. In 1795 he 
byilt a grist-mill, — the first in the place, — and built several of the first houses. 
He was the proprietor of a saw-mill, grist-mill, carding machine, fulling- 
mill, a brick-yard, and distillery, and conducted them all. The little village 
that he built up was for many years known as Rich's Hollow ; but it is now 
known as North Montpelier. In 1804 he built his large and elegant two- 
story residence, on the hill that overlooks the little village below, opened it 
for a tavern, and continued to live there until his death, September 26, 1826. 
This old homestead has not passed out of the hands of the Rich family. 
The house was thoroughly repaired by its present owners in 1881. His 
granddaughter, Ada M. Rich, married George Kelton, April 20, 1878, and 



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they now own the mansion and farm. Long may it stand as a monument to 
the worth and ability of its builder, Samuel Rich! The anniversary of our 
national independence was celebrated here July 4, 1812, when a whole ox 
was barbecued and the dinner was served in the shade of the trees in the 
front yard, where convenient tables had been placed. It was a happy and 
joyful occasion, and closed in the evening with music and dancing by the 
rustic belles and beaux for miles around. Mr. and Mrs. Rich reared nine 
children to mature age, all of whom are dead except their third son, aged 
eightvseven, and a daughter, aged seventy-three years. They dispensed a 
liberal hospitality : no man, woman, or child went from their door hungry. 

Dennis Nye came to Montpelier, now East Montpelier, from Rochester, 
Mass., in 1794, and settled in the northeast part of the town, where he re- 
sided until his death, about 1S50, aged eighty years. He married Miss Betsey 
Gray,' daughter of John and Mary Gray, pioneers of the town. Mr. Nye was 
always a farmer after he came to Montpelier. He brought means sufficient 
to pay the small price of two dollars per acre for his farm of 108 acres, which 
he lived to convert from a wilderness into cultivated fields. Mrs. Nye sur- 
vived her husband about thirteen years. They reared four sons, viz.: Will- 
iam, who never married, went to Ohio, but soon after removed to Columbus, 
Ind., where he was a successful teacher many years, and where he died; 
John, who married Betsey, daughter of Samuel and Margaret Rich, settled 
on the Nye homestead, where he lived from his birth until his death, about 
1880; Ezekiel D., born July 3, 181 2, who married Sarah M. H. Guy, of 
Peacham ; and George G., born June 26, 1815, who married Elsie C, daughter 
of Dr. Nathaniel C. King, of East Montpelier. In 1842 the last two named 
brothers formed a copartnership under the firm name of E. D. & G. G. Nye, 
and commenced the manufacture of reed organs, which they continued about 
forty years. Their organs are of the finest construction and tone, had a 
general local sale, are highly prized, and are in the homes of many of the 
families of this and surrounding towns. The children of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. 
Nye are Edward B., a piano tuner at the Miller piano manufactory in Wake- 
field, Mass.; and Harold E. and Ellen J., teachers of organ, piano, and violin 
at Maiden, Mass. Mr. E. D. Nye was chosen by his townsmen as their 
representative in 1861 and 1862, and has served also as selectman. The 
children of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Nye are William G., postmaster and general 
merchant at North Montpelier, and Edith F. (Mrs. John Willard), of East 
Montpelier village. Mr. G. G. Nye has served as selectman, and as justice 
of the peace about fifteen years. 

Samuel McKnight, born September i, 1774, came to East Montpelier and 
worked for Maj. Nathaniel Davis a season or two, then cleared a small 
piece of land, built a log house, returned to Sutton, Mass., his native town, 
married Miss Anna Putnam, February 15, 1795, ^.nd set off immediately for 
his wilderness home in Montpelier with an ox-team, which brought his bride 
and their household effects. He installed her mistress of his log cabin on 



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the farm where his grandson, Mr. Edwin P. McKnight, now lives, and where 
they spent the remaindei of their hves. After they had been in Montpelier 
a few years they visited friends in Massachusetts, making the journey in the 
same manner as they came, with a yoke of oxen. Their children were Sally, 
born October 7, 1795 ; Clara, born July 17, 1799 ; Putnam, born November 

16, 1S02 ; and Allen, born April 22, 1806, who died May 4, i8io. Putnam 
married Margaret Holmes, January i, 1828, and settled on the homestead 
where he was born. He was a man of general information, a great reader, 
and had a good and practical education. In early life he taught school ; at 
more mature age he was selectman and lister of his town, and sometimes 
contributed articles for publication in the local papers. He died June 7, 
1883, and had lived to celebrate his golden wedding. Mrs. McKnight still 
survives. Their children are Sarah (Mrs. Christopher Brooks), born August 
12, 1829, who resides in this town ; Clara, born March i, 1837, who married 
William C. Vincent, is now a widow, and resides on the homestead with her 
brother ; and Edwin P., who married Mary L. Cole, of Rome, N. Y., and 
resides, as before mentioned, on the homestead, which he owns. 

William Holmes, born in 1773, came to East Montpelier, then Montpelier, 
as near as can be ascertained, in 1795, and settled in the northeast corner of 
the town. He took an interest in military affairs and was a captain of mili- 
tia, a man of great energy and warm sympathies, ever ready to help whenever 
he had an opportunity. He died at the early age of forty-one years, and with- 
out an enemy. He married Margaret Coniins, of Charlton, Mass., and their 
children were John, born May 25, 1797, who died about the same time as 
his father, of a malignant typhus fever, in 1813 ; William, who died on the 
homestead ; Harriet, who married Alvin McKnight, and died March 23, 1838 ; 
Margaret, born in 1803, who married Putnam McKnight, and resides on the 
McKnight homestead, and is the only surviving member of the family ; Hor- 
ace, born June i, 1808, who was a farmer, had several locations, and died in 
Marshfield, in April, 1878; and F^lwin, born December 27, 1810^ who was a 
merchant about twenty-five years, and of the firm of Bancroft & Holmes, of 
Montpelier." He had an enviable reputation, and died in Montpelier, May 

17, 1871. 

William Holmes, Jr., born on the Holmes homestead, February 26, 1799, 
received his education in the common schools of North Montpelier village. 
He married Diana Stevens, May 19, 1836, who was born July 18, 1812, and 
commenced housekeeping on the farm where he was born. He was always a 
Democrat, and al^vays used his influence to advance the interests of his party. 
He was an industrious farmer, and loved his family and home. Mr. and Mrs. 
Holmes had nine children, four of whom died in childhood. Those who 
lived to mature age are Harriet (Mrs. Alvin Cate), who died at the age of 
forty-one years, and left an interesting family of eight children. Fallen mar- 
ried Stephen Greeley, and about four years after their marriage Mr. Greeley 
bought the Holmes homestead, and Mr. and Mrs. Holmes had a home with 



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them. xMr. Greeley died April 12, 1882. Mrs. Greeley still resides at the 
home, and has two children, William and Mertie Ellen. Charlotte (Mrs. 
Whitney Davis) resides in Marshfield village. Sarah (Mrs. Austin Foster) 
resides on a farm in her native town. Mrs. Kate R. Morse resides with her 
sister, Mrs. Greeley. Mr. William Holmes died July 8, 1884, aged eighty- 
five years. Mrs. Holmes survives, aged seventy-five years. 

Theophilus Clark, born June 18, 1766, came with an o.K-team to East Mont- 
pelierfrom Massachusetts, in February, 1795, and settled in the southeast cor- 
ner of the town, on the farm where his grandson, George H Clark, now resides. 
He located on lands adjoining his brother, Nathaniel, who had preceded him 
about two years, and when making his first clearing or opening in the woods 
boarded with his brother. He in time cleared up his farm of 100 acres, built 
comfortable buildings, where he resided until his death, on Thanksgiving day, 
, 859, --the seventieth anniversary of his wedding day,— aged ninety-three years. 
He married Susannah Ellis, November 26, 1789, who died a few years before 
her husband, aged eighty-six years. His oldest son, David Dennis, died in 
Marshfield, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. His son Theophilus, 
born on the homestead, April 29, 1802, married Philura Sparrow, April 10, 
1839, settled on the homestead, and provided for the wants of his aged par- 
ents in their declining years, and where he also spent his long life. He died 
December 27, 1881, aged nearly eighty years. Mrs. Clark survived until June 
1 4, 1 884, aged sixty- eight years. Mr. Clark was a reliable citizen, a good neigh- 
bor, honest, and industrious. He reared seven children to mature age, and 
all are now living, viz.: Orlana (Mrs. Ira D. Mears) in Barre. Orlando, born 
March 8, 1842, married Caroline Hathaway, March 15, 1865, who was born 
March 22, 1843. They went to housekeeping immediately after their mar- 
riage, on the farm where Mr. Clark now resides. Mrs. Clark died July 26, 
1887. Their children are Alpha B. and Anna M. Fanny (Mrs. Edwin H. 
Foster) resides in the northern part of the town. Theophilus is a farmer in 
the northern part of his native town. Betsey resides with her brother Theo. 
•George H., before mentioned, resides on the old homestead. Elsie also has 
-a home with her brother Theo. 

Sylvanus Morse was born in Marlboro, Mass., in 1765. He married 
Jemima Forbush, and in June, 1797, came to East Montpelier and located 
a farm of 150 acres where his grandson. Eri Morse, now lives. His first 
work was to clear the land and plant a patch of potatoes, from which 
•he harvested forty bushels. He cleared six acres, and then built his log cabin 
.and returned to Massachusetts. He set out with his wife and family in 
midwinter, with an ox-team, and arrived at his woodland home in February, 
1798, after a journey of six weeks. In religion Mr. Morse was an active 
Methodist, and was one of the foremost in building the meeting-house at the 
■Center. He also gave liberally for the support of this church. He died uni- 
versally respected at the great age of ninety-two years. Mrs. Morse was 
over ninety-two years of age at her death. Their children were Polly, who 



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married Daniel Bassett, and settled on a farm which included a part of what 
is now East Montpelier village; and Cyrus, who was born May 14, 1797. 
The latter married Miss Lavinia Lyman, of Duxbury, and remained on the 
homestead to the close of his life. Like his father he was a zealous Meth- 
odist, and gave liberally to all its financial interests. He died on the farm 
where he had spent his entire life, February 22, 1886, aged nearly eighty- 
nine years. Mrs. Morse died about ten years earlier. Their children were 
Sylvanus, born December 30, 1826, and Eri, born November 11, 1828. 
Sylvanus married Lorinda T. Leland, of Grafton, Mass., and settled on a part 
of the Morse farm and adjoining the old home, where he resided until his 
death, in April, 1872. His wife survives and resides in the village of Mont- 
pelier. Their son Forest E. has purchased the farm of his late father. He 
united in marriage with Miss Lulu Johnson, June 2, 1886. Eri Morse has 
been twice to California, where he spent about ten years, engaged in the 
mines, in milk business, and raising cattle. In March, 1863, he married 
Esther A. McDermott, of Middlesex, and now, as before mentioned, resides 
on the homestead, which has been continuously owned by the Morse family 
since its first occupancy in 1797. Mrs. Eri Morse died March 6, 1881. 
Their children are Arthur E., who resides in Winona, Minn., and Theresa L., 
who resides with her father. 

Nahum Kelton was born in Warwick, Mass., in January, 1778. He came 
to Montpelier in the fall of 1798, and spent the ensuing winter in the employ 
of Col. Jacob Davis. The next spring he returned to Warwick, and soon 
after went to Schoharie, N. Y., and spent about three years in teaching pub- 
lic schools. About 1800 he returned to Montpelier, and in 1809 married 
Fanny, daughter of Dr. Philip and Eunice Vincent, and settled on the farm 
where his son Truman C. now lives, and where he remained until his death, 
in 1857. He taught school in New York and Vermont thirteen winters. As 
early as 18 to he was elected deputy sheriff and served six years, and was 
constable the ensuing seven years. He represented the town of Montpelier 
in the state legislature in 1816, '17, '18, and '20, and again in 1829, and also 
held other offices. He was the father of two sons, Samuel Stillman and Tru- 
man C, both of whom are now living. Samuel S. Kelton was born on the 
homestead in October, 1810. March 10, 1838, he married Ursula Sprague, 
and settled on the farm in East Montpelier, where his son Francis P. now 
]ives, and where he resided nearly forty years. He now resides in Montpe- 
lier village. Judge Kelton has held nearly all the offices in his town. He 
has been justice of the peace thirty-five years, town treasurer sixteen years, 
served as selectman, and was assistant judge of Washington County Court 
in 1861 and 1862. He has settled many important estates, some of which 
have involved him in litigation ; but he has never had a law suit on his own 
account. His son Francis P. was born where he now lives, in May, 1841. 
He married Joanna Colby, of Newbury, and is now an enterprising farmer 
and stock breeder. Dwight H., son of Samuel S. Kelton, was born in Octo- 



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ber, 1843. H^ ^v^s educated at Norwich University, especially in military 
tactics and mathematics. In the late war he served as captain of a colored 
company, and held some important positions that required ability and skill. 
At the close of the war he entered the regular army as second lieutenant, and 
now holds a captain's commission. On account of broken health he is now 
on the retired list. 

Truman C, son of Nahum and Fanny (Vmcent) Kelton, was born on the 
homestead where he now lives, May 11, tSry. At the age of sixteen years 
he commenced the trade of mason, and followed it a portion of the time, in 
summer, for the next thirteen years. The remaining part of his time was 
occupied on the farm. June 3, 1846, he married Emeline E., daughter of 
Joel and Ruby (Metcalf) Bassett, who was born September 28, 1823. Their 
children are George, born September 28, 1848, who married, April 20, 1878, 
Miss Ada M. Rich, and is a farmer on the Rich homestead at North 
Montpelier ; Herbert, born June 28, 1850, who married Mary A. Wheeler, 
March 22. 1882; Henry, born October 20, 1S51, who married Flora H. 
Coburn, June 21, 1877; Fanny, born June 22, 1854, married Arthur D. 
Coburn, October 15, 1878; Walter, born May 17, 1857, who died June 12, 
1858; and Edwin, born July 4, i860. Truman C. Kelton is a very promi- 
nent and influential citizen of East Montpelier, and by his honesty and 
integrity won the confidence of his townsmen in his early manhood, which, 
by a correct life, he deservedly retains. He has served as selectman and 
lister, for the last nineteen years has been justice of the peace, town clerk 
since 1863, treasurer since 1877, and represented his town in the legislature 
in 1863 and 1864. 

Jonathan Stanley Dodge, son of Ebenezer, Jr., and grandson of Ebenezer, 
the pioneer of Marshfield, was born in Marshfield in 1800. He married 
Sibra Kelton, and settled in his native town, where he spent his entire life, 
dying m August, 1873. Mrs. Dodge was born in 1804, and survived her hus- 
band until January, 1878. Mr. Dodge was well informed, a great reader, and 
especially a fine Bible scholar. In religion he was liberal, and a firm believer 
in the final salvation of the entire human race. He was a prominent and 
influential member of the Universalist church and a liberal contributor to all 
its interests. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Dodge were Elmmia, Corrilla, 
Ira C, Merrill, Lovell, Harry, Olive, and Mary. Ira C. Dodge married, first, 
Laura C. Bliss, who was mother of his only child, Gertrude (Mrs. Benjamin 
Buzzell), who resides in Middlesex. Mrs. Dodge died April 16, 1873. -^''■ 
Dodge married, second, Miss Susan Templeton, daughter of William Temple- 
ton, Jr., and resides on the Gove farm, near East Montpelier Center. Mr. 
Dodge has a silver dollar (Spanish milled) earned by his grandfather by work- 
ing one week, barefooted, at clearing land of brush, when he was a small boy. 
The coin is to be handed down to the oldest son of each succeeding gener- 
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Joseph Coburn, or Lieutenant Coburn, as he was always called, was born 
in 1775, and came from Charlton, Mass., to Cabot, Vt., in 1803. He was a 
■clothier by trade. He died of typhus fever at the time of the epidemic in 
18 13. Although but thirty years old when he died, he was called the richest 
man in town. He left a widow, who died several years afterwards, two sons, 
Larnard and Joseph Leander, and four daughters, viz.: Sally, who married 
Dea. Carter, of Peachani ; Clara, who married Andrew Edgerton, of Cabot ; 
Lucy, who married Ira Barnes, of Randolph; and Mary, who married James 
Grififen, of Peacham. 

Larnard Coburn, oldest son of Joseph Coburn, was born April 8, 1800. 
Soon after the death of his father, in 1813, he came to the northeastern part 
of Montpelier (now East Montpelier) to one James Allen's, to whom he let 
himself until he was of age, being only thirteen at the time of his arrival. 
He was to receive $100, and have four months in the winter to go to school 
or work at some trade. He gave Mr. Allen $30 to risk sickness, leaving him 
$70 when twenty-one to add to the small property left him by his father. He 
attended school all except two winters, these being spent at the clothiers' 
trade. It was about this time when going to school to Daniel P. Thompson 
that the latter advised him to study law, thinking him specially adapted for 
the profession ; but Mr. Coburn left the law to be taken up by his youngest 
son, Lewis, and he himself took to cultivating the soil instead. He married 
Lovisia, only daughter of James Allen, in 1823. Mr. Allen's parents came 
from New Bedford, Mass. For nearly two years Mr. Coburn worked at the 
clothiers' trade. December 2, 1824, he came back to Montpelier and bought 
about fifty-seven acres adjoining his father-in-law's farm. This he made the 
nucleus of one of the best farms in town. By three other purchases he increased 
this small piece of land to over 230 acres. He demonstrated the fact that a 
farm can be made to pay, for from it alone he payed not only for the land 
itself, and as much more for improvements, but also accumulated consider- 
able property besides. March 26, 1866, he sold his farm to his second son, 
J. Leander. After that he lived part of the time with his children and part 
in Plainfield. He died at his daughter's, Mrs. Dwight Hollister, in 1872. 
His wife died a short time before at his son's, Hon. James A. Coburn, of East 
Montpelier. He lived nearly as possible a private life, neither seeking nor 
wishing for public honors. He was content with his family and farm. He 
was temperate in all his habits, and perfectly upright in all his dealings. He 



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represented the town in 1857 and again in 1858. He had six children — four 
boys and two girls. West Allen, the first, died when about two years old. 
Flora S., the wife of Dvight HoUister, of Marshfield, was born March 26, 
1826. James A. was born April 6, 1828. J. Leander, born January 16, 1830, 
died April 6, 1888. Susan A., wife of C. C. Eaton, of Montpelier, was born 
January 17, 1832. Lewis L. was born November 2, 1833. 

Major J. Leander Coburn was born in 1810, He graduated at West Point, 
was soon promoted to the rank of captain in the regular army, and partici- 
pated in the Mexican war. After the war he was stationed in Texas for ten 
years. During the time he married a lady from Kentucky, first cousin to 
Gov. McCrary, of that state, and second cousin to Henry Clay, the states- 
man. They never had any children. At the breaking out of the civil war 
he resigned and came home to Vermont. After staying there a few years he 
went to Washington, D. C, for a short time, then moved to Chicago, 
where he has since lived. In President Johnson's administration he was given 
the rank of major. Since then he has been only a private citizen of Chicago. 

Hon. Tames A. Coburn, the oldest son of Larnard Coburn, was born April 
6, 1828. Lie received a common school education, taught school winters 
for a number of years, and married Abbie B., daughter of Arthur Daggett, of 
East Montpelier, in 1850. In 1855 he bought out Mr. Daggett's interest in 
his farm, the latter after a little time removing to a farm in Barre. Mr. 
Coburn has carried on this farm since that time. He has been honored with 
many of the offices in the gift of his townsmen. He served as justice of the 
peace several years, represented his town in the legislature of 1869, the last 
annual session in Vermont, and again in 1870-71, the first biennial session. 
In the fall of 1878 he was elected an assistant judge of Washington County 
Court, and reelected in 1880. Since then he has declined public office. The 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Coburn are Larnard C, born April 2, 1852, married 
Carrie Bennett, of Calais, and resides in Fulda, Minn.; Arthur D., born 
August 31, 1855, married Fanny Kelton, daughter of Truman Kelton, Octo- 
ber 15, 1878, and is a farmer in his native town ; Flora H., born June 25, 
1858, married Henry Kelton, June 21, 1877; James Lee, born November 
3, 1859, resides in Dakota; and Dwight H., born September 15, 1861, died 
when quite young. Mr. Coburn is a Republican, and believes in a govern- 
ment " of the people, for the people, and by the people." He is also a man 
of sterling integrity, a fair dealer, and highly respected by a large acquain- 





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tance. He is an extensive reader, well informed, and a fine and natural 
mathematician, which is a distinguishing talent of the Coburn family. 

J. Leander, second son of Larnard Coburn, was born January 16, 1830,. 
and received a common school education supplemented with a few terms at 
an academy. Most of the time until he was twenty-five years old he worked 
on his father's farm, except several winters, when he taught a common school. 
In 1853 he went to Chicago, then the "far West." Here he was employed; 
for awhile, as clerk, by Marcus D. Oilman, late of Montpelier, and was other- 
wise engaged until March 6, 1859, when he married Caroline A., daughter of 
Dr. Daniel Corliss, of East Montpelier. The next year Mr. Coburn ex- 
changed his lots in the city for a farm near Elgm, about thirty miles from. 
Chicago, where he lived five years, and sent the milk of his dairy to Chicago. 
In 1865, at the earnest request of his father, he sold his farm and bought the 
homestead, and returned to East Montpelier, his old home, where he spent 
the remainder of his life, although he moved twice. He died April 6, 1888,. 
He was Master of the Grange of his town several years.- He held several' 
town offices, represented his town in the legislature of 1876-77, and in the- 
last few years of his life settled several important estates. Mr. Coburn was a 
Republican in his political faith, a citizen of sterling integrity, kind and gen-- 
erous in his feelings : and frank and manly in bearing he possessed the friend- 
ship and respect of the leading men of his section, and was a representative 
farmer in Washington county. By his industry, perseverance, and admirable 
management he accumulated a fine fortune for a farmer. In the closer re- 
lations of the home circle, as husband and father, he was loving, attentive, 
and devoted. In bestowing his property there was no favoritism. His chil- 
dren shared alike. His family is composed of his widow, who has been his. 
companion twenty-nine years, and their daughter Laura B., born October 17,., 
i860, and their sons F. William, a farmer, born August 24, 1862, who mar- 
ried Sarah Cate, of East Montpelier, March 14, 1886; and Lewis D., born 
May II, 1865, who graduated at Tufts College in the spring of 1888. Their 
son Curtis L., born December 16, 1867, died August 10, 1881. 

Lewis L. Coburn, born November 2, 1833, graduated at Barre Academy 
in 1855 and at the University of Vermont in 1859; attended the Harvard 
Law School two years, and was admitted to the Boston bar. He went at 
once to Chicago, where he has since practiced. He has made patent right law 
a specialty. He started by buying out one Mr. Oray, who had a small law 



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practice, for $500. At once his law practice commenced to increase, and 
doubled year by year until now it is among the largest in the city of 
Chicago, his income being between $50,000 and $75,000 yearly. At the 
breaking out of the civil war he came back to East Montpelier and entered 
the army as a volunteer, and was chosen captain of his company. Like the 
rest of the Coburns he has never taken a very active part in politics. He 
has been offered a representative's seat in Congress, but refused it, preferring 
to attend to his profession. 

Arthur Daggett, of English descent, came to East Montpelier, then Mont- 
pelier, a little before 1800, and settled where the late J. Leander Coburn 
lived, and where he died at an advanced age. He left three sons, Arthur, 
Stephen, and Simeon, and one or more daughters. Simeon settled on the 
homestead with his father. Arthur and Stephen located at East Montpelier, 
then Quaker Village and for many years Dageett's Mills, built the first saw- 
mill in the place, about 1800, and later Arthur Daggett, with Richard Ken- 
drick, built a saw-mill and grist-mill on the site now occupied by J. S. 
Wheelock. Arthur Daggett married a widow West, and had born to him two 
sons, viz.: Arthur, born in 1804, and Freeman, born in 1807. Arthur mar- 
ried Nancy Farwell, was a farmer, and reared one child, Abbie B., who was 
born January 30, 1831, and is the wife of Judge James A. Coburn, of East 
Montpelier. Freeman Daggett married Calista Ingalls, of Barre. He wa,s a 
successful general mechanic, and could turn his hand to any trade, — the most 
delicate work or heavy machinery. By his skill he accumulated a fine prop- 
erty. He left one son, George Daggett, who resides at Winooski and inherits 
his father's mechanical genius. 

Dr. Daniel Corliss was born in Bradford, December 1 6, 1 802. He graduated 
at Castleton Medical School in 1827, and practiced at Marshfield two years. 
October 29, 1829, he married Caroline T. Taplin, of Corinth, granddaughter 
of Col. John Taplin of the British array. He then settled in East Montpe- 
lier and practiced there until his death, October 17, 1850. He left a widow 
and two children, a son and daughter. The widow died six years afterwards. 
William, born January 28, 1831, died in California, September 2, 1878, leaving 
only a widow. Caroline A., born October 9, 1834, was the wife of J. Leander 
Coburn, late of East Montpelier. Mr. Corliss was a man of strict integrity 
and a strong Methodist. 



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Nathaniel Orrasbee, born in Warren, R. I., emigrated to Montpelier, now 
East Montpelier, as near as can be ascertained, in 1800, and located on a 
farm in the wilderness where his son Joel T. now lives. He and his bride 
lived with a neighbor, Mr. Pope, a few months, while he made a small clear- 
ing and built a small house, and then settled on the farm where he resided 
the rest of his long life. He died May 7, 1857, aged eighty-four years. His 
wife was Sally Merrill, a native of Worcester, Mass. She survived her hus- 
band until December 21, 1861, aged eighty-two years. They enjoyed a mar- 
ried life of fifty-five years, and were parents of ten children who attained 
mature age, viz.: Thomas J., Jonas G., John A., Joel T., Sally (Mrs. Joseph 
Parker), Relief (Mrs. Elias Wakefield), Jesse S., who was in the late war, 
Lewis, Louisa (Mrs. Dr. Town), and Lyman W. Joel T. Ormsbee married 
Mary Parmenter, and settled on the old homestead where he was born, and 
where he still resides. 

Eseck Howland, son of John, was born in Middleboro, Mass., Septem- 
ber 15, 1760. In 1778 he married Phebe Sears. They early emigrated to 
Plainfield, Vt., purchased a tract of land and went to housekeeping, two miles 
from the nearest neighbor, and sixteen miles through the forests to the nearest 
grist-mill. He was a successful farmer. Later he moved to East Montpelier, 
where he spent the remainder of his long life. He died September 15, 1841, 
aged just eighty-one years. His wife survived him until May 30, 1846. 
They were parents of six children. His son Eseck, born probably in Mid- 
dleboro, about 1793, married, first, Rhoda Holt, and second, Laura Hol- 
den. settled in Barre, where he resided until two or three years before his 
death, when he went to East Montpelier to reside with his son George, and 
where he died in 1872. Mrs. Howland survived until 1874, and also died at 
the residence of her son George. George, son of Eseck Howland, Jr., was 
born in Barre, March t8, 1831, and married Angeline Buzzell, April ig, 1859. 
In April, 1866, he moved from Boston to East Montpelier, where he now 
resides. He is a farmer and auctioneer. He represented his town in the 
state legislature in [882, and has served as selectman two years, lister five 
years, constable ten, and deputy sheriff one year. 

Susan Clark, daughter of Theophilus Clark, Sr., was born in Rochester, 
Mass., February 20, 1793. Her second birthday was celebrated on board of 
the ox-sled, en route from Massachusetts to Montpelier, Vt. In February, 
1812, she married Jeduthan Doty and resided on a farm near the site of East 
Montpelier depot, where she died. Mr. Doty died at the home of his only 
daughter, Orlana (Mrs. M. D. Willard). 

Capt. Stephen Foster married Miss Mary King, sister of Dr. Nathaniel 
King. They came to East Montpelier at a very early date, from Massachu- 
setts, on horseback, riding the same horse, and settled in the wilderness on 
the farm where his grandson, Edwin H. Foster, now lives. He commenced 
clearing his farm at once, and soon built a saw-mill, which was a great advantage 
and convenience to the pioneer famihes. He took quite an interest in military 
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affairs, and received the title of captain. He was also active in all the affairs for 
the advancement of the society in which he lived, and especially aided with his 
money and influence the society of the Universalist church, of which he was 
a very worthy member. He died on the place where he first settled, aged 
seventy-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Foster were pirents of four sons and four 
daughters. His son Henry D. married Sarah G., daughter of Joel Eassett, 
and settled on the homestead, and cared for his parents in their declining 
days. He was an industrious and prudent man, loved his family and home, 
where he was very generally found. He was also appreciated by his towns- 
men, and held the offices of selectman and representative. Mr. Foster died 
July 27, 1884, aged sixty-nine years. Mrs. Foster died February i, 1888, 
aged seventy-one years. Their children are Julia A. (Mrs. William H. Glad- 
ding), who resides in Barre ; Edwin H., wsho married Fanny M. Clark, resides 
on the old homestead, as before mentioned, is now first selectman of his 
town, and has served as lister ; Mary K., who married Austin Templeton, a 
a farmer, and resides on the Templeton farm ; Austin S., who married Miss 
Sarah D. Holmes, is a farmer, resides near the center of the town, and has 
served as lister ; Emma (Mrs. William Cleveland), who resides in West Som- 
erville, near Boston, Mass.; and Charles W. who V arried Flora Wheeler, 
is a farmer, and resides in Calais. 

Rufus Hill, son of Samuel, born in Smithfield, R. I., January 31, 1771, 
first settled in Danby, Vt. In the spring of 1801 he removed to East Mont- 
pelier. His log house was surrounded by a small clearing. The farm con- 
taining about 300 acres he cleared with the aid of his stalwart sons, and be- 
sides found time to do quite a business for his neighbors in carpentering. He 
was an unusually hard worker, and by precept and example early taught his 
sons habits of industry. December 8, 1797, he married Laomi Angell, who 
was born September 25, 1774. Mr. Hill died August 5, 1827. Mrs, Hill 
survived until September to, 1852. They had born to them fifteen children, 
one of whom died in infancy, the others attained mature age, and thirteen 
married. Of this large family none but Philip settled in their native town. 
He was born March 2, 1808, and settled on the homestead where he was 
born. March 17, iS36,he married Elvira Dodge, of Barre, In 1867 he sold 
the place to his oldest son, S. Wesley Hill, with whom he and his aged wife 
now reside. Mr, and Mrs, Philip Hill celebrated their golden wedding 
March 17, 1886. They have twenty-three grandchildren. Samuel Wesley 
Hill married Miss Maria C. Smith, resides on the old farm, and has been 
selectman and lister. He offered his services to ttie 4th Vt. Regt., and was 
rejected on account of a defective eye, but was more than a year in the com- 
missary department. 

Benjamin Ellis was born November 16, 1779. About 1804 he married 
Susannah Guernsey. In the sprmg of 1806 they came to East Montpelier 
and settled in the wilderness, where his son Sylvanus now lives. Mr, Ellis, 
with the aid of his industrious sons, soon had a good home. He lived on the 



TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 275 

place until his death, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years. Mrs. Ellis 
died at the age of eighty years. His son Sylvanus was born July 4, 1819. 
At the approach of old age Mr. Ellis transferred the farm to this son, who 
paid off the heirs and provided for all the wants of his worthy parents. 
Sylvanus Ellis married M'ss Julia Cox, of Calais, who was the mother of his 
daughter and only child, Cleora F., who went to Portland, Oregon, as a 
teacher, and there married Byron Reynolds, an enterprising and very exten- 
sive farmer located near the city. Mrs. Ellis died July 8, 1865. July 4, 
1866, Mr. Ellis married Marcia Cox, his present wife. He has always lived 
on the homestead where he was born, and hT.s built and rebuilt an entire set 
of very fine buildings, and otherwise greatly improved his farm. 

John Vincent was born in Portsmouth, N. H., September 4, 1789. De- 
cember 25, 1 8 15, he married Rebecca K. Wallace, of Thornton, N. H. 
They came from Woodstock, N. H., April 2, 1816, and settled on a farm in 
the southeastern part of Middlesex, Vt. They commenced housekeeping in 
a log house, and had but three acres of cleared land. Mr. Vincent was a 
Jacksonian Democrat and represented Middlesex in the legislature in 1835 
and 1836, and held several town offices. April 16, 1838, he moved to East 
Montpelier, where he esided the remainder of his life. He died November 
25. 1852. 

Aurora Mallory, born in Connecticut, in 1H09, came to East Montpelier 
when only nine years of age, and had a home with his uncle, Lemuel Brooks, 
where he resided until he married Martha, daughter of Levi Templeton, in 
183T. He settled on a farm near the center of the town, which he bought 
of Dr. James Templeton. He died at East Montpelier village in 1870. His 
son, Levi T. Mallory, born June 27, 1832, had only a common school educa- 
tion, but by a course of close observation and extensive reading he has a 
good practical education. August 28, 1855, Mr. Mallory united in marriage 
with Miss Julia Shortt, settled on the homestead of his wife's father, which he 
eventually purchased, and where he now resides. Early in life he engaged in 
buying cattle, sheep, and swine. In the fall of 1870 he was enployed as 
superintendent of construction in building the M. & W. R. railroad, which 
position he held till the completion of the road, in 1873. In r885, under a 
contract, he excavated and covered all the ditches required in laying the 
Montpelier water works. 

Ebenezer Fitch Willard was born in Barre, in 1795. His parents were 
early settlers in his native town, where his father kept a public house, dealt 
in live stock, but eventually died with his son Jack in Montreal. Ebenezer F. 
Willard married Lovisa Clark, of East Montpelier, and settled on a farm in the 
northwest corner of Barre. He was always a farmer, and at his death left each 
of his children a farm. And what is remarkable the entire real estate of this 
family is all in their hands, with the single exception of the farm owned 
by his oldest son. Mr. Willard was a man of rare judgment of property, 
and was always ready to buy or sell any and every thing that farmers 



276 TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 

had to sell. He dealt largely in live stock from Montreal to Boston. 
He died on one of his farms in East Montpelier, in 185 i, where he resided 
the last twenty years of his life. Mr. and Mrs. VVillard were parents of 
four sons and two daughters, all of whom lived to be married and reared 
children, viz.: Charles C, Sophia (Mrs. G. L. Dix), who resides on the 
old homestead in Barre, Matthew D., Ebenezer, Jr., who also resides on 
the homestead in Barre, John M., and Phebe (Mrs. Pierce Welch), who resides 
in Berlin and has had two sons, Leon and Herbert P. Matthew D. received 
only a common school education. He married Orlana, daughter of Jeduthan 
Doty, of East Montpelier, March 23, 1852, and next day moved into their 
home on the Hezekiah Davis farm, where they lived twenty seven years, and 
where their only son, Frank P., now resides. They are also parents of an only 
daughter, Susan L., who married Clark Sibley, an enterprising farmer who 
resides in the village of East Montpelier. Mr. VVillard has always been a 
Democrat, and although his party is greatly in minority, he has held the offices 
of selectman and lister, and has performed the duties of these positions faith- 
fully and well. At the present time he resides in the village of East Montpe- 
lier, where he holds the position of postmaster, and deals in agricultural im- 
plements. 

Charles Clark Willard, son of Ebenezer F., was born in Barre, September 14, 
1820. Early in life he had more days of labor than school days. January 2, 
1842, he united in marriage with Livia, daughter of Judge Israel Goodwin, 
of East Montpelier, and resided on the homestead the next six years. He 
afterwards owned the Marshall farm, where he rebuilt and repaired the entire 
set of buildings, which he sold to Mr. George Howland in 1866, and removed 
to the village, where he resided about twelve years. He now resides on a 
small farm half a mile southeast of East Montpelier village. He is a Demo- 
crat, but not an office seeker. Mrs. VVillard died May 5, 1882, and Mr. VVill- 
ard married Mrs. Julia S. (Severance) Hinds, June 20, 1883. 

John M. Willard was born in Birre, attended the district school in winter, 
and was so early accustomed to labor that hard work was no hardship. March 
27, i860, he united in marriage with Miss Philena I. Persons. Mr. Willard 
dealt in real estate to quite an extent, and was a man of so good judgment 
that his advice was often sought and readily given. He accumulated a com- 
petency. He cast his lot with the Republican party, and during the late war 
gave his influence and support to the Union cause. He was no office seeker, 
but consented to hold the position of postmaster twelve or fourteen years. 
He died September 5, 1887. 

Rev. Lester Warren, son of Philander and Lucy Warren, was born in 
Fletcher, Vt., July 30, 1815. His parents were brought up in the faith of 
the Baptist and Congregational churches. At about fifteen years of age 
Lester had read the Bible through, and was called a Universalist before he 
had heard a Universalist sirmon. About this time he also read a treatise on 
the atonement, and the life of John Murray, and commenced to advocate the 



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277 



doctrine of universal redemption. He commenced teaching school in winter, 
very early in life, and thus gained the means to procure an academic educa- 
tion. In the summer of 1837 he resided in the family of Rev. Eli Ballou, 
then of Stowe, assisted him in a High school, read Mr. Ballou's library, and 
occasionally was sent out to preach for him. The first substantial compen- 
sation that Mr. Warren received for preaching was a copy of the Ancient and 
Modern History of Universaiimn, given him by Rev. J. E. Palmer for preach- 
ing for him in Barre, the third Sunday of June, 1837. He was engiged by 
the parish of Barre a part of 1838, and again in 1874 ^^^ '75; and after he 
had preached about lifty years. His first and last engagements were at 
Barre. He has lived and preached in Williamstown, Calais, and East Mont- 
pelier. He represented Calais in the legislature in 1856-57. After leaving 
Barre he, with his daughter Elsie, made the tour of Europe. He now resides 
at North Montpelier. 

Capt. Timothy Davis was born March 13, 1824, in the town of Fair Ha- 
ven, Mass. At the age of seventeen years he shipped as a sailor on board a 
whaling ship, and followed the sea for seventeen years. He rose to the rank 
of first mate, and for awhile officiated as captain. In 1858 he came to East 
Montpelier and purchased the fine farm where he now resides. He has built 
the entire new set of convenient buildings and much improved his farm. 
During the late war the superintendent of recruits organized a company of 
militia, which was subject to the call of the President, and Mr. Davis was 
elected and commissioned its captain. The company was disbanded at the 
close of the war. Capt. Davis is a decided Republican, and has held the 
office of selectman five years, and was chairman of the board three years. 
He also represented East Montpelier in the legislature in 1867 and 1868. 
June 27, 1853, Capt. Davis was united in marriage with Miss Clara Hatha- 
way. Mrs. Davis died May 20, 1886. 

The soldiers of the Revolution who settled in East Montpelier were Heze- 
kiali Tinkham, Edward West, Elias Metcalf, John Putnam, Job Macomber, 
Daniel Russeil, Theophilus Clark, Clark Stevens, Samuel Southwick, Enoch 
Cate, John Gray, and Joshua Sanders. 

Those who participated as soldiers in the War of 181 2 were Rowland Ed- 
wards .Enoch Kelton, Nathan Kelton, John Gould, John B. Kelton, John 
Morgan, Jasper M. Stoddard, and Moses Parmenter. 

Daniel Cutler and Orange McKay were soldiers in the Mexican war. 

In the late war East Montpelier sent eighty-six of her patriotic sons volun- 
tarily into the Union army for three years, twelve for one year, and twenty-four 
for nine months. Three drafted men entered the service, two furnished sub- 
stitutes, and twenty-two paid commutations. Of these, sixty-four were mus- 
tered out of service at the close of the war, or at the expiration of their term 
of service, thirty were discharged for disability, eight were killed in battle, 
six died of wounds received in action, eleven died of disease contracted in 
service, two died in rebel prisons, and six deserted. 



278 TOWN OF FAYSTON. 



The first Christian society organized in town was that of the Friends, under 
the leadership of Clark Stevens, who was their preacher. They assembled 
together regularly twice a week. About this time Mr. Stevens built a log 
meeting-house near his own dwelling, which was the first altar established for 
the worship of God in Washington county. Through his instrumentality, 
and aided by his energetic co-laborer, Caleb Bennett, the society enlarged 
and prospered, and erected a commodious meeting-house about a half mile 
from the first primitive one, which is still standing. The society has ceased 
to exist. 

At an early day in the history of this town the Universalists had preach- 
ing of their cherished faith. Conspicuous among those who were active in 
its support were Gen. Parley Davis at the " Center," and Arthur Daggett, 
who lived and died at or near the East village. Previous to 1834 there had 
been Universalist preaching in what is now East Montpelier. In that year a 
substantial brick meetinghouse was erected at the East village, which, though 
a union house, was owned mainly by the Universalists. The cost of the 
house was about $18,000. Quite extensive repairs have been made at diff'er- 
ent times, so that its present value can not be less than $25,000. For about 
twenty years after its erection it was occupied by the Universalists about one- 
half of the time, and since then, with the exception of about two years at 
different times, when meetings were only held occasionally, it has been occu- 
pied from one-half to nearly all of the time, the latter being the condition for 
eight years. The following are the names of the preachers, not all of whom 
have been resident pastors : Eli Ballou, Lester Warren, John S. Lee, Tracy 
R. Spencer, Rotheus M. Byram, Olympia Brown, John Gregory, Simon 
Goodenough, Joseph O. Skinner, Warren Skinner, Samuel S. Davis, Silas F. 
Fletcher, John C. Mclnerney, and Sylvester C. Hayford, the present preacher. 
This society has never had a church organization, but organized a Universalist 
society in 1835, of which the present membership is ninety-seven. The 
Sunday-school at East Montpelier has about fifty members, with an average 
attendance the past year of about thirty. 

In 1866 a fine brick meeting-house was erected at North Montpelier vil- 
lage, at which meetings have been held the greater part of the time since, 
and under the same society organization as the meetings at the East village. 
North Montpelier also sustains a Sunday-school. Each place has always had 
a separate Sunday-school organization. 



FAYSTON is a somewhat irregularly outlined township, and lies in the 
western part of Washington county, in latitude 44° 13' and longitude 
4° 9', and is bounded northerly by Duxbury, easterly by Waitsfield, 
southerly by Warren and Lincoln, and westerly by Huntington and Buel's 
Gore. 



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279 



It was chartered to Ebenezer Walbridge and his associates, by the legis- 
lature of Vermont, and the charter was signed by Gov. Thomas Chittenden, 
February 27, 1782. This township has an elevated position, and its surface 
is quite uneven, except the intervale along Shepard's and Mill brooks. It may 
be termed mountainous in the western part, which is the principal lumber 
region of the town. The cultivated portions of the town were principally 
timbered with hard wood, the sugar maple being abundant, from which large 
quantities of maple sugar are profitably manufactured. The soil is strong 
and fertile. " Grass is king," and dairying and stock growing are the lead- 
ing industries of the farmers. 

The rocks that form the geological structure of Fayston are gneiss in the 
western half and talcose schist in the eastern half. 

The town is abundantly watered by numerous springs and brooks of pure 
soft water. Those large enough to afford power to drive mills and other 
machinery are Mill brook, which flows easterly through the southern part of 
the town and joins Mad river at Irasville, in Waitsfield, and Shepard's brook, 
which rises in the mountains, takes an easterly course through the north- 
ern part of the town, and also falls into Mad river in Waitsfield. Several 
mills are in operation on these streams. Shepard's brook received its name 
from a hunter by that name, who hunted the beaver, on an extensive beaver 
meadow on the stream. 

In 1798 the first settlement was made in Fayston by Lynde Wait, Esq., 
and in 1800 the town had a population of eighteen souls. Lucia, daughter of 
Lynde Wait, was born in 1801, and was the first child born in Fayston. The 
first male child born in town was Wait Farr, son of William, who was pre- 
sented a lot of land in honor of the event. 

The town was organized at a town meeting duly called for the purpose, 
August 6, 1805. James Wait was the first town clerk; Lynde Wait, Rufus 
Barrett, and William Williams were the first board of selectmen ; and Thomas 
Green was the first constable. 

Fayston was a part of Chittenden county until December i, 181 1, when 
Jefferson county was organized, and it then became a town of the new county. 
The name of this county was changed to Washington, November 8, 18 14. 
The first school district included the entire township, and was organized in 
1809. The first settled minister in town was Rev. Jotham Carpenter, who 
received the " minister's lot of land " provided for that purpose in the charter 
of the town. On account of the topographical formation of the town, and 
since the construction of fine roads, the people of the southern part find 
convenient access to church and for business at Waitsfield, and those of the 
northern part naturally go to Moretown. 

In 1880 Fayston had a population of 638, and was divided into eight 
schoul districts. In 1888 there was a school kept in each of the eight dis- 
tricts, an aggregate of twenty-two terms, and these were taught by one male 
and thirteen female teachers, at $6.00 per week for the male and an average 



28o TOWN OF FAYSTON. 



of $4.48 for the female teachers. The whole number of scholars who at- 
tended school was 170. One attended a private school. The entire income 
for school purposes for the year was $1,159.84, while the whole amount ex- 
pended was $1,078.78. J. B. Thompson was superintendent. 

The early inhabitants of Fayston were not unlike their neighbors m Waits- 
field in credulity and superstition. Mrs. Boyce, in Hemenway's Gazetteer of 
Vermont, relates this amusing incident: Some time in 1814 there was a 
rumor that the Spanish Legions had buried a great treasure at the forks of 
Shepard's brook, and William Bjyce, having a desire to suddenly secure an 
abundance of the "root of all evil," called to his aid Arad Sherman, who was 
possessed of such magical powers that a forked thong of witch-hazel in his 
hands would perform as many antics as Aaron's Rod. Arad was accord- 
ingly conducted to the location, when lo ! the magical rod pointed out the 
exact spot of the buried treasure. Arad directed that they must dig for it 
only in the night, and that not a word must be spoken during the time, 
otherwise the treasure would be spirited away. Mr. Boyce, thus assured and 
confident of success, with sufficient help, one night commenced the secret 
enterprise. The hours wore on ; but animated with the anticipation of soon 
securing the treasure, and affluence for themselves, they labored with a zeal 
born of high expectations, when, eureka ! William's bar struck against the 
iron chest with an unmistakable clink. Sad to relate, William, in the ex- 
uberance of his soul, shouted " I've found it ! " On the instant the strong 
box gave an ominous rattle, and down, down it sank, taking the bar with it. 

At the raising of the frames of the new houses and barns of the early set- 
tlers it required the brawn and muscle of the athletic pioneers of the sur- 
rounding towns, together with a generous supply of new rum. These frames 
were invariably constructed of huge beams of hard wood timber. About 
1803 the men at the head of the five or six families comprising the settle- 
ment of Fayston, and all living in a neighborhood near or on Mill brook, were 
invited to assist in raising a barn somewhere in Warren. In this neighbor- 
hood John and Rufus Barrett resided, who were familiarly known later in life 
as Uncle John and Uncle Rufus. All went to the raising but Uncle John. 
Whether he unwittingly remained as the " home guard " for the women and 
children, and on that account concluded to celebrate alone, from the supply 
of the ''needful," then in every family, "the deponent saith not." Nothing 
occurred to disturb the little settlement until near sunset, when suddenly a 
cry between a howl and whoop burst upon his ears. Uncle John exclaimed, 
"'Tis the Indian war whoop, and no doubt we are surrounded, and all the 
men away! " Uncle John, who was no coward, seized his gun, bade his wife 
follow him, and in quick time had collected the entire little colony, with all 
their firearms and ammunition, at the domicil of Uncle Rufus. Uncle John 
barricaded the door, loaded all the guns, and awaited the onset, determined, 
with the aid of the courageous women, to defend Jiis charge just as long as 
possible. They listened, with bated breath and blanched faces, those omi- 



TOWN OF FAYSTON. 



nous sounds ; now nearing them, and anon far off. Night came on apace, 
but not the Indians. Now another anxiety distressed the little band. The 
men, unarmed and unaware of their peril, would be returning from the rais- 
ing, and to certain distruction. Presently one of the women whispered with 
pale lips, '• I hear voices ; it is the Indians sure." With a shake at the door 
Uncle Rufus cried out, " What are you all about here ; why don't you let us 
in ? " The door was quickly opened, and instead of being scalped by Indians, 
the women fell into the strong arms of their husbands. In answer to the 
question " What is all this pow-wow about ?" Uncle John explained that he 
had heard the Indian war whoop in the woods, and had collected the women 
and children there to defend them. The men enjoyed a hearty laugh. " It 
was the wolves," said Esquire Wait. " We heard them howling on the 
mountain when we came along." 

North Favston (p. o.) is at the mtersection of roads 7, 12, 13, and 15. 

S. /. Dana's shingle mill, on Mill brook, was built by Hon. Ira Richard- 
son, and first used for sawing clapboards, and afterwards for grinding tan 
bark. In 1S85 Mr. Dana purchased the property and converted it to its 
present use. His mill has the capacity for cutting about 1,000,000 shingles 
annually. 

C. D. Billings &= Son's clapboard-minx's, located on road 32, and was built 
by C. D. Billings about 1864. The firm now turns out about 700,000 feet of 
clapboards annually. 

John. A. Grandjield' s sawmills are located on Shepard's brook. He 
manufactures from 400,000 to 500,000 feet of coarse lumber and about 
.300,000 feet of clapboards annually. Mr. Grandfield has been proprietor of 
these mills since 1886, and contemplates adding machinery for manufactur- 
ing chair stock. 

C. M. t^ M. L. Richardson's clapboard-mill is located on Mill brook, in 
Fayston, and was built by Hon. Ira Richardson and W. S. Rich. This firm 
manufactures about 400,000 feet of clapboards yearly. 

Edgar A. D ivis's clapboard mill, in the northern part of Fayston, was 
built in 1874, on the site of one destroyed by fire. Mr. Davis turns out 
about 300,000 f;'et of clapboards per annum. 

The first settlement on Shepard's brook (North Fayston) was made by 
William and Paul Boyce, in April, 1808, near the beaver meadow. They 
were Quakers, and came from Richmond, N. H. William, after making an 
opening in the forest, returned to Richmond and brought a wife to share his 
home in the " new country." Paul Boyce married Rhoda Palmer, of Waits- 
field, and resided to the close of their lives, at a good old age, on the farm 
where he first settled. Their son, Ziba Wentworth Boyce, who was born 
and always lived in town until his death, in 1877, age^ sixty-three years, re- 
ceived only a common school education ; but by a course of study, at his 
own fireside, and by careful reading, he obtained a good praciical education, 
and was a successful teacher, and a writer of ability. He acceptably filled 



TOWN OF FAYSTON. 



town offices, and, not without reason, was facetiously known as the " wis- 
dom of North Fayston." 

Nathan Boyce came from Richmond, N. H., in 1808, and settled near 
Paul Boyce, on Shepard's brook, and where his grandson Seth Boyce now 
lives. He was a Quaker, and a relative of Paul Boyce. He died on the 
farm where he first settled. His wife, Zerviah, survived until 1856, aged 
about ninety years. Their son Jacob was eleven years old when the family 
came to Fayston. He also resided on the homestead until his death, in 1865, 
and was quite a prominent man. He represented the town in the legislature 
several terms, and held most of the town offices. Six of his eight children 
reside in their native town, viz.: Seth, Dan, Maria (Mrs. Lawson Carroll), 
Miry (Mrs. Tames P. Boyce), Mrs. Walter D. Porter, and Zerviah (Mrs. 
W. S. Chipman). Guy resides in Syracuse, N. Y., and Hiram E. is a business 
man in Waterbury. Seth Boyce, before mentioned, residing on the old home- 
stead, represented Fayston in the legislature of 1878 and '79, and has filled 
acceptably most of the town offices. 

William Nevvcomb, from Swanzey, N. H., was one of the earliest pioneers 
of Fayston, and brought with him into the woods his wife, two sons, and a 
daughter. Esq. Wait built the first framed house in town, Mr. Newcomb 
and Merrill Tyler built the next two, each in the same year. This old New- 
comb mansion stood in its place and did service until October, 1878, when 
it was burned. Charles, son of William, was a lad of twelve years when his 
father came to Fayston. In time he settled in Waitsfield, where he spent the 
remainder of his life, and where his son James S. now resides. Hosea New- 
comb, son of William, resided on the homestead many years, and his son, 
Dr. Dan Newcomb, was born and raised there, and later emigrated to Steele 
county, Illinois. Don Carlos, brother of the Doctor, is a prominent whole- 
sale merchant of Atchison, Kansas. 

Joseph Marble, who served in the War of 181 2, came to Fayston from 
Winchester, N. H., about 1800, and settled at North Fayston. He reared a 
family of fourteen children to maturity, and died in town. His son Benja- 
min was thirteen years old when his father settled in Fayston, and he re- 
sided here until his death, in 1877. He reared a family of ten children, six 
of whom are now living. Samuel, Mrs. Sylvia Pease, and Elias L. reside in 
their native town. 

Joseph Marble was born November 24, 1752. He married Susannah 
Butler, who was born March 20, 1759. They came from Winchester, N. H., 
to Fayston, in 1809, and located in the northern part of the town, where he 
built the first saw-mill in Fayston. The place is now owned by Mary J. 
Fisher, and passed out of the possession of the Marble family in 1882. 
Joseph Marble served in the war of the Revolution, and his grandson, Joseph 
D. Marble, now has the powder-horn which he then carried. He reared six 
sons and five daughters, viz.: Joseph, Elijih, Emery, Benjamin, John, Jacob, 
Susannah, Sylvia, Martha, Polly, and Cynthia. Jacob and Benjamin settled 



TOWN OF FAYSTON. 285 



in Fayston. Jacob married Sarah May, and reared two sons, Joseph D. and 
George L., both of whom served in the late war. Joseph D. lost a leg at 
Gainsville, and George L. died in Libby prison. 

Gershom Brigham, with his family, emigrated to South Fayston from Win- 
chester, N. H., in 1809. Mr. Brigham was in feeble health, and their son 
Elisha, then but seventeen years of age, assumed the care and support of the 
family, and gave a home to his parents while they lived. Elisha came on the 
year before, and rolled up a log house, and the next year the entire family of 
eight came, and all were dependent upon this stripling youth. He was born 
in Marlboro, Mass., the ancestral home of the Brighams of this country, and 
in 18 1 6 married his wife Sophronia, a woman of vigorous constitution and 
active mind, and possessed of just the right qualifications for the 'wife of a 
pioneer. They were parents of twelve children. From early in life till his 
death he almost continually filled some town office, and was especially distin- 
guished for exact honesty. He died in 1863, aged seventy years, and with- 
out an enemy. He was "Grandfather" and "Uncle Elisha " to a large 
circle. Mrs. Brigham survived until 1876, aged seventy-seven years. 

Capt. Elliot Porter was born in Hartford, Vt., in 1785. In i8ii he mar- 
ried S. Warad, and soon after settled in the northern part of Fayston, where 
they resided the remainder of their long lives. He died at the age of eighty- 
nine years, and Mrs. Porter at the age of eighty-six. He was the first cap- 
tain of the militia in Fayston. Willard B. Porter, son of Capt. Elliot, has 
been clerk of Fayston thirty-one years, treasurer fourteen years, and justice 
of the peace thirty years, and has united in marriage eighty-six couples. He 
has represented his town in six sessions of the legislature and in two consti- 
tutional conventions. Warren C. Porter was a soldier in the Union army, 
and served nearly the whole time during the late war. He has taught school 
successfully twenty-four terms. Walter, the youngest son, succeeded his 
father on the homestead, and administered to the comfort of his aged parents 
in their declining years. 

David Boyce came from Richmond, N. H., and settled on the farm where 
John Goss now lives, in the northern part of Fayston, in 1818. He cleared 
his farm and reared a family of twelve children, five of whom are living, viz.: 
James P., Mason W., Mrs. Sophronia Story, and Harriet (Mrs. George Nel- 
son), who reside in their native town, and Dennison, who resides in Waits- 
field. David Boyce died in 1861, on the farm where he first settled. James 
P., before mentioned, represented Fayston in the legislature of 1H86 and '87, 
and has served his town as selectman, justice of the peace, and lister. 

Nathaniel Johnson, a native of Wendell, Mass., came to Fayston from 
Moretown about 1827. He settled in the northern part of the town, where 
he resided until his death. He brought with him five children, all of whom 
settled in Moretown and Fayston. Ebenezer, of Duxbury, and William, of 
Albany, Vt., are the only survivors. Stephen, son of Ebenezer, now resides- 
in Fayston, and is fister and justice of the peace. 



284 TOWN OF MARSHFIELD. 



William Bragg, from Killingly, Conn., came to Warren in 1816, and settled 
about a mile south of East Warren, and lived there from that time until his 
death. His son William settled in Warren and was active in town affairs, 
but died in Fayston in 1863. He reared a numerous family, of whom his 
son Azro D., who resides on road 28, in Fayston, is the only one now living. 
Azro D. is now lister and constable, and has been selectman, and represented 
the town in 1870 and 1872. 

Fayston, \n the late war, sent over fifty of her brave and patriotic sons to 
the front. Thomas Maxwell was the first who enlisted from this town. He 
enlisted, May 7, 1861, at the age of twenty years, in Co. F, 2d Vt. Vols., and 
was discharged February 21, 1863, by reason of sickness. He reenlisted 
March 20, 1864, in Co. F, 17th Vt. Vols., and was severely wounded in the 
battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. The ball entered his neck, passed 
through the roots of his tongue, and lodged in the base of his head, where it 
still remains. He was discharged June 17, 1865. Ten of these patriots 
never returned to Fayston. 

Mr. Doric S. Stoddard says : " Probably no town in the state suffered more 
financially than this. During the latter part of the war, when large bounties 
were demanded by volunteers, and paid by wealthy towns, Fayston, to save 
herself from draft, was obliged in one year, 1864, to raise for bounties and 
town expenses the almost unheard of sum of $12.50 upon every dollar of her 
grand list, thus subjecting the owner of a simple poll list to the payment of 
a tax of $25. Yet this enormous sum was paid immediately, with scarce a 
murmur of complaint, and not a dollar left to be a drag-weight upon tax 
payers in after years." 

Fayston can look back upon her financial record as a town, and the mili- 
tary record of her soldiers, with no feelings but those of honor, satisfaction, 
and pride. 



MARSHFIELD lies in the eastern part of Washington county, in lati- 
tude 44" 19' and longitude 4"^ 38', and is bounded northerly by 
Cabot, easterly by Peacham and Harris Gore, southerly by Plainfield, 
and westerly by Calais and a part of East Montpelier. This township was 
granted to the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, October 16, 1782, and chartered 
to them by the legislature of Vermont, June 22, 1790, and contains 23,040 
acres. These Indians did not settle on this township, but located in the for- 
ests of New York in Montgomery county, and named their new location 
New Stockbridge. 

Capt. Isaac Marsh, of Stockbridge, Mass., in honor of whom the town was 
named, purchased the township of the Indians for ^140 lawful money, and 
it was deeded to him July 29, 1789. The deed was signed by eighteen of the 
Indians, viz.: " Q Joseph Shawguthguat, O Hendrick Aupaumat, O Jehosu- 



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him Alokaim, O Peter Pohijhionurpjsut, + Joseph Luonahant, + John 
Pophmin, + Solomon Qaargarialiont, + Uhnclrw Warmaeruph, + Vendru 
Waumurmn, + Hudrink Ichumhwmh, + Moses Laupumnsapeat, 4- Thomas 
Wind, + John Thonhpol, -f David Nesowukausdahawauk, + CorneHus 
Jaumauch, + David Nesonuhkeah Grum, + Abraham Maurnmumthickhur, 
+ Isaac Unamprey." The signatures were witnessed by David Pixley and 
John Sargent. 

The surface of Marshtield is broken and hilly. The valley of the Winooski 
river divides it into two distinct divisions. That part embraced in this valley 
and west of it is mamly good tillage land, with a strong and productive soil. 
The eastern part is mountainous and rocky, and is largely used for pasturage, 
but has some good farms. 

The rocks that form the geological structure of this town are granite and 
calciferous mica schist. The former occupies about two thirds of the terri- 
tory, in the eastern part. 

Sugar maples are found in nearly all parts of the town, from which the 
farmers annually do a thriving business in making large quantities of maple 
sugar.* E. S. Pitkin, Esq., furnished statistics of the amount made in the 
spring of 1868. One hundred and eighty sugar orchards produced 140,350 
pounds, something over seventy tons. This amount is above the yearly 
average. 

The tovvn^.hip is well watered. The Winooski river flows into it from Cabot 
and takes nearly a southern course entirely across the township. On this river 
are some good mill sites. Molly's brook, the outlet of Molly's pond, in the 
eastern part of Cabot, unites with the Wmooski about a mile from the north 
line of Marshfield. Near the junction of these two streams, on this stream, 
are situated Molly's falls, where m the distance of thirty rods the water falls 
180 feet by a series of beautiful cascades. In time of high water the roar of 
these falls can be heard several miles. Nigger Head brook is the outlet of 
Nigger Head pond. On this permanent brook are several good water-powers. 
The population of Marshfield is mainly engaged in farming, and these excel- 
lent water-powers are but little utihzed. 

As related by Mrs. H. C. Pitkin, daughter of Gen. Parley Davis, and the 
widow of Stephen Pitkin, Jr., in Hemenway's Gazetteer, Capt. Marsh, the pro- 
prietor of the township, married for his second wife a young widow by the 
name of Pitkin, of East Hartford, Conn., and her four sons, Caleb, Martin, 
Joshua, and vStephen, and two of his daughters, were among the pioneers of 
his new township. Caleb came in the spring of 1790, as a surveyor with a 
company under Gen. Whitelaw, spent the two ensuing summers in surveying, 
and in each fall returned to Connecticut. Caleb, with his brother, Martin 
Pitkin, and Gideon Spencer, came here and labored together, clearing land in 
the springs of 1792 and '93, but returned to East Hartford in the autumn of 
each year. 

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Hannah, and Gideon Spencer, who had married Polly, daughters of Capt, 
Marsh, and Aaron Elmer, also a married man, made the first permanent set- 
tlement in this town. They came with teams from Connecticut as far as 
Montpelier. The snow was then more than four feet deep, and there was no 
road to Marshfield. From Montpelier to Marshfield they drew their goods 
on hand sleds. The ensuing summer this colony was increased by the arrival 
of Ebenezer Dodge and his family. 

The first child born in town was John Preston Davis Dodge, son of Eben- 
ezer Dodge, who was born September 7, 1794. The second was James Pit- 
kin, son of Caleb, born in January, 1795. Betsey, daughter of Gideon 
Spencer, was the first female child born in town. She became the wife of 
Dea. Dan Storrs. 

During the first season not one of the settlers owned a team ; and all the 
grain to make bread for their families was carried to Montpelier to be ground, 
and brought home on their backs. March i, 1795, Joshua and Stephen, 
and their cousin Nathaniel Pitkin, and Solomon Gilman moved into Marsh- 
field. 

Nathaniel Dodge came at so early a date that he also was obliged to move 
into town with a hand sled, and Stephen Rich was an early pioneer. Martin 
Pitkm settled here previous to the organization of the town. Other promi- 
nent and worthy men were Simeon Dwinell and his four brothers. Squire, 
Zenas, and Aaron Bullock, John Pike, Daniel Bemis, and Caleb Putnam. 
The latter was the first blacksmith here. These were resolute and energetic 
men who had the courage to face the hardships, and the perseverance to 
build up a town, erect school-houses and churches, and surround themselves 
with all the comforts of thrifty and well-to-do farmers. 

Joshua Pitkin was appointed August 23, 1799, and was the first justice of 
the peace in town. John Knox was the first person who died in town, date 
not known. The first town meeting was held in pursuance with the follow- 
ing order, or warning :— 

" On application of a number of credible freeholders of the town of Marsh- 
field, county of Caledonia and State of Vermont, that said town may be 
organized, according to law, I hereby warn all freeholders, and other inhabi- 
tants of said town, qualified to vote in Town- meeting, to appear at the dwell- 
ing house of Joshua Pitkin, in said town, on the tenth day of March next, 
at ten o'clock forenoon on said day. ist, To choose a moderator to govern 
said meeting. 2d, To choose all officers that the law requires for organized 
towns to have. 

" Joshua Pitkin, Justice Peace. 

" Marshfield, February 24th, iSoo." 

" March loth, 1800. 
'•This day a Town-meeting agreeable to the above Notification was held, 
and ist. Chose Stephen Rich, Moderator; 2ond, Chose Stephen Rich, Town 
Clerk ; Joshua Pitkin, Clerk pro tem.; 3rd, Stephen Rich, ist Selectman ; 
4th, Stephen Pitkin, 2nd Selectman ; 5th, Samuel Paterson, 3rd Selectman ; 
6th, Cabel Pitkin, Town Treasurer ; 7th, Stephen Rich, Nathaniel Pitkin, 



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and Robert Waugh, Listers ; Gideon Spencer, Constable and Collector; 
Samuel ^Vilson, Grand juryman ; 8th, Aaron Elmer, Ebenezer Dodge, Jun., 
Joseph Wells, Surveyors of roads ; 9th. David Ber jamin, Ebenezer VVells, 
Nathaniel Pitkin, Fence Viewers; loth, Robert Waugh, Poimd Keeper; nth, 
Giles Skinner, Sealer of Leather; 12th, Caleb Pitkin, Sealer of Weights and 
Measures; 13th. Giles Skinner, Tythingman ; 14th, Ebenezer Dodge and 
Aaron Elmer, Hay wards ; 15th, Josiah Pitkin, Caleb Pitkin, and Joseph 
Page, Auditors of Accounts of Selectmen; i6th, All of the above names 
chosen into the several offices, have taken solemn oath for the faithful dis- 
charge of their trust. This meeting adjourned until the 24lh day of this 
month, by order of the Selectmen." 

The adjourned meeting was held on the 24th of March, rSoo. Then they 
proceeded to qualify the voters, by administering to them the necessary free- 
man's oath, next ratified by vote the proceedings of the previous meeting 
and appointed grand and petit jurymen. The influx into this town had been 
so rapid that at this meeting sixty-one took the freeman's oath. 

It is quite probable that the single school in the town was supported by its 
patrons, until January 7, 1800, when, at a meeting of the inhabitants (called 
a town meeting), Joshua Pitkin, moderator, and Stephen Rich, district clerk, 
^' voted to support the school on the grand list." At the town meeting of 
March 25, 1801, this district was divided, and the old school-house was sold 
to Aaron Elmer, the highest bidder, for two and one half bushels of wheat, 
on six months' credit ; table to Joshua Pitkin for two bushels and two quarts, 
and chair for three pecks atjd four quarts of wheat; and Nathaniel Dodge 
had seventy-five nails for one peck of wheat. 

At the early organization of several of the school districts, and before the 
inhabitants could build school-houses, the children were taught in barns or 
dwelling houses. Four winters the school in the Dwinell district was taught 
in Simeon Dwinell's kitchen, which at the same time was occupied by Mrs. 
Dwinell and her eight children. 

The first marriage ceremony in Marshfield was performed by David Wing, 
Esq., of Montpelier, in March, 1797. The parties most interested were 
Thomas McLoud, of Montpelier, and Sally Dodge, of Marshfield. 

A town meeting was called February i, 1803, to organize a Congregational 
society and settle a minister. The proposition was rejected by the significant 
vote of only seventeen in favor and seventy against it. 

Marshfield was first represented in the state legislature in 1804, by Stephen 
Pitkin. Joshua Pitkin "hung out " the first tavern sign in 1805, and for 
many years thereafter kept a tavern. 

Daniel Wilson came from Alstead, N. H., in 1821, and built and operated 
the first mill for carding wool and dressing cloth. Alfred Pitkin, son of 
Joshua, was the first merchant, about 1818. The first saw-mill was built on 
Lye brook in 1802, by Judge Stephen Pitkin. In 1812 he built another in 
the village, and in 18 18 he built the first grist-mill. The first physician in 
town was Dr. Bates, who came in 1826, but remained only a few months. 



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The first church (Congregational) in Marshfield was organized December 24, 
1800, by Rev. James Hobart, of Berlin. 

In 1880 Marshfield had a population of 1,102. In 1888 the town had ten 
school districts and eleven schools, which were taught by one male and twenty- 
two female teachers, at a weekly salary of $8.10 for the male and an average 
weekly salary of $5.52 for the female teachers. The whole number of schol- 
ars who attended school some part of the year was 241, eleven of whom at- 
tended private schools. The entire income for all school purposes was 
$1,58203. The amountpaid teachers, including board, was $1,318.95. The 
whole amount paid for school purposes was $1,537.62. Ozias C. Pitkin was 
superintendent. 

Marshfield, like other towns in this county, was " inhabited " by deer, bears, 
and wolves, v/hen the pioneer settlers took possession, and it was no uncom- 
mon event to kill a bear or deer. Joshua Pitkin records in his journal the 
killing of eight. 

Mrs. Pitkin, in Miss Hemenway's Gazetteer^ gives an account of one of 
the "mighty hunters" of Marshfield as follows: "One season early in Sep- 
tember the bears began to make depredations in the corn on the Skinner 
place, now William Martin's. Solomon Gilman, one of the early settlers, 
who was a great sportsman, promised to watch for the bear, and put an end 
to his green corn suppers. He took his stand at night in the field, waiting 
the arrival of the depredator. The bear came on, and was soon helping 
himself, when, with true aim, the hunter fired. The bear gave one great 
spring, and came directly on, and over him. He felt that his time had come. 
The blood was flowing. He caught the larcerated intestines in his hands, 
replaced them as well as he could in that moment of desperation, wrapped 
the long skirt of his overcoat about his body, held it firmly with both hands ; 
had just strength enough left to shout for help, and to run only a short dis- 
tance. Help soon came. They assisted him to a place of safety, and care- 
fully folded back his overcoat, a double handful of — bruin's entrails fell to the 
ground ! Mr. Gilman lived long to be a terror to the denizens of the forest, 
but it was years before he heard the last of being killed by a bear." 

Marshfield grist mill, Frank S. Page, proprietor, is located on the Wi- 
nooski river in the village of Marshfield. Mr. Page does custom grinding^ 
and deals in grain, flour, and feed. 

M. D. Bemiss butter tub and boot box manufactory and planing-mills are 
located in Marshfield village, on the Winooski river, and on the site of the 
first mill built in the village. Mr. Bemis bought the property in 1875 of O. 
Smith. He does general job work, makes boot boxes, and turns out about 
5,000 tubs per year. 

Edson K. Hill's cheese factory is located on road 47. This factory was 
built by Mr. Hill in May, 1888, and is the only one of the kind in the town. 
It has a capacity for manufacturing from 300 to 500 pounds of cheese per 
day. 



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A. T. Durant's saw and planing-tnill is located in the village of Marsh- 
field, on the Winooski river, where he manufactures and deals in rough and 
dressed hard and soft wood lumber and chair stock. He employs five hands 
and turns out yearly about 200,000 feet of lumber. 

D. IV. Bancroft, manufacturer of Bancroft's household remedies, estab- 
lished by him in 1868, has a laboratory on road 22, just out of the village, 
where he manufactures as a specialty his celebrated liniment. He also puts 
up lung syrup, liver syrup, Hancock plasters, worm elixir, essences, etc. 
Dutcher & Sons, of St. Albans, Vt., are his wholesale agents. 

J. D. Daw's saw and planing-mills and chair stock factory are located on 
Nasmith brook, road 35. The brook furnishes the power. The mills were 
built by the late Dennis Lane, and were purchased by Mr. Dow in 1865. He 
has enlarged and furnished them with a circular saw, band saw, and planer^ 
Mr. Dow manufactures and deals in rough and dressed hard and soft wood 
lumber and chair stock, and turns out in all about 250,000 feet of lumber 
annually. 

D. Q^ E. Lane's steam satv-mill is located at Lanesboro, on the Montpelier 
& Wells River railroad, in the eastern part of the town, and was built by 
them in the winter of 1882-83. The firm continued business until April, 
1888, when the senior member, Dennis Lane, died, and since then Edwirv 
Lane has conducted the business. The mill is supplied with the latest im- 
proved machinery, and has every facility for doing excellent work and a large 
business. The firm owns a tract of 2,600 acres of timberland, employs a 
force of 25 to 50 men, and turns out annually 2,000,000 feet of lumber and 
1,000 cords of wood. 

Messrs. D. M. Perkins and E. P. JVorcross, in the fall of 1887, built their 
steam mill on Maple hill, which is run by a sixty-horse-power steam engine. 
They manufacture and dress hard and soft wood lumber and chair stock. 
The firm owns a tract of timberland in the vicinity of the mill; employs 
from twenty to forty men, and has facilities for turning out 2,000,000 
feet of lumber per year. Mr. Perkins purchased a saw-mill on the Winooski 
river in the winter season of 1861-62, enlarged its capacity, put in the ma- 
chinery for sawing, planing, and matching, sawing shingles, and getting out 
chair stock, which he conducted until the new mill above described was ready 
for machinery, when Messrs. Perkins & Norcross removed the machinery to 
the steam mill on Maple hill. Mr. Perkins is a public spirited and energetic 
busmess man, and has represented his town in the legislature. Mr. Norcross 
resides at East Montpelier. 

L. T. Kinney, of Barre, has mills on the outlet of Nigger Head pond, on 
the Montpelier & Wells River railroad. These mills were built in 1850, by 
Jonathan and Myron Graves. Mr. Kinney purchased the property in 1863. 
His timber is run through Nigger Head pond, and thence through a sluice- 
way forty rods to his mill pond. His mills form a series. Mill No. i has a 
board saw, edger, and trimmer. Mill No. 2 has a planer and matcher, edger, 

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■shingle and cloth-board saw. No. 3 has a clapboard machine, planer, 
lath saws, and machinery for manufacturing wooden bowls. Mr. Kinney 
owns 1,700 acres of timberland, employs an average of eighteen men, and 
cuts 750,000 feet of lumber per annum. 

H. S. Laird's smv-miUis located on Lye brook, road 43. Since Mr. Laird 
bought the mill, in 1869, he has enlarged it, and put in a forty-five-horse- 
power steam engine and entire new machinery. He turns out annually about 
800,000 feet of lumber, and employs from ten to fifteen men. 

H. S. Laird QT' Son (Harry L. Laird) built a large steam mill in Harris 
Gore in 1880, where they manufacture rough and dressed hard and soft wood 
lumber and chair stock. They own 2,000 acres of timberland, employ 
twenty men, and use about 1,500,000 feet of lumber per year. 

Marshfield is a pleasant post village located in the northern part of the 
town, in a valley on the main branch of the Winooski river, and "hemmed 
in " by the surrounding high hills. It is about one mile north from the station 
on the Montpelier & Wells River railroad, and sixteen miles northeast from 
Montpelier. This village contains three churches (Congregational, Metho- 
dist, and Universalist), a High school building, three general stores, a boot 
and shoe manufactory, a grist-mill, a saw-mill, one hotel, about seventy-five 
dwellings, and the usual complement of shops, artisans, and mechanics. 

Lanesboro (p. o.) is located at the intersection of roads 26 and 25^, near 
Mud pond, in the eastern part of the town, on the Montpelier & Wells River 
railroad. 

Gideon Spencer married Polly, daughter of Capt. Marsh, who purchased 
the township of the Indians, and was one of the little colony that first settled 
in Marshfield in the spring of 1794, as before related. He located about a 
mile from either of the other settlers, and so numerous were the bears that 
he considered it prudent to carry his gun when he went to find his cow in the 
iorest. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer were Daniel, Betsey, Margery, 
Horace, Samuel, Ruth, and George. Daniel was four years old when his 
parents moved to Marshfield. He married Rebecca Bliss. Betsey, the first 
female child born in town, married Dan Storrs, and one of her three children, 
Mrs. A. O. Whitcomb, resides on the place where her grandfather, Dea. Gid- 
eon Spencer, first settled. Very few of his descendants remain in Marshfield. 
Dea. Spencer gave his influence in organizing the Congregational church, and 
was active in sustaining its meetings. He was chosen one of its deacons 
soon after the church was formed. He lived to make a good farm of his 
pitch in the forest, and attained the great age of ninety years. Mrs. Spencer 
died at the age of eighty-six, 

Jesse Martin was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was at the battle 
of Bunker Hill. He came from Francestown, N. H., with his wife, Naomi 
Hopkins, six sons, and one daughter. The daughter died at an early age. 
He settled on the farm now owned by his grandson WilUam Martin, Jr. His 
sons were James, William, Jesse, Eben, Allen, and Joshua. James settled 



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in Marshfield, and married, first, Nancy Dodge, who bore him four children, 
Nancy, James, WilHam A., and Mary, two of whom, James and Mary, are hv- 
ing. His second wife was Irene Bancroft and they had eight children. 
Wesley P. and Jesse reside in town. Jesse married Hannah Jackman. 
Eben married Hannah Sias, and settled in Plainfield, and had three children, 
one of whom (Mary) is living. Allen married, first, Fannie Harwood, settled 
in Marshfield, and had three children. He was subsequently twice married, 
but had no children. 

Hon. William Martin, second son of Jesse and Naomi (Hopkins) Martin, 
was born in Francestown, coming with his father to Marshfield when about 
twenty years of age. He learned the trade of brickmaking. He was self- 
reliant, industrious, and enterprising. His education was practical, such as 
he acquired by reading and transacting business. He was prominent in town 
affairs, and besides holding numerous minor town offices represented the town 
thirteen years, and was associate judge of the county several years. He was 
•colonel of cavalry in 1812, and at President Monroe's visitto Vermont com- 
manded the company which escorted the President to Montpelier, and dined 
with him. He was a man of large frame, robust constitution, and remark- 
able vigor and endurance. By keen business tact and ability combined with 
frugal habits he accumulated a handsome property, and has done much to 
aid his brothers in business. He lived to be over ninety-four years of age, 
and died in September, 1879. He married Sabrina Axtell, of Charlton, 
Mass. Their children were Bowman B., William, Jr., Arminda, Hiram, Ed- 
win, Mehnda, and Curtis B., five of whom are living. Bowman B. married 
Catherine D. Pratt, and has had eight children, viz.: Sabrina, Caroline, May, 
Arminda, Ann, Kate, Sophia, and BDwnian B., Jr. William, Jr., married 
Vienna L. Perrin, who has borne him eight children, viz.: Julia S., William 
E., Curtis A., Cassius L., Charles P., Edwin B., Harry H., and Benjamin F. 
He was once a manufacturer of woolen goods, and is now an extensive farmer, 
and well preserved for one of his years. 

Hon. Stephen Pitkin came to Marshfield with his family March i, 1795. 
He settled on the fine large farm where B. B. Martin and his son now live. 
Mr. Pitkin was the first town representative and held that office thirteen 
terms. He was the first captain of militia and rose to the rank of major, 
and was assistant county judge four years. Mr. Pitkin built the first saw- 
mill in town, and the first saw and grist-mills in the village. He was fairly 
educated and was fitted by nature to lead men rather than to be led, and he 
used his great influence for the interests of Marshfield. He was generous 
and sympathetic. It is said of him that in the winter of 1816 and 1817, 
after the cold season, when but very little provision was raised, he bought 
salmon by the barrel on his own credit, and sold it to those in need, to be 
paid for in work. He resided where he first settled until his death, May 22, 
1834, aged sixty-two years. He married Damaris Goodwin and reared a 
family of twelve children, most of whom settled in Marshfield. His oldest son, 
Horace, settled in town, but a few years later emigrated to Ohio where he died. 



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His second son, Edwin, married Olive Dwinell, and settled on the farm 
now owned by his son Levi. He was an intelligent and enterprising citizen, 
transacted a good share of the town's official business, was a good surveyor, 
and the principal one of the country round about. Mr. and Mrs. Pitkin had 
a family of six sons and three daughters, viz.: Josiah, Dorcas, Orsamus, Eli S.,^ 
Levi W., Simon, Daniel W., Jerusha, and Elsie. EU S. married Lydia A. 
Bemis, and two of their four children are living. Levi W. married Mary 
Burnap, and they had four children, only one of whom is living. Josiah, of 
Chelsea, Vt., has been married three times and has four living children. 

His third son, Truman, who married a daughter of Gen. Parley Davis, set- 
tled first in Marshfield, and later removed to Montpelier, where he died, and 
left three sons and a daughter, one of whom is Gen. P. P. Pitkin, a distin- 
guished citizen and business man of Montpelier. Stephen Pitkin, Jr., also 
married a daughter of Gen. Parley Davis, and was a farmer, and he and his 
worthy wife were the pioneers of the Methodist church of Marshfield. Mr. 
Pitkin was plain and ^unassuming in his manners, abhorred pretension, and 
was very decided and strong in his temperance and anti-slavery principles. 

Sherman Gilman and his wife, Betsey, with their family, came to Marshfield 
from Connecticut in 1793, and settled on the farm where his grandson, Solo- 
mon L. Gilman, now lives. Roger S. Gilman, the fourth child in their family 
of seven children, was born in 1 787, and at that time was but six years old. He 
gained an education that fitted him to teach, and employed his time in winter 
in teaching and in summer at labor for the farmers, for several years. He 
then bought the homestead. He also spent several years in mercantile bus- 
iness, and in manufacturing pearlash at North Montpelier. He married Sally 
Robinson, who bore him eight children. His only son, Solomon L., before 
mentioned, married Diantha Powers, and resides on the homestead where he 
was born in 181 7, and which has been in possession of the family since it 
was first settled, in 1793. His children are Heman L., engaged in lumber 
business in Groton ; Emma F. (Mrs. H. E, Cutler), of Plainfield ; and Sarah 
R. (Mrs. Ezra Russell), of Essex Junction, Vt. 

Capt. Stephen Rich was born in Sutton, Mass. He came to Marshfield in 
February, 1798, and settled where his grandson, Samuel D. Hollister, now 
resides, where he spent the remainder of his long, useful life, and where he 
died, aged eighty-three years. His wife was a woman of great energy, and 
survived her husband several years. Capt. Rich was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tionary war, — a substitute for his father, — at the early age of fifteen. He 
presided at the first town meeting held in Marshfield, and was then elected 
town clerk and first selectman. He served as town clerk seven years, and 
held several other town offices. Capt. Rich was an enterprising, energetic, 
and highly respected citizen, was successful in business^ and accumulated a 
large property. His only son, George, who was clerk of Marshfield seven 
years, removed to Montpelier, where he died. Besides this son, Capt. Rich 
was the father of five daughters. 



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Ebenezer Dodge emigrated from Denmark to America with three of his 
brothers, of whom no record can now be found. Ebenezer settled in Marsh- 
field. Mis wife, Rebecca (Stanley), bore him ten children. Ebenezer, Jr., 
born in 1769, married Fanny Park, and they had born to them five children. 
Alexander P., born July 13, 1817, was the youngest, and spent his whole hfe 
in Marshfield. He married Abigail Wood, who survives him. Their children 
were Flora P., Aurora D., Victory A., Sarah P., and Eben P., three of whom 
are now living. 

James Hills came to Marshfield from Hancock, N. H., at an early date, 
and settled where Austin Spencer now lives. He cleared the farm upon 
which he resided until his death, June 6, 1872, aged seventy-six years. His 
wife was Freelove Roberts, and they had three children, only one of whom, 
Mrs. Austin Spencer, is now living. 

Simeon Dwinell, son of Archelaus and Olive (Hall) Dwinell, came from 
Croydon, N. H., in February, 1803, and settled where S. D. Hollister now lives. 
His house was a rude bark covered shanty. After one season he moved to 
the farm now owned by C. W. H. Dwinell. The nearest clearing then was 
the one he left three miles away. Here he cleared a farm and made his home, 
where he always resided until he died, November 2, 1857, aged eighty years. 
He married Sally, daughter of Isaiah and Sarah (Bartlett) Hayward, of Croy- 
don, N. H. She bore him fifteen children, twelve of whom lived to maturity, 
viz.: Olive, Thirza, Patty, Sally B., Orra, Danforth, Moriah, Cyrena, Amos, 
Chester W. H., Sarepta H., and Marvin G. Four are living. For the first 
few years after coming to Marshfield he, wirh his brother-in-law, devoted 
themselves to wheat raising. They cut the wheat with sickles, threshed it by 
hand, and delivered over 500 bushels with their teams at Plattsburgh, N. Y., 
for fifty cents per bushel. Hon. Chester W. H. Dwinell was born in Marsh- 
field, on the farm where he now lives, February 24, 1823. He began teach- 
ing at the age of eighteen, and taught several years. He has since been 
engaged in farming and stock raising. He married Orpha L., daughter of Dea. 
Silas and Lydia (Pike) Jacobs. They have had six children, viz.: Dean 8., 
Elsie P., Emily H., Nena D., Simeon E., and H. Ola. Mrs. Dwinell died 
November 4, 1887. Mr. Dwinell has always lived in Marshfield, is public 
spirited and enterprising, and is one of the leading farmers and business men 
in town. He has never sought ofiice, but when elected has performed his 
duties faithfully. He represented the town in 1863-64, and served as asso- 
ciate justice in 1869 and 1870. He has held all the town offices except clerk 
and treasurer, and has been chairman of the county board of appraisers and 
equalization. 

Amos Dsvinell, son of Archelaus and Olive (Hall) Dwmell, came from 
Croydon, N. H., to Marshfield, in 1825. He was a tanner by trade, but 
when he came to Marshfield he bought the farm where E. B. Dwinell now 
lives. He cleared the farm and lived on it until his death, December 19, 



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187 1. He married Achsah Turner, who died May 22, i860. They had 
three children, Emily, James F., born July 23, 1825, and Erastus B., born 
June 2, 1827. James F. married Martha C. Mason, and they have had four 
children, two of whom are living. Erastus B. married, first, Celinda B. 
Smith, the mother of his son Orvis T., who is a Methodist minister in 
Illinois. His second wife was Jerusha W. Woods, who has borne him four 
children, viz.: Gilbert L., Alice A., Edna F., and one who died in infancy- 
Gilbert L. resides in Marshfield. 

Nathaniel Lamberton came to Marshfield from Corydon, N. H., in 1805, 
and settled near Nob hill. His wife was Lucy Cutting, who bore him thir- 
teen children, ten of whom lived to maturity, viz.: Clarissa, Elijah, Samuel, 
Lucinda, Nathaniel, Jr., Obadiah, Alfred, Silas, Reuben, and Wellington. 
Clarissa married Friend N. Austin, and had seven children. Elijah married 
Lona Cole, and their childreri are Laura, Matilda, Roxana, and Simeon. 
Samuel married Joanna Cole, and their children are Edgar A. and Emily. 
Lucinda married Ira Converse, and had two children. Nathaniel, Jr., was 
thrice married, and the father of three children. Obadiah married Irena 
Bullock, who bore him six childreofvTzrr~George, Jane, Moses, Henry C, 
Irena, and Albert E. Alfred married Maria Taylor, who had five children. 
Silas married Cyrena Loveland, and \three of their five children are living. 
Reuben married Amy Benjamin, who bore him two children. Wellington 
married Lucinda Morse, who was the mother of five children. 

Abijah Bemis was born in Paxton, Mass., April 12, 1791. In his early 
childhood his parents moved to Corydon, N. H. In 1807, at the age of six- 
teen years, he came to Marshfield, where he resided until his death, February 5, 
1877. He was a soldier in the War of 181 2, Mr. Bemis was twice married, 
first to Harriet Pitkin, who bore him ten children, six of whom are living. 
Martin D. Bemis, of this town, is his son. His second wife was Mrs. Abbie 
Bemis. 

Andrew Jack came from Francestown, N. H., about 1810, and located on 
the farm called the " Rodney Jack place," on Maple hill. He cleared up a 
farm and resided on it until his death, in 1835. He married Mary Brown, 
who bore him three sons and six daughters, only two of whom are living, — 
Mrs. Norman Holt, of Marshfield, and Mrs. Hiram Jewell, of Woodbury. 
Mrs. D. M. Cole is his granddaughter. 

Phineas, Abijah, Obadiah, and Daniel, sons of Daniel Bemis, Sr., settled 
in Marshfield. They came from Croydon, N. H. Phineas came in 1806 or '07, 
and the others later. All but Abijah settled on Nob hill, and he settled on 
the river. Obadiah later removed to Plainfield. Phineas located where his 
son Moody now lives, and died there. He married Lucy Austin. Only four 
of their ten children are now living, viz.: Isaac, Samuel, Moody, and Ira. 
All are'.citizens of Marshfield. Moody Bemis is a farmer, and has always 
resided on the homestead where his father, Phineas, first settled. He repre- 



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sented his town in 1872 and '73. He married Harriet Mears, and they are 
parents of one child. Daniel married Mary Morse and settled on the farm 
adjoining that of his brother Phineas, and where he spent the remainder of 
his life. Mr. and Mrs! Bemis were blessed with a family of eleven children 
eight of whom are now living, viz.: Daphne (Mrs. D. W. Bancroft), Lydia. 
(Mrs. E. S. Pitkin), A. Jackson, George, Nelson C, Elsie (Mrs. Henry C. 
Lamberton), Horace, and Levi. 

John Pike, born in Croydon, N. H., came to Marshfield with his wife,. 
Abulia (Bemis), and their children, in 1806. They located on a deserted 
pitch, where there was a small clearing and a log cabin. Their goods were 
few, and they traveled to their new home on snow-shoes. To provide for the 
family Mr. Pike and his oldest son, John, were obliged to work for others, 
while Bemis and Daniel, aged respectively thirteen and eleven years, bravely 
assailed the forest, felled three acres of timber, made leeches of hollow trees, 
and from the ashes of the fallen timber, which they managed to burn, they 
made salts, which were boiled over the kitchen fire. Their diet was potato 
and salt. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Pike were John, Jr., Bemis, Daniel, 
Lydia, Nancy, Horace, Sylvester, and Harriet. Bemis Pike, son of John, 
was a farmer, and resided in Marshfield from the time the family settled there 
in 1807 until his death in 1843. He married Sarah Taylor. Their children 
were Roxanna, Nancy, Harriet, John B., Sarah, and Elvira. John B. married 
Jennie Alkins, who was the mother of five children, only two of whom (sons)) 
are now living. 

Elias Austin and Lydia, his wife, with two sons and five daughters, from 
New Boston, N. H., came to Marshfield in 1808, and settled where D. M. 
Pike now lives. Their son Friend N., born in 1794, was a farmer, resided in 
Marshfield from 1808 until his death, February 13, 1888, aged ninety-four 
years, and had never ridden in a railroad car. In October, 1827, he married 
Clarissa I^amberton, who died March 9, 1887. Their children were Samuel; 
Willard M., who married Lucretia J. Cole; Mehitable, who married Jacob 
Wheelock (deceased), has four children, and resides in Calais; Natt, who 
married Fiorina C, daughter of William and Lucinda F. Orcutt; Isaac, who 
married Mary A. Johnson ; Ruth H., who married Orson Woodcock, and 
resides in West Randolph, Vt.; and Hector M , who married Ora A. Bullock. 
The sons are all farmers, and reside in Marshfield. 

Deacon Silas Jacobs came to this town from Croydon, N. H., about 1810. 
He moved to town with a cart and oxen, and located near where D. M. Pike 
now lives. His first habitation was a board shanty, covered with hemlock 
bark. He brought the boards to build his cabin from the river on his back. 
The floor was made of spHt logs. He cleared this farm and resided upon it 
until his death, in 1838, aged fifty-one years. His wife, Lydia Pike, bore 
him twelve children, four of whom are living, viz.: a son and daughter in the 
West ; Mrs. Hannah M. Smith in this town, who resides with her son Orin H.;, 
and Mrs. Prudence Lance, of Cabot. 



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Joshua Smith, from Glastonbury, Conn., came to Marshfield in 18 ri. set- 
tled where Mrs. Ormsbee now lives, and engaged in farming and kept a public 
house. Here he resided the remainder of his life. His son Ira, who was 
but eleven years old when the family set out from Connecticut, drove two 
yokes of oxen the entire journey. He married Hannah, daughter of Dea. 
Silas and Lydia (Pike) Jacobs. Ira Smith was a stone mason, farmer, and 
speculator in lands. About 1840 he settled on the farm now owned by his 
son Orin H., and here resided until his death, in 1880, aged eighty years- 
Mr. and Mrs. Smith had born to them eight children, three of whom are liv- 
ing, viz.: Lydia (Mrs. Levi Benton), Prudence J. (Mrs. C. H. Newton), of 
Hope, Dak., and Orin H., before mentioned, who resides on the homestead. 

Asa Spencer, son of Asa, was born in Woodbury, September 14, 181 1. His 
father removed to Marshfield in 1813. When Asa, Jr., was twenty years old 
he went to Malone. N. Y., where he resided the ensuing three years, and 
where he married Miss Jane Wright. He then returned to Marshfield, where 
he has since lived. Mr. Spencer has been a farmer and stock grower. In 
1866 he removed to his residence in the village. He represented Marshfield 
in the legislature in 1850 and 1851, has held nearly all the town offices, and 
settled numerous estates. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer were parents of three 
children, of whom only one son, Eri V., is living. 

Sylvester Loveland, a soldier in the War of 18 12, was born in Glastonbury, 
Conn. He came to Marshfield in December, 1814 or 1815, locating where 
his son Daniel R. now lives, and where he always resided. He died March 
10, 1888, aged ninety-seven years. His wife, Ruth (Riley), bore him ten 
children, seven of whom lived to maturity, viz.: Cyrena, who married Silas 
Lamberton ; Irena, who married, first, Chester Loveland, and second, Roger 
Albertson ; Ruth, who married Ambrose Coleman ; Mary, who married Enoch 
Wyman ; Francis, who married Rosalie Jack; Daniel R., who married Helen 
West; and Emily, who married Proctor Qaimby. Daniel R. lives on the old 
homestead in Marshfield, and is a successful farmer. He has held numerous 
town offices; has been overseer of the poor seventeen years and justice of 
the peace for about twenty-five years. He resides one and a half miles from 
the village on the river road. 

Capt. Josiah HoUister came to Marshfield from East Hartford, now Man- 
chester, Conn. He married Phebe, daughter of Capt. Stephen Rich, and 
their children were Stephen R., Horace H. (deceased), Samuel D., and 
George H. Stephen R. married Emily Coburn, who bore him two children, 
Josiah (deceased) and George E., who married Mary R. Snow, and has two 
children, Edith S. and Carrie E., and resides with his father on the old home- 
stead, on road 33. Samuel D., son of Capt. Josiah HoUister, was born in 
Marshfield, December 2, 1817. He married Flora S. Coburn, by whom he 
had five children, all of whom are living, viz.: Blanche S. (Mrs. Leroy Kent'; 
in Calais; Henry D. in Chicago, 111.; Alice P. (Mrs. William P. Jones) also 
in Chicago; Mary Lee (Mrs. Rome G. Brown) in Minneapolis; and J. 



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Murray, now a student at GDddard Seminary in Birre. Mr. HoUister lives 
on road ^;^. George H., 30n of Capt. Josiah, married, first, Elizabeth Pette- 
bone, who bore him one child, Harry L. His second wife was Fannie 
Hooker. They have three daughters and two sons, viz.: William C, Fred- 
erick, Mary, Fannie, and Eva. Mr. Hollister lives in Rockton, III. 

Hon. Horace Hollister was born in 1791, and when a young man came to 
Marshfield and resided one year with his brother Josiah. He then returned 
to Connecticut, where he married Ruth P., daughter of Capt. Stephen Rich, 
and moved to Colebrook, N. H., and to Marshfield in 182 1. Like his 
brother, he was very successful, shared largely in the confidence of the peo- 
ple, and was very much in public business. He had opinions of his own, 
and the courage to express them. He was elected to most of the town offi- 
ces, was overseer of the poor many years, and also assistant judge two years 
and senator two terms. He died at the age of seventy-six years. His chil- 
dren are Asenath, Andrew J., Martin V, B., Josiah E., and Homer H., all 
of whom are living. Homer H. lives on the old homestead. He married Myra 
Carpenter, March 15, 1856. who died October 34, 1887. They had five 
children, viz.: Mattie E. (Mrs. W. J. Clapp), of Birre, born Novembers, 
1859 ; Emma M., born December i, 1862 ; Susan P., born January 3, 1866 ; 
Dwight H., born June 6, 1870; and Minnie A., born June 24, 1876. Mr. 
Hollister lost the thumb and first two fingers on his left hand by the acci- 
dental discharge of a musket while he was in the army. 

Jacob Putnam, a farmer, with his wife, Lucy (Birnes), and their children, 
•came to Marshfield from Alstead, N. H., in 1820, and settled on the farm 
where A. E. Lamberton now lives. Mr. Putnam was an active, enterprising 
business man, and prominent in town affairs. He was justice of the peace 
twenty-five years, town clerk as many years, and administered on the settle- 
ment of numerous estates. He died in April, 1856, aged seventy-two years. 
Mrs. Putnam died October 12, 1864, aged eighty-two years. Their children 
were Thomas B., Enoch D., Alonzo F., Roxana, Mary, and Sarah. Alonzo 
Franklin was born in Alstead, N. H., in 1818. He was engaged with his 
father until he was twenty-five years of age. He then became proprietor of 
the " Half Way House," in Marshfield, which he conducted the ensuing six 
years, and then purchased a farm in Peacham, which he was obliged to vacate 
on account of a worthless title, and at the loss of all that he possessed. He 
then emigrated to Wisconsin, and soon after fortunately received the ap- 
pointment of school commissioner for that territory, and held the position 
until Wisconsin was admitted into the union of states. Mr. Putnam then 
gave his attention to farming, in Wisconsin, and after several years eventually 
returned to Marshfield and purchased the Putnam homestead, which he occu- 
pied about five years. He then engaged in mercantile business, and finally 
retired from active pursuits in 1883. Mr. Putnam was commissioned post- 
master under the administration of President Lincoln, and held the ofiice 
about twenty years. He married Hannah Wright, of Malone, N. Y., who 



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died April 4, 18S8. Their children are Charles F., a merchant in Terre 
Haute, Ind.; and George A., engaged in banking in Fargo, Dak. 

Alanson Colburn came to Marshfield from Lyme, N. H., when a young 
man. He married Monicy, daughter of Nathaniel Dodge, and settled near 
where Wesley P. Martin now lives. He resided there until 1869, when he 
went to Butler, Mich., where he now resides. His son Arthur T. married Susan, 
daughter of Jon'athan Batchelder, and lives in Marshfield. They have three 
children, viz.: Myrtie M., Ida L., and Edgar G. His son Charles A. mar- 
ried Elmira Johnson, has two daughters, Nellie and Mabel, and lives in But- 
ler, Mich. 

Rufus Flood came to Marshfield from Marlboro, N. H., in 1822, and set- 
tled at the foot of Lord's hill, where he lived twenty-four years, when he 
moved onto the farm now owned by C. & A. N. Flood, and resided there 
until his death. His wife was Laurania Corbin. Their children were Rufus, 
Nathaniel C, Mary, Joseph R., Loring, and Carroll. The latter is the only 
child now living. He married Permelia Freeman, by whom he had two chil- 
dren, Alvinza N. and Nellie P. (Mrs. A. Nye). 

Joseph Eaton was born in Hawke, N. H., now Danville. When he was 
quite young his father, Joseph T., removed to Washington, Orange county. 
In 1825 the family came to Marshfield and settled on the farm where John 
H. Eaton, son of Joseph, now lives. In consequence of misfortune the 
head of this family was unable to liquidate the debt against the farm, in 1828^ 
when Joseph undertook the task and succeeded in clearing it of all claims, 
and the farm has since been in possession of the family. Mr. Eaton mar- 
ried Judith Gove. Their children are John H., Emeline, Samuel M., and 
Nathaniel J. John H. and Nathaniel J. reside on the old homestead. 

Richard Mears was born in Peacham, Vt., March 18, 1803. At the age 
of forty-one years he settled in Marshfield, on the farm where he now re- 
sides with his son Ezra N. He married Harriet Kidder, March 21, 1833, 
and their children are Ezra N., Harriet (Mrs. Moody Bemis), Ann M., Mark, 
Sophronia, William H. H., George D , Frederick K., and Albert W. Five 
sons and one daughter are living. The three older sons and daughter re- 
side in Marshfield, and the two younger sons in Boston. 

Nathaniel J. Gove, son of Nathaniel and Polly (Jones) Gove, was born in 
Strafford, Vt., January 5, 1810. In 1791 the grandfather of the subject of 
this sketch, Nathaniel Gove, with his wife, Elizabeth (Sanborn), and their chil- 
dren, emigrated from Deering, N. H., to Strafford. At that time his son 
Nathaniel, Jr., was eleven years old, and from that time until his death re- 
sided in Strafford. Nathaniel Jones, father of Polly, before mentioned, was- 
a Revolutionary soldier seven years. He had a family of ten children. No- 
vember 10, 1830, Nathaniel J. Gove married Lavinia, daughter of Samuel 
Robie, of Strafford. November 24, 1836, they moved to Marshfield, and in 
1865 settled on the farm where they now reside. Their children are Sarah,. 
William R., Mary L., Nancy, John S., Nathaniel B., and George W. 



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William R. served three years in the ist Vt. Cav. He now resides with his 
father. 

Abram Wood, son of Israel, was born in Barre. He came to Marshfield in 
1843 and settled on the farm now owned by his son Theodore. He married 
Pamelia Lyman, of Norwich, Vt., and they had seven children, four of whom 
grew to maturity, viz.: Abigail, Harvey I.,., Mary A., and Theodore. Abigail 
(widow of A. P. Dodge) lives in Marshfield. Theodore married Sarah A. 
Clark, by whom he has nine children. He resides on the homestead. 

George, son of Daniel and Hannah (Blaisdell) VVooster, was born in Wal- 
den, Vt., October 6, 1825. His parents were early settlers of Walden, and 
both were teachers. Mr. VVooster was town clerk of Walden thirty-eight 
years. George spent his minority on his father's farm. In 1848, after a few 
years' experience as clerk, he went to Marshfield and engaged in merchandis- 
ing in company with Judge E. D. Putnam. They were also manufacturers 
of potato starch. May 20, 1857, he formed a partnership with his brother 
Frank, in Walden. In May, 1858, they transferred their business to Marsh- 
field. In connection with mercantile business they have manufactured 
potato starch and shoe pegs, in which they had a large trade during the late 
war. They also conducted a cheese factory from 1878 to i88r. They now 
conduct a general store and are extensive farmers, with a stock of 100 head 
of cattle and horses. They have erected several buildmgs and greatly im- 
proved the place. George Wooster has served as postmaster of Marshfield 
since 1885, and represented his town in 1S79-80. He married S. Amelia 
Sweet, by whom he has had five children, four of whom are living. His 
former partner, Hon. E. D. Putnam, describes him as a man of strict integ- 
rity, great energy, and comprehensive business ability. Frank Wooster was 
born in Walden, August 8, 1831, and like his brother George spent his boy- 
hood on the paternal farm. Since 1857 he has been one of the firm of G. & 
F. Wooster. He married, first, Miss Ella M. Pratt, and second, Mrs. Marion 
W. Gilman, both of whom are deceased. 

John BoUes, son of Jonathan and Thankful BoUes, was born in Williams- 
town, Vt., November 10, 1812. When he was ten years old his father 
moved to Goshen Gore. At the age of twenty-one years he bought three 
lots of wild land and cleared a farm, where he continued to live until 1850, 
when he removed to his present residence^ in Marshfield. When a young 
man he chopped wood at twenty-five cents per cord, and could cut and pile 
four cords per day. He in now hale and strong for one of his years. He 
married Esther Pittsley, and they have had nine children, four of whom are 
living. 

John E. Eddy was born in Charlton, Mass. At the age of nine years he 
went to Walden, Vt, and resided with his uncle, Edmund Eddy, until he 
attained his majority. He went to Boston, where he remained seven years, 
and then settled in Marshfield on the farm on the river where I. W. Winter 
now lives. In 1885 he sold and retired to his present residence, where, as- 



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he says, he is doing only enough for play. Mr. Eddy has married twice. 
His first wife was Sally, daughter of Capt. Edmund Eddy, and the mother of 
liis children Maurice H. and Laura May. His second wife was Mary 
Palmer. 

Harrison D. Batchelder, son of Jonathan M. and VVelthea Ketchum Batch- 
elder, was born in Plamfield, January 27, 1830. He married Chloe B., 
daughter of Reuben and Melinda (Bancroft) Huntoon, who has borne him 
two sons, Orrin C. and Reuben J., both of whom are living. Mr. Batchelder 
is a descendant of one of the early settlers of Plainfield. He moved into 
Marshfield in 18^3, with his mother, and to the farm where he now resides, 
on Maple hill, on road 47. 

George M. Town, M. D., was born in Montpelier, May 29, 18 19. He at- 
tended the schools in his native town and studied medicine with Drs. Clark 
and Rublee. He attended lectures at the Vermont Medical College at Wood- 
stock, Vt., and graduated from that institution in 1848, having by his own 
efforts secured his medical education. He practiced in Montpelier five 
or six years, when he removed to Marshfield, where he has since resided, and 
is a highly respected physician'and citizen. He married R. Louise Ormsbee, 
of East Montpelier. They have had two children, Ada L. (deceased) and 
George A., now of Whittier, Cal. Dr. Town, in connection with his practice, 
carries on a nice farm of thirty-seven acres. 

John S. Wooster, son of Daniel and Hannah (Blaisdell) Wooster, was born 
in Walden, Vt., October 6, 1823. In 185 1 he moved to Cabot, and in 1857 
to Marshfield, where he has since resided. He married Dorcas F. Pitkin, 
daughter of Edwin. They have had four children, of whom Vianna, Curtis S., 
and Clara E. are living. Vianna married Edgar L. Smith, and lives in Sioux 
Falls, Dakota; Curtis S. is in business in La Cross, Wis.; and Clara E. mar- 
ried Henry Joselyn, and resides in California. Mr. Wooster is a farmer and 
resides on road 30. 

J. Q. A. Packer, M. D., was born in Newark, Vt., June 2, 1821. He was 
the youngest of eleven children of Eleazer and Abigail Packer, who were 
pioneer settlers, and the second family in Newark, where they located in 1804. 
Dr. Packer acquired his medical education under the tutorship of his brother, 
Rev. David Packer, of Peacham, Milo G. Houghton, of Boston, and a'course 
of lectures in Boston. He commenced practice in Peacham in 1864. In 
1868 he settled in Marshfield, where he now resides, and where he has en- 
joyed an extensive practice until he retired from its duties and labors in 1886. 
He formulated a remedy for the treatment of rheumatism and catarrh, which he 
used with success in his own case, and in the treatment of his numerous patients. 
Dr. Packer has placed his remedy upon the market, and is now devoting his 
time to its manufacture. He married Lovinia Newton, of Leyden, Mass., 
June 13, 1843. They are parents of seven children, and all living. 

Nathaniel Adams was born in Northbridge, Mass., May i, 18 13. He came 
to Cabot in 1842, and located on East hill. He lived in Cabot until 1879, 



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when he came to Marshfield and made his home with his only daughter, 
Lucretia B. (Mrs. Albert P. Towne). His wife, Emeline Bufifum, bore him 
two children, Lucretia B. and Oscar W. (deceased). Mr. Adams died Octo- 
ber I, 1887, and his wife February 4, 1888. 

Albert P. Towne was born in Woodbury. September 9, 1838. He was a 
farmer, and lived in his native town until 1875, when he came to Marshfield, 
where he resided until his death, December 21, 1886. His wife was Lucre- 
tia B. Adams, who bore him four children, viz.: Stella W., Delbert A. (de- 
ceased), Delia v., and Mamie E. The last two reside with their mother. 

The records show that eight of the patriotic sons of Marshfield went into 
the United States army in defense of our country, in the VVar of 1812, viz.: 
Abijah Bemis, Phineas Bemis, Obadiah Bemis, David Cutting, John VVaugh, 
Abijah Hall, Isaac Austin, and Philip Delan. Lewis Bemis, a brother of the 
first three named, was also from this town, though he enlisted from Barnet. 

In the war to suppress the Rebellion Marshfield furnished ninety-eight 
soldiers. Twenty-eight of this number never returned. A few were brought 
back to be buried, but the remains of most of them repose in the soil of the 
" Sunny South." In 1863 thirty-four were drafted, but only one, Cottrill 
Clifford, went into the service. Twenty-two paid commutation. Clifford 
served his time, was discharged, and was accidentally killed on his way home. 

The Congregational church of Marshjieid \s located at the village of Marsh- 
field. The first Congregational church was organized December 24, 1800, 
by Rev. James Hobart, of Berlin, with thirteen members. Selah Wells was the 
first deacon and Gideon Spencer was the next. The little church had occa- 
sional preaching by ministers from neighboring towns, but never had a settled 
pastor. In the spring of 1870 Rev. J. T. Graves was engaged to preach half 
of the time for six weeks. In 1871 Rev. N. F. Cobleigh became the pastor 
of the reorganized church, and August 16, 187 1, their present church edifice 
was completed and dedicated. It will comfortably seat an audience of iqc 
persons, and is estimated, with the grounds, to be worth $1,200. Rev. J. D. 
Bailey is the present pastor. The Sunday-school has an average attendance 
of thirty. 

The Methodist Episcopal church of Marshfield is located in the northern 
part of the town. In 1827 the Union meetinghouse was built in Marshfield, 
and the committee appointed to divide the time for the occupation of the 
house among the denominations that had built it set a few Sundays to the 
Methodists, and Rev. N. W. Aspinwall, of Cabot, held meetings for their 
apportioned time, alternating with Rev. Rlisha J. Scott. The first quarterly 
meeting was held here in February, 1828. In the autumn of 1829 the first 
Methodist church was organized with five members. Stephen Pitkin, Jr., was 
the first class-leader. The first preacher sent here by conference was Rev. 
David Packer. In i860 their church edifice was built, of wood, and burned 
in 1878. January 16, 1879, their present nicely finished and furnished church 
edifice was completed and dedicated. Their present pastor is Rev. C. D.. 



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Clapp, and the society has eighty members. The church will comfortably 
seat 250 people, and with all other church property is estimated to be worth 
$3, ODD. Their Sunday-school was first established in 1834 by Mrs. Andrew 
English and Mrs. Stephen Pitkin, Jr. It now has a membership of 176. 

The Univcrsalist church of Mnrshfield is located in Marshfield village. 
The church organization was perfected under the ministry of Rev. Lester 
Warren, in 187 1. There was a society organized in 1855 under the name of 
the "Univcrsalist Society of Liberal Christians in Marshfield." This society, 
with other Christian societies, occupied the Union meeting-house built in 
1827. In 1857 this house was both modernized and repaired, and has passed 
into the possession or control of the Universalists. At the organization in 
187 1 the church had thirty-five members, with Rev. Lester Warren, pastor. 
It now has forty-five members, with Rev. S. C. Hayford, pastor. The orig- 
inal cost of their church edifice was $2, god. The present value of the church 
property, including buildings and grounds, is estimated at $ r,ooo. The house 
will seat comfortably about 200 people. The Sunday school has an attend- 
ance of thirty or forty persons. 



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IDDLESEX lies in the central part of the county, in latitude 44° 
20' and longitude 4° 22,' and is bounded northerly by Worcester, 
easterly by East Montpelier and Montpelier, southerly by More- 
town and a part of Berlin, from which it is separated by the Winooski river, 
and westerly by Waterbury. 

The town was chartered June 8, 1763, to Jacob Rescaw and sixty-four as- 
sociates, by Benning Wentworth, governor of the province of New Hamp- 
shire, by command of his Royal Highness King George III., in the third 
year of his reign, and to be six miles square, and no more, and to contain 
23,040 acres. " Out of which an allowance is to be made for highways and 
unimprovable land, rocks, ponds, mountains, and rivers, One thousand and 
forty acres free, according to a plan and survey thereof, made by our said 
governor's order and returned into the secretary's office and hereunto annexed, 
butted and bounded as follows, viz.: Beginning at the Southerly or South 
easterly corner of Waterbury, on the Northerly side of Onion or French River 
(so-called), from thence running Easterly up said River bounding on the same 
as far as to make it six miles, on a straight line, allowing the same to be 
perpendicular with the Easterly line of said Waterbury, from thence Northerly^ 
parallel with the Easterly line of said Waterbury six miles, thence Westerly 
about six miles to the Northeasterly corner of said Waterbury, from thence 
Southerly by the Easterly line of said Waterbury six miles to the place begun 
at." The boundaries have remained as then fixed, with the exception that 
a strip of land containing about 1,000 acres, which was set to the town of 
Waterbury, by act of the legislature in 1850. This strip of land lies on the 



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west side of Hogback Mountain, and extends about half the length of the 
town, along the central part of the west line, and is about 250 rods wide. 
The inhabitants on this tract can better convene for town purposes at Water- 
bury. 

The surface of Middlesex is mountainous and hilly, and much of its sur- 
face is badly broken by ravines, rocks, and ledges. 

The geological formation of this town is composed almost entirely of rocks 
o{ talcose schist, with a narrow belt oi clay slate which extends through the 
town a little west of the center. 

Middlesex has some fine farming land along the Winsooki river and its 
largest branches. There are also many productive farms among the hills ; 
the soil is generally good, but in many places the surface is broken, rough, 
and uneven. Probably the charter allowance for unimprovable lands was not 
too much. The southern part of the town is watered by the Winooski and 
numerous small brooks that flow into it, the central part by Great brook, and 
the northern part by the North Branch of Winooski and its numerous tribu- 
taries. These streams furnish the town with many valuable sites for mills 
and other manufacturing purposes; nearly or quite as good as any town in 
the state ; but only a small portion of this fine water-power has yet been 
used. 

Farming is the leading industry of the town, and probably nine-tenths of 
the male population are tillers of her soil. 

The first town meeting was held at the house of Seth Putnam, March 29, 
1790, when the voters present "made choice of Levi Putnam, Moderator; 
Seth Putnam, Town Clerk ; Thomas Mead, Levi Putnam, and Seth Putnam, 
Selectmen ; Edmund Holden, Constable and Collector of taxes ; Lovewell 
Warren, Town Treasurer ; Jonas Harrington, Surveyor." 

The town was first represented by Samuel Harris in 1791. Thomas Mead 
was the first settler in the town and the first in Washington county. He 
came in 1782 or 'Zt,. Asa Harrington, born March 15, 1785, was the first 
child born in Middlesex. 

About 1800 Henry Perkins built the first grist and saw-mill on the Wi- 
nooski river, where the village now stands. Soon after, Samuel Haskins built 
an oil-mill, and manufactured oil from the flax-seed grown by the surround- 
ing farmers. Next followed the cloth-dressing-mill built by Thomas Stowell. 
The last named, next to the grist-mill, was a necessity. Then all wore home- 
made clothing. 

In the charter of Middlesex it was provided that " the first meeting for the 
choice of town offlcers shall be held on the 26th day of July next, to be noti- 
fied and presided over by Capt. Isaac Woodrufi", and that the annual meet- 
ing forever hereafter for the choice of officers for said town shall be on the 
second Tuesday of March, annually." This was twenty years before the first 
settler moved into the town. Middlesex was included in the New York county 
of Gloucester, and the first meeting of which the town has a record was held 



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in New Milford, Conn., and designated "A meeting of the proprietors of the 
Township of Middlesex, on Onion River in the Province of New York." 
Partridge Thatcher presided and Samuel Averill was clerk. They voted to 
lay out the township and lot one division of 100 acres to each right. They 
also voted a tax of $3 to the right to pay the expense of surveying. This 
meeting was held on Tuesday, the loth day of May, 1770. The proprietors 
held their first meeting in the state of Vermont at Sunderland, October 13, 
1783, when the second and third divisions of lands were recorded. The first 
meeting of the proprietors held in Middlesex was at the house of Lovell 
Warren, August 14, 1787. Seth Putnam was chosen clerk. The meeting 
was adjourned until the 5th of the ensuing November, when on assembUng it 
was voted to hold all former surveys null and void. The surveys had been 
so inaccurate that proprietors could not find their lots, and some of the lots 
had been laid out in the territory of Montpelier. A resurvey was ordered, 
and Gen. Parley Davis was employed as surveyor, and " Isaac Putnam, hind- 
chainman, Jacob Putnam, fore-chainman." 

The first deed on the town records is from Samuel Averill, Jr., conveying 
to Samuel Averill five full rights of land, and is dated Kent, Litchfield 
county, December 30, 1774, and acknowledged before William Cogswell, 
justice of the peace. 

Middlesex abounds in natural curiosities, and rugged and beautiful scenery. 
There is a " rocking stone " of many tons weight resting on a high ledge on 
the farm of Hon. William Chapin, which has so small a base on which it 
rests, and is so evenly balanced, that it may be easily rocked backward and 
forward. The "Notch," where the mountain is "rent in twain," is a fissure 
between its separated parts wide enough for a carriage road, and 100 feet 
deep, with sides of nearly perpendicular ragged rocks. The highway that ex- 
tends through this mountain pass is the only one that crosses the line between 
Waterbury and Middlesex. "The Narrows," in the Winooski river at Mid- 
dlesex village, is a chasm cut by the friction of the water through the solid 
rock thirty feet deep, from thirty to seventy feet wide, and one-fourth of a 
mile long. The descent is rapid, and the water rushes through the chasm 
with great power and velocity. A bridge spans the gulf, and connects the 
village of Middlesex with Moretown. A little distance below the bridge is an 
immense mass of rocks which rise nearly if not quite to the height of the 
banks, which has defied the action of the waters, and which divides the river 
so that a portion passes on either side of it. 

The following description of the " Hogbacks " is from the pen of Hon. 
William Chapin: — 

"Near the southwest corner of Middlesex there rises abruptly from the 
bank of the Winooski river a range of clearly-defined mountains, that extends 
about twenty miles, being nearly on the line between Middlesex and Water- 
bury, and extending between Worcester and Stowe, a little to the east of the 
line between those towns, and ending near Elmore pond, in the Lamoille val- 



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ley. These mountains are called the ' Hogbacks,' in some of the earlier 
geographical works of Vermont, but that name now applies only to the south 
end of the range near the Winooski. The most conspicuous points in Middle- 
sex are locally known as ' Burned Mountain,' ' White Rock ' or ' Castle Rock,' 
and ' Mt. Hunger.' This Mt. Hunger is nearly on the line between Mid- 
dlesex and Worcester, and a little east of the corners of the four towns of 
Middlesex, Stowe, Worcester, and Waterbury. Its height is 3,648 feet above 
the sea. As the topmost stone of this mountain, which is the highest point 
in the range, is doubtless in the town of Worcester, that town may, perhaps, 
fairly claim the honor of having within its limits one of the pleasantest places 
of public resort to be found in New England. The name of Mt. Hunger 
was given by a party of hunters who went out from Middlesex Center on a 
winter's day, some sixty years ago, to hunt for deer on this mountain. Lost 
in the vast woods, they had to stay out all night, with nothing to eat save one 
partridge, and that without salt or sauce. When they got home the next day, 
half starved and wholly tired out, they said they had been on Mi. Hunger. 
Not a very inviting name, but very appropriate to the occasion! The only^ 
comfortable way and road to the summit at the present time is in and 
through Middlesex. 

" The mountain top is one of the pleasantest places of earth, and will be 
visited so long as people inhabit the country ; standing in an isolated position^ 
it commands a view of the whole country; to the east, to the White Moun- 
tains, to the west, the Adirondacks, north, to the Canadian provinces, and 
south, to the Massachusetts line; a score of villages, many lakes and ponds,, 
and, best of all, thousands of New England farms and homes. 

" The tops of all these mountains were covered with timber at the settle- 
ment of the town ; now some teii acres are burned down to the bare rock on 
the top of Mt. Hunger, about the same area on White Rock, and on Burned 
Mountain the fire has cleared some thirty to forty acres. The space thuS' 
opened affords the finest outlook upon the surrounding country. The 
Mt. Hunger road was commenced in October, 1877, and finished June i,. 
1878. The first five hundred rods was made a good, safe, and comfortable 
carriage road. The last half mile is very steep, and only a foot path could 
be made, but is so well provided with stairs that small children and aged 
people have made the ascent without difficulty." 

This road, built by Mr. Theron Bailey, then proprietor of the " Pavilion " 
at Montpelier, at a great expense, under the superintendence of Hon. Will- 
iam Chapin, has fallen into disuse, and is not much used only by lumbermen. 

The population of Middlesex, as shown by the census for the last six 
decades, was in 1830, 1,156; 1840, 1,279; 1850, 1,365; i860, 1,254; 1870, 
1,171 ; and in 1880 only 1,087. I" ^888 the town had eleven school districts 
and supported schools in ten of them, taught by fifteen female teachers, at 
an average weekly salary, including board, of $4.73. The whole number of 
scholars who attended any school was 187, of whom nine attended private 
schools. The entire income for school purposes was $1,587.09. The whole 
amount paid teachers was $1,228.75, ^.nd the whole amount paid for all 
school purposes was $1,451.70. Mr. William A. Chapin was superintendent. 
The first school district was organized in the neighborhood along the 
Winooski ; but when, and the site of the first school-house, we have not been 
able to ascertain. 
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Middlesex (p. o.) village, on the western border of the town, at the " Nar- 
rows," on the Winooski river, is a station on the Central Vermont railroad. 
It contains a church, school-house, three stores, three blacksmith shops, one 
public house, one marble shop, and about 200 inhabitants. 

PuTNAMSViLLE (p. o.) is a hamlet on the North or Worcester Branch of 
the Winooski river in the northeasterly corner of Middlesex. It contains a 
store, postoffice, the large and flourishing saw and planing-mills of C. C. Put- 
nam & Son, a school-house, and fifteen or twenty dwellings. 

C. C. Putnam 6^ So7is mills are located at Putnamsville, on the North 
Branch of the Winooski river, in the northeast corner of Middlesex. Here 
the Branch has a fall of thirty-two feet, and affords one of the best mill 
sites in the state. In 18 15 Bradstreet Baldwin erected a mill on this fall, 
which was owned and operated by several parties until 1845, when the 
property was purchased by C. C. and Jacob Putnam. The old mill stood on 
the west side of the stream and at the top of the fall, and had a capacity of 
cutting 100,000 feet of lumber per annum. In 1854 they erected a large 
double gang mill on the east side of the stream, and below the fall, so as to 
obtain the full advantage of the thirty-two feet fall. They also put in machin- 
ery for dressing lumber, and a grist-mill. All was consumed by fire in 1862. 
The same year C. C. Putnam erected on the site the mills now standing, with 
two large circular saws, and also the machinery for dressing lumber and 
getting out chair stock. These mills saw about 2,000,000 feet of lumber per 
year, and dress 5,000,000 feet. The present proprietors are C. C. Putnam & 
Son, who employ at this place twenty-five men. They also own a mill in 
Worcester, with a capacity of 1,000,000 feet per year. They have a store, 
■which does a business of about $25,000 annually. 

The flour, feed, and planing-mills of A. Denison are situated in the village 
of Middlesex, on the Winooski river. These mills were purchased by Mr. 
Denison in 1883. They contain three runs of stones, and grind from 75,000 
to 100,000 bushels of grain per year. 

No remarkable events characterized the early settlement of this town, ex- 
cept the hardships common to the settlers in every new country. The settlers 
were hardy and industrious, and their clearings gradually widened and the 
forest as gradually receded. 

Thomas Mead was the first settler in the town, and the first within the 
limits of Washington county. The following sketch is from Deming's Ver- 
mont Oflicers, and is vouched for by the tradition of his town : — 

" He came from Westford, Mass., having purchased a right of land in Mid- 
dlesex. He came as far as Royalton, with his wife and two or three children. 
Here he shouldered his gun, knapsack, and axe, and set forward, alone, to 
find Middlesex on Winooski river. He went from Brookfield through the 
woods to the head of Dog river, following that down to its junction with the 
Winooski, and over that river to Middlesex, having informed his wife that in 
a given time he should return, unless he sent her word to the contrary. On 
his arrival he found Mr. Jonah Harrington had made a pitch and commenced 



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chopping about two miles below Montpelier village, where he tarried till 
morning, when he went down the river about three miles to the farm now 
owned by Thomas Stowell, where was formerly a tavern. Here he made his 
pitch, and a good one, too, for a farmer ; but had he continued down to the 
village of Middlesex it might have been much better around the fall in that 
place. He was so pleased while swinging his axe among the trees on his own 
land, subsisting on such game as he took with a wooden trap and his gun, 
that his promise to his wife to return was not fulfilled. His wife became 
alarmed about him, procured a horse, loaded it with provisions, and set forth 
to find her husband. She followed up White river to its source in Gran- 
ville, thence down Mad river, through Warren, Waitsfield, and Moretown, to 
its junction with Winooski about half a mile below the village of Middlesex, 
crossed that river and traveled up it about one mile, where, to her joy and his 
surprise, she found her husband in the afternoon of the third day, doing a good 
business among the maples, elms, and butternuts. From Royalton to Roches- 
ter she had a bridle path, then to Middlesex were only marked or spotted 
trees; was often under the necessity of unloading her horse to get him past 
fallen timber, and often had to lead him some distance. Mr. Mead and 
family soon after moved into the town." 

Some time in June, 1785, Mr. Mead was gone from home, and on a very 
cloudy afternoon Mrs. Mead had to look for her cows, which run in the woods 
at large. She started in good season, leaving three small children, one a nurs- 
ing infant five months old, alone in the house; not hearing the bell on the 
cows, she took their track and followed down the river about one mile and a 
half, found where they had apparently fed most of the day, but no bell to be 
heard. She then sought their tracks, and found they had gone down the 
river in lieu of up, to their homes. She found they had gone over Hogback 
Mountain to Waterbury, one of the roughest places in all creation, almost. 
The cows must be found, or the children must go to bed supperless. In this 
dilemma she made up her mind to " go ahead," and crossing the almost im- 
passable mountain and following on, found her cows near the present rail- 
road depot in Waterbury, six or seven miles from home. By this time it had 
become dark, and backed up by a tremendous thunder shower rendered it so 
dark that returning over that mountain in the night was out of the question. 
In this unpleasant situation she found her way to Mr. Marsh's, the only hut 
in that village, and stayed until the first appearance of daylight, then started 
her cows for home on a double-quick time, where she safely arrived before 
any of her children had completed their morning nap. She concluded that 
her children had so long a crying spell before going to sleep that they did 
not awake as early as usual. 

Tradition says further that 

" Mr. Mead, in 1795, ^^P'^ the only flock of sheep in town, and to keep 
them from falling a prey to the bears was obliged to keep a close watch of 
them and yard them nights. One morning he found his fold empty, and fol- 
lowmg them a short distance he found a sheep that had been killed. He 
returned to the house for his gun and started in pursuit, and had not gone 
far into the woods when he saw a bear that was on a retreat. He followed 
bruin cautiously, and kept to the windward, and up the hill to near the top, 



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when he again came in sight of his game, and was skulking along to get a 
better chance to shoot, when his wife came in sight and halloed to him. The 
sound of her voice started the bear, but a quick and accurate shot rolled this 
sheep thief over ou the ground, dead. This courageous woman told Mr. 
Mead that she had seen another bear while searching for him. She led off 
in the direction and had not proceeded but a short distance when they dis- 
covered bear number two, which a single shot from the trusty gun in the 
hands of the unerring gunner also laid lifeless. The successful pioneers then 
took up the march towards home, and by way of the place where the sheep 
had been killed. When they came in sight of the spot bear number three 
was there taking breakfast. Mr. Mead at once settled his accounts, as he 
had the other two. We do not say that the time in question was not much 
of a morning for bears. With the aid of his few neighbors Mr. Mead brought 
in his game, who helped him to dress it and shared in the flesh." 

Thomas Mead, the first settler of Middlesex, and the first in Washington 
county, came from Westford, Mass., in the spring of 1783, and made his pitch 
and settlement on the north bank of the French (now called the Winooski) 
river, about a mile above the "Narrows" and falls, the present site of the 
main village in the town. The Winooski valley had always been the main 
highway or trail of the Indians from the lake to the Connecticut river, and 
was often the route of the French and their Indian allies in their attacks on 
the frontier English settlements. Down along this valley came Hertel de 
Rouville with the 112 captives who survived the massacre of Deerfield, Mass., 
in the winter of 1703, taking along with them, as relics of the heretic church, 
that old church bell, which was perhaps the first that ever woke the echoes of 
the valley, and the venerable pastor, Rev. John WiUiams, who was quite likely 
the first unsettled minister in the town. And up this river came the stealthy 
band that burned Royalton in 1780. It was called French river till after the 
Revolution, then for a long time Onion river, which is the English for Wi- 
nooski, the present name. Down this valley on a bright spring morning in 
May, 1783, came this sturdy pioneer of civilization, Thomas Mead, bearing 
on his back and shoulders, it is said, a bag of meal, a gun, an axe, a kettle, 
some blankets and clothing, with many other necessary articles, and ammu- 
nitions of peace or war. He came from the Connecticut river valley up the 
White river to Royalton, thence up the Branch through Brookfield to the 
headwaters of Dog river, and down that stream to the Winooski. He left 
his wife and children at Royalton, and, with his gun, knapsack, etc., set off 
through the wilderness alone, and yet not alone, for he brought with him not 
only civilization but the Christian religion. After a long life spent among 
some of those who remembered Mr. Mead, I fail to recall a single word said 
against this j^rsf man of the toivn. He chose a good farm and lived there 
long enough to see his children's children around him. Late in life he re- 
moved to Northern New York (as I am told) and died there. Mrs. Mead came 
to Middlesex in the summer of 1783, by way of White river to Granville, 
thence down the Mad river to Middlesex. Their third son, Joel, born Janu- 
ary 18, 1785, would have been the first child born in town only that his 




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mother went to Lebanon, N. H., for better care at his birth. So it happened 
that a daughter of Jonah Harrington, born in March, 1785, is supposed to 
have been the first child born in town. 

Some interesting stories are told of this family in Deming's Vermont Offi- 
cers, written by the late Horace Holden, Esq., and in XhQ Vermont Historical 
Gazetteer, by the late V. V. Vaughn, Esq. Other legends still survive of the 
hunting exploits of Mr. Mead, and of the energy and ability of his wife. 

At the organization of the town, March 29, 1790, Mr. Mead was chosen 
the first selectman, and for the next thirty years was almost continuously in 
some of the important town offices, often holding several in the same year. 
The town meetings were frequently held at his house. The descendants of 
this family are so numerous that it would be impossible to name them in this 
short biography ; they are scattered all over the county, especially in Middle- 
sex and the adjoining towns. Some of the grandsons of Thomas Mead are 
still living, — tall, stalwart, gray headed men ; some of them have died at a 
good old age. Some of the later generations do not retain the strict orthodox 
faith and Puritan habits of their grand old progenitor. Still the name is a 
respected and respectable one in Washington county. 

Jacob Putnam, a brother of Col. Seth Putnam, came to Middlesex from 
Charlestown, N. H., in 1784, and settled on the North Branch of Winooski 
river, road 7 of Middlesex, about five miles above Montpelier village. He 
was a carpenter and farmer, and possessed a clear head and good judgment. 
He was often elected to the offices of the town. Of his seven children, only 
Christopher C. and Jacob are now living. He died about 1850. His son 
Christopher C. was born in 18 10, and has always resided in his native town. 
In 1836 he married Eliza Stone. Their children are Christopher C, Jr., 
Mary (Mrs. Whitney), Harriet, who resides with her parents, and Sarah 
(Mrs. H. Kemp), of Montpelier. Mr. Putnam has for fifty years been an 
extensive dealer in and manufacturer of lumber. He is now engaged in the 
business, in the firm of C. C. Putnam & Son. Besides giving his personal 
attention to his own large and laborious business, Mr. Putnam has taken 
time to serve his town as its representative in the legislature of 1864 and 1865, 
and as selectman, lister, and overseer of the poor. Mr. Putnam received 
only a common school education, but inherited the distinguishing trait of the 
family, good common sense, and by reading and close observation has ac- 
quired a large fund of practical knowledge. In early life he was an ''old 
line Whig"; an admirer of Clay, Webster, Sumner, and Lincoln ; voted for 
Gen. Harrison in 1840, and for his grandson in 1888. He was never an 
office seeker. Such positions as were given to him he filled with general sat- 
isfaction. In his religious views he is decidedly liberal, and trusts himself to 
the care and love of his Heavenly Father. Mr. Putnam began poor, but by 
his good management and persevering industry, aided by his son, who now 
takes the laboring oar, he has accumulated a competency. His has been a 
busy life. Few have worked harder or more perseveringly, or with better 



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courage. His liberal generosity is of the most unselfish kind. The recip- 
ients of his bounty are the worthy laboring poor who can never repay him. 
Mr. Putnam is a strong friend, a social companion, loves his home, and is a 
fair type of the successful go-ahead New England business man. A pleasant 
episode occurred on the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, when they 
celebrated their golden wedding, surrounded by all their children, grandchil- 
dren, and one great-grandchild, and a host of warm friends. His son, C. C. 
Putnam, Jr., served his country nine months as a soldier in the late war, and 
participated in the battle of Gettysburg. He also represented Middlesex 
in the legislature of 1886-87. 

Lovell Warren came to Middlesex from Charlestown, N. H., at an early date 
(before 1787), and settled on the farm on the Winooski river, where his son 
George A. now lives. He was much esteemed by his townsmen, and served 
as town treasurer in 1790. He died in 1834. His son Leander was born in 
Middlesex in 1805, and always resided on the farm where he was born. He 
died in 1874. He was active and prominent in town affairs ; represented his 
town in the legislature several times, and nearly all the time held some office 
of trust and responsibility. He married Susan W. Taylor, of Montpelier, 
who still survives, aged eighty years, and resides with her son George A. on 
the homestead. They were parents of four children, three of whom are liv- 
ing and reside in Middlesex, viz.: Rufus W., George A., and Albert L. 
Rufus W. Warren has also represented his town in the legislature and filled 
other town offices. 

Jeremiah Leland, one of the first settlers of Middlesex, was born in Barre, 
Mass., and came to Middlesex from Charlestown, N. H. He died soon after 
1820, respected by all who knew him. He left three sons, Rufus, James, and 
Jeremiah, who were worthy and esteemed citizens. None of them are living. 
James never married. Jeremiah left four sons and Rufus two. Two of the 
sons of Jeremiah represented the town. Otis C. Leland, born in 1828, has 
always resided in town, and was its representative in 18S4. 

William Holden, who descended from an English family, came to Vermont 
at the close of the Revolution, and lived, died, and was buried at Springfield, 
Windsor county. He had quite a good war record, as appears by the inscrip- 
tion on his grave-stone in the old burying-ground on the bank of the Con- 
necticut : "Born about 1728, he enHsted in the colonial troops of King 
George the 2d while yet a mere youth, was with the British troops at the 
capture of Louisburg in 1745, and was with Wolfe on the Heights of Abra- 
ham in 1759, that last terrible struggle between the English and French for 
the possession of the best part of America." At the breaking out of the 
Revolutionary war, although an officer in the army of George IH., he warmly 
espoused the patriot cause and joined the American army, and was in many 
of the important battles, notably those of Saratoga and Stillwater. He com- 
manded a detachment of troops at one time that captured some bateaux, 
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relics taken at that time remain in the family. Two of his sons lived in Mid- 
dleseXj one of whom, also named William, was an early settler, coming soon 
after the first organization of the town (or it may be before). William 
Holden, one of the first settlers of Middlesex, located on the farm now 
owned by William B. McElroy, where he reared a family of four sons and 
five daughters. He was a prominent man in town affairs, his name first 
appearing on the town records in 1792 as lister, and often in the next twenty 
years as a town officer in various capacities. Mr. Holden died at Middlesex, 
March 3, 18 13. aged forty-nihe years four months. His wife, Hannah (Parker), 
died June 12, 1834, aged sixty-three. 

Horace Holden, Esq., eldest son of William and Hannah Holden, was 
probably the best known man in town in his day. Born the year the town 
was organized, he may be said to have grown up with it. A man of energy, 
ability, and integrity, he begun in early life to have a large influence in mold- 
ing and fashioning the new town. Elected town clerk about 1820, he held 
the office thirty-two years, and was succeeded by his sons, William H., who 
was town clerk for nineteen years, and Charles B., who was in that office at 
the time of his death, in July, 1878, making over fifty-six years that the office 
was in the same family. Horace Holden was also one of the leading justices 
of the peace for nearly forty years. Living all his mature life on the farm 
where he cut the first tree, about 181 2, and being of a cheerful and hospi- 
table spirit, his house became a pleasant place to all visitors, and he was well 
known and esteemed by almost every inhabitant of the town. As the town 
seldom had any lawyer he did most of the conveyancing of lands, and was 
often the poor man's counselor in cases of trouble. Always foremost in every 
good work, he lived beloved and died lamented at the age of seventy-four. 
He was often honored with the highest public trusts in the gift of his towns- 
men, and represented the town in the legislature of 1842 and '43. 

William Xerxes Holden, second son of William Holden, born at Middle- 
sex in 1792, lived on his father's farm for awhile, and built the house now 
standing there. He afterwards built the house where Levi Swift now lives, 
and owned that place for many years. He was a good farmer and a quiet 
citizen. He was a volunteer at the battle of Plattsburgh, he and his brother 
Horace serving as musicians. He represented his native town in the legisla- 
ture at three different sessions, and held various town offices. He sold his 
farm previous to i860, and lived the last few years of his life at Middlesex 
village. 

Moses Holden, (born in 1800, died in 1878,) another son of William, was a 
farmer at first, and was a very remarkable worker. It is said that when a 
young man he once threshed with a flail 100 bushels of com in a day, and 
carried it all from the barn into the chamber of the house, some ten rods 
away. He afterwards kept store in company with his father-in-law, Jesse 
Johnson, at the village, where he was quite successful. Both partners left 



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large estates. Although he never sought office, Mr. Holden was often 
honored in that way, and represented the town in 1853 and '54. 

Philander Holden, now living at Swampscott, Mass., is the only survivor of 
the family. He has been a merchant at Middlesex, Newton, Mass., and for 
many years at Swampscott. He was first constable of Middlesex in 1843, 
'44, and '46, and soon after left the state. In Massachusetts he has held 
many offices of trust and responsibility. The five daughters of William Hol- 
den were Catharine, who married Joseph Chapin ; Nancy, who married 
Luther Farrar ; Polly, who married Lewis McElroy ; Lucretia, who married 
John S. Rice ; and Lucinda, who married Elisha Scott. Time would fail me 
to write even a brief history of the next generation. 

Joseph Chapin, Sr., one of the pioneer settlers of Middlesex, was born in 
Connecticut, October 28, 1758. He was the fifth generation in direct de- 
scent from Samuel Chapin, Esq., of Dartmouth, England, who came to 
America in 1633, and was one of the first settlers of Agawam, now Spring- 
field, Mass. Joseph Chapin came to Vermont soon after the close of the 
Revolutionary war, in which he had been a soldier under Washington's com- 
mand. He was an iron worker or blacksmith by trade in his youth, and dur- 
ing the war was often detailed to repair the arms damaged in battle. He was 
a man of large frame, strong arm, and a determined will. After a few years' 
residence at Weathersfield, Vt., where his first wife, Mary Stoughton, died, 
in 1796, he came to Middlesex, his first purchase of land here being in 1798. 
He had probably visited various parts of the state earlier, as the writer has 
heard him tell of shooting otters in Otter creek, and of hunting exploits in 
other places. His first pitch in this town was a part of the farm now owned 
by H. L. McElroy ; but his title proving defective, he gave it up and bought 
the first lot north of the center of the town. This section was then an un- 
broken wilderness. Here Mr. Chapin cleared up a farm, married Polly Howe, 
in 1806, built a good house, and lived in it until 1826, when he removed to 
the second lot east, and built another house, where he resided most of the 
time up to his death, January 14, 1851. His was a long life of labor 
and hardship, wars and fightings at various times and places, for when the 
British invaded the Lake Champlain region, in September, 18 14, the old 
veteran took down his gun, and with his oldest son, Joseph Chapin, Jr., 
marched in Capt. Holden Putnam's company, of Col. John Peck's regi- 
ment, to the battle-ground at Plattsburgh, where they were in the fight 
and under fire from the enemy until •' McDonough gained the victory." 
Again, when the " Patriot " rebellion started up on the Canadian border, in 
1837, he brought out that same old gun for llie boys to carry, " or he would 
go himself." Many guns were collected at Middlesex at that time for the 
use of the patriots and their helpers from the state, but the rebeUion collapsed 
before any of them were used. Mr. Chapin was for a long time lieutenant in 
the military company of his town, and was frequently in town office. Always 
prominent in promoting good works, he lived and died respected by his towns- 



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men and neighbors. He was a stalwart farmer, a Federalist and Whig in 
politics, and although descended from the strictest sect of the Puritans, was 
independent and liberal in his religious views. A gentleman of the old 
school, be enjoyed his pipe and mug, a good story, and a lively dance. He 
had quaint, quiet humor, a cheerful mind, and, though never rich, was ever 
ready to help the poor. He outlived most of his old comrades, and passed 
away in his ninety-third year. 

Joseph Chapin, Jr., was born at Weathersfield, Vt., June 25, 1792. He 
came to Middlesex with his father's family about the close of that century, 
and was an active farmer's boy until his majority. In 181 4 he worked for 
Captain Holden Putnam, and was a volunteer in Capt. Putnam's company at 
the battle of Plattsburgh. It was a severe service to many of the younger and 
inexperienced soldiers. Poorly supplied with clothing and camp equipage, 
many of them were sick with colds and camp fever after the battle, and 
several died, among them a brother of the Captain. Mr. Chapin escaped 
with a hard sickness. March 6, 18 17, he married Catharine Holden and set- 
tled at Middlesex Center, where for fifty-four years he lived the life of a quiet, 
thrifty, industrious farmer — never seeking nor accepting public office, but was 
always ready to aid and encourage all enterprises for public good. In 1843 
he built a hall that was used for town meetings until 1885. About 1845 he 
invested all his surplus capital in the stock of the Vermont Central railroad. 
He lost every dollar thus invested, but the public receive a great benefit from 
the completed railroad. Mrs. Chapin died February 6, 1838. Mr. Chapin 
servived her thirty-three years, and never married again. He died March 25, 
1 87 1. Four of his six children are now living. His oldest daughter died in 
1849, and the eldest son was accidentally killed on the cars in 185 1. 

Asa Chapin, youngest son of Joseph Chapin, Sr., was born at Middlesex, 
May 15, 1807, and for more than fifty years lived on the same farm where 
his father died. He was industrious and peaceable, a good citizen, and a 
Christian gentleman. His only son was drowned at the age of ten years. 
Asa Chapin died March 9, 1888, respected by all who knew him. 

Hon. William Chapin, son of Joseph Chapin, Jr., was born December 7, 
1831, on the old homestead, where his father lived and died. He has been 
an active and intelligent farmer, and has somewhat improved the old rough 
hill farm. He was town representative from 1880 to 1882, state senator from 
1884 to 1888, and is now a member of the state board of agriculture. He 
married Catharine L., daughter of the late Dea. Jonas Abbott, of Worcester, 
May 15, i860. They have four sons living, viz.: Harry L. at Oak Hill, Fla.; 
Joseph A. is "farmer" at the state experiment station at South Burlington ; 
and William A. and Hinkley B. still labor on the home farm. Edgar L. died 
December 14, 1887, aged nineteen. Forrest Dorset, son of Joseph A. Chapin, 
born February 6. 1888, is the only representative of the ninth generation of 
this family in America. 



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Capt. Rufus Chamberlin came to Middlesex from Greenfield, Mass., about 
1800. After a residence in Middlesex of four years he returned to Green- 
field, and after two years' residence there he again settled in Middlesex, where 
he spent the remainder of his long life. He died at the advanced age of 
eighty-four years and six months. He was a prominent and influential citi- 
zen, served his town as selectman, and was once or twice a member of the 
Constitutional Convention. Only one of his family of nine children is now 
livin^, viz.: Oliver A., who was born in 1804, and resides in Middlesex. He 
married Bulah Farrar, of Moretown, and they were parents of two children 
now deceased. He has held the offices of justice of the peace, selectman^ 
lister, constable, and collector, and has been the representative of his town in 
three sessions of the legislature. He now, in his green old age, resides with 
H. L. McElroy. Solomon W., son of Capt. Rufus Chamberlin, was born in 
Greenfield, Mass., and came to Middlesex with his father and resided there 
to the close of his life. His son, J. Burt Chamberlain, was a soldier in the 
late war, and now resides on road 28. 

Capt. Robert McElroy, of Springfield, settled in Middlesex in 1804, on the 
farm where the Hon. William Chapin now lives. He later removed to the 
village, where he owned mills. He exchanged the mills for a farm about two 
miles north of the village, where he resided until his death, about 1846 or '47. 
He was a prominent citizen, captain of militia, and bore his share of the 
burdens of the town. He served as selectman and overseer of the poor. All 
but one of his four sons and three daughters settled in Middlesex. Harry, 
son of Capt. Robert, was born in Springfield, in 1799, came to Middlesex 
with his parents, and resided in town until his death, in 1867. His children 
were Clesson R., who served as lieutenant in the Union army, was a valiant 
officer, and was held in high esteem by both officers and privates ; H. L., who 
was superintendent of schools several years ; and William B., who is the clerk 
of Middlesex. Jerry, son of Capt. McElroy, was a carpenter and joiner, 
resided in Middlesex and Montpelier most of his life, and died in Middlesex 
in 1866. He married Florilla Broderick, of Waterbury. Their children now 
living are F. M., of Middlesex, Ella (Mrs. C. C. Warren), of .Waterbury, and 
Mrs. Matilda A. Hatch, of Montpelier. 

Cyrus Hill, a native of Rhode Island, settled in Middlesex about 1811. 
He enlisted in the Revolutionary army, at the age of nineteen, and served 
through the war. He afterwards settled in Canada; but when required to 
" swear allegiance to the King " he removed to Vermont. While he was a 
soldier he was frequently employed as a runner by General Washington to 
carry dispatches. He died on the farm where he settled in 181 1, at the ad- 
vanced age of ninety-four years. His son Hubbard succeeded him on the 
homestead, married Hannah Burdick Hill, and were parents of three daugh- 
ters who are now (1888) all living. Their daughter, Mrs. Moses Silloway, 
and her husband reside on the old homestead, and are parents of a son, Ora 
F., who represents the fourth generation at the old home. 



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Dan p. Carpenter, born December 8, 1808, was the son of Nathaniel Car- 
penter, one of the early settlers of Middlesex. He married Hannah Hutchins, 
granddaughter of Joseph Hutchins, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, 
and an early settler of Middlesex. Mr. Carpenter served many years as jus- 
tice of the peace, was a notary public, overseer of the poor, represented More- 
town in the legislature, and was assistant judge of Washington Court Court 
two terms. Mrs Carpenter still resides in Middlesex. 

Stephen Herrick, a farmer, came to Middlesex from Randolph, Vt., in 
1820, and located about two miles north of the village. He was a long time 
superintendent of schools and filled other town offices. He also gained noto- 
riety by finally succeeding in a long continued litigation with the Central 
Vermont Railroad Co. He married Lydia,' daughter of Rev. Nathaniel King, 
and reared one son and eight daughters. His son, N. K. Herrick, born in 
Middlesex, November 3, 1822, was a commercial traveler twenty-five years, 
and is now a merchant and farmer. Stephen Herrick died in March, 1886, 
aged ninety years. 

Dudley B. Culver came from Groton, Conn., to Montpelier in 1809. Thomas 
Culver, his father, settled in Middlesex, on the farm where Orvis Sawyer now 
lives, in 1814. When Dudley B. was twenty-one years old he bought the farm 
where his son Daniel R. now lives. In 1827 he married Phebe Garrison, of 
Montpelier, and for fifty-three years resided where he first settled. Only two 
of their six children, William and Daniel R., are living. Mrs. Culver died 
in 1843. After her death Mr. Culver married Mrs. Betsey Hewitt. He died 
in 1880. 

Daniel Taylor, from Connecticut, came to Berlin, and was a pioneer set- 
tler of the town, near Berlin Corners. He was a farmer, and also kept a 
public house. His family of seven children are all deceased. His son Daniel 
was born in Berlin, and removed to Irasburg, Vt., in 1836. About 1871 he 
came to Middlesex and resided there until his death. His son Chester now 
resides in Middlesex. 

Samuel Daniels came from Unity, N. H., to Middlesex, in 181 1, and set- 
tled on the farm where his son Sylvanus now lives. He was a soldier in the 
War of 1 81 2, and was at the battle of Plattsburgh. He cleared the farm 
where he first settled, and made it his home to the close of his life, about 
1873. He was prominent in town affairs, was selectman many years, and 
held other responsible positions. Only four of his eight children are now 
living, viz.: Sylvanus, before mentioned, who resides on the old homestead, 
Louisa (Mrs. Jeremiah Leland), Mrs. Abigail Clark, of Montpelier, and Mrs. 
Lorinda Jones, of Northfield. 

Rufus Moatagu was born in Montague, Mass., in 1785, and removed to 
Middlesex in 1806. He purchased the farm of his brother Samuel who had 
preceded him two years, and where his sons Rufus D. and George now live. 
He married three times, first, Nancy Fisher, of Middlesex, second, Mandana 
C. Kelton, of Montpelier, and third, Mrs. Eunice Bates, of Worcester. His 



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■first wife bore him one son; his second, two. William and Charles are dead, 
and Rufus D. and George reside on the old homestead. 

Otis C. Leland was born in 1828, and has always resided in Middlesex. 
He represented his town in the legislature of 1884. 

Ezra Nichols was an early settler of Middlesex, and located near the 
center of the town. His son Paul C. was born, reared, and resided in town 
until his death in 1847. He married Abigail Chaffee. Four of their chil- 
<iren now reside in Middlesex, viz.: Mrs. G. T. Miles, Mrs. J. C. Lewis, Mrs. 
W. L. Lewis, and H. W. Nichols, who was a soldier in Co. D, 2d Vt, Regt., 
in the late war, and is now one of the board of selectmen. 

Jacob Ladd came to Middlesex from Claremont, N. H., in 1816, and set- 
tled on the farm where his son George H. now lives. He married Polly 
Nichols, and four of their children are now living, viz.: George H., Mrs. 
I. R. Densmore, Harriet, and Mrs. S. Bliss, of Montpelier. 

Duncan Cameron, a Scotchman, went to Quebec with General Wolfe. He 
made his way to Williamstown, Mass., and removed to Barre some time be- 
fore 1800. He reared a numerous family and died in Barre. His son Dan- 
iel resided in Berlin, then Duxbury, and settled in Middlesex, where he died 
in 1844. His son A. J. now resides in Middlesex, and his son Ira in Wor- 
cester. 

Lewis Ward came to Moretown from Springfield, Vt., in 1815, and settled 
in the eastern part of the town, and cleared a farm. He married Zilpha 
Field, of Springfield, and they had one son, David, who now resides in Mid- 
dlesex. Mr. Ward came to this town about 18 18, and here resided until his 
death. David was born in Moretown, has been an employee of the Central 
Vermont R. R. Co., and is now engaged in farming. He has been overseer 
of the poor, and is now (1888) selectman. 

Zerah Hills came from Connecticut to Berlin in 1801. Their son Zerah, 
who was born in Connecticut, married Patty Davenport, of Berlin, and set- 
tled in Middlesex about 1815, and engaged in the occupation of wheel- 
wright. He was captain of militia, selectman, and was otherwise honored 
by his town. Three of his five children are now living, viz.: Lorenzo D. in 
Duxbury, and Lotisa Knapp and Justin B. in Middlesex. 

Elijah Holden came to Middlesex from Springfield, Vt., in 1823. He was 
a farmer and lived in Middlesex, Barre, and Waitsfield. He died in the last 
named town in 1876, aged eighty-eight years. He was a man of influence 
and enterprise, and was active in public affairs. He had ten children, three 
of whom are now living, viz.: James H., Josiah, and Mary E. (Mrs. Capt. 
O. C. Wilder), of Waitsfield. His son WilUam, a young man of fine talents, died 
in Mississippi in 1839, at the age of twenty-four. Hon. James H. Holden, 
son of Elijah, was born in Middlesex in 1829. On arriving at maturity he 
went Massachusetts, and was there engaged in business seven years. He 
then returned so Middlesex, and engaged in mercantile trade, which he con- 
tinues at the present time (1888). Judge Holden has been very prominent 



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in public affairs. He represented Middlesex in the legislature of i860, and 
n 1861 was appointed postmaster and held the office until 1885. From 1872 
to 1876 he was associate judge of Washington County Court, was county- 
commissioner two years, selectman in 1862, '63, '64, and has also served as 
lister. 

Elisha Scott, born at Crown Point, N. Y., in 1800, came to Middlesex 
about 1825. He married Lucinda Holden, and reared three children to 
maturity. Two are now living, William L. and Mrs. Delia H. Rice. George 
W. died in Andersonville prison. Elisha Scott enlisted in the Union army in 
186 1, and served three years. He died on the farm where his son William 
L. now lives. 

Jesse Flint settled in Worcester about 1812. About 1827 he came from 
Canaan, N. H., to Middlesex, and died here June i, 1845, aged fifty-five 
years. He was a farmer. Two of his sons and a daughter now reside in 
Middlesex, viz.: Jesse, John D., and Mrs. Fannie Davis. Jesse has been 
justice of the peace, and his son John P. was selectman in 188 1. 

Sithus F. Wells, a native of Hill, N. H., came to East Montpelier about 
1836. He afterwards resided for a time in Worcester, then in Middlesex, 
where he died in 1883. His sonn Levi R. resides on road 22, and his 
daughter, Mrs. Levi Swift, resides on road 37 in Middlesex. 

Peter Nelson came to Montpelier from Deerfield, Mass., with his father 
when he was but eight years old. His father settled near the center of East 
Montpelier. Peter Nelson reared a numerous family, and died about 1875. 
His sons Lewisand James reside in Calais, A. S. in Middlesex; his daughters, 
Mrs. Catharine A. Smith and Mrs. Mary J. Struthers, reside in Milford. 

Rufus Wiggins, son of Nathaniel, was born in Montpelier in 1806. He 
resided there and in East Montpelier until about 1833, when he settled in 
Middlesex, on road 17. He married, first, Orosella Lewis, and second, Celia 
Smith. Mr. Wiggins died in 1881. His first wife bore him eight children, 
of whom six are now living, viz.: C. C, Orville K., Lewis W., and Mrs. Susan 
Cummings, who reside in Middlesex, Mrs. Sophia Willey, of Worcester, and 
Mrs. Phebe R. Davis, of Goffstown, N. H. 

John Kirkland was born in Manchester, England, in 181 1, emigrated to 
America in 1846, and located in Montpelier, where he followed the trade of 
house joiner. In 1851 he settled in Middlesex on the farm where he now 
resides. He has five sons and two daughters, viz.: John, Jr., and James re- 
side with their father ; David and Jennie in Barre ; Charles owns a farm in 
company with Martin Chandler in Middlesex ; William is an employee on a 
railroad in Nebraska ; and Fannie resides in Montpelier. 

Issachar R. Densmore was born in Charlestown, N. H., in 1832, and set- 
tled on the farm where he now lives, in Middlesex, in 1857. He enjoys the 
confidence of his townsmen, who have elected him to the offices of justice of 
the peace and grand juror. 



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Marcus Maxham, a native of Woodstock, and a carpenter and farmer, set- 
tled in Worcester in 1840. He reared nine children, five of whom are now 
living. George and Benjamin F. reside in Middlesex. Benjamin F. was born 
in Worcester in 181 5. He married Lucy Andrews, of Berlin, and in early 
life resided awhile m several different locations. In 1854 he settled in Mid- 
dlesex. His children are WiUiam H. H., John W., Luther, and Mrs. Emily 
Blodgett, of Worcester. 

Ichabod Curamings came to Middlesex from Washington, Vt., in 1830, 
and settled on the farm where his son William O. now lives, on road 8. He 
married a daughter of Jacob Putnam, an early settler of Middlesex. He 
cleared his farm, and reared a son and two daughters. William O., before 
mentioned, who resides on the homestead, and Mrs. J. W. Maxham are now 

living. 

Simon Chase came to Woodbury from Barre in 181 1 or 181 2. He died in 
Woodbury in 1839, aged ninety-six years. He was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tionary war. His son Silas was born in 1778, and also settled in Woodbury 
about 181 2, and was a miller. He was employed to run a mill in Calais, and 
in East Montpelier. He died in 1865, aged eighty-seven years. His daughter, 
Mrs. Bethany Hackett, resides in Calais, his son Chester in Woodbury, and 
Almon in Middlesex. Almon has two sons in Middlesex and two in North- 
field. 

Ira EUis, son of Benjamin, who settled in East Montpelier in 1806, was 
six months old at the time his parents came to East Montpelier. He was 
reared on the farm in the northern part of the town where his parents settled. 
He settled on wild land in Calais when he was twenty-three years old, and 
three years later married Sally AUar, and resided on the farm where he first 
settled until 1887, when he removed to Middlesex. His son Warren resides 
in Worcester, Ira in Calais, and his daughter, Mrs. Evalin Hall, in Elmore, 
Lamoille county. His wife died in 187 1. He married, second, Mrs. Polly 
Keyes, of Middlesex. 

Those known to have been soldiers in the Revolutionary war, who resided 
in Middlesex, were Seth Putnam, cousin of Gen. Israel Putnam, Joseph 
Chapin, Sr., Col. Joseph Hutchins, Lyman Tolman, David Phelps, Micah 
Hatch, Estes Hatch, Mr. Sloan, James Hobart, and Cyrus Hill. 

At the time the British invaded Plattsburgh, N. Y., Captain Holden Put- 
nam led his command, composed of soldiers from Middlesex and vicinity, to 
the scene of battle. Those who went with him from Middlesex were Xerxes 
Holden, Horace Holden, Lewis Putnam, Zebina Warren, Nathaniel Carpen- 
ter, Alanson Carpenter, Samuel Barrett, David Harrington, Ephraim Keyes, 
Benjamin Chatterton, Nathan Huntley, Abram Gale, Rufus Chamberlin, 
Rufus Leland, Samuel Mead, Jesse Johnson, Hubbard Wiley, and "Priest" 
Cole. The Sunday before the battle " Priest " Cole preached a fiery and 
patriotic sermon, and urged every man that was able to bear arms to go 
and aid in driving the British from our country. Before the week closed he 



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enlisted and was on his way with the company to Plattsburgh. When they 
had reached the lake Captain Putnam drew his company into line, and gave 
the order for " all who had cannon fever, and did not want to cross the lake, 
to fall back to the rear." Every man maintained his place in Hne except 
" Priest" Cole, who stepped a few paces to the rear and there remained. A 
few days after the battle Esquire Nathaniel Carpenter met him in the village 
of Middlesex, gave him a familiar slap, and said, " ' Priest ' Cole, I never was 
more surprised in my life than I was to see you step back and not want to 
meet the British." " Esquire Carpenter," Mr. Cole coolly replied, " it is a 
great deal easier to preach than to practice." 

In the late civil war there was credited to Middlesex twenty-one soldiers 
who enlisted for one year, twenty-eight who enlisted for nine months, eighty- 
two who enlisted for three years, and three who were drafted and entered the 
sevice. Eight paid commutation and one furnished a substitute. 

21ie Union society, composed of the Congregational church, organized by 
Rev. Elisha Baxter and Rev. Chester Wright, March 25, 1831, with nine 
members, and the Methodist Episcopal church, organized by Rev. E. J. Scott, 
P. E., and Rev. E. Copeland, April 10, T839, ^^^ ^ brick church edifice 
located at Middlesex village. This house was built for the Congregational 
society by John Hobart and Solomon Wells, in 1837. In 1838 a portion of 
it was sold to the Methodist society, and the " Union Society " was then 
formed. Rev. Elisha Baxter was the first pastor of the Congregational church 
and Samuel Button its first deacon. Rev. E. Copeland was the first resident 
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church. The Congregational church has 
had no pastor for several years. The Methodist, long before 1839 and some 
time later, was a station on the circuit which embraced Montpelier, Montpelier 
Center, Moretown hill, Jones's brook, Middlesex, Middlesex Center, and East 
Middlesex. Middlesex and Middlesex Center are now in one charge, and have 
had a continuous ministry since 1839. -^"'^^ meeting-house at Middlesex will 
comfortably seat 250 persons, and is valued at $1,000. 

The Freewill Baptist church, located at Shady Rill, in Middlesex, was 
organized January 6, 1850, by Rev. E. B. Fuller, with twenty-five members. 
Rev. E. B. Fuller was the first pastor. Their present meeting-house was 
built in 1849, by the Martin Brook Meeting- House society, and dedicated 
September 22, 1849. ^^ has seats for an audience of 200, and with grounds 
and other church property is valued at $1,000. The church now has a mem- 
bership of thirty-four, and at present is without a pastor. The Sunday-school 
has fifty members. 



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TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



MONTPELIER, the capital of Vermont and the county seat of Wash- 
ington county, lies about ten miles northeast from the geographical 
center of the state, and near the center of the county, in latitude 
44" 17' and longitude 4° 23', and is bounded northerly by Middlesex and 
East Montpelier, easterly by Berlin, from which it is separated by the Wi- 
nooski river, southerly by Berlin, and westerly by Berlin and Middlesex. The 
township was granted October 21, 1780, and was chartered August 14, 1781, 
to Timothy Bigelow and fifty-nine associates, to contain 23,040 acres, and 
given the name of Montpelier. This name was bestowed by Colonel Jacob 
Davis, the first permanent settler and a leading proprietor, and probably is a 
namesake of the ancient city of Montpelier in France. By an act of the leg- 
islature of 1848 the town was divided, and the town of East Montpelier was 
organized January i, 1849, from the territory set off, and contains 18,670 
acres, which leaves Montpelier an area of only 4,370 acres, lying in the west- 
erly corner of the original township. 

The town presents an uneven and hilly surface, which is drained by the 
Winooski river that washes its southern boundary, and " The Little " North 
Branch, which flows down from Worcester across the northeast corner of 
Middlesex, and entering the town at the Httle hamlet of Wrightsville flows 
south and through the village of Montpelier, where it discharges its waters 
into the Winooski. 

The rock formations that enter into the geology of this town are clay slate, 
with beds of litnestotie in the southern part, and talcose schist in the northern 
and western parts. 

In 1 741 Bcnning Wentworth was commissioned governor of the province 
of New Hampshire. When Fort Dummer was built in the present limits of 
the state of Vermont, in 1724, (in the southeast corner of Brattleboro,) the 
fort was supposed to be within the territory of Massachusetts ; but when 
the line was established between New Hampshire and Massachusetts Fort 
Dummer was found to be north of the last named province, and as the King 
of Great Britain repeatedly recommended the government of New Hampshire 
to provide for its support, it was generally supposed, as it was situated on the 
west side of the Connecticut, that New Hampshire extended as far west as 
Massachusetts. Upon this supposition Gov. Wentworth, January 3, 1749, 
granted a township six miles square, twenty miles east of the Hudson river, 
and six miles north of Massachusetts line, and in honor of his name called it 
Bennington, located as he supposed on the western boundary of New Hamp- 
shire. He continued to make grants of townships until, in 1764, he had in 
this manner disposed of 138. All this time the province of New York had 
claimed the territory from the west bank of the Connecticut, including the 
whole of the state of Vermont. His Majesty the King decided, by a decree 
July 20, 1764, that the territory in dispute did belong to New York, but in 
1767 made restrictions on granting lands by New York, which restrictions 



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were not observed. This gave rise to the " I^and Title Controversy," and re- 
sulted in the rising of the " Green Mountain Boys " in their " might and 
majesty," the formation of the state of Vermont in 1777, ^"d its admission 
into the sisterhood of states in 1791. As a means for revenue for the infant 
state, and to encourage the settlement of her unoccupied territory, the Gen- 
eral Assembly, in October, 1780, appointed a committee of nine prominent 
members, selected from the most important towns of the state, to take into 
consideration the situation of the ungranted lands, and how to best dispose of 
them by grants for the best interest of the state and its treasury. " In Gen- 
eral Assembly" this committee reported, " Saturday, October 21, 17S0." 
" That, in our opinion the following tract, viz.: Lying east of and adjoining 
Middlesex, on Onion River, and partly north of Berlin, containing 23,040 
acres, be granted by the Assembly, unto Col. Timothy Bigelow and Company,, 
by the name of Montpelier. Signed, Paul Spooner, Chairman.'' 

The same date as above the Assembly concurred with the recommenda- 
tion of the report, and requested the governor and council to fix the price of 
compensation and issue a charter. This they at once complied with, and 
"stated the fees at four hundred and eighty pounds for the s'd land," to be 
paid by Col. Bigelow or his attorney, in hard money, or its equivalent in Con- 
tinental currency, on the execution of the charter of incorporation on before 
the 20th day of January next. Probably because the fees were not paid 
the first charter was not issued until August 14, 1781. This was the first 
grant recommended by the committee, and the first authorized by the Gen- 
eral Assembly of Vermont. 

The charter was imperfect and faulty. No boundaries of the town were 
given. All pine trees suitable for a navy were reserved for the use of the state, 
and each proprietor was bound to plant and cultivate five acres of land, and 
build a house at least eighteen feet square on the floor, within the term of 
three years next after the circumstances of the war will admit, on penalty of 
the forfeiture of each respective right. Under this imperfect charter the 
town was surveyed, allotted, and organized. 

The incongruities discovered in the first charter influenced those interested 
to apply to the legislature for a new charter, which was readily granted. This 
charter was executed at Windsor, Vt., February 6, 1804, and signed "Isaac 
Tichnor. By His Excellency's command, David Wing, Jr., Secretary of 
State." It clearly defines the boundaries of Montpelier, imposes no condi- 
tions, and reserves five rights for public purposes, as follows : One right for 
the use of a seminary or college, one for the use of a county grammar school, 
one for the settled minister, one for the support of social worship of God, 
and one for the support of an English school or schools in the township. 

The proprietors held their first meeting at the house of EHakim Stoddard, 
innholder in Arlington, Vt., August 17, 1784 and transacted business as 
follows : — 

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"Arlington, Tuesday, August 17th, 1784. 

"Agreeable to foregoing warning, the Proprietors met, and the meeting 
was opened at the house of EHakiin Stoddard, Esq., and the Proprietors pro- 
ceeded to the business of the meeting, agreeably to warning, as follows, viz : — 

" I. Voted, Major Gideon Ormsby, Moderator of this meeting. 

" 3. Voted, That Thomas Tolman, Esq., be, and is hereby appointed Clerk 
of this Propriety. 

" 3. Voted, That Jonas Galusha, Esq., be, and is hereby chosen and ap- 
pointed Treasurer of this Propriety. 

" 4. Voted, That we will layout a First Division of lands in said Town- 
ship. 

"5. Voted, That 150 acres be the quantity of the First Division in said 
Township, to be laid out as soon as circumstances will admit. 

" 6. Voted, That we will appoint a committee of six, four of whom shall 
transact the business, to lay out said Division. 

" 7. Voted, That Thomas Tolman, Esq., Mr. Samuel Horsford, Major 
Gideon Ormsby, Jonas Galusha, Esq.. Mr. Joseph Dagget, and Lieut. Samuel 
Beach be, and are hereby appointed our said committee. 

"8. Voted, That this meeting stand adjourned to the first Monday in April 
next, which will be in the year 1785, then to meet at the house of Thomas 
Tolman, Esq, in this town, at two of the clock, in the afternoon ; and the 
meeting was accordingly adjourned. 

"Attest, Thomas Tolman, Propr's Clerk." 

No meeting convened the first Monday in April, 1785, pursuant to adjourn- 
ment, but a new warning summoned a meeting of the proprietors to again 
assemble at the house of Eliakim Stoddard, Esq., in Arlington, January 11, 
1786. Timothy Brownson, moderator, and Thomas Tolman, clerk, were con- 
firmed. This meeting ratified the proceedings of the first meeting, voted an 
addition of five acres to each lot in the first division to be made, accepted 
the proposition of Col. Jacob Davis to survey the first division of seventy 
lots, at ^i 3s. lod. per right, and appointed a new committee, consisting of 
Col. Jacob Davis, Ebenezer Waters (or Caleb Ammedon on his failure), 
Samuel Horsford, Col. Samuel Robinson, and Capt. Abiaiher Waldo, to lay 
out the work. The next meeting was held at the house of Thomas Tolman, 
according to adjournment, January 9, 1787. Mr. Brownson was absent, 
and Col. Jacob Davis was elected moderator. The survey of the first division 
of the township, completed in the summer of 1786, was accepted. Col. 
Davis's bill for surveying was allowed; and other bills, in total ^83 4s. 2d., 
and a tax ordered, and Joseph Dagget appointed to collect it, in time for a 
vendue sale of the rights of delinquent proprietors, on the second Tuesday of 
June ensuing. 

It was found that Joel Frizzel, as owner of the right of James Gamble, had 
made his " pitch " and became an actual settler of the township. His pitch 
was confirmed to him, to contain 100 acres, and three acres as an allowance 
for highways. This parcel or lot of land is located in the southwest corner of 
Montpelier, on the Winooski river, and adjoining the town of Middlesex. 

For purposes of ordering surveys, constructing roads, and levying taxes, 
meetings of proprietors were held from time to time, as late as May 14, 1795, 



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when " no business appearing before the meeting, Voted, that this meeting be 
dissolved." Then the tovi^nship had been surveyed into four divisions, all 
of it allotted to the several proprietors, and the town legally organized and 
harmoniously marching onward with systematic and efficient town govern- 
ment. And all this was accomplished under their imperfect first charter. 

The first settlement was made in the spring of 1786, by Joel Frizzel, in 
the extreme southwest corner of the town. Frizzel was a hunter and trapper, 
had acquired the right of James Gamble, an original proprietor, made his 
pitch as before described, built a log cabin, moved into it with his wife, de- 
scribed as a " little red-headed French woman," and cleared a piece of ground 
and planted it with corn. He was appointed one of a committee to lay out 
the third division of the town, in January, 1787, and, as near as can be ascer- 
tained, resided in Montpelier about five years. The second, and first perma- 
nent, settler of Montpelier was Col. Jacob Davis, who started irom Brookfield 
with his nephew, Parley Davis, a hired man, and one horse, all heavily laden 
with provisions, tools, and necessary equipage for cooking and camping, on 
the morning of May 3, 1787, and arrived in the evening of the same day at 
the house of Seth Putnam, in the southeast corner of Middlesex, and adjoin- 
ing the lot where Frizzel then lived. The next day Col. Davis constructed a 
road from Mr. Putnam's, along the bank of the Winooski to a hunter's " lodge " . 
standing on the site of the present jail of Washington county. This hunter's 
cabin was pretty well built, with walls of logs on three sides, and thatched 
with bark. The party made this their quarters about eight or ten days, when 
they had erected a log house thirty-two by sixteen feet, into which they 
moved their effects. About this time, or before, the party had been increased 
by the arrival of the sons of Col. Davis, Jacob, Jr., aged nineteen years, and 
Thomas, aged fifteen, who came with another horse. This group of hardy 
men, domiciled in their rude cabin of rough logs without floor, doors, or win- 
dows, in the immense and dense forest, was the nucleus of the beautiful and 
thrifty village of Montpelier, and the location of the capital of the Green 
Mountain state. The intervale where the village is located was covered with 
a magnificent forest of maples. That part bounded north by Court street, 
east by the North Branch, south by the Winooski, and west by the State 
House and depot grounds, was cleared in time to plant it with corn, and 
very fortunately a good crop was harvested in the fall. The work of clearing 
land was pushed vigorously the remainder of the summer and fall, and about 
fifty acres were ready for crops in the ensuing spring. The log house was 
finished, with the building of a chimney, cellar, doors, windows, and a floor 
made of bass-wood plank, split from trees, and in the fall Col. Davis and his 
sons returned to Brookfield with the intention of returning to the new home 
as soon as there was sufficient snow to make sleighing. Near the close of 
the year 1787 the sons, before [mentioned, with their sisters, Rebecca and 
Polly, and all besides that could be carried at one load, came on to Mont- 
pelier. Jacob returned to Brookfield for the remainder of the family, but 



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heavy snow storms so blockaded the untraveled roads that the journey was 
then considered impracticable, and the son Thomas and his sisters were left 
sole masters of the situation until March, when they were gladdened by the 
arrival of the remainder of the family. 

In the spring clearing was again prosecuted, crops raised on the ground 
cleared, and Col. Davis erected the first saw-mill in Montpelier, on the North 
Branch, the site of the Lane Manufacturing Go's works. The next season, 
1789, he built the first grist-mill. September 22, of this year, occurred the 
birth of his youngest daughter, Clarissa, the first child born in town. 

The first wagon was brought into town by Thomas Davis, from Vergen- 
nes, who had to cut his way from Williston to Montpelier. The first male 
child born in town was James, son of Solomon Dodge, April 5, 1790. The 
first school was taught by Jacob Davis, Jr., in a log house on the river near 
Middlesex line, in 1789, and continued till about 1791, when David Wing, 
Jr., later secretary of state, taught a school in Col. Davis's house. The first 
marriage recorded in town is that of Jacob Davis, Jr., of Montpelitr, and 
Caty Taplin, of Berhn, October 3. 1791. The bride's father, John Taplin, 
Esq., performed the ceremony. Col. Davis completed the first frame house 
in the summer of 1790. This house contained two stories and an attic, and 
served as a dwelling and hotel for all comers and goers. James Hawkins,, 
the first blacksmith, raised the first frame for a house a few days befure Col. 
Davis's, but did not complete it as soon. 

Prince Edward of England, Duke of Kent, son of George III., and father 
of Queen Victoria, was the first notable stranger who visited Montpelier. 
He came in the winter of 1790-91, with an armed escort of twenty men to 
defend his person and taste his food, and save him from poison. He was the 
guest of Col. Davis for one night. 

Spaulding Pierce was the first physician, in 1790. Charles Buckley, the 
first lawyer, settled here in 1797. Rev. Ziba Woodworth, a Freewill Baptist, 
was the first minister and the first town clerk. The first mechanics were 
Col. Earned Lamb, carpenter and millwright ; James Hawkins, blacksmith ;, 
and Paul Knapp, bnckmaker. David Tolman was the first clothier. 

December i, 1791, was the first Thanksgiving day observed in town. The 
first social ball occurred at the house of Col. Davis, on the evening of Decem- 
ber 2, 1 79 1. The first death on the town records is that of " Theophilus 
Wilson Brooks, drowned December 3, 1791." 

John Taplin, a justice of the peace, on the application of Jacob Davis, 
Clark Stevens, and Jonathan Cutler, (to make the matter legal there should 
have been four petitioners,) issued a warrant to Clark Stevens, directing him 
to warn the inhabitants of Montpelier to meet at the dwelling house of Jacob 
Davis, in Montpelier, Tuesday, March 29, 179 i, at 9 o'clock a. m., for the 
purpose of forming a tjwn government. Mr. Stevens duly warned the 
people, who assembled at the time and place appointed, and proceeded- to- 
accomplish this organization, as follows: — 



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" At a town meeting of the inhabitants of Montpelier, legally warned and 
met at the dwelling-house of Col. Jacob Davis, in said Montpelier, on the 
29th day of March, 1791, — Proceeded to choose a Moderator, &c., &c. 

" ist. Voted, and chose Col. Jacob Davis, Moderator, to govern said meet- 
ing. 

" 2nd. Voted, and chose Ziba Woodworth, Town Clerk. 

" 3d. Voted, and chose James Hawkins, ist Select Man. 

" 4th. Voted, and chose James Taggart, 2nd Select Man. 

"5th. Voted, and chose Hiram Peck, 3d Select Man. 

"6th. Voted, and chose Jonathan Cutler, Town Treasurer. 

" 7th. Voted, and chose Parley Davis, Constable and Collector. 

^'8th. Voted, and chose Josiah Hurlbert^ ) W V, 

"9th. Voted, and chose Benj. I. Wheeler, >- ^ 

"loth. Voted, and chose Solomon Dodge, ) ^ 

"iilh. Voted, and chose Col. Jacob Davis, I 

" 1 2th. Voted, and chose Benj. I. Wheeler, >■ Listers. 

" 13th. Voted, and chose Clark Stevens, ) 

" 14th. Voted, and chose Col. Jacob Davis, Fence Viewer. 

" 15th. Voted to adjourn said meeting till the ist Tuesday of September. 

" The aforementioned officers were duly sworn and affirmed to the faithful 
discharge of their respective offices before John Taplin, Justice of the Peace 
for said County. 

"Ziba Woodworth, Town Clerk." 

Accompanying this record is a list of the names of the voters who assisted 
in organizing the town, viz.; Benjamin I. Wheeler, David Parsons, Parley 
Davis, Ebenezer Dodge, Solomon Dodge, Nathaniel Peck, David Wing, 
Lemuel Brooks, Clark Stevens, Jonathan Snow, Hiram Peck, James Hawkins, 
James Taggart, John Templeton, Elisha Cummings, Jonathan Cutler, Charles 
McLoud, Col. Jacob Davis, Isaac Putnam, Nathaniel Davis, Ziba Wood- 
worth, Jerahmel Wheeler, Smith Stevens, Charles Stevens, Edmund Doty, 
Duncan Young, Freeman West. 

It was fortunate for Col. Jacob Davis, and especially so for the town of 
Montpelier, that he, " The father of the town," had adequate means for clearing 
his farm at once, and building mills, houses, barns, etc., and consequently gave 
employment to all who needed immediate returns for their labor. It is per- 
haps more fortunate that the early pioneers were " men of great physical 
powers, resolution, and stability of purpose." They also possessed sound 
minds and good common sense. They were men of good morals, honest, 
persevering, and industrious — just the right material for pioneers. They 
located at once in all parts of the town, and at their first town meeting, in 
1 79 1, the whole territory was represented by these strong and stalwart men 
who came to stay, and many of the farms of these original settlers are now 
owned by their descendants. If the prices of farm produce and labor were 
low, their wants beyond what they could supply were few. The wages for 
the best class of laborers were $9 per month, and for occasional days from 
forty to fifty cents. Wheat brought sixty-seven cents per bushel, corn fifty, 
oats and potatoes twenty-five, the best horses $50, and the best yoke of 



326 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



oxen $40. Of imported goods, rock salt cost $3 per bushel, loaf sugar forty- 
two cents per pound, brown sugar seventeen to twenty cents, good green tea 
$2, the poorest fifty cents, calico fifty to seventy-five cents per yard, W. I. 
rum $2 per gallon, and dry salt fish eleven cents per pound. 

The rich virgin soil produced abundant crops, and the industrious farmers 
saw their fields increase in area yearly, the forest recede, and their property 
correspondingly increase, as the following grand lists plainly show : In 1792 
the total grand list was $2,141.67; 1795, $5,705.83; 1800, $15,390.93; 
and in 1805, $22,920.55. 

At the first enumeration, in 1791, the population of Montpelier was 113 ; 
1800,890; 1810,1,877; 1820,2,308; 1830,2,985; 1840,3,725. In 1850, 
the first enumeration after the town had been divided, Montpelier had a 
population of 2,310; in i860, 2,411; 1870, 3,023; and in 1880, 3,219. It 
is now estimated to be more than 4,000. 

Montpelier may be classed as a conservative town, and although she has 
had the prestige of being the capital of the state, and the shire town of the 
county, she has made no phenomenal or spasmodic growth. The town is 
especially noted for its constant and substantial growth and wealth, its ad- 
mirably managed banks, fire and life insurance companies, its successful mer- 
chants and business men, fine schools and churches, and as a good place to 
live in. 

Manufactures. 

As food, clothing, and shelter are imperative necessities in civilized life, the 
first care after the settlements of the several towns of this state was the erec- 
tion of grist-mills to reduce the farmer's grain to meal, saw-mills to cut lum- 
ber, and wool-carding and cloth-dressing-mills to furnish clothing. Col. Jacob 
Davis built a saw-mill in 1788, and a grist-mill in 1789, on the falls of the 
North Branch, which did the pioneers of Montpelier and vicinity good ser- 
vice until they were burned in 1826. Four sets of grist-mills have been built 
on the falls of the Winooski in the village of Montpelier. The most notable 
one was that owned by James R. Langdon, which was enlarged from one 
erected and owned by his father. Col. James H. Langdon. This mill was 
first-class in its day and had the capacity of manufacturing 250 barrels of 
flour daily. Mr. Langdon conducted it successfully several years. It passed 
into the hands of the Montpelier Manufacturing Company, and is now used 
by several firms. The fourth grist-mill, built at or near this location, is now 
owned and operated by E. W. Bailey & Co. 

Two wool-carding and cloth-dressing establishments took the farmers' wool, 
prepared it for spinning, then received it from the hands of the busy house- 
wives, after they had woven it into flannel, fulled, dyed, and pressed it into 
completed "homespun." This continued until these primitive manufactories 
were superceded by the invention of the rapid and efficient-working modern 
machinery. 



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In t8io Sylvanus Baldwin erected mills for manufacturing cotton sheetings 
and shirtings. These mills were run successfully until December, 1813, when 
they were unfortunately destroyed by fire. In about 1820 Amnah Waterman 
and Seth Parsons erected (for that time) a large woolen-mill, which, like its 
predecessor, had a short existence, and was burned March 22, 1826. An- 
other woolen-mill was built by Col. H. N, Baylies, in 1837, and later con- 
verted into lumber-mills. Medad Wright completed a woolen-mill in 1861, 
at his place, which he sold to William Moorcroft in 1862, who successfully 
operated it until it was burned in 1870. 

The manufacture of paper has also been attempted m a small way. Two 
paper-mills have been burned. Several other manufactures have been suc- 
cessfully conducted, such as boots and shoes, hats, saddles, nails, linseed oil, 
and whiskey. 

M. Wright &= Sons foundry and machine shops are located on the \^or- 
cester branch of the Winooski river, about three and a half miles from Mont- 
pelier village. This establishment dates back to 1834, more than half a 
century, when the senior member of the firm, Medad Wright, began business 
at this place, and where he has been constantly engaged. This company 
does a special business in the manufacture of "Wright's polishing machines." 
They also do casting and machinists' work. 

Lane MaTiufacturing Co. — This is one of the most flourishing industrial 
establishments in Vermont. The works of the company are located on the 
Worcester branch of the Winooski river ; the buildings are chiefly of brick, 
and the machinery and fixtures modern. The history of the company dates 
to 1863, when Dennis Lane began manufacturing machinery in a small way. 
In 1865 Gen. P. P. Pitkin became a partner of Mr. Lane, and in 1873 the 
Lane Manufacturing Co. was incorporated, the officers of which are as fol- 
lows: Dennis Lane (deceased), president ; Gen. P. P. Pitkin, vice-president 
and business manager ; C. P. Pitkin, secretary and treasurer. The Lane 
Manufacturing Co. conducts a general business as machinists and founders, 
besides which they manufacture several specialties which are in great demand 
and bring the company orders from all parts of the country. The leading 
specialty of the works is Lane's patent lever-set saw-mills — in seven sizes- 
This apparatus has attained a high reputation and is constantly growing in 
popularity, lumbermen everywhere acknowledgmg it to be the acme of per- 
fection in sawing machinery. The "Monitor" turbine water-wheel, planers 
for lumber and timber, matchers, clapboard machinery, shingle and lath 
machinery, saw-mill supplies generally, and shafting, pulleys, and hangers, are 
embraced in the manufactures of this company. The Lane Manufacturing 
Co. gives employment to about 100 hands and pays about $1,000 weekly in 
wages. The company issues a fully illustrated catalogue which describes their 
productions, and which should be in the hands of every person interested irk 
manufactures of this kind. 



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C. H. Cross 6^ Son.—\K\ 1828 C. H. Cross, the senior member of the 
above firm, began manufacturing the celebrated " Montpelier cracker." The 
original firm was Timothy Cross & Co. In 1840 C. H. Cross succeeded to 
the business, continuing until 1863, when the firm name became as at pres- 
ent by the admission of L. Bart Cross. This concern manufactures all kinds 
of confectionery and makes the celebrated " Montpelier " crackers, famous 
wherever known. A general bakery business is also conducted by the firm ; 
and a large jobbing trade in peanuts and cigars is awarded the house. The 
establishment covers several acres of flooring, and it is equipped with every 
modern appliance for the manufacture of the commodities produced. Two 
traveling salesmen, who sell goods from samples, are employed by the firm, 
and shipments are made to all parts of Vermont, the annual transactions of 
the house reaching a large sum. The facilities of Messrs. Cross & Son for 
the*t«anufacture of superior goods are unsurpassed, and each year notes an 
increasing trade. 

E. W. Bailey 6^ Cds grist-mills are located on Main street, and on Wi- 
nooski river which furnishes an ample power. The mills are furnished with 
two runs of stones, and grind meal and feed. This firm does a general job- 
bing trade, wholesale and retail, in flour, feed, grain, etc. 

Johnsoti &> Colton are among the largest manufacturers and jobbers in 
saddlery hardware in the state. The firm keeps in stock a full line of harness 
and harnessmakers' supplies, and among their customers are the leading har- 
nessmakers in New England, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. They 
make a specialty of gold, silver, brass, and nickel plating. They possess 
facilities for doing all kinds of plating in a superior manner, and employ 
twenty-five skilled workmen in the business. Johnson & Colton are the suc- 
cessors of the firm of Fisher & Stratton, estabhshed in 1854. H. C. Colton 
entered the firm in 1S61, and E. P. Johnson became a partner in April, 1885. 
There are but two establishments in the Union that do a larger nickel plat- 
ing business than Johnson & Colton. The firm does a large amount of plat- 
ing for New England harnessmakers, and their wholesale trade extends from 
Main to California. Their latest novelty is the Colton patent strap and 
crupper buckles, in nickel, brass, silver, and rubber, which is so marked an 
improvement over anything of the kind previously introduced that it is des- 
tined to supercede all of the old styles. 

The Sabine Machine Co. has been in existence for eleven years. Its manu- 
factory is located near the Montpelier & Wells River railroad depot, in a 
three-story brick building. The company is engaged in manufacturing double 
acting spring butts. Sabin's lever door springs, organ springs, both bellows and 
exhaust, anti-rattler thrill coupling springs ; also light springs for various pur- 
poses to order. The firm is also sole manufacturers of patent candy cutting 
machinery. This company was incorporated under the laws of Vermont, in 
1876. The ofticers are George Cook, of Boston, Mass., pres. ; C. T. Sabin 
(deceased), secretary and treasurer. They employ from ten to twelve hands. 



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and turn out of manufactured goods $15,000 to $20,000 worth annually. The 
manufactures of this company are in favor everywhere. The best of stock 
enters into the construction of their wares. 

The Colby Wringer Co. manufactures and deals in clothes wringers, wash- 
ing machines, mangles, polishers, fluters, carpet sweepers, etc., and also do 
repairing. 

Sabin Slate Co. — Montpelier has one of the best slate quarries in the 
United States. The quarry is owned and operated by the Sabin Slate Co., 
which was organized in 1S82, and has a capital $40,000. The (juarry is 
within a half-mile of the postoffice, and at the crossing of the Central Ver- 
mont and Montpelier & Wells River railroads. The company owns forty 
acres of land, and employs thirty-five men. The vein of slate is 200 feet 
thick. The product of the quarry is unfading black slate, and it is prepared 
for roofing purposes entirely. The Sabin slate is very hard and durable, 
and contains no flint or other foreign substances. Every modern device for 
•successfully working the quarry has been procured by the company. 

Weston 6^ Smith are successors to H. Cobb in the manufacture of marble 
and granite. Mr. Cobb established the business in 1866, continued until his 
death in 1S86, when the present firm purchased the business. They manu- 
facture all kinds of monumental work, in marble and granite, also curbing, 
posts, etc. They employ skilled workmen, and turn out work of high 
grade. 

F. Roberts &> Son's granite shops are located on Taylor street. They com- 
menced business in 188 [, and manufacture every thing from Barre granite in 
the line of monumental work, curbing, and posts, giving employment to from 
eight to ten skilled workmen. They turn out work of excellent quality and 
fine finish. 

Merrill Russell has shops for the manufacture of granite work near the 
Central Vermont depot. Mr. Russell commenced the business in Barre, in 
i88i, where he continued until 1886, when he removed his shops to Mont- 
peher, where he is now engaged. He employs ten skilled workmen, and is 
turning out manufactured goods of fine finish and superior quality of the 
famous Barre granite, which in quality is inferior to none in the world. He 
executes every thing in granite, with monuments and statues a specialty. 

T. J. Kelleher & Co., manufacturers of granite, have shops near the M. & 
W. R. R. R. depot, where they manufacture ornamental, building, monumen- 
tal, and statuary work. 

Hiram B. Cross, manufacturer of monumental and statue granite, has 
shops near the depot of the M. & W. R. R. R. 

The Wetmore 6^ Aforse Granite Co. was organized under the laws of 
Vermont. January 29, 1889. The capital is $80,000. The directors of the 
company are Albert Johonnott, W. E. Adams, F. A. Dwinell, Fred E. Smith, 
F. M. Corry, H. H. Mclntire, and H. H. Wetmore. The officers are Albert 
Johonnott, president ; W. E. Adams, vice-president ; F. A. Dwinell, secre- 



230 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



tary ; and F. L. Eaton, treasurer. This company owns about twenty-six acres 
of quarry in Barre, and the first one opened there. In the early spring the 
company intends to erect spacious granite sheds in Montpeher, employ loo 
men, and manufacture building granite, statuary, and all kinds of cemetery 
work, and will also deal in rough granite. 

The Capital Graniie Co. was organized in 1887. The firm is composed 
of Thomas Eagan and Daniel McQueeney. They manufacture from Barre 
granite monumental, statuary, and all kinds of cemetery work; also ornamen- 
tal building work to order. They employ twenty skilled workmen, and pro- 
duce work of fine quality and finish. Their office and shops are located at 
the new granite sheds on Barre street, and on the C. V. R. R. Their polish- 
ing machine is run by a motor driven by Berlin v/ater. 

Stafford, Lynch &> Co. Granite Co. is located at the new granite sheds, in 
the village of Montpelier, convenient to the Central Vermont and Montpe- 
lier & Wells River railroads. This company was formed April i, 1888. The 
members of the firm are Thomas Stafford, Thomas F. Lynch, and Daniel C. 
Carey. They manufacture from Barre granite all kinds of work for the 
wholesale and retail trade, and give employment to twenty-six men. 

Edwards, White <^> Co. (Thomas Edwards, George E.White, and John D. 
Williams), granite manufacturers, are located at the new granite sheds, in 
Montpelier. This company was formed June i, 1888. They manufacture 
every thing in the line of granite work from Barre granite, with fine carving 
a specialty, and are doing a wholesale and retail business, giving employment 
to fifteen skilled workmen. 

A. Q^ F. Johonnotf s tannery is located on Winooski river, on Berlin side, 
and opposite the Montpelier & Wells River railroad. This leading industry 
was instituted in 1863, by Messrs. William N. Peck and Albert Johonnott, the 
firm name being Peck & Johonnott. These gentlemen commenced by erect- 
ing the entire set of buildings, and continued the business until 1873, when 
Mr. Peck retired and the present firm was organized. The motive power is 
steam, and the tannery has a capacity for turning out over 20,000 sides per 
year, giving employment to a force of nine men. At present they market 
their leather in the '' rough." 

Fecks 6^ Cummins' s tannery and currier shops are located on Cummins 
street, and on the North Branch of the Winooski river. The motive power 
is a forty-horse-power steam engine. The capacity of this manufactory is 
over 20,000 sides per annum, and gives employment to a force of twenty-five 
men. They manufacture harness, boot, and shoe stock of all kinds. Their 
trade is with consumers, from Maine to Oregon, and they enjoy the reputa- 
tion of turning out as fine goods as are found in the market. This company 
organized in May, 1874, and, what is especially to their credit, they still re- 
tain their first customers. 

Gleason 6^ Co. (L. P. and H. C. Gleason), successors to L. W. Welch, 
are manufacturers of parlor furniture and dealers in furniture of all kinds. 



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With the exception of the parlor furniture they purchase their goods in the 
white, which they set up, upholster, and finish. They are also undertakers, 
and have always on hand a full line of coffins, caskets, and burial cases. 
Their sales rooms and shops are located on Main corner of East State street. 
Their block, which extends 150 feet on East State street, is three stories 
high, and has a basement. The front on Main street is occupied by these 
gentlemen in the dry goods trade, in which they carry an extensive stock. 
This enterprising firm employs a force of ten men, and conducts the leading 
industry of the kind in Montpelier. 

TAe United States Clothes Pin Co. was chartered under the laws of Ver- 
mont, August 22, 1887, with Gen. Stephen Thomas, president ; S. T. Newton, 
vice-president; and William K. Sanderson, secretary and treasurer. They 
are manufacturing the U. S. clothes pin. Their machinery is all new, and 
made expressly for this company. Although this industry is yet in its infancy, 
the company now employs twenty hands, with the prospect of ten more in 
the near future. 

The Acme Watch Key Co., incorporated, (W. N. Learned, president ; E. 
J. Gale, treasurer,) manufactures the Acme automatic dust-proof and "Star" 
watch keys. This enterprise was begun in July, 1887, and the company has 
already machinery and facilities to manufacture twenty-five gross of keys per 
day. Their power is a water-motor, supplied by the village water works. 

Boring for Salt. 

On comparing the geological formation in and around Montpelier with 
locations in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, where salt water had invari- 
ably been obtained by boring, the people of Montpelier discovered that the 
formation was favorable to obtaining this indispensable article here. Hon. 
Daniel Baldwin headed a company of about sixty, organized and commenced 
boring the rock on the bank of the Winooski, a little below the present grist- 
mill, on August 8, 1827, and continued until January 4, 1830, when this well 
conceived and worthy enterprise was prematurely closed, by the drill becom- 
ing so tightly wedged that it could not be withdrawn by any means in their 
power. The depth of the well is 850 feet. The company designed to sink 
it 1,000 feet. The unfinished experiment cost the sixty subscribers only $35 
each, or an aggregate of $2,100. 

Banks. 

The Bank of Montpelier was chartered in 1825, and organized in 1826, 
with a capital of $50,000. The first president was Hon. Elijah Paine, of 
Williamstown. His successors in office were James H. Langdon, Timothy 
Hubbard, John Spalding, Thomas Reed, Jr., Rawsel R. Keith, E. P. Jewett, 
and George C. Shepard. This bank was recharted with a capital of $75,000, 



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in 1840, and again in 1853, with a capital of $100,000. The bank continued 
business until 1865. 

The Vermont bank was chartered in 1848, and organized in 1849, with a 
<;apital of $100,000. Its presidents were Hezekiah H. Reed, George W. 
Collamer, Homer W. Heaton, E. H. Prentice, and Roderick Richardson, and 
its cashier John A. Page. This bank closed up in 1864. 

The First National Bank of Montpelier was organized immediately on the 
closing of the Vermont bank, December 22, 1864, with a paid in capital of 
$200,000, which was increased to $250,000 the next month. J. A. Page, 
R. Richardson, G. W. Collamer, S. Burbank, J. T. Thurston, Fred E. Smith, 
and Charles Dewey composed the first board of directors. J. W. Ellis was 
elected a director in 1866, and P. P. Pitkin in 1870. J. A. Page was elected 
president, and has held the position continuously since then. The present 
board of directors consists of T. A. Page, Charles Dewey, J. W. Ellis, P. P- 
Pitkin, and Fred E. Smith. The officers of the bank are J. A. Page, presi- 
dent ; Charles Dewey, vice-president ; F. L. Eaton, cashier ; H. M. Cutler, 
assistant cashier. The charter of the bank was extended in 1884 for a second 
period of twenty years. This bank has paid to its share-holders, in dividends, 
$264 on each share of $100, and has now a surplus fund of over $50,000. 

The Afontpelier National bank succeeded the Bank of Montpelier, in 1865, 
and was organized under the national banking law, with a capital of $300,000. 
Its officers are James R. Langdon, president, and E. D. Blackwell, cashier. 
October 5, 1887, this bank had a paid in capital of $250,000, a surplus fund 
of $60,000, and $29,239.62 undivided profits, with a contingent fund of 
$3,693.66. 

The Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Company was incorporated in 
1870, and organized in 1871, with $50,000 capital. Its deposits, July, 1887, 
amounted to $1,283,234. Its officers are Homer W. Heaton, president ; 
James W. Brock, vice-president; and Albert W. Ferrin, treasurer. The 
trustees are Homer W. Heaton, James W. Brock, Whitman G. Ferrin, 
L. Bart Cross, and Dennis Lane (deceased). 

The banks of Montpelier have been managed by men of unusual financial 
ability, are second to none in the state, and have always been, without ex- 
ception, perfectly sound and reliable. 

Insurance. 

Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co>npa?iy. — The people of Vermont are 
most fortunate in having within its borders an institution which has taken 
such high rank as the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company. It was 
chartered in 1827, began business in 1828, and has had a most successful 
career for three-score years. During its existence the company has issued 
265,706 policies insuring property to the amount of $296,877,674. There is 
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$3,540,643.98, and the number of policies in force nearly 40,000. The 
total amount of losses paid since the organization of the company is $3,^08,- 
508.89. The record of the Vermont Mutual is a proud one. Always paying 
its losses promptly, this company is held in high regard by the insuring public 
of the state, who appreciate its soundness, the economy of its management, 
and upright and liberal dealing. The company offers the safest, cheapest, 
and best insurance that can be procured, on every kind of insurable risk. 
The enormous business of the company, representing by its policy-holders 
nearly two thirds of the voting population of the state, is an important factor 
of competition in the maintenance of a minimum rate of premium for the 
protection of property owners in Vermont against disaster by fire, and as such 
it is justly entitled to the liberal patronage that it receives. It surrenders to 
the insured their premium notes, when requested, on the payment of their 
proportion of losses to the date of expiration, transfer, or cancellation of the 
policy, thus obviating all liability of assessment after their insurance, from 
any cause, has terminated. The company owns a substantial brick building, 
costing $47,000, from which it derives a handsome rental. The officers of 
the company are men of state reputation, all standing high in the community 
for their fidelity to trusts and business capacity. They are as follows : Fred 
E. Smith, president; Charles . T. Sabin, (died December 24, i888,) vice- 
president; James T. Sabin, secretary; H. N. Taplin, treasurer. 

The Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Montpelier, was incorpo- 
rated by an act of the legislature approved November* 24, 1874. The 
company was organized during the following spring and summer, and its first 
policy was issued July 28, 1875. It commenced its business in a very con- 
servative manner, insuring small lines on the best class of property, and during 
the first two years of its business it issued only 1,194 policies, and its entire 
expenditure for expenses, losses, and abatements for that period was only 
$9,093.32. It continued to gain very slowly for the first few years, but its busi- 
ness was so well placed, its risks so carefully inspected, and its expenses kept 
so low, that the expense of insurance averaged lower than that of other com- 
panies ; so commericing about August i, 1884, its business began rapidly to 
increase until now it has issued 1 1,600 policies, and has in force over $400,000 
of premium notes and property insured to the amount of more than $6,000,000. 
The policy of the company from the commencement has been to take 
small lines on the best class of property ; tocarefuUy select and inspect its risks; 
to look with great scrutiny to the moral hazard ; not to insure property for 
more than two-thirds of its cash value, and when losses occurred to promptly 
settle with the assured and pay them the amount of their losses. During the 
fourteen years that the company has transacted business, it has never had a 
claim litigated or arbitrated, but has always settled its losses promptly and 
liberally, to the satisfaction of both the company and its patrons. Its average 
assessment during the whole of this lime has been but three and one-fourth, 
per cent, on the amount of its premium notes. The company does no insur- 



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ance business outside of the state, and therefore does not subject the company 
or its members to the danger of conflagrations of large cities. It is distinct- 
ively and purely a Vermont insurance company for the insurance of Vermont 
property, and furnishes to its patrons the safest and best kind of insurance at 
its actual cost. The present officers of the company are W. G. Ferrin, presi- 
dent ; John H. Senter, secretary ; and Harlan W. Kemp, treasurer. The 
last two named have been associated together in the joint management of the 
company since November i, 1885. 

The National Life Insurance Company has been in business over thirty-nine 
years, and ranks among the first of this character of institutions in the coun- 
try for soundness, economy of management, and upright and liberal dealing 
with claimants and policy-holders, and in all that is creditable, reliable, and 
popular. The company was chartered in November, 1848, and began busi- 
ness in 1850 Its formation was largely due to the effort of Dr. Julius Y. 
Dewey, who early became its president and manager, and continued to di- 
rect its affairs up to the time of his death, in 1877. Thegrowth of this com- 
pany has been a healthy one ; it is careful in the selection of its risks ; 
favorable above many other companies in its rates ; prompt in adjusting 
claims, and it merits the confidence of the people. January i, 1889, it had 
16,850 policies in force, insuring $32,312,303, an increase of $7,389,979 
over the amount in force the previous January. The assets of the National 
Life are over $5,000,000. The present management of the company is 
made up of the following well-known Vermonters : president, Charles Dew- 
ey ; vice-president, Edward Dewey; secretary, George W. Reed; treasurer, 
J. C. Houghton ; assistant secretary, Osman D. Clark ; medical director, 
A. B. Bisbee, M. D. Board of directors : Paul Dillingham, Chares Dewey, 
W. H. H. Bingham, George W. Reed, Dudley C. Denison, Frederick Billings, 
Edward Dewey, James C. Houghton. Fred E. Smith, Perley P. Pitkin, James 
T. Phelps, VVheelock G. Veazey, George Briggs. Of the above board of di- 
rectors, ex-Gov. Paul Dillingham has been in the directory since the organi- 
zation of the company. President Charles Dewey has been a director since 
1851. Secretary George W. Reed has held his office since the formation of 
the company. The National Life issues all approved forms of policies. The 
"installment bond" plan of this company commends itself to the favor of 
the public, and this form of insurance has become an important feature of 
its business. This company insures only first-class lives in the northern 
states, as people living in this section are generally longer lived and freer 
from epidemics and scourge. This feature of its business is highly appreci- 
ated by patrons of the National Life, as it is far from equitable to insure 
people of the North and South on the same basis. 

Railroads. 

In 1805 the legislature chartered a stock company which built a turnpike 
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dividends. The great freshets of that year had swept away all the bridges, 
and otherwise seriously damaged the road so much that the proprietors hesi- 
tated about repairing it. The brothers Thomas and Hezekiah Reed, then 
enterprising young men of Montpelier, offered the sum of,$io per share for 
what originally cost $175, and their offer was accepted, whereupon they put 
the road in fine condition. About this time water communication was made 
between the Hudson river and Lake Champlain, by the completion of the 
canal, which threw a vast amount of teaming and travel onto the turnpike, 
and rendered it profitable to the Reeds. This also became a part of the 
great central mail route, stage line, and thoroughfare from Montreal to Bos- 
ton. The fine coaches and superb teams of four and six horses, of Messrs. 
CottriU and Day, created a sensation in every village, and were the admiration 
of the whole country. 

The Vermont Central railroad, by the terms of its charter, was obliged to 
pay the owners of the turnpike for their franchise. They compromised, took 
the turnpike, conducted it in their own interest, but abandoned it when the 
cars commenced running. 

The first advent of the railroad cars into Montpelier occurred July 4, 1849. 
J. W. Hobart, the present general manager of the Central Vermont railroad, 
was the conductor, and John Danforth, engineer. The train contained ten 
platform cars, each freighted with 100 barrels of flour. The acting station 
agent was Walter Hine, who was master of transportation. In the autumn 
of that year J. Edwards Wright was appointed the first permanent station 
agent at Montpelier, and remained until August, 1851. 

Montpelier is at the terminus of a branch of a little more than a mile in 
length. Instead of passing all trains in and out over this branch, a small en- 
gine called the " Abigail Adams " runs to and from the junction ; and while 
a small car was in process of construction, when business required it, a large 
one was used, and often the little " Abigail " was unequal to the task ; then 
the conductor, baggage master, and engineer were compelled to aid by push- 
ing the whole distance. This engme was found inadequate and was super- 
seded by the " Flying Dutchman," a baggage and a first-class passenger car. 
James A. Bowers, who is still an engineer for the company, for a time run 
the " Flying Dutchman." The Central Vermont depot at Montpelier is an 
elegant brick building, opposite the Pavilion, and was completed in 1880. 
The interior is divided into a spacious central hall^. gentlemen's and ladies' 
room, and ticket office on one side, and baggage room and telegraph and 
express offices on the opposite side. The whole building is warmed by 
steam, and is surmounted with a lofty dome, in which is placed an illumi- 
nated clock that strikes the hours. 

The Montpelier &= Wells River railroad xzw its first through mail and pas- 
senger train November 30, 1873. Their depot in Montpelier is a fine brick 
structure. 

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The Montpelier Village Water Works. 

In i860 George B. Reed, Esci., demonstrated the feasibility of bringing 
water into Montpelier from Berlin pond, by a preliminary survey, and meas- 
ured distances and altitudes. The next step to be taken was to secure the 
right of way along the route, and possession of the water. This he failed to 
accomplish, and the enterprise slept the ensuing twelve years. 

In 1872 Samuel Wells and Mahlon Taplin so agitated and advocated the 
necessity of an adequate supply of pure water for culinary, sanitary, and fire 
purposes, that the village appointed a committee to make further investigations, 
and gave them a year in which to make their final report. Mr. Wells was placed 
at the head of the committee, and within the time had procured an adequate 
charter. The committee also made estimates of cost, and reported at the 
end of the year. All were convinced by the favorable report, but some advo- 
cated the use of substantial ircn pipes, others less expensive cement pipes. 
This disagreement killed the enterprise and it rested another twelve years. 

Again, in 1883, the question came before the village, and December 17, of 
that year, the following named gentlemen were elected bailiff's, and instructed 
to complete the system of water supply : Ward No. i, Morton Marvin; No. 
2, Joel Foster; No. 3, A. J. Sibley; No. 4, A. O. Cummins; No. 5, S. M. 
Walton. The board of bailiffs elected Mr. Foster their chairman, and the 
work was pushed with such energy that it was completed the ensuing Octo- 
ber. The sequel is that Montpelier has now a water supply which is unsur- 
passed by any in Vermont. 

Berlin pond has an area of 231 acres, and the reservoir, a little more than 
a mile down the stream, from the outlet of the pond, from which the main 
pipes are laid, contains an area of four acres, and is 364 feet above the village. 
The village completed its work by laying a main pipe of twelve inches in 
diameter, from the reservoir, from which water was carried into the houses of 
every one that desired it, and at a very moderate expense. The village has 
a system of hydrants, at convenient distances, and with the immense pressure 
of the great fall a fire of any extent has been unknown since the system has 
been inaugurated. The village found the supply of water largely in excess 
of the demand, for the purposes which it was originally designed, and the 
surplus has been rented to turn motors that drive light machinery. To en- 
courage manufacturing, and produce revenue, the village has (in the season 
of 1888) laid another main pipe from the reservoir to the village, of twenty 
inches diameter, and many prophesy that in a httle time the water works will 
pay all municipal expenses. The analysis of the water, by the state assayist 
of Massachusetts, shows it to be of unusual purity. 

Telegraph and Express. — At the October session of the legislature in 1848 
the Vermont and Boston telegraph was chartered, and, in connection with the 
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depot the next year, where a successful business has since been conducted. 
These companies have been superseded by the American Express Company 
and the Western Union Telegraph Company, and are ably managed by their 
agent, H. W. Drew. 

Motitpelier telephone exchange. — During the winter of 1 880-81 A. C. Browni 
invited the attention of the business men of Montpelier to the advantages to 
their business of a telephone. With the encouragement of only thirty-three 
subscribers, and with hopes that it would grow in favor, Mr. Brown opened 
the exchange April i, 1881. His list contains about 250 patrons and stations;, 
his lines extend into twenty-seven different towns, and five different counties,. 
and contain about 400 miles of wire. 

Montpelier Gas Light Company was chartered by act of the legislature in 
the fall of 1853, and commenced business in the fall or winter of 1856. The 
streets were lighted during the sessions of the legislature only by thirty-two 
lamps, until 1880, when W. W. Park, then a bailiff, brought the matter so 
forcibly before the people that they have had the streets regularly lighted 
since, and the lamps were increased to seventy-six, before they were super- 
seded by electric lights in 1885. 

The StaTidard Light and Power Manufacturing Company is officered as 
follows : C. P. Pitkin, president; F. W. Morse, secretary; E. D. Blackwell, 
treasurer. The other directors are D. G. Kemp, Thomas Marvin, Hiram 
Atkins, and A. J. Sibley. The company now lights the streets of Montpelier 
village with sixty-seven electric arc lights, and furnish individuals with 1,400 
incandescent electric lights. They also light the streets of Barre with thirty- 
six arc lights from their dynamo on Winooski river. 

The Pavilion, opposite the passenger station of the Central Vermont rail- 
road, is one of the finest hotels in Vermont. The house is heated by steam 
and lighted by arc and incandescent electric lights, and is in every way fitted 
in first-class style. J. S. Viles is the proprietor. 

The New Montpelier ILouse, George Wheeler, proprietor, is located on 
State street, and in close proximity to the State House and Central Ver- 
mont passenger depot. This is one of the good hotels of New England. 
The house is heated by steam, and the rooms are comfortably furnished; it 
has the necessary appurtenances of closets, bath rooms, telephone, and livery. 
The table is good ; the waiters polite and attentive. 

Care of the Poor. 

The Montpelier poor-house and farm is located in Berlin, on road 8. It 
has six inmates, who are comfortably clothed and kindly cared for by the pres- 
ent keeper, J. F. Woster, and ably assisted by his wife, Mrs. Woster. Ed. M. 
Irish is the efficient superintendent for the town. Their board is as good as 
that of well-to-do farmers. The inmates are expected to be cleanly and 

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observe sanitary rules. On the whole they are made welcome, and feel that 

the house is their home. 

Educational. 

The pioneer settlers of Montpelier, as early as 1789, made provision for 
the education of their children by supporting a school taught by Jacob Davis, 
Jr., in a log house near Middlesex line, on the Winooski river. This was con- 
tinued until 1791. During 179 i a school was kept by David Wing, Jr., in 
Col. Davis's house. In the fall of 1794 the town was divided into six school 
districts. Since then schools have been regularly maintained. 

During 1794 a library association was formed at the center of the town, 
books purchased, and a circulating library established at the house of Gen. 
Parley Davis. Works of fiction and all religious books were excluded from 
this library. Their Hbrary contained about 200 volumes, and were treatises 
on philosophy and other sciences, history, biography, travels, and good morals. 
The first library established in the village was organized February 14, 181 4, 
and was not so exclusive in character. Both libraries were in existence many 
years. 

In 1888 Montpelier had five common school districts and one union graded 
school district. These schools were taught by two male and sixteen female 
teachers, at an average weekly salary of $38.88 for the former and $7.67 for 
the latter. The whole number of scholars attending any school was 665, of 
whom ninety-two attended private schools. The amount raised by district 
taxes was $2,395.38; the entire income for school purposes was $6,799.46 ; 
while the whole amount expended for all school purposes was $7,226.27. 
Rev. Howard F. Hill was superintendent. 

The Montpelier Public Library association opened its rooms February 23, 
1886, and offered to the public the use of about 4,000 carefully selected vol- 
umes. Their rooms are open Wednesday and Saturday afternoons and even- 
ings throughout the year, and also from October 1 to April i on Monday 
evenings. The charges for cards, entitUng the owner to the use of the library, 
are one dollar a year, or sixty cents for half a year, and to stockholders only 
half these rates. The trustees have made an effort to make the department 
of American history of special value. On their shelves may also be found 
biographies, travels, works on the sciences, fiction, juvenile literature, and 
many miscellaneous books. Their pleasant reading room is supplied with a 
variety of newspapers and magazines, entirely free to the public. 

Washington County Grammar and Montpelier Union Schools. — Montpe- 
lier began its work of pubHc instruction in 1789 or 1790. Its first school 
stood by the side of the river near the Middlesex line. In 1794 there existed 
six school districts. November 7, 1800, Hon. David Wing procured an act 
incorporating the " Trustees of the Montpelier Academy." Moneys were 
raised by subscription. A two-story building, forty-four by thirty-six feet on 
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streets, near the academy bridge. In 1813 the name of the academy was 
changed to Washington County Grammar School, and from October its 
trustees, as a county corporation, appropriated to its exclusive use the rents 
received from the grammar school lands in the county. In 1822 the first 
building was destroyed by fire. A new building was at once begun, and in 
the interim preceding completion a Mr. Sherard supplied a classical school. 
The new school-house was built of brick, and cost $1,600, of which about 
$800 was also raised by subscription. 

The following gentlemen were the preceptors during the first period of the 
Academy's and Grammar School's career : James Whorter, James Dean, 
Joseph Sill, Benton Pixley, Ira Hill. Thomas Heald, Justus W. French, Sen- 




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Union (Ikaded School.* 

eca White, Heman Rood, John Stevens, Jonathan C. Southmayd, J. B. East- 
man, Augustus R. Wood, Aaron G. Pease, J. H. Morse, M. Colburn, George 
W. Clark, Davis Strong, Horace Herrick, J. E. Goodrich, Charles Kent, and 
C. R. Ballard. Joshua Y. Vail was a temporary teacher in the early days of 
the school, and Robert Hale in its later days. Under J. C. Southmayd, who 
for twelve years exercised an able, influential preceptorship, and Aaron G. 
Pease, thereafter professor, and president of the Vermont University, the 
County School reached a high point of efficiency, and had a good reputation 
through the state as a fitting school. Dean and Clark also became profes- 

*The cut from which we have reproduced, on a smaller scale, the new Federal building at 
Montpelier, and the cuts of Christ and Bethany churches, are the property of Hiram 
Atkins, of the Argus aud Pairiet, to whom wc are indebted for the use thereof. Those 
of the Union Graded School building and the Church of the Messiah and the Baptist 
church are kindly loaned us by Arthur Ropes, editor of the Watchman. — PuB. 



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sors in the State University, and Pixley, French, Wood, Pease, and Clark 
became clergymen. 

In 1858 philanthropic Hezekiah H. Reed made the Grammar School a 
bequest of $1,000. Prompted by this bequest, the four districts of the town 
were united into a union school district, and with this the County School 
was joined by act of legislature. For these united schools a new building 
was constructed at the head of School street. The work, begun in the spring 
of 1858, was completed in the summer of 1859, and cost $19,000. This 
house is used to-day. It extends one hundred by forty-five feet, has a central 
projection in front, setting out twelve feet and thirty-three feet in extent, and 
rising to a height of three stories with the rest of the structure. The base- 
ment is of granite, the superstructure of brick, with cast-iron window caps. 
Each of its two lower floors contain four school-rooms, while its upper floor 
is finished off as a chapel for general exercises and public assemblies. This 
school was opened about September i, 1859, under the principalship of 
M. M. Marsh. It then had about 400 pupils, taught by eight teachers. Sub- 
sequent principals were the following: 1862-71, Daniel D. Gorham ; 
1872-74, C. W. Westgate; 1875-77, J. E. Miller; 1878-79, A. W.Blair; 
1880, W. W. Prescott; 1881-83, H. R. Brackett ; 1884-85, B. F. Brown; 
1886- , Joseph A. De Boer, the present incumbent. 

The school to-day possesses practically the same system as that with which 
it begun in 1859. There are primary, intermediate, and higher grades, pro- 
viding from first to last a preparation for the college. The school also pos- 
sesses a library of about 3,000 volumes, and a laboratory for practical work in 
the physical sciences. Its enrollment in 1888 was 401 ; average enrollment, 
349 ; percentage attendance on total enrollment, eighty ; on average enroll- 
ment, ninety-two ; percentage of tardiness, .67 of one per cent. Its grad- 
uates have found their way to Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Vermont Uni- 
versity, Middlebury, Amherst, Williams, Smith's, Tufts, and other colleges. 
A carefully-taken school census at the beginning of 1889 showed that there 
were but eight pupils out of a local school population of 623 not in attend- 
ance upon school as provided by law. These figures testify to the healthful 
status of public opinion on educational matters, as well as point back to 
seventy-five years of prosperity on the part of Montpelier schools. Among 
its lady teachers, who have achieved a marked success, should be named 
Elizabeth F. Sweet, since 1859, l3.cking three years, a teacher in the Union 
School, and Flora M. Terrill, for ten years preceptress in the Grammar School. 
There are now ten teachers employed in the work, music, drawing, and tem- 
perance physiology having been added to the elementary studies. But there 
are evidences of an approaching time when the work of reconstruction and 
added building must again be considered, if convenient, appropriate, andi 
proper provisions are to exist for all the children of Montpelier. 

The Vermont Methodist Seminary. — August 13, 1832, Capt. Alden 
Partridge, of Norwich, and Hon. D. A. A. Buck addressed the New Hamp- 



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■shire and Vermont conference, then in session at Lyndon, Vermont, on the 
■subject of a hterary institution within its borders. After the addresses the con- 
ference appointed a committee, of which Solomon Sias was chairman, to 
take into consideration the subject referred to. The committee reported that 
"in their opinion the time had come for the conference to extend its patron- 
age to a Hterary institution within its borders," and recommended that " a 
committee of seven be appointed to entertain propositions for locating this 
literary and scientific institution, with power to make contracts and enter 
into any arrangements necessary to carry the contemplated object into 
■effect." After hearing the claims of Norwich, Chelsea, and Newbury the 




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committee finally selected Newbury because of its central and very desirable 
location ; and because the town had raised the sum of money stipulated, viz. : 
$6,000. Newbury Seminary was chartered in November, 1833. Funds were 
solicited by the first treasurer, Timothy Morse, and the buildings erected 
under his direct supervision, though the plans were made by Rev. Wilbur 
Fiske, of sainted memory. The school opened in September, 1834, with 
Rev. Charles Adams, now D. D., of Chicago, as principal ; Rev. O. C. Baker, 
afterward bishop of the M. E. church, as assistant ; and Miss Elsey French, 
now Mrs. Joel Cooper, of Iowa, preceptress. Thus was founded what is now 
the Vermont Methodist Seminary. 

A brief sketch of the school while at Newbury may be of interest. During 
the five years of Dr. Adams's administration the attendance increased from 
122 to 326, and the school enjoyed a high degree of general prosperity. It 



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is pleasant to note that in 1884, the year of the serai-centennial celebration. 
Dr. Adams and Mrs. Cooper were both still living. 

In 1839 Dr. Adams was succeeded by Rev. O. C. Baker, who also remained 
at the head of the school for five years. The prosperity attending the first 
administration was even more marked in his. In addition to other work 
he organized and taught a class in systematic theology. Later this developed 
into the Newbury Bibhcal Institute, which in 1846 was removed to Concord, 
N. H., and is now the School of Theology of Boston University. It may 
be said that very few men have ever wielded as strong an influence over 
their students as did Bishop Baker over the young men and women at 
Newbury during his ten years of service there as teacher and principal. In 
1844 Bishop Baker resigned to enter the pastorate. Rev. Clark T. Hinman, 
afterward the founder of the Northwestern University, at Evanston, 111., was 
in charge of the seminary for the next two years. In 1848-54 the institu- 
tion was under the management of Rev. Joseph E. King, who for the past 
thirty-four years has been principal of the Fort Edward (N. Y.) Collegiate In- 
stitute. His administration maybe styled among the most brilliant and suc- 
cessful in the history of the school. One very important measure of that 
period was the founding of the Female Collegiate Institute, chartered Novem- 
ber 12, 1849. Its object was the higher education of young women, while 
one of the effects was largely to increase the attendance of ladies. During 
the twenty-eight years of its existence more than 200 have been graduated, 
among whom were some of the strongest and noblest young women of this 
portion of New England. The principals for the remaining fourteen years at 
Newbury in their order were Prof. Henry S. Noyes, Dr. C. W. Cushing, Rev. 
Fennor E. King, Rev. George C. Smith, for the past twenty-three years prin- 
cipal of Drew Ladies Seminary, Carmel, New York, Rev. S. E. Quimby, 
and Rev. S. F. Chester. 

About 1845 there was established the Springfield Wesleyan Seminary, at 
Springfield, Vt. This was for some time quite a rival of Newbury, but for 
various reasons could hardly be called its equal. Until 1844 Newbury was 
central for the whole conference. But at that time that portion of the New 
Hampshire conference lying within this state was set off" as the Vermont con- 
ference. In i860 the Burlington and St. Albans districts were joined to this 
conference. The changes in conference boundaries left Newbury Seminary 
at the extreme eastern side of its patronizing territory. Springfield was no 
more fortunate. Moreover, funds were needed to repair the old buildings or 
build new ones. To many members of the conference, and to the trustees 
of Newbury and Springfield seminaries, this seemed the opportune moment 
for a union and a change to a more central location. After a spirited canvass 
of the advantages offered by Newbury, West Randolph, Northfield, Water- 
bury, and Montpelier, the last named place was selected. To the enterprise 
the town contributed for a location the fine plateau formerly occupied by the 



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U. S. hospital. Certainly no more beautiful, healthful, or suitable location 
could have been desired. 

A charter for the Vermont Conference Seminary and Female College was 
secured November 6, 1865, and in the autumn of 1868 the school was moved 
to Montpelier. The boarding-house furnishings and school apparatus were 
removed here from Newbury ; and the funds from the sale of the property at 
Springfield were also contributed to the school in its new location. Thus by 
mutual consent the two were merged into the Vermont Conference Seminary 
and Female College at Montpelier. Prof. S. F. Chester, and most of his assist- 
ants, came with the school from Newbury. 

The principals at Montpelier were : 1868-70, Rev. S. F. Chester ; 1870-72, 
Rev. C. W. Wilder ; 1872-74, Rev. J. C. W. Coxe ; 1874-76, Rev. L. White ; 
1876-82, Rev. J. B. Southworth; and since March, 1882, the writer, Rev. 
E. A. Bishop. 

In 1872 the seminary edifice was completed and opened for use. It is a 
substantial four-story brick structure, 115 feet long by sixty-five feet wide, and 
is admirably adapted for school purposes. The boarding-house is a three-story 
frame building, 140 feet long, with three ells 120 feet long, accommodating 
about 140 persons. The two self-boarding-houses are two-story frame struct- 
ures, 120 feet long, and with accommodations for about twenty-five persons 
each. The buildings are all lighted by electricity. 

From 1876 to 1882 the seminary was in private hands. During this time 
little or nothing was done to strengthen it ^financially ; but in April, 1882, the 
trustees made Rev. J. D. Beeman the president and financial manager. In 
the next five years over $30,000 in annuities was raised, and a permanent 
scholarship fund of about $15,000. The permanent endowment fund solic- 
ited by Noah Granger has grown to over^$4o,ooo, with nearly $25,000 paid 
in and invested. 

During the past six or seven years the school has been rapidly approaching 
the " palmy days of Newbury." Thus far this year the average attendance 
has been 215. Special attention has been devoted to the music and art de- 
partments, until they are second to none in Northern New England. In 
1885 there was placed in the chapel a two-manual pipe organ of twenty-one 
registers. A fine cabinet and a good school library are among other im- 
provements. 

The seminary seeks for thorough intellectual, social, and religious training 
of her pupils. As evidence that the intellect is well trained, it might be men- 
tioned that the best New England colleges admit her graduates without 
examination. The gentlemanly and lady-like deportment of the students is 
full proof that their social natures are not neglected. Lastly, while the in- 
stitution is not sectarian, there is reason for deep gratitude that in the past 
seven years about 200 have here begun a Christian life. A Christian educa- 
tion has ever been the aim of the school, the end being fnoral development and 



344 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



a pure religions life, as well as accurate scholarship and refinement of man- 
ners. 

State Houses. 



The following is from the pen of Hon. E. P. Walton, in Miss Hemenway's 

Gazetteer :— 

" The position of Montpelier as state capital from 1808, and county seat 
from 181 1, has contributed much to the growth of the population and busi- 
ness of the town, and given it a prominence in the political, judicial, religious, 
and social affairs of the state which otherwise it could not have attained, and 
an influence from the strongest and best men of the town, which has always 
been wisely used. 

" Previous to 1 80S there had been forty-six sessions of the General As- 
sembly in fourteen different towns. To remedy the inconveniences of a state 
without a capital, and the frequent disputes between rival towns for the 
compliment of a legislative session, the General Assembly of 1805 appointed 
a committee to fix upon a place in the town of Montpelier, for the erec- 
tion of buildings for the accommodation of the legislature of this state, and 
on condition that the town of Montpelier should erect the buildings and con- 
vey them to the state, with the land whereon they shall stand, declared that 
'said buildings shall become the permanent seat of the legislature for holding 
all their sessions.' All this Montpelier cheerfully did. 

" The first State House was constructed of wood, fifty by seventy feet on 
the ground, thirty-six feet high to the roof, septangular-shaped in front, and 
otherwise square. The roof was surmounted by a modest cupola, in which 
was the finest toned bell the town has ever had. The building was plainly 
furnished, warmed with stoves, and lighted with tallow candles — the hall of 
the representatives with a chandelier so striking in its proportions, and so 
brilliant in its effects, as to be a marked exception to the plainness of every 
thing else. This house was used until 1836, when it was succeeded by the 
second State House. This was authorized by act of November 8, 1832, on 
condition that Montpelier should pay $15,000 towards its construction. This 
sum was paid, and $3,000 more for additional land. The second house was 
beautiful and substantial, — a perfect specimen (the dome excepted) of Gre- 
cian architecture, — and the finest Capitol of its day in New England. The 
grounds, including fences, terraces, and approaches, were the same as now. 
The whole cost of this structure was $132,077.23. This Capitol was used 
until January 5, 1857, when the wood work of the interior took fire, and all 
the wood work was destroyed, and the walls of granite and brick were badly 
damaged. 

"The third State House was authorized by act of the legislature of Feb- 
ruary 27, 1857, and was completed in 1859, at the cost of $146,000. Mont- 
pelier contributed $42,000 of this amount, and to the three houses the total 
sum of $71,000. The style of architecture is the same as that of the second 
Capitol, but the furniture, upholstery, gas fixtures, and heating apparatus 
(steam) are far superior." 



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The State House and grounds are handsome and attractive. The Capitol 
building is a fine specimen of Grecian architecture. It occupies a command- 
ing site, and with its towerinc^ walls, hucje dome, and massive Doric columns 
^ : '^ ~ -^'t'^^fe, of white Barre granite, 



presents an iraposmg ap- 
pearance. This model of 
a Greek cross is set in a 
beautiful park with sloping 
lawns and rounded terraces 
reaching to the street. A 
wide flight of granite steps 
lead to the lofty portico, 
u here a heroic-sized marble 
statue of Gen. Ethan Allen 
stands a silent guardian at 
the portal of the main cor- 
ridor. The State House 



E SlA I H HuUSE. 



has a frontage of 177 feet, and is .surmounted by a dome and cupola fifty-six 
feet high — making the statue of Agriculture which crowns the edifice 129 
feet above the ground. Representatives' Hall contains seats for 240 mem- 
bers, and the Senate Chamber seats thirty senators. The Capitol contains a 
fine cabinet of mineralogy and natural history, a valuable library of 26,000 
volumes without duplicates, and the usual offices for state officials. The 
battle flags of the Vermont troops in the war for the Union are carefully pre- 
served in cases in the corridors, and in the executive chamber hangs a splen- 
did painting of the " Bittle of Cedar Creek," executed by Julian Scott, of the 
Fourth Vermont Volunteers. It was purchased by the state for $10,000. A 
building erected in 1885-86, for the state library and the use of the Supreme 
Court and historical society, forms an annex to the State House. It is built of 
granite, seventy-four feet long, forty-eight feet wide, and two stories high. 
The wing projects fifty feet beyond the west wall of the Capitol and fronts 
on State street. 

COUKT-HOUSES. 



From the first settlement of Montpelier till 1797 it was a town in Orange 
county. It was then transferred to Caledonia county, and continued in that 
organization until Jeff"erson county was formed, December i, 181 r, with 
Montpelier the county seat, and such she continues to be. The name of the 
county, however, was changed to Washington in 18 r4. The sessions of the 
court were held in the Council Chamber of the State House until i8i8, when 
a wooden building was erected by the county near the State House, and oc- 
cupied by the court until 1843. This building is now the residence of the 
priest of the Catholic church. The county erected its second court-house, of 



246 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



brick, on the corner of State and Elm streets, in 1843, but it was burned 
during the session of the court in November of that year. The third court- 
house, built of brick near the site of the one burned, was completed in the 
season of 1844, was enlarged in 1879, the wood work burned in 1880, and 
was reconstructed in its present fine style, in a few months. It is commo- 
dious, and warmed by steam, contains pleasant, spacious rooms for the use 




WaSHIN(.TON ClU'NIV CouRT-HousE, 

of the county clerk and judge of the Probate Court ; also] convenient jury 
rooms. To enlarge the grounds and make the site of the court-house what it 
is, Montpelier contributed $1,000. 

The first jail was presented to the county by ^Thomas Davis, and was the 
dwelling house of his father, Jacob Davis. The changes necessary to adapt 
this house to its new purposes were mide by the voluntary subscription of 
the people of Montpelier. The present fine brick jail-house and jail was 
erected in 1857, and at that date the county fully re-imbursed Mr. Davis for 
his generous donation. 

United States Court-Howic and Posiofftcc. — The foundations of this build- 
ing go twelve feet below the surface of the ground, are laid upon concrete 



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placed upon the river stratum of gravel, and are of brick. The basement 
walls are of granite, and the superstructure is to be of random ashlar Suther- 
land Falls marble, with polished and carved trimmings. The principal en- 
trance for the public is to be at the porch tower in the southeast corner. 
The entire lower floor, except the stairway to the upper story, is to be given 




United States Court-Hoise and Postokitcb. 



up to the postoffice. In the second story there is to be a court-room, with 
offices for the judge, district attorney, and marshal. The entire appropria- 
tion for the building is $160,000 ; $15,000 was paid for the site, and the con- 
tract for the superstructure complete, except the heating apparatus, has been 
awarded to Clinton Smith, of Middlebury, for $92,500. The interior finish 
is contracted to be of hard pine, but an effort is being made to have it 
changed to white oak. The accompanying cut is an exact representation of 
the structure when completed, and it will be the finest looking building in 
the state. 



348 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



Revolutionary War and War of 1812. 

The history of Montpelier did not begin until after the close of the Revo- 
lutionary war ; consequently as a town it has no record in that sanguinary 
struggle; but several of the pioneers of the town were Revolutionary soldiers. 
Col. Jacob Davis, Ziba Woodworth, Eliakim D. Persons, Estis Hatch, Luther 
King, Aaron Griswold, and Joseph Wood^vorth were of the number. 

In the War of 18 12 Vermont, as near as can be ascertained, raised her^ 
quota of 3,000 "detached militia" in less than a month. In 1813 a quota 
of four regiments was assigned to the state. The headquarters of two of 
these were at Burlington ; presumably Montpelier was represented in them. 
The loyalty and patriotism of the " MontpeHer Boys " was displayed on the 
occasion of the invasion of Plattsburgh, in September, 18 14. A company, 
containing ri8 officers and men, was raised at once, officered by Timothy 
Hubbard, captain; Isaac Putnam, first lieutenant; Joseph Howes, second 
lieutenant ; and Stephen Foster, ensign ; and were immediately marched to the 
seat of war. 

War for the Union. 

The election of Abraham Lincoln in i860; the occupation of Fort Sumter 
by Major Anderson; and the final attack upon it, which was like the shock 
of an earthquake to the Nation, — ill seems but a recent dream. But it was 
a fearful dream. Years of blood and carnage followed, and eyes are still red 
with weeping over not a few desolated homes. Montpelier saw the Old Ship 
of State among the breakers, and herh1,rdy, patriotic sons hastened on board 
and did valiant and efticient service in aiding her safety into port. 

The total number of men furnished by Montpelier, who entered the service, 
was 365. Ten furnished substitutes ; ten paid comutations ; 120 served their 
term of enlistment, or to the close of the war ; eighty were mustered out of 
the service previous to the close of the war, at the expiration of their term of 
service; 114 were discharged for wounds received, and other disabilities; 
twenty-one were killed in battle ; eleven died of wounds received in battle ; 
seventeen died of diseases contracted in the service ; two died in rebel prisons ; 
and twelve deserted. 

Religious History. 

"The First Congregational Society in Montpelier " was founded by eighty- 
three leading citizens of the village, April 12, 1808. "The Congregational 
Church" was organized by Rev. Chester Wright, July 20, 1808, with seven- 
teen members. Rev. Mr. Wright was employed as stated preacher until 



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August i6, T809. when he was ordained pastor of the church, and continued 
the relation until December 22, 1830. The whole number of members ad- 
mitted to this church is about 1,200. The removals by emigration and death 

have been over 900, leaving a present 
membership of 242. Until 1820 the 
meetings were held in the State House, 
and sometimes in the academy build- 
ing. Then ''the brick church " was 
erected at a cost of about $8,000. The 
present elegant and substantial stone 
^]r^^^=^, building was dedicated October 15, 
1868, and christened "Bethany 
S church," which, with the grounds, is 
llHiil estimated at $76,000. Rev. Chester 
Wright was pastor from August 16, 
^m 1809, to December 22, 1830 ; Samuel 
Hopkins from October, 1 831, to April, 
1835 j R'^v- Buel W. Smith from Au- 
gust, 1836, to July, 1840; Rev. John 
Gridley from December, i84i,to De- 
Bethany Chirch. cember, 1846; Rev. W. H. Lord from 

September, 1847, to 1878; Rev. J. H. Hincks from 1878 to 1888. At pres- 
ent the church has no regular pastor. The church has seats for 800 persons, 
and is warmed with three coal furnaces. The Sunday-school contains 225 
members, with an average attendance of 143. 

T/ie Second Congregational church, or Free church, was organized in 1835, 
composed mainly of members from the First Congregational church, with 
Rev. Sherman Kellogg, pastor, and had a prosperous existence under his 
ministration. This church and society erected and used the church on State 
street, which is now the Village hall. In 1848 this church organization dis- 
solved. 

The Church of the Messiah, (Independent,) popularly known as "The Uni- 
tarian church," has a fine church edifice on Main corner of Court streets, con- 
structed of wood in 1866, at a cost of about $16,000. Its present value, in- 
cluding grounds and all other church property, is estimated to be $20,000. 
The house is tasty and attractive in style, and will comfortably seat 320 peo- 
ple. This society was organized by Charles A. Allen, in 1864, who was its 
pastor until the fall of 1869, when he obtained leave of absence for a trip to 
Europe, and Rev. J. Edward Wright, a native of Montpelier, was engaged to 
supply his place for a year. While away Mr. Allen tendered his resignation, 
which was accepted, and Mr. Wright became the pastor, and yet continues 
in that position, with continual and increasing usefulness and popularity. 
Very few Unitarian ministers had been heard in Montpelier until in October, 
1864, Mr. Allen began in [the spirit of a missionary to hold meetings, to 



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which "Hberal Christians " of whatever denomination were especially invited. 
The congregation met first in " Village hall," but soon permission was ob- 
tained to occupy the court-house, and meetings were held there for more than 
a year. The number who at first assembled was hardly more than a dozen, 
and has increased so that the number of families connected with the society 




The Unitarian Church. 



through some or all of their members is now over 200. Their Sunday-school 
was organized while they occupied the court-house, and has now a member- 
ship of about 150, an average attendance of about ninety, with Fred Blanch- 
ard, superintendent. It has a library of 600 volumes. 

" The covenant of Christian Fellowship in the Church of the Messiah," 
adopted May 19, 1867, reads as follows : — 

" We write our names to this Covenant in the faith and fellowship of Chris- 
tian disciples- trusting in God our Father in heaven, accepting the Gospel 
of Christ as our sovereign law, and resolving, by the help of God, to live in 
honesty and charity with all men, and in Christian faithfulness with one 
another." 

T/ie Baptist CJiurch of Alontpelier was organized in June, 1865, with four- 
teen members. Hon. Joseph Rowell (deceased) and Philip Hill, Esq., offi- 
ciated as deacons, and Rev. Rufus Smith, clerk. Mr. Smith was agent for 
the denomination in Vermont, and supplied the pulpit on Sundays, either in 



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person or by an arrangement with other clergymen in the vicinity. Ihey 
occupied Village hall, Freeman hall, the court-house, and other places until 
the fall of 1 868, when they were enabled to enter the basement of their pres- 
ent church edifice, located at the corner of School and St. Paul streets. The 
house was completed and dedicated January 29, 1873, which, with the 
grounds and church property, is estimated to be worth $20,000, The church 
now contains 128 members, with Rev. G. T. Raymond, pastor. The Sun- 
day-school is composed of about seventy pupils, an average attendance of 
fifty, and has about 100 volumes m its library. 




if lit i'„i'fl,if"W 

Vr'M . y I - 

ttii 




The Bai'tist Church (»■ Monti-elier. 



Methodism in Motitpelier. — It is known that the first Methodist preacher 
sent to Vermont by the authorized voice of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
and who accepted and labored under the appointment, was Rev. Nicholas 
Snethen, who at the conference held at Thompson, Conn., convened Sep- 
tember 20, 1796, was "read off" as the appointee to " Vershire circuit." 
*' Vershite circuit reached," as the records state, " from the towns near the 
Connecticut river to Montpelier." Jesse Lee, the pioneer of Methodism in 
New England, was presiding elder. The fragmentary records, which are the 
only means of information now extant, give conclusive evidence that Mont- 



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pelier was thus visited by the early itinerant preachers. Montpelier may have 
been occasionally visited by the preachers of Vergennes circuit. The eccen- 
tric, but talented, Lorenzo Dow, an able though independent worker in the 
early itinerancy, but was never an appointee on any circuit which included 
the town, was known to have been an occasional preacher at Montpeher. In 
1804 Barre circuit was formed, and included Barre, Plainfield, Middlesex, 




Trinii V (M. K.) Church. 



Montpelier, Northfteld, VVilliamstown, Washington, Berlin, and Orange. 
Eventually Moretown and Waitsfield were included with other towns in the 
circuit. It seems, by an examination of the list of members for the entire 
circuit containing 257 names, that only six or eight were residents of Mont- 
pelier. There was, however, a "class " organized, and it was represented in 
the reported '• collections " at each quarterly meeting of the circuit. 

From this little nucleus the society slowly grew, and in 1S12 there were 
two " classes " in town, with twenty-five members. The first quarterly 
meeting on record held in Montpelier was on August 5, 1820. The meeting 
convened in a grove at the "Center." In 1826 the Methodists built their 
first meeting-house in town, at the '• Center." At the first quarterly meeting 



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held in this house Rev. Wilbur Fiske preached upon the theme of " endless 
misery." In 1828 Montpelier was made a station, and Rev. John Dow was 
the appointed preacher, with a membership of 105. November 19, 1837, 
the first church edifice was dedicated in Montpelier village, and in 1838 the 
church was made a station by itself, with ninety-nine enrolled members. After 
occupying this house thirty seven years, on November 24, 1874, their present 
church was dedicated (Trinity church). This is a plain, substantial brick 
structure, onveniently arranged and we'.l finished, located o.i a fine lot oa 
Main street, and is furnished with a superior organ and a massive bell. The- 
church has seating capacity for 700 people, and with the grounds and all' 
other cliurch property is valued at $28,000. The membership is 204 and 
fourteen probationers, with J. O. Sherburne, pastor. The Sunday-school, in- 
cluding officers and teachers, numbers 254 members. 

Christ church (^roX.t%\.^.xi\. Episcopal) was organized in 1840. In 1841 the 
first parish meeting was held, and George B. Manser, Isaac F. Redfield, J. G. 

Dewey, S. P. Redfield, A.C. Pierce, H. 
N. Baylies, and Daniel Baldwin were 
elected vestrymen. In 1842 the parish 
was represented by George B. Manser 
in diocesan convention. September 
21st of the same year Mr. Manser 
was ordained a deacon, and had 
charge of the parish. Their first 
church edifice was also erected in 
^ the summer of 1842, and consecrated 
^B^^^^^ the 19th of December ensuing. June 
7, 1843, Mr. Manser was advanced 
i() the priesthood, and became the 
Tst rector. Rev. Howard F. Hill, 
t Concord, N. H., who wac elected 
rector October 13, 1879, still occu- 
pies the position (December, 1888). 
Measures were taken and funds raised 
to erect a new church in 1866, which 
was completed and consecrated June 
Chkist Chinch. 2, 1 868. The church is constructed 

of stone, plain and substantial in appearance on the exterior, but elegant and 
artistic within. 

St. Augustine s Roman Catholic church of Montpelier. — The following ac- 
count of the early history of Catholicism in Montpelier, from Miss Hemen- 
way's Gazetteer, is from the venerable Right Reverend Bishop of Burling- 
ton : — 

" Rev. Jeremiah O'Callaghan, a priest of the Diocese of Cork, Ireland, 
was sent by Bishop Fenwick, of Boston, to Burlington, in the month of July, 

23* 




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1830. From this time, until 1851, he must have occasionally visited the 
Catholics of Montpelier, but no records exist of his laboring amongst them. 
Father O'Callaghan died at Holyoke, Mass., in the year 1861. About the 
year 1850 Rev. H. Drolet, a Canadian priest, was sent to reside at Montpe- 
lier. He lived here until the fall of 1854, when he returned to Canada, 
where he died. He it was who bought the old court-house, which was used 
as a church until the erection of the present edifice by Father Druon. After 
the departure of Father Drolet the Montpelier Catholic congregation was at- 
tended by the Obiate Fathers from Burlington until November, 1856, when 
Very Rev. Z. Druon became pastor of the Catholic congregation, and offici- 
ated as such until July 15, 1864, when he was replaced by Rev. Joseph 
Duglue. 

"4- Louis, Bp. of Burlington." 




St. At'GUSTINE's R(1M.\N CATHOLIC ChURCH. 



Rev. D. Druon, while in charge of this parish, built (in 1859) the present 
church, dedicated to St. Augustine, and purchased a church burying ground. 
Father Duglue made some improvements on the church and house for the 
priest, and built a good school building on a lot adjoining the church, which 
commands a fine view of the village and State House grounds. These mis- 
sions were visited by Bishops Tenwick and Fitzpatrick, of Boston, while Rev. 
Father O'Callaghan was here, and some of the eldest people of Montpelier 
well remember the event. October 18, 1885, Eev. W. J. O'Sullivan suc- 
ceeded Father Duglue, and remains in charge of the parish at the present 
writing (February 22, 1889). 



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The congregation has vastly outgrown the size of the church. Rev. Father 
O'SuUivan secured an elligible and fine site for a new church, known as the 
Rublee lot, on Barre street, in January last, on which he will commence the 
erection of an elegant and beautiful church edifice of Barre granite, at the 
opening of the ensuing spring, which will cost about $50,000. 

Barre is a mission attached to the parish of St. Augustine, and is attended 
by Rev. VV. J. O'SuUivan. Here he completed the past season one of the 
prettiest churches in the state. It is built of brick, and trimmed with Barre 
granite. It has seats for 650 people, and cost $18,000. The corner-stone 
was laid in October, 1887, and the structure was completed in December, 
1888, and named St. Monca church. 

The parish of St. Augustine contains about 225 families and 250 single 
members besides. St. Michael's School is connected with this parish. It is 
properly graded, taught by six female teachers, and attended by 175 scholars, 
who there have an opportunity to acquire a substantial education in both 
English and French. 

Col. Jacob Davis, the first permanent settler of Montpelier, and the chief 
of its founders, was born in Oxford, Mass., in 1739. The portion of Oxford 
in which he was born was organized into a new town by the name of Charl- 
ton, in 1754, from which he removed to Montpelier in 1787. Of his boyhood 
and early manhood, no records remain. From his family it was learned that 
he had only such advantages for an education as the common schools of his 
district then afforded, and that in early manhood he married his second 
cousin, Rebecca Davis, of the same town ; that in 1776 he held the commis- 
sion of colonel, and was in command of his regiment in Washington's army, 
at the crossing of the Delaware at Trenton to attack the Hessians. Later 
he was executing a contract with the United States to carry the mails over a 
route in Massachusetts, which he continued several years. In 1780, with 
Timothy Bigelow, of Worcester, Mass., and others, he turned his attention to 
procuring, by purchase, the charter of the township of Montpelier. This was 
granted by the legislature at the October session in that year. The charter 
was not issued until August, 1781. At the second meeting of the proprie- 
tors, January 11, 1786, Col. Davis contracted to lay out the first division of 
seventy lots in the township. In the succeeding winter he removed his family 
to Brookfield, and early the next spring he left his wife and daughters and 
hastened to Montpelier to make for himself and family a permanent home. 
His career as the founder of the town has already been given. He was the 
first representative of the town, elected in 1792, and by successive annual 
elections held the position five years, and was a delegate to the State Consti- 
tutional Convention in 1793. About the year 1800 a heavy judgment was 
procured against him in the United States Circuit Court, growing out of some 
land agencies he had held from proprietors of lands, which he and his family 
and friends considered so unjust that he resolved never to pay it. He con- 
veyed his attachable property to his sons and sons-in-law, and removed his 



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family to Burlington, where he was restrained within the limits of Chittenden 
county jail-yard, by the execution taken out against his person. He re- 
mained in Burlington until he died, in 1814. In the winter precedmg his 
death the matter was amicably settled between the parties, by a relinquish- 
ment of nearly the whole claim, and a virtual admission of its injustice. But 
before he could complete arrangements to remove to Montpelier he was at- 
tacked with an acute disease and died April 9, 18 14. Col. Davis was a man 
of fine physique, six feet high, broad shouldered, and very strong. He was 
energetic, sagacious, enterprising, honest, and benevolent. 

The Puritan James Cutler emigrated to the colony of Massachusetts Bay 
about 1634. Jonathan Cutler, his descendant, came to Montpelier from 
Oxford, Mass., soon after 1786, and was the first town treasurer, in 1792. 
His son David died November 21, 1840, and David, son of David, married 
Mona Marshall, of Montpelier, December 28, 1843, and died July 13, 1854. 
All lived on the old homestead, and were farmers. The children of David,. 
Jr., were Charles F., who died in the Union army at New Orleans, September 
2, 1862; George D., who married Laura J. West, December 3, 1872, is a 
farmer, and resides near North Montpelier; Sarah M. (Mrs. E. V. Duke), 
of Plainfield ; and Alonzo J., a member of the board of trade in Chicago. 

Elder Ziba Woodworth, a Revolutionary soldier, and the first town clerk of 
Montpelier, was born in Bozrah, Conn., in April, 1759, and came to Montpelier 
about 1790. The gallant Col. Ledyard had married his aunt, and was a 
martyr to the cause of liberty at Fort Griswold during the Revolutionary 
war. At the age of seventeen Mr. Woodworth, with his brothers Joseph and 
Asahel, enlisted into Col. Ledyard's regiment, and Ziba and Asahel were 
with their uncle, who was in command of Fort Griswold when the traitor 
Benedict Arnold led the British against New London. While he was devas- 
tating that town he sent a detachment of several hundred soldiers under Col. 
Eyre to reduce Fort Griswold. The fort was in a dilapidated condition, but 
was heroically defended by Col. Ledyard ; the British colonel was disabled, 
and the second in command, Maj. Montgomery, was slain, but in about an 
hour Col. Ledyard was obliged to surrender, and while he was in the act of 
presenting his sword hilt first^to the British officer, that officer seized it and 
ran it through the colonel's body. On the instant two exasperated American 
soldiers rushed upon his murderer, impaled him on their weapons, and threw 
him over the parapet. Then the British commenced the butchery of the 
American garrison. Ziba was prostrated by a bullet that shattered his knee, 
and Asahel received a wound that rendered him insensible at the first onset. 
Ziba next received a wound from a bayonet and a blow on his head from the 
butt of a musket, which laid him senseless. After a long illness Mr. Wood- 
worth recovered, with the loss of the joint of his knee, and some years later 
he and his brothers settled in Montpelier. His permanent location was on 
the Branch about a mile and a half from the village. He was a religious man,, 
of the Free Baptist denomination, began to preach about 1800, and was or- 



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dained in January, 1806. He continued a farmer, did not preach statedly, 
but divided his spare time between religion and politics. He was im- 
pulsive, but kind, sympathetic, benevolent, and charitable. He had some 
faults but many virtues. He died at his home November 27, 1826. 

Hon. David Wing, Jr., was born in Rochester, Mass., June 24, 1766, re- 
moved with his father and family to Montpelier (now East MontpeUer), and 
settled on a farm in the eastern part of the town, and adjoining the old Clark 
Stevens place, about 1790. He taught the second school in town, and in 
about two years after was elected town clerk. He represented the town in 
the state legislature in 1797, 1798, 1800, and i8or. He was judge of his 
county, then Caledonia, from 1797 to 1807, ten years ; and was secretary of 
state from 1802 to 1806. Judge Wing was not only a man of marked and 
acknowledged ability, but was genial and affable, and very popular. He died 
September 13, i8o6, while an incumbent of the office of secretary of state, in 
the midst of his usefulness. Had he lived his prospects were for filling the 
highest office in the gift of the people of his state. In 1792 he married 
Hannah, second daughter of Col. Jacob Davis. This marriage was blessed 
with eight children, to whom were given the following historical names : 
Debby Daphne, Christopher Columbus, Algernon Sidney, Marcus Tullius 
Cicero, Maria Theresa, David Davis, Caroline Augusta, and Maximus 
Fabius. 

Hon. Daniel Baldwin was born in Norwich, Vt., July 21, 1792. He was 
the youngest of seven children, and son of Daniel and Sally (Havens) Bald- 
win. His mother was a daughter of Robert Havens, of Royalton, whose 
house was entered first by the Indians when they burned Royalton. He was 
orphaned at tlje age of two years, and passed the remaining years of his 
minority in the home and under the guardianship of his prominent and able 
older brother, Sylvanus, in Montpelier. He spent this time in attendance at 
school and in learning the carpenters' trade of his brother. He spent many 
years after he attained his majority in a very successful mercantile career, 
and only abandoned it in 1848, to give his whole time to the Vermont Mut- 
ual Life Insurance Co., which he projected, and in which he took the first 
policy. He held the position of president of this company from 1841 to 
1874. In 1874 he was active in the enterprise of boring for salt, on the bank 
of the Winooski near the grist-mill. He was a director of the Bank of 
Montpelier and of the Montpelier National bank. He advocated and aided 
the building of the Central Vermont and Montpelier railroads, and was one 
of the originators and the general manager of the Montpelier Gas Light Co. 
in its early existence. He was treasurer of Montpelier a dozen years, and 
associate judge of Washington County Court in 1846 and 1847. He was a 
Democrat in politics, and a war Democrat in the late civil war. He was lib- 
eral in religion and an able co-worker in the organization of the Independent 
Meeting-House society, and was chairman of its board of trustees from the 
time it was organized, in 1866, until his death, in i88r. He did not forget 



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Montpelier in his will, but bequeathed $2,000 to be used for a suitable water 
supply for the village if the corporation complied with certain conditions. 
He possessed a vigorous intellect and clear haad ; what he deliberately planned 
and clearly saw he pursued with energy. Judge Baldwin was extensively 
known, and universally esteemed for his sterling integrity, good common sense, 
public spirit, and benevolence. He married, in 1820, Emily Wheelock, a 
granddaughter of the first president of Dartmouth College. She died in 
1872. He died August 3, i88r. 

Dr. Edward Lamb was born in Leicester, Mass., in 1771. He received 
his education in the common schools and at the academy of his native town, 
where he gained a substantial English education and some knowledge in Latin 
and Greek. He decided upon the profession of medicine and entered the 
office of Dr. Fisk, in the adjacent town of Southbridge (then Sturbridge), as 
his student. He remained until he had acquired a knowledge of his profes- 
sion, then attended a course of lectures in Boston and Cambridge, and in 
about 1795 or '96 he came to Montpelier and settled for life. In 1803 he 
united in marriage with Miss Polly Witherell, of Montpelier, who died with- 
out issue in 1822. He represented Montpelier in the legislature of 1804, and 
again in i8i4and 1815, and was one of the Presidential electors for Gen. 
Harrison in 1840. He was not a frequent public speaker, but acquitted him- 
self well on the two efforts he is known to have made, — one at the first Fourth 
of July celebration held in Montpelier, when he delivered an oration, and 
again before the Vermont Medical society, when he delivered a valuable dis- 
course. In his profession he became eminent, and his advice and counsel 
were constantly and widely sought. He was skillful in treating all diseases, 
but especially excelled in the management of fevers. At the time of that 
terrible scourge, the spotted fever, he had seventy cases, and brought all but 
three of them successfully through. While as a physician he was ranked 
with the ablest in Vermont. As a financier he was a failure, and died com- 
paratively poor, but rich in the esteem and appreciation of his large acquaint- 
ance. In stature he was of medium height, rather stout and moderate in 
motion, limped in walking, — the effect of a fever-sore in his youth, — and was 
decidedly neglectful in dress, but had a noble, massive head and manly feat- 
ures. Socially he was cordial and courteous, liked a good story, possessed a 
fund of amusing anecdotes, and knew how to relate them. In his practice 
he made no distinction in his attendance of the richest or poorest, or scarcely 
ever asked pay for his services. He died of one of the fevers that he had so 
successfully managed for others, November 4, 1845, at the age of seventy- 
four years. 

James Templeton, son of John the pioneer of East Montpelier, was born 
in 1798, and reared on his father's farm. In early manhood he joined the 
New Hampshire Methodist Episcopal conference, which included New 
Hampshire and Vermont, and was an itinerant preacher of the gospel for about 
twenty years, until he had exhausted the little fortune of about $1,000 left 



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him by his father, and had broken down his health. About this time he was 
chosen to represent his conference in the general conference of the M. E. 
church, to be held in Philadelphia. That city was then the metropolis of 
medical science, and the residence of physicians of marked and acknowledged 
ability. He accordingly visited Philadelphia, not only for the purpose of 
representing his conference, but also to obtain the advice of one of the leading 
physicians. This physician advised him to procure some medical books, and, 
on consulting them, to treat himself. In doing this he became acquainted 
with the science of medicine, and on a further investigation and study of the 
subject he commenced to practice the "healing art, "in his native town. East 
Montpelier, and continued in practice until the infirmities of old age com- 
pelled him to retire. He died in Montpelier, at the home of his daughter 
Caroline (Mrs. P. P. Pitkin), December 14, 1875, aged seventy-seven years. 
Rev. Dr. James Templeton possessed fine natural abilities, and had a seat 
in the legislature as a representative two terms. In early life he married 
Adaline West, of East Montpelier. Their children were Caroline (Mrs. 
P. P. Pitkin), who died December ir, 1883 ; Hiram Edwin, born August 6,. 
1829; James M., born May 27, 1832; Wilbur Fisk, born in 1837; and 
Alma I., who died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Pitkin, January 23, 1875, 
aged thirty-five years. 

Dr. Hiram Edwin Templeton, son of James, received his education at 
the common schools in the towns where his father was stationed, and at 
the Newbury Methodist Seminary while his father was stationed there as 
pastor. Before commencing other professional duties he taught common 
schools seven winters. He studied medicine under the tutorship of his father,, 
and began practice with him. In 1862 he was engaged by the government 
as contract surgeon in the Union army, where he remained nearly three years,, 
and where he had a general and varied practice. At the close of this engage- 
ment he returned to East Montpelier and resumed practice. In 187 i or '72- 
he located in the village of Montpelier, where he is now in successful prac- 
tice. He is a disciple of the eclectic school, and laboring in concert with his 
brother, Dr. James M. Templeton. He united in marriage with Malvina L. 
Ormsby, of East Montpelier. 

James M. Templeton, M. D., son of James, married Miss Adaline Bullard, 
daughter of Rev. M. Bullard, a Methodist clergyman. Dr. Templeton grad- 
uated at the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia, and commenced the 
practice of his profession in East Montpelier, about 1853, where he continued 
until 1863. He then engaged to take the post of contract surgeon in the 
Union army, and went to the front. During most of the ensuing year he was 
in charge of a post-hospital. His health failed and he returned home. In 
1864 he removed to Montpelier, where he is now engaged in an extensive 
and lucrative practice. Dr. Templeton has continued here and in East 
Montpelier since he graduated and began practice, while other physicians- 
have come and gone. This is a gratifying tribute to his skill, and proof that 



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he has the confidence of his numerous patrons. Dr. Templeton is one of the 
pioneers of the eclectic school in Vermont. Through his efforts, and after 
encountering some opposition, the charter of the Eclectic Society of Physi- 
cians of the state of Vermont was obtained. He is repeating himself in 
several places at the same time, by a corps of young physicians who have 
lived with him, read his library, and have been taught by him. 

Capt. Timothy Hubbard was born in Windsor, Parish of VVinterbury, 
Conn., August 17, 1776. He was raised on his father's farm, and like other 
farmers' boys had only a common school education. In June, 1799, he came 
to Montpslier with his brothers Roger and Chester. They were all enter- 
prising and active business men, and contributed to the prosperity and wealth 
of Montpelier. Capt. Hubbard commenced in mercantile business with 
Wyllis J. Cadwell, a relative of the Lymans of Hartford, Conn., and Hartford, 
Vt. In 1801 he married Lucy, daughter of Col. Jacob Davis. In 1803 his 
brother-in-law, Hon. David Wing, became his business partner in place of 
Mr. Cadwell. Judge Wing died in 1806, and his brother Roger became his 
partner, which continued until about 18 16, when Capt. Hubbard retired from 
mercantile business. When he was but fifty years old he formed the sensible 
conclusion that he had money enough, and judiciously distributed about one- 
third of his fine property among his most needy relatives. In 1810 he was 
elected captain of the Governor's Guards, of which Israel Putnam was the 
first captain. Capt. Hubbard soon proved himself a most efficient military 
officer. When the news of the British invasion of Plattsburgh reached Mont- 
pelier, in September, 1814, Capt. Hubbard mustered a fifer and drummer 
and paraded the streets all day marshaling volunteers to go at once to the 
seat of war. He infused them with some of his own energy and patriotism, 
and before he closed his labors for the day he had enlisted a large company, 
who had elected him their captain by acclamation. He gave orders for his 
company to he ready to march early next morning, and accordingly they came 
forward and reached Burlington in the evening, and next day were embarked 
on sloops for Plattsburgh, which place they reached in time to take a place 
in line of battle. Capt. Hubbard was an efficient civil officer, and was often 
selected to settle conflicting financial affairs which others, with less independ- 
ence, were unwilling to touch. In these instances he dealt out justice with- 
out fear or favor. He was liberal to the poor, and a generous supporter of 
educational, religious, and benevolent objects. He died October 28, 1850. 
Dr. Charles Clark, son of Nathaniel and Lucy (Perry) Clark, was born in 
Montpelier, now East Montpelier, January 31, 1800. His parents were from 
Rochester, Mass., and early settlers of the town. Charles was so unfortunate 
as to receive an injury of his left knee, which, to save his life, made amputa- 
tion necessary three years after. His father died when he was but ten years 
old, leaving his family in indigent circumstances, and from that time onward 
this one-legged boy, with that indomitable courage and industry that was ever 
characteristic of him, supported himself. He received only a common school 



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education with a few terms at the Washington County Grammar School, and 
then commenced the study of his profession with Dr. Edward Lamb, of 
MontpeHer, and in 1819 attended lectures at Castleton Medical School. In 
182 1 he commenced the practice of medicine with Dr. N. C. King, of North 
Montpelier. Two years later he removed to Calais and began practice alone, 
where he resided fourteen years. In 1823 he married Clarissa Boyden, of 
Montpelier. In 1837 he purchased the Boyden homestead, removed to it, 
where he resided the ensuing twelve years, and had an extensive practice in 
Montpelier and the surrounding towns. In 1849 Dr. Clark settled in the 
village of Montpelier, for the double purpose of the practice of medicine and 
for the better opportunity for the education of his children. He died of 
paralysis, June 21, 1874, after five years of prostration and suffering. Dr. 
Clark possessed no ordinary native abilities to accomplish what he did. He 
was of fine physique, six feet high, and possessed an animated, pleasant 
countenance. He was warm, genial, sympathetic, and communicative, which, 
with his fund of anecdotes, made him a welcome visitor to his patients, and 
contributed to his great popularity and success. He was a constant student 
in his profession, kept pace with the progress of the science, and had little 
time for political matters, but by the wishes of his friends he consented to 
represent Montpelier in the legislature of 1846-47. He was an ardent ad- 
vocate of temperance and education, and served twelve years as the president 
of the board of trustees of Washington County Grammar School, and was for 
many years treasurer of Vermont Medical society. 

The Taplin family in America are unmistakably of Huguenot descent, 
and all sprang from the French emigrants, of the name, who settled in Over- 
ton, Hampshire, in England, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 

John Taplin, Esq., as he was called in Montpelier, was born in Marlboro, 
Mass., July 14, 1748, and died in Montpelier, November 20, 1835. His 
father. Col. John Taplin, resided in Marlboro until about 1764, when he re- 
moved to Newbury, Vt., and was one of the first settlers of that town. " He 
was one of the most noted men of his times, had been a colonel in the Brit- 
ish American army under Gen. Amherst, and actively engaged with Rogers, 
Putnam, Stark, and other distinguished American ofificers in reducing the 
fortresses of the French on Lake Champlain, and fighting their red allies then 
prowling through the entire wilderness territory of Vermont." Col. John 
Taplin was the chief judge of the first court ever held within the territory now 
called Orange county. His court was held in the New York county of Glou- 
cester, and he received his commission from King George III., from the 
governor of New York, March 17, 1770, and again April 10, 1772. His first 
term of court was held at Kingsland, as appears upon the original records of 
the courts held in Kingsland, which are preserved in the county clerk's office 
at Chelsea. Kingsland, now Washington, was made the county seat, although 
there was not a house nor an inhabitant within its limits. A village, or, as 



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our western people would say in these days, a city, was plotted upon paper^ 
near its center, but it has never yet been built. 

Judge Taplin probably held his last court in Kingsland on Tuesday, May 
25, 1773, when he adjourned to meet in Newbury. The last record of any 
court at either Kingsland or Newbury, held by Judge Taplin, commonly 
called Col. TapHn, was in Newbury, February 25, 1774. Judge TapUn was 
not a lawyer. He probably resided at Newbury while he was judge, but la- 
ter he removed to Corinth, of which town he was an original proprietor. 
His sympathies were undoubtedly with the colonies in their efforts to throw 
off the British yoke, for July 15, 1775, he wrote a letter from Newbury to 
Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., president of the Provincial Congress at the city 
of New York, in which he uses these words : " The country seems to be very 
well united, and firm to one another, and also in the cause of Uberty ; and I 
make no doubt but they will cheerfully join in whatever measures and direc- 
tions the honorable Congress may point out from time to time." But U. P. 
Thompson, in his history of Montpelier, says that " on the opening of the 
Revolution, Colonel TapHn, declining to take sides against the king who had 
distinguished him, retired during the war into Canada, leaving his son, John 
Taplin, Jr., on the paternal property in Corinth, Vermont." Col. TapHn 
married Hepsiba Brigham, presumably in the year 1746, as we are informed 
by Mrs. H. N. Taplin, widow of his grandson now aged eighty-two years, re- 
siding in Montpelier, that his wife (Hepsiba Brigham) was but fifteen years 
old when her first son was born, or when she was married. As she was born 
in 1 73 1, and fifteen when she was married, that event must have occurred in 
1746. She died December 27, 1815. Col. John Taplin died November 9, 
1803. We are unable to gain any information of his birth or age. Their 
children were John, Jr., born July 14, 1848, Johnson, Brigham. Elisha, Mans- 
field, William, Nathan, Gouldsburn, Polly, and Hepsa. 

John Taplin, Jr., was the first high sheriff under his father in Gloucester 
county, Vt., removed to Corinth with his father, and from there came to Ber- 
lin in 1787, and settled near the mouth of Dog river. He was the first 
representative of Berlin, and the first justice of the peace. When twenty 
years old he married Catherine Lovewell, of Newbury, who was born July 10, 
1748, and died July 16, 1794. She was the mother of twelve children, viz.; 
Caty (Catherine), born December 30, 1770; Augustus, born June 30, 1773; 
Susan, born April 28, 1775 ; John, born July 31, 1777 ; Henry, born May 
27, 1780; Robert, born April 24, 1782 ; Ira, born June 14, 1784; Hannah, 
born May 21, 1786 ; Walter, born May 14, 1788; Chittenden, born June 14, 
1789; Thomas Chittenden, born April 30, 1792 ; and William, born June 
16, 1794. He married his second wife, Lydia Gove, says Thompson, some 
time in the year 1795, who bore him nine children more, namely, Ebenezer,. 
born March 2, 1796; Hazen, born Aprils, 1797; Edward Langdon, born 
May 5, 1798 ; Harriet, born September 2, 1799 ; Horatio Nelson, born April 
15, 1 801 ; Sidney Smith, born February 5, 1803 ; Guy Carlton, born April 



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29, 1804; John Adams, born October 4, 1805; and Susan, born May 30, 
1807. Only the last named of this large family is now living. H. N. Taplin, 
son of H. N., and George E. Taplin are the only male descendants of this 
branch of the Taplin family now residing in Montpelier. 

Samuel Goss, the pioneer journalist of Montpelier, was born in HoUis, 
N. H., in November, 1776. He served an apprenticeship in the office of 
"Isaiah Thomas, the father of printers/' at Worcester, Mass. He had for 
fellow-apprentices Amos Farley and Rev. Leonard Worcester. At the age of 
twenty-one he went to Boston and purchased a second-hand press and printers' 
materials to set up business for himself. Peachara, Vt., was his objective 
point, where he arrived in January, 1798, and in company with Mr. Farley 
set up this scanty outfit in a very small school-house, and in eight days issued 
the first number of The Greeii Mountain Patriot, which the firm of Farley & 
Goss continued to issue regularly the ensuing nine years. In 1807 Mr. Goss 
came to Montpelier and bought The Vermont Precursor of Rev. Clark Brown, 
which had had an existence of only a few months, and consolidated the two 
papers in the Vermont Watchman, which he conducted until 1810. He then 
sold the Watchman to his apprentices, Gen. E. P. Walton, and his younger 
brother, Mark Goss, and engaged in the manufacture of paper, which he con- 
tinued for many years. Mr. Goss was a zealous worker in the church and 
Sunday-school, and in the latter he served more years than any other in 
Montpelier except Col. Asahel Washburn. Next to his religion he loved his 
country best, and George Washington was his model statesman. Although 
an octogenarian, five years before the Rebellion his heart was with his 
country, and he visited the office of the Watchman twice daily during the 
war to get the latest news. 

Judge Thompson, in his history of Montpelier, says : " It was the good 
fortune of Montpelier, for the first twenty years after the place could lay 
claim to the dignity of a village, to have the right kind of a man for her min- 
ister and the right kind of a man for an editor, in the persons of Chester 
Wright and Ezekiel P. Walton." 

Ezekiel Parker Walton was born in Canterbury, N. H., in 1789. His father, 
George Walton, removed to Peacham, Vt., where there was a good academy 
which young Walton attended a few terms previous to reaching the age of 
fifteen years. This completed all the school education he ever received. 
Samuel Goss was then editor of his paper, The Green Mountain Patriot, and 
the boy Walton entered his office as an apprentice. After three years he 
came to Montpelier with Mr. Goss, and served out his apprenticeship, which 
expired in t8io, when he was twenty-one years old. Then with his fellow- 
apprentice, Mark Goss, the brother of the editor, they bought the interest of 
Samuel Goss, and for the next six years the paper was issued by the firm of 
Walton & Goss, with Mr. Walton chief editor. In 1816 Mark Goss retired 
from the firm and Mr. Walton conducted the paper alone for nearly twenty 
years, when as his sons became of age they entered the business as partners,. 



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and books and papermaking were added to the business of E. P. Walton & 
:Sons, which was continued until 1853, when the proprietorship of the paper 
passed into the hands of his son, Hon. Eliakim Persons Walton ; but Gen. 
Walton continued to assist in some parts of the editorial work to the last 
year of his life. As a writer Gen. Walton acquired a style of his own, which 
with the vein of good common sense that always pervaded it, he ranked with 
the most pleasing and instructive editorial writers of his day. In the poUti- 
■cal world Gen. Walton was always capable of giving advice ; he was always 
a man among men ; in the social circle he was an agreeable companion, al- 
ways dignified but courteous ; and was an influential officer in the church. 
He was an ardent and influential politician, but never an office seeker. He 
was several times the candidate of his party for town representative, but only 
when his party was in the minority. In 1827 he was elected one of the- 
council of censors, and served with credit to himself and his electors, with 
such distinguished men for compeers as Judges B. Turner, D. Kellogg, and 
S. S. Phelps. In 1852 he was one of the electoral college for his state, which 
cast the vote of Vermont for Gen. Scott. In 1854 he was nominated by a 
large mass state convention as their candidate for governor ; but to consoli- 
date the sentiments of all in one controlling organization he patriotically sub- 
mitted, and advocated the substitution of the name of Judge Stephen Royce 
by the state committee for his own. The outgrowth was the organization of 
the Republican party of the state, and for which the credit in a great measure 
is due to Gen. Walton. Early in life he passed rapidly along the line of mili- 
tary promotion till he reached the rank of major-general, when he threw aside 
these glittering offices and thought no more of them. Everywhere, and at 
all times, he was an admirable type of the Christian gentleman, and in the 
support of charitable mstitutions he was unsurpassed by none and equalled 
by few. Gen. Walton died November 27, 1855. 

Job Macomber, a native of England, settled in Wendell, Mass., at a very 
€arly date. He was a sea captain, and commanded a merchant vessel. He 
died at the great age of ninety-nine years, and left a large family, some of 
whom emigrated to other states. His son Job married Phebe Smith and 
settled on a farm in Wendell. He (Job) served his country as a soldier in the 
Revolutionary war, and received a pension from the government which he 
aided to establish. About 1807 he emigrated to Montpelier and located on a 
farm in the eastern part of the town. He remained in Montpelier till his 
death. In early life he was a trader and dealt quite largely in cattle, but met 
with reverses in unavoidable litigation, which deprived him of much of his 
fortune. He raised seven children to mature age. His son Job, 3d, educated 
in the common schools, married Mary Ann Templeton, of East Montpelier, 
settled on a farm, which was nearly all woodland, only improved with three or 
four acres of the forest slashed down. On this farm he built a log house, in 
which he resided a few years. He then built a commodious frame dwelling 
and barns, planted an orchard, and surrounded himself with the comforts of 



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a thrifty farmer's home. He was a man of decided convictions, and when 
his opinions were once formed they were seldom or never changed. He was 
a life-time Democrat, was always at the polls at elections, but refused to ac- 
cept any office. He was a man of sterling integrity. His motto was : " Pay 
as you go and owe no man," and at his decease his son, Dr. Job Macomber, 
who settled his estate, says he had not a single debt. 

Dr. Job Macomber, son of Job and Mary Ann (Templeton) Macomber, 
was born in Montpelier, now P2ast Montpelier, July 3, 1834. He attended a 
course of lectures at the medical academy of Woodstock, Vt., graduated at 
Castleton (Vt.) Medical College in 1856, and almost immediately com- 
menced practice in Worcester, Vt. He remained in practice in Worcester 
until 1865, when he removed to Montpelier, where he now resides. Dr. 
Macomber soon became the physician of many of the best families in Mont- 
pelier, and by his skill and success almost immediately acquired a large and 
remunerative practice. He has ably served the public the past thirty-three 
years. Dr. Macomber is a member of the Vermont Medical society, and 
is now the president of the Montpelier board of United States pension ex- 
aminers. While at Worcester he held the offices of town clerk, treasurer, and 
superintendent of schools. He also represented that town in the legislature 
of 1864 and '65. In May, 1858, he married Marcella L. Ladd, of Wor- 
cester. Their children now living are Mary E., Clara A., and George L. 
They lost a daughter, aged nineteen, and an infant son. 

Coi. Elisha Payne Jewett, only son of Capt. Nathan and Ruth (Payne) 
Jewett, was born in Lebanon, N. H., June 5, 1801. Capt. Nathan Jewett 
married Ruth, daughter of Hon. Elisha Payne, December 10, 1793, ^^^^ in 
1807 came to Montpelier. He was born in Hopkinton, March 8, 1767. Mrs. 
Jewett was born in Plainfield, Conn., July 9, 1770. Captain Jewett was well 
formed, and a dignified gentleman of the old school, honest, and generous 
beyond his means. He was the captain of the Washington artillery, which 
was a dignity equal to that of a major-general of militia in our days. His 
company consisted of picked men and constituted the governor's guard. 
Capt. Jewett died in Montpelier, December 29, i86r. in the ninety-fifth year 
of his age. Col. Elish P. Jewett was the apprenticed clerk of the late Hon. 
Daniel Baldwin, merchant, for six years. When he was about twenty-one 
years of age he commenced mercantile business for himself, which he suc- 
cessfully conducted. Later, when he had left that business, he was engaged 
in the construction of the Vermont Central railroad, and the Great Western 
railroad from Suspension Bridge to Hamilton, Canada. Later he became an 
agriculturist, and owns the fine farm on the Winooski river in the south- 
western corner of the town, where the pioneer Frizzel made the first settle- 
ment in Montpelier. Col. Jewett now resides in a beautiful home on the 
western part of State street. He has made decided improvements on this 
farm, and also on the other lands in his possession. Col. Jewett has espe- 
cially distinguished himself by his personal influence and princely donations 



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for the interest of Montpelier. He has not only contributed generously to 
building the churches, and to all other pubHc interests, but to make the cap- 
ital permanent he has given the magnificent sum of $25,000 to aid in 
building the State Houses. He was an efficient co-worker with Messrs. 
Langdon, Walton, and Baldwin in building the Vermont Central railroad. He 
has been a bank director nearly half a century, president of one of the banks 
six years, was state treasurer in 1846-47, represented Montpelier in the legis- 
lature of 1855, and was Presidential elector at large in 1872. His political 
affiUations are with the Republican party. Col. Jewett derives his military 
title from his appointment on the staff of Major-General Ezekiel P. Walton. 
He is enshrined in the affections of the people, and justly deserves to be. 
" Men have come and gone," but he has been a " man among men " nearly 
three-score years and ten, and an octogenarian since 1881. Still he is well 
preserved, both physically and mentally, and his tall form is seen daily on the 
streets. 

Hon. George Worthington, one of the prominent early citizens of Mont- 
peHer, married Clarissa, youngest daughter of Col. Jacob Davis, the first child 
born in the town, and engaged in the manufacture of hats with Erastus Wat- 
rous. He was sheriff of Washington county in 1814, representative in 1819, 
councilor from 1827 to 183 1, and judge of probate in 1840. He was much 
of his time engaged in settling estates. About i860 he removed to Irasburg, 
and died there. 

Hon. Joseph Howes was born in Lebanon, Conn., March 28, 1783. He 
was a descendant of one of the Puritan families who settled in Plymouth 
county, Mass. He came to Montpelier with his wife, in 1808, where they 
both spent the remainder of their lives. They united with Bethany church 
in 1810, and were consistent members to the "close of their lives. Judge 
Howes began in politics a Jeffersonian Republican, supported John Quincy 
Adams for President in 1824, and entered successively the Whig and Repub- 
Ucan parties at their organizations. He served nearly two years as adjutant 
on the frontier in the War of 18 12, and declined a commission which was 
offered him in the regular army. He started for Plattsburgh in September, 
1814, as second lieutenant of the Montpelier volunteer company of 1 18 men. 
He represented Montpelier in the legislature of 1813, and served as a judge 
of Washington County Court from 18 19 to 1827. He was also a magistrate, 
selectman, and overseer of his town. Judge.' Howes married Patty Wilder, 
of Norwich, in 1808, who was born in 1786, and died January 20, 1871. He 
died March 28, 1863. Judge Howes was honest, conscientious, and severe 
with himself, and in condemning wrong in others, but generous to such as 
wronged him. He was gentle, mild, and charitable. 

Rev. Chester Wright, the fourth of the eight children of Nathaniel and 
Jemima (Bartlett) Wright, was born in Hanover, N. H., November 6, 1876. 
His father was a farmer, and his expectation was to continue in his father's 
occupation. Indeed his resolution to enter the ministry was not formed until 



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after he had attained his majority, and had bought a farm and begun to 
till it. Then he began a course of preparatory study which continued eleven 
years, during which time he supported himself by teaching, being preceptor 
of the Addison County Grammar School for two years, and for some time a 
tutor in Middlebury College, from which he was graduated in 1806. He 
studied theology with Rev. Asa Burton, D. D., of Thetford, Vt., and later 
under the direction of Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., of New Haven, Conn. 
Being licensed to preach, in 1808, he was called to Montpelier, and in June 
of that year he assumed the ciiarge of the newly-organized Congregational 
society of that place — a relation which continued till his dismissal, by the 
reluctant consent of a council, December 22, 1830. During his pastorate 
428 persons were received into the church, which was for a long time the only 
church in the village. He retained his home in Montpelier six years after 
his dismissal, employed in teaching and preaching to churches in the vicinity. 
In 1836 he became the pastor of the Congregational church in Hardwick, 
Vt., holding that position at the time of his death, in Montpelier, from con- 
sumption, in 1840. Intellectually Mr. Wright held high rank among his 
ministerial brethren, was regarded as a leader in their councils, and was often 
chosen to represent them in ecclesiastical gatherings beyond the borders of 
the state; but he was yet more distinguished for his unselfish consecration, 
his moral force and intrepidity, and his philanthropic spirit and missionary 
zeal. In theology he was rather conservative, but in the matter of moral re- 
forms he was decidedly progressive. He married Charlotte Clapp Whitney, 
of Royalton, Vt., who survived him nineteen years. Of their six children, 
four lived to maturity, viz. : Jonathan Edwards, Charlotte Whitney (Mrs. James 
H. Howe), Julia (Mrs. Joseph W. Howes), and Eliza Maria (Mrs. Ferrand 
F. Merrill). Of these, Mrs. Howes is now (April, 1888) the only survivor; 
but the others have left children, three of whom are living in Montpelier, 
namely, Miss Charlotte H. Merrill, Miss Mary A. Merrill, and Rev. J. Ed- 
ward Wright, — one, Chester W. Merrill^ Esq., lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
one, Mrs. Lucy (Howe) Skinner, lives in Lake Forest, 111. 

Rev. James Edward Wright, son of Jonathan Edwards and Fanny Wyman 
(Houghton) Wright, and grandson of Rev. Chester Wright, was born in 
Montpelier, July 9, 1839. He was educated at Washington County Gram- 
mar School; Boston Public Latin School, graduating in 1857; Harvard 
College, graduating in 1861 ; and at Andover Theological Seminary, gradu- 
ating in 1865. He served as private, corporal, and sergeant in the 44th 
Mass. Regt., from August, 1862, to June, 1863. He supplied the pulpit 
of the Christian church, of Eastport, Me., from August, 1865, to February, 
i866, and was ordained as a minister of Jesus Christ at Henry, III, July 
24, 1866. From September, 1866, till January, 1869, he was pastor of a 
newly-organized church (of the Christian connection) in Jacksonville, III. ; 
and from September, 1869, to the present time he has had charge of the 



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Church of the Messiah (Independent, but commonly known as an Unitarian 
church) in Montpelier. 

Erastus Hubbard, son of Roger and Fanny (Burbank) Hubbard, was born 
in Montpelier, September 8, i8ri, and distinctly remembers the mustering 
in the streets of the militia company preparatory to marching to the battle of 
Plattsburgh, in September, 18 14. He commanded a company of boys as 
their captain, and was in line, and saluted Gen. LaFayette on his visit to 
Montpelier. His father first visited Montpelier as a tin peddler. He came 
to Montpelier some time before 1808, as he was here when the first State 
House was built. He soon engaged in merchandising with his brother, Capt. 
Timothy Hubbard. About 18 14 he sold his interest in the store and dwell- 
ing house, and settled on a farm known as " Hubbard's meadow," where he 
resided the next seven years. He built a store in 1822 and again engaged 
in merchandising. In 1832 he retired to his farm, and his son Erastus re- 
sumed the trade that his father left. Roger Hubbard died in 1848. He 
was captain of Washington artillery several years, and was one of the promi- 
nent men of the growing village of Montpelier. 

Erastus Hubbard married, in 1837, Arabella G., daughter of Amplius 
Blake, of Chelsea, and has been a merchant and in business most of his Hfe. 
In 1850 Mr. Hubbard bought of his father's estate his present dwelling house 
and the farm referred to, and laid it out into streets, and the meadow is now 
covered with neat dwellings and is one of the prettiest sections of the village. 
Mr. Hubbard met with a serious accident on election day in the fall of 1848, 
caused by the explosion of gunpowder, which so much injured his eyes that 
they have gradually failed until he is now nearly blind. Notwithstanding 
this misfortune his great energy and courage would not let him rest in idle- 
ness, and since he has transacted a vast amount of business. He has suffered 
frequently by fire, but rebuilt again at once. The present fine building 
known as Union block was commenced the next day after the old one that 
stood in its place was burned down, and now, with his impaired sight and the 
weight of nearly seventy-eight years, aided by his son, he gives his personal 
attention to his financial affairs. Mr. Hubbard is no oftice seeker and has 
steadily refused to accept office. He began his' political life with the old 
Whig party, voted for Gen. Harrison in 1840, and for his grandson, Gen. Ben- 
jamin Harrison, in i888. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard have enjoyed a married 
life of more than fifty-two years, and are parents of a daughter and son, viz.: 
Lucy, wife of B. F. Fifield, the leading railroad attorney in the state, and 
John E. Hubbard, who is with his father, superintending their system of 
spring water works, tenements, and other matters. 

Hon. Eliakim Persons Walton, the first born son of Gen. Ezekiel Parker Wal- 
ton and Prussia Parsons, his wife, was born in Montpelier, February 17, 18 [2. 
He received rudimental education in reading and reading the notes of music 
from his mother, and next be was occasionally instructed in the district school, 
from which M. D. Gilman, in his Bibliography, informs us he had the habit of 



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running away on every possible occasion. He next attended the Washing- 
ton County Grammar School, until he was fitted for college by that able edu- 
cator, the late Jonathan Southmayd. Much of his practical education was 
gained at vacations of school in his father's printing office, where he was 
placed when he was so young that he had to stand in a chair to reach the 
printer's case. Mr. Walton relates an incident in his early life with apparent 
pleasure, when in 1826-27 he was employed in the office of the Essex County 
Republican, in Essex, N. Y. The editor and publisher was away, and the 
publication would have been suspended for a week but for the energy of 
young Walton, then fourteen years old. Without authority from his employ- 
ers the youthful editor got up a paper, containing a large amount of editorial 
matter, partly written and partly composed at the case, and took proof-sheets, 
which he submitted to the examination of Gen. Henry H. Ross, of Essex, 
then a member of Congress, and asked his advice whether he should or 
should not print the paper. The General returned the sheets, his face beam- 
ing with smiles, and placed both his hands on the boy's shoulders and said : 
" Print it ! boy, print it ! " He then printed and issued the edition. This 
Mr. Walton calls his "first newspaper." After he left the Grammar School 
he entered the law office of Samuel Prentiss with the intention of entering 
the legal profession. Here he remained long enough to gain some elemen- 
tary knowledge of law, and as Judge Prentiss was then in the United States 
Senate, he also gained a knowledge of national politics from the Judge, and' 
the books and documents which were sent to the Senator. Although he pre- 
ferred the law, he was born an editor ; and when he was twenty-one years of age 
he was his father's partner in the publication of the Vermont Watchman and 
State Gazette. Other business so much absented the attention of the senior 
editor that the management of the paper and printing were in charge of E. P. 
Walton, Jr. (This signature he adupted, as the initials of his father and his 
own were the same.) In 1853 he became sole owner of the paper, and con- 
tinued its owner until he sold it to Joseph Poland & Son, in 1868. Besides 
the great amount of labor bestowed on the Watchman in the long list of 
years that he was connected with it, he has performed a vast amount of other 
editorial work. Walton's Vermont Register, commenced by his father, has 
been edited by him all these years, and is still except the business directory. 
He edited the second volume of the State Historical society's collections 
wrote mainly the reports for the Vermont Capitol oi 1857, and has issued 
eight carefully written octavo volumes. The Governor and Council of Ver- 
mont and His Crowning Glory alone would have made him famous. Be- 
sides all this he has delivered many orations and addresses, and written in- 
numerable important letters. As a politician he has been active, alert, and 
brave, but always honorable ; and has generously used his great influence to 
help other men to high offices, but has never sought " place and position " 
for himself. In 1853 he consented to represent Montpelier in the legislature. 
In 1856 he was greatly surprised by being selected by his party as their can- 

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didate for representative in the United States Congress, and received three 
successive elections, and afterward declined further service. In 1874 he was 
elected to the Senate of Vermont, and served until 1878. In 1870 he was 
a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. 

Mr. Walton has received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from the 
University of Vermont and from Middlebury College. He was the president 
of the Publishers' and Editors' association of Vermont from its organization 
until i88r, and of the Vermont Historical society since the Rev. Dr. Lord 
retired. Through his exertions and potent influence Vermont was saved her 
third member of Congress for twenty years. Mr. Walton was an able cham- 
pion and advocate of the construction of the Central Vermont railroad, 
and with James R. Langdon was selected by Gov. Charles Paine as his 
assistant in raising capital for the road in Boston, — Mr. Walton to write for 
the press, and Mr. Langdon as an eminent business man. Mr. Walton spent 
three months on this mission. The result of the united effort of these gentle- 
men was a subscription to the stock of the road in Boston of $1,500,000. 
Mr. Walton is a man of the people, affable, courteous, and communicative, 
and a Living Encyclopedia of the Green Mountain state. 

James R. Langdon, third child of Col. James FL and Nabby (Robins) 
Langdon, was born in Montpelier, October 3, 18 13. His literary education 
he gained in the Washington County Grammar School. He was born for an 
active business life, and early gave evidence of this by entering a grist-mill for 
the purpose of learning the millers' trade. This his father opposed, and in- 
duced him to leave the mill by offering to furnish the capital and share the 
profits with him that might be gained by buying Spanish coin, which brought 
a handsome premium in Canada. Accordingly, at the age of only fifteen 
years, he traveled over the New England states and New York so long as 
Spanish specie could be obtained in quantities sufficient to make the business 
profitable. He was able, as the result of this enterprise, to divide the snug 
little item of $3,400 with his father. Next we find him a clerk a short time 
at Derby Line. After the death of his father, January 7, 1831, he was 
employed to settle his father's estate; and later he engaged in merchandising 
at Greensborough, where he had the misfortune to lose his store by fire. He 
returned to Montpelier and engaged in the manufacture and sale of flour, in 
which he did an immense business, and for a country merchant accumulated 
quite an extensive property, which was the nucleus of his large fortune. By 
his great sagacity and business ability he has handled large amounts of property 
with uniform success ; and in his investments in banks, bonds, and stocks he 
has displayed the same prudent, far-sighted financial knowledge, which has 
always been crowned with success. Mr. Langdon was a director of the Bank 
of Montpelier when he was but twenty years old, and this relation continued 
until the bank was transformed into the Montpelier National bank, March 5, 
1865. Since that time Mr. Langdon has been president of the new organ- 
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has rendered important service to his state. The results of that enterprise 
wonderfully developed its resources. He, with Flon. E. P. Walton, was 
selected to assist the late Gov. Paine to raise funds in Boston, and the result 
of their efforts was a subscription to the stock of the road of $1,500,000. 
He has been a director of the Central Vermont railroad since 1873 and its 
vice-president since 1876. Mr. Langdon has decided opinions on the polit- 
ical policy of out country, but is in no sense an office seeker. An unwise 
and protracted division of the Republican party was settled by his election 
to the legislature in i868. He was returned to the House of Representatives 
the ensuing year, and was appointed on the important committees of Ways 
and Means and Railroads, where, by his superior knowledge of finance, he 
rendered excellent service to his state. Mr. Langdon was married, in Decem- 
ber, i8i6, to Lucy Pomeroy, daughter of Charles Bowen, of Middlebury, Vt. 
They had four children, viz.: Lucy, who married, first, Mr. Mansfield, of 
Nyack, N. Y., and after his death Mr. Schroeder, of Ne^v York city, the first 
superintendent of the Astor library ; Harriet, who died young ; Elizabeth 
W. suffered a calamity, and is the subject of tender and loving care bestowed 
by her kind father ; and James Henry, who died in infancy. Their mother 
died some years ago. 

Dr. James Spalding was born in Sharon, Vt., March 20, 1792. When he 
was but seven years old he received a small wound in the knee joint, and 
acute inflammation set in, followed by suppuration, which was attended with 
extreme suffering, and confined him more than six months. During his sick- 
ness the eminent physician and surgeon. Dr. Smith, of Hanover, was called, 
and under his skillful treatment he was healed, but the knee was partially 
stiffened, and to recover the full action of this joint required years. While 
thus confined he resolved to become a physician and surgeun. His education 
was limited to a common school course. Alone and without instruction he 
acquired that mental discipline which distinguished him in after life. He 
commenced his medical studies at the age of seventeen years, with Dr. Eber 
Carpenter, of Alstead, N. H., with the stipulation that he should practice one 
year with the Doctor to recompense him for his education. While he was 
pursuing his medical course he took private lessons in Latin and Greek. He 
graduated at the Medical department of Dartmouth College at the age of 
twenty. After he had practiced two years with Dr. Carpenter, where he had 
gained a high reputation in the treatment of spotted fever, and was the cele- 
brated " boy physician," he commenced to practice in Claremont, but his friends 
in Montpelier induced him to locate there. The distinguishing trait of his 
mind was sound judgment. His fixed purpose was improvement in his pro- 
fession ; consequently he was never engaged in other business or in seeking 
political preferment. He very early gained general confidence as a physician, 
and as a surgeon he was successful above most others. It was a maxim with 
him that there should be no guess-work in his profession, and more especially 
in surgery. In 1820 Dr. Spalding married Miss Eliza Reed, of Montpelier, 



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by whom he raised six children. Mrs. Spalding died in 1854, and two years 
after he married Mrs. Dodd, a daughter of VVyllis Lyman, of Hartford, Vt, 
who died in 1857. Dr. Spalding died March 15, 1858. 

Hon. Arunah Waterman was born in Norwich, Conn., November 8, 1778. 
He came of good Revolutionary stock. His father was a subaltern officer and 
raised to commissary in the Continental army, and his uncles were either offi- 
cers or soldiers. At the age of thirteen years he was a carpenter's appren- 
tice, and served until he was twenty-one. Soon after he was recommended 
as a master mechanic to Gen. Pinckney, of South Carolina, who was about 
to build extensively. He engaged with him, superintended his constructions 
to the satisfaction of the General, and by his ability and integrity gained his 
confidence, and was made steward and supervisor of all the General's estates 
in his absence as Minister of the United States at the Court of St. James. 
In 1801 or 1802 he came to Vermont with his brothers, Hon. Joseph and 
Hon. Thomas Waterman, and settled in Johnson. In the first part of the 
year 1814 he came to Montpelier, bought the farm on North Branch, includ- 
ing tile water-power at the falls, and besides cultivating his farm he built a 
wool-carding and cloth-dressing-mill, which he conducted for a few years, and 
until, in connection with Seth Persons, he erected a woolen factory, which 
was burned in 1826. He died on his farm, then within the village, January 
31, 1859. In 1821 Mr. Waterman represented Montpelier in the legisla- 
ture, and was reelected in 1822 and 1823, and again in 1826. When the 
state Senate was established, in 1836, he was one of the first senators of 
Washington county, and reelected the succeeding year. In 1840, without 
consulting him, the legislature elected him to the office of county judge,, 
which he declined. Mr. Waterman was a fast friend of our common schools,, 
and for many years a trustee of the Montpelier Academy. Self-taught, he 
became a proficient civil engineer, mathematician, geologist, and an accurate 
historian. In 1804 he married Miss Rebecca, daughter of Oliver Noyes, of 
Hyde Park, the sister of Hon. David P. Noyes. She died in 181 2. One of 
her several children is Hon. Vernon P. Waterman, of Morristown. After more 
than a year Mr. Waterman married Miss Mehitable Dodge, now deceased. 

Mahlon Cottrill, who was widely known in the state and outside of it as 
"mine host" of the Pavilion, and as "the prince" of landlords, was born 
in Bridgeport, in 1797. He came to Montpelier in 1826, and went into the 
employ of Watson Jones, who was the proprietor of a line of stages running 
from Montpelier to Burlington. Ira Day, of Barre, who was running a stage 
line southward through Royalton, soon joined Mr. Cottrill and bought out 
Mr. Jones, and organized the great central stage line through the state, which 
became the main thoroughfare from Boston to Montreal. He became well 
known at Washington as a mail contractor. He became the proprietor of 
the Pavilion, and conducted it until he sold it to Col. Boutwell, in 1856. In 
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City to Santa Fe, and established a line of stages over that route. He died 
of remittent fever in Kansas City, in October, 1864. 

Hon. Joseph Reed was born in Westford, Mass., March 13, 1776, where 
he resided until the winter of 1788, when he went to his uncle in Plymouth, 
N. H., with whom he lived until he was a little over eighteen, and had re- 
ceived the advantages of the common schools. Thus educated, he com- 
menced and served through an apprenticeship to the carpenters' trade. He 
followed this calling about six years, then relinquished it and resolved to 
enter mercantile pursuits. In furtherance of his resolution he served as clerk 
a short time, and in 1803 he opened a store in Thetford. In 1814 Mr. Reed 
represented Thetford in the legislature, was reelected the two succeeding 
years, and was representative five of the succeeding seven years. In 1818 
and 1 81 9 he was one of the judges of Orange county. He closed his very 
successful mercantile business in Thetford in 1827 and removed to Mont- 
pelier. In 1830 he was elected judge of probate, of the district of Washing- 
ton, and held the position three years. In 1834 he was chosen a member of 
the council of censors to revise the constitution of the state, and in 1840 he 
was chosen an elector of Vermont and cast a ballot for General Harrison for 
President. He was treasurer of Washington county for almost the last thirty 
years of his life. Judge Reed had an unprecedented successful career, in 
business and politics, and accumulated for his day a large fortune. He died 
February 6, 1859. When he had accumulated means that he could spare 
from his business he commenced a systematic course of benevolence, which 
will better perpetuate his memory than either granite or marblfe. This was 
the loaning to indigent but promising young men, without security, such sums 
of money as they needed to take them economically through college, and left 
wholly voluntary for them to repay him. Judge Reed continued this course 
to the time of his death. The number of educated young men who were re- 
cipients of his bounty were over twenty. 

Charles H. Cross, son of Stephen and Sarah (Durgin) Cross, was born in 
Sanbornton, N. H., February 12, 1812. Up to the age of eighteen years 
(1830) he remained in his native town, attending the district school, and such 
other employments as were common for the boys of his village. At that age 
and date he left his home and came to Montpelier, having chosen the occu- 
pation of baker. He engaged with his brother, who was a practical work- 
man in the trade, and began at the bottom, and continued with his brother 
about ten years, until he mastered the trade thoroughly. In 1841 and 1842 
he conducted a grocery store, but says, " I did not sell rum," which was then 
a common and generally supposed necessary commodity in that trade. In 
1843 he instituted and established his present business, which he successfully 
conducted alone, with the exception of two years, when his brother was a 
partner with him until 1862, when the present firm of C. H. Cross & Son was 
formed. Up to 1858 he had rented buildings for his manufactory. "The 
old landmark," Masonic hall, was then for sale, which he wisely purchased 



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and fitted conveniently for his business, and occupied it until the importuni- 
ties and necessities of the Congregational church influenced him to sell these 
desirable grounds, on which tlie society at once erected their present fine 
church edifice. Before he transferred to the church he had engaged the site 
on which the firm are now conducting their large and deservedly celebrated 
business. Mr. Cross, in all these years, has spared no pains or expense in 
producing the best goods possible, and labors with the ready cooperation of 
his son to give his very numerous customers an equivalent dollar for dollar. 
And the result is "the Montpelier cracker," and the other productions from 
C. H. Cross & Son's bakery have a reputation unequalled by any other es- 
tablishment in New England. Mr. Cross has also found time, notwithstand- 
ing his close attention to his constantly increasing business, to aid in build- 
ing up the town, and it is generally reported that he has built more residences 
than any other citizen of the place. 

Mr. Cross was raised a Democrat, but soon after he became a voter he 
cast his lot with the opposite party, and was an old line Whig until the or- 
ganization of the Republican party, and is now firm in the ranks of Republi- 
canism. Mr. Cross is an active and influential member of the Methodist 
church, and a ready and liberal contributor to its general and financial inter- 
ests. He is a trustee of the Vermont Methodist Seminary, and exerted an 
active and potent influence in its establishment in Montpelier, and also has 
been a liberal donor to place the institution on a sound basis. As a citizen 
he is public spirited, and always ready not only to urge, but to aid all enter- 
prises to build up and forward the interests of Montpelier. Mr. Cross is 
social, courteous, and gentlemanly, and with his friends warm and genial ; but 
he finds his greatest happiness at his own home. He came to Montpelier 
with only four cents in his pocket, but by his integrity and honesty he has 
won the confidence and esteem of his large circle of acquaintance. By his 
indomitable energy, perseverance, and constant industry, he has earned a 
competence, and now at the advanced age of three-score and fifteen years 
he is quite well preserved in mind and body, and is still active in business. 

In 1835 Mr. Cross united in marriage with Miss Caroline Houston, of 
Enfield, who still survives. Their children are George H., of St. Johnsbury, 
who is successfully conducting the business of baker and confectioner. L. Bart 
Cross, of Montpelier, since January, 1863, the junior member of C. H. 
Cross «Sc Son, was appointed sutler of the 3d Regt. Vt. Vols., but returned 
home after a year and six months on account of ill health. He, like his 
father, is an enterprising citizen and has aided in building up his town. Os- 
car N. resides with his father, and is engaged in manufacturing a valuable 
dry air refrigerator of his own invention. Their two daughters died in child- 
hood. 

Gen. Parley Peabody Pitkin was born in Marshfield, Vt., March 9, 1826. 
His father, Truman Pitkin, was the son of Hon. Stephen Pitkin, who settled 
in Marshfield in March, 1795. His maternal grandfather was Gen. Parley 



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Davis, who settled near the center of the town of Montpelier in May, 1787. 
He was the second son of Truman and Rebecca (Davis) Pitkin. His mother 
died in his early childhood, and he was brought up under the direction of his 
grandfather, Gen. Davis. He received his education at the common schools 
and at Washington County Grammar School. In 185 1 he was attacked with 
the prevailing " gold fever," and emigrated to California, where he spent 
three years in mining and in trading, with success. He then returned to his 
home in East Monspelier, where he remained until the Rebellion broke out in 
1861. Mr. Pitkin represented his town in the legislature in 1859 and i860, 
and in the extra session at the commencement of the war. He at once 
offered his services to his country, and June 6^ 186 r, was commissioned quar- 
termaster of the 2d Regt. Vt. Vols., with which he went to the front. Hon. 
E. P. Walton was then in Washington and says he "well remembers the as- 
tonishment of the red tape gentlemen of the War Department at the prompti- 
tude of Quartermaster-General Pitkin in the discharge of his duties, and the 
vim with which he demanded supplies. His controlling idea was that Ver- 
mont boys must be taken care of, and they were as well as an efficient officer 
could do it." Such was his ability and efficiency that February 21, 1862, he 
was promoted to the rank of captain. Just before the battle of Antietam he 
was raised to the rank of colonel and placed at the head of the depot de- 
partment of the Army of the Potomac. This department he systematically- 
reorganized and placed in most efficient working order. The immense quan- 
tities of war materials that passed through the hands of Gen. Pitkin to sup- 
ply that vast army is truly astonishing. But he was equal to every emer- 
gency. Gen. Pitkin continued an efficient officer in this responsible position 
until November, 1864, when he resigned it to accept the office of quarter- 
master-general of the state of Vermont. He found in the state arsenal 
somewhat atiquated arms, vastly in excess of the wants of the state, which 
with the aid of some New York brokers he succeeded in selling to foreign 
nations, and which materially swelled the state treasury, and lifted a part of 
the burden of taxation from the people. In 1865 Gen. Pitkin entered the 
firm of the Lane Manufacturing Co., of which he has been president since 
Mr. Lane's death. In 1874-75 he represented Montpelier in the legislature, 
and since his residence here has been much of the time in town and village 
offices. Gen. Pitkin is more than medium size, of fine physique, clear, dark 
eyes, and commanding presence. He is kind and courteous, and is trusted 
and respected by his fellow citizens. April 14, 1848, he was united in mar- 
riage with Caroline M., daughter of James Templeton, of East Montpelier. 
Their children are Clarence H., an able lawyer, of the firm of Pitkin & Huse \ 
C. P., who is secretary and treasurer of the Lane Manufacturing Company, 
and representative of Montpelier; F. E., a farmer ; and F. I., a clerk in the 
employ of the Lane Manufacturing Company. 

Charles T. Sabin was born at Montpelier, April 11, 1832. At a private 
school in Montpelier, and at the academies in Cambridge and St. Albans, he 



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received what education those schools could supply to a youth who was in- 
clined to original investigation and to do his own thinking. His school days 
ended, he went to learn the machinists' trade at Fitchburg, Mass., in the 
shops of the Putnam Machine Company. At the end of his three years' 
apprenticeship, in 1853, the young journeyman was intrusted by his employ- 
ers with the important work of setting up their engines in all parts of the 
United States, and continued in their employ for five years longer. In 1858 
he formed a connection with the Cook & Kimball Carriage Company, of New 
Haven, Conn., and continued in its employ till the breaking out of the Rebell- 
ion compelled the company, whose business was chiefly in the South, to sus- 
pend. He was for six years superintendent of a mining company in Colorado, 
and at the end of that time took up his residence permanently in Montpelier. 
He had an aptitude for mechanics and engineering, and a rare talent for these 
pursuits was supplemented by a judgment that was rarely at fault and a capac- 
ity for business that is seldom equalled. These qualities found quick and 
:general recognition, and his services in important matters requiring the exer- 
cise of such special skill and ability as he possessed were frequently in requisi- 
tion. For example, when, in 1881, the great international cotton exposition 
at Atlanta, Ga., was organized, Mr. Sabin was appointed to the responsible 
post of chief of the department of engineering and machinery. How well he 
performed his diflicult duties is told by a resolution of thanks adopted at a 
meeting of the executive committee in January, (882, "for the admirable, 
faithful, and efficient manner " in which he had " performed the arduous and 
important duties of his office — duties which have required all the skill and 
ability of a most careful and efficient engineer, which have been performed to 
the entire satisfaction of the management, and have been conduced in a great 
degree to the successful accomplishment of the great enterprise." He was in- 
terested in the proposed air-line route between Boston and New York, and 
in 1883 went to London to farther the financial plans of the company. Re- 
turning, he was a passenger on the Aurania on her first trip across the 
Atlantic, when she broke her shaft and was detained some two days a few 
miles out from New York. His professional and business ability found prompt 
recognition at Montpelier. In 1876 he represented Montpelier in the legis- 
lature, and was one of the most useful and influential members of that body. 
In October, 1878, he was elected a director of the Vermont Mutual Fire In- 
surance Company, to succeed James T. Thurston, and wasciiosen vice-presi- 
dent of the company in February, 1887, an office he held at the time of his 
death. In January, 1879, he was also elected a director in the National Life 
Insurance Company of Montpelier. He was closely identified with several 
local business enterprises, in which he was the moving spirit. Among these were 
the Montpelier Slate Company and the Sabin Machine Company, of which 
he was president and treasurer. His church connections were with the Church 
of the Messiah, of whose Sunday-school he was the superintendent. In Janu- 
ary, 1859, he married Emily McFarland, of Cambridge, who, with three 





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daughters, — Fanny T., the wife of W. G. Andrews, of Johnson, Laura H., 
and Jessie M., — constitute the surviving family circle. In his family and social 
life Mr. Sabm displayed qualities and traits of character as striking and ad- 
mirable as in his public life and business intercourse. A vein of merry humor 
ran through his whole nature, and he had a bright wit, the shining point of 
whose sallies was never tipped with malice or bitterness. He had an original 
way of "putting things " that lent force to what he had to say and carried 
conviction with his words. His bonhomie was as lasting as the day, and as 
cheering and grateful as tiie sunlight. His good cheer and genial presence 
will long be a most delightful recollection. He was honest, he was true, he 
was disingenuous, he was kind and helpful. 

Search far and near, you scarce will find 
A heart more manly and more kind. 

He was liberal, public spirited, and enterprising — in the fullest and most 
comprehensive meaning of the term, a good citizen. Mr. Sabin died in Mont- 
pelier, on Monday, December 24, 1888, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. 

Medad Wright, the senior member of the firm of M. Wright & Son, of 
Wrightsville, in Montpelier, was born in Calais, Vt., in 1812. He spent the 
years of his minority upon his father's farm at hard labor, with occasional re- 
lief from its monotony by doing mechanical jobs for his neighbors. While in 
boyhood he began to develop mechanical skill and inventive genius of no 
ordinary ability, which was clearly discovered in his inventions of several 
articles of practical value. His father was in rather poor circumstances 
financially and could not give him such an education as Mr. Wright wished, 
and he was obliged to commence active business in life with a very limited 
knowledge of science, and books obtained in attendance at the common 
schools of his district. Upon reaching his majority he bought the water- 
power which he now occupies, and began work there in 1834. At the time 
he took possession of the premises the timber had been felled and the ground 
burnt over, but the surrounding country was a primitive forest with but few 
exceptions. The first work he did was to construct a dam and blast a chan- 
nel through the rocks to convey the water to the wheels of a contemplated 
gristmill, which he erected in the ensuing season, 1835, and had it completed 
and in operation in September. This mill was 30x30 feet, two stories high, 
furnished with two runs of stones, one for grinding corn, the other for wheat, 
with smut-mill and bolt. These millstones were taken from a quarry in 
Calais, and wrought to final finish by Mr. Wright's skillful hands, even to the 
sharpening the tools used in their construction, though he had no previous 
experience or instruction in such work. Next year, 1836, he enlarged his 
mill, and added another run of stones for coarse grain. In 1836 and 1837 
the seasons were so short and cold that very little corn was ripened in Wash- 
ington county. Consequently Mr. Wright again enlarged his mill by erect- 
ing a kiln for drying oats, and furnishing two more runs of stones, one for 



378 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



hulling and the other for grinding the kiln-dried oats. At this time there 
were no other such mills in the surrounding section. In 1837 and '38 Mr. 
Wright had an immense patronage, and ground over 14,000 bushels of oats. 
In 1837 he completed a dwelling house. November 18, 1838, he united in 
marriage with Miss Mary Jane Mclntire, of Montpelier, an amiable lady of 
fine abilities, who has continually been " a helpmeet " to her husband, and 
his wise and able adviser. 

In 1840 he purchased an addition to his water-power, started an old style 
" up and down " saw-mill, which he sold with the grist-mill and the house 
which he occupied in 1842. The following year he built a machine shop on 
a small brook which flows into the North Branch, near the mills which he 
had sold, and there began manufacturing woolen machinery. In 1843 the 
grist and saw-mills again came into his possession^ and he moved his machine 
shop to the second story of the grist-mill, in 1844 he added to his saw- 
mill a circular saw, which was his own designing, and the first in successful 
operation in the state, and which was soon found by lumbermen so much 
superior to the old style that he was soon engaged in building others, and his 
lumber and grist-mills and machine shop were all in active and successful oper- 
ation. Previous to 1 846 he had erected a dozen or more prominent buildings in 
Montpelier. The high reputation of his woolen machinery, which he had placed 
in Colebrook and Stewartstown, N. H., and Hartford, Northfield, and Water- 
ville, Vt., had so much increased its demand that in December, 1846, he 
found it necessary to increase the facilities for its manufacture, which he did 
by building an addition of 20x30 feet to his machine shop. About this 
time he had executed a contract for $8,000, for woolen machinery, with 
John Herron, of Waterville. In the following spring he visited Messrs. 
Davis & Thurber, of North Andover, Mass., who were manufacturing 
new and improved carding machines and spinning jacks ; met Mr. Thur- 
ber at his works, and having introduced himself he informed him that his 
errand there was to buy if possible a set of their patterns. To this proposal 
Mr. Thurber gave a very decided A^o ! saying that they had, at great ex- 
pense and trouble, produced iheir patterns, and that they were for their own 
use, and that they would let no one have them. Soon Mr. Davis ap- 
proached and Mr. Thurber introduced Mr. Wright, and told him his buisness, 
saying also that " when Mr. Wright asked me for patterns I said no at 
once. Now what do you say ?" Mr. Davis considered the proposal a 
short time and then replied, "Let him have them." Mr. Thurber pro- 
tested, but Mr. Davis said, " If he has any snap in him he will get them 
up himself. If he has none he can do us no harm, and we may as well 
make something out of the patterns." The result of this visit was the pur- 
chase of a set of these patterns, from which others were made, and the 
contract with Mr. Herron was duly completed, which included eight card- 
ing machines, six spinning jacks, one picker, a cotton-batter, and other 
machinery. Next year about the same kind and amount of machinery 



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was constructed for Robert Herron, son of John Herron. This machinery 
was in great demand throughout all New England and Eastern New York, 
and gave Mr. Wright employment the ensuing ten years. The very high 
water of North Branch in the summer of 1858 undermined the old part 
of the machine shop, which fell in, and Mr. Wright sustained heavy loss 
in finished and unfinished work ; but fortunately the greater part of the 
iron working machinery was in the addition and saved. 

Having occasion to use large quantities of dressed lumber in building, 
which he was then extensively engaged in, he constructed planing and match- 
ing machines, which became very celebrated and in demand. This addi- 
tional industry he continued to 1880, and turned out over 500 such machines. 
In i860 he commenced to erect, on the site of the old machine shop, a 
woolen-mill 40x100 feet, four stories high, which he completed in 1861. This 
he sold to William Moorcroft, in December, 1862, who at once began to 
place in it necessary machinery, and started it the ensuing spring or summer, 
which continued in successful operation until it was destroyed by fire, in 1870. 
He also sold his dwelling house to Mr. Moorcroft in 1863, and erected an- 
other in the ensuing spring. In 1865 he moved off the old saw-mill and 
erected on its site a building 40x80 feet, and three stories high. The first 
floor was for wood working and the second for iron working machinery, and 
added largely to his stock of iron working tools. Since 1874, when he built 
an iron foundry, he has made his own castings. His last invention, and one 
of his best, (if not the best,) was completed and patented in 1878, after ex- 
perimenting on it at his leisure time the preceding two years. This machine 
polishes all kinds of stone, and has acquired a wide reputation as the best, 
as the following testimonials declare • — 

"Burlington, Vt., Aug. 11, 1882. 
" Messrs. M. Wright &' Son. 

" Dear Sirs: Replying to your inquiries as to how we Hke the polishing 
machine and lathe purchased of you some time since, we are pleased to say 
that they have fully answered our expectations, doing well all you have 
claimed for them. We also find them very satisfactory for finishing marble, 
on which they work rapidly and well. We think real credit is due you for the 
thorough manner in which they are built, as they seldom need repairs. 

" Very truly yours, 

"J. W. G00DELL& Co." 

"Center Rutland, Vt., Feb. 3, 1885, 
" M. Wright &^ Son. 

" Gents : We purchased sometime since two of your polishing machines 
and have found them in every respect satisfactory, and fully up to what you 
recommended them for. They do most excellent work on all varieties of our 
marble, and are by far the best machines we know of for the purpose. 

"Respectfully yours, 

" Vermont Marble Co. 

" F. D. Proctor, supt." 



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"Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1885. 

" M. Wright (5^' Son. 

" Dear Sirs: The polishing machine is in operation and gives entire 
satisfaction, and I would not be without it for double the cost. 

" Very respectfully, 

" James McDonough." 

These are but samples of the scores of recommendations received. 

Mr. Wright, now three-score and fifteen years of age, is active, and gives 
his personal attention to all the details of his manufacturing interests. From 
the foregoing sketch will be seen that his has been an active and industrious 
life. Few have accompHshed as much. In the long stretch of time in which 
he has been a manufacturer and producer, his employees are a host in num- 
bers, and the amounts paid them enormous. Thus he has been a benefactor 
in helping others to help themselves. Although so much engaged he has 
found time to give his aid and support to the benevolent, educational, and 
religious interests of his town, and has taken his share of service for his towns- 
men by discharging acceptably numerous offices of trust received at their 
hands. In politics he is a RepubUcan ; in religion he is liberal, and by his 
influence and aid the neat Union church at his little hamlet was built, and 
open to all Christian denominations. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have bad born 
to them three daughters and two sons, three of whom are now living, viz.: 
Maria (Mrs. Capt. Washburne) resides in Boston ; Janie is the wife of 
C. C. Putnam, Esq., of the firm of C. C. Putnam & Son ; and Prentice C, 
of the firm of M. Wright & Son, efficiently assists in the management of the 
firm's business, has ably taught the school of his district, and has held several 
of the offices in his town. 

Luther Newcomb, son of Dr. Luther Newcomb, was born in Derby, April 
10, 1826, and died from Bright's disease at his home in Montpelier, January 
2, 1876. Dr. Newcomb died when Luther was but five years old, and he re- 
mained with his mother six years after. The family was intimate with Hon. 
Isaac F. Redfield, and Luther, at the age of eleven years, became the same 
as a member of Judge Redfield's family. He studied under the the direction 
of the Judge, and entered Washington County Grammar School, where he 
was prepared to enter college. He then read law under the direction of Judge 
Redfield, and was for some time a student in the office of H. O. Smith, Esq. 
Though fitted for admission to the bar he did not apply for it. He received 
an appointment in the customs service, and was two years a revenue officer on 
Lake Champlain. January i, 1849, he was appointed deputy clerk of Wash- 
ington County Court under ShubaeljWheeler. In December, 1857, he was 
appointed clerk and held the position during the rest of his life. He was a 
model officer, and had not only the respect and affection of the Washington 
county bar and the court, but also that of the members of the bar in the 
whole state. June 25, 1857, Mr. Newcomb married Miss Amanda Thomas, 
only daughter of Gen. Stephen Thomas. His wife and three sons, Charles, 
Luther, and Stephen Thomas, survive him. 



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Hon. Joseph Poland, son of the late Luther and Nancy (Potter) Poland, 
was born in Underhill, Vt., March 14, 1818. In early life he removed with 
his parents to what was then Coit's Gore, but was soon thereafter organized 
as the town of Waterville, in Lamoille county, where he was reared upon his 
father's farm, acquiring such education as was afforded by the common schools 
and academies of that day. In 1835 he entered the office of the Vermont 
Watchman, at Montpelier, to acquire what has been called the " art of all 
arts." The last few months of his apprenticeship he purchased of his 
employers, in order to enter upon the publication of the Voice of Freedom, 
the first destructive anti-slavery periodical of the state — which he did Jan- 
uary I, 1839. In the fall of the same year failing health compelled him to 
retire from the enterprise, but in June, 1840, his health became sufficiently 
restored to enable him to establish the Lamoille Whig at Johnson, which 
publication he continued for three years, during which period, largely through^ 
the instrumentality of the paper, Lamoille county, hitherto so overwhelmingly 
Democratic as to have acquired the title of " Spunky Lamoille," wheeled very 
decidedly into the opposition column, where it has ever since remained. In 
1844 Mr. Poland returned to Montpelier and established the Green Mount- 
ain Freeman, as the organ of the newly-formed Liberty party, which he con- 
ducted with great success until the close of the presidential campaign of 1848; 
During this period Mr. Poland also served as chairman of the state committee 
and general organizer of the then despised and traduced party — a nobler or 
purer than which the world never saw. These were the days that tried men's 
souls, — the days when, at the cost of reputation, social and business stand- 
ing, and in not a few instances of even life itself, the "small stone was cut 
out of the mountain," which has since become a great mountain and filled, 
the whole land. When Mr. Poland retired from ttie F'reeman, in 1848, 
it had a circulation unequalled by any other paper in the state. In 1852-53. 
he served as judge of the Probate Court for Washington county, and in 1858- 
60 represented the county in the state Senate. In 1849 '^^ was chosen a 
director and secretary of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which 
position he held for more than thirty years, and during the entire life of the 
company. In 1870-71 Judge Poland represented the town of Montpelier in 
the state legislature. In 1861 he was commissioned by President Lincoln as 
collector of internal revenue for the First district of Vermont, and discharged 
its responsible duties to universal acceptance until i868. During the second 
year of the war, under the act of Congress providing for allotment commis- 
sioners, President Lincoln appointed Judge Poland, Ex-Gov. John B. Page, 
and Hon. John Howe as such commissioners, whose duty it was to visit the 
Vermont regiments in the field and procure from each soldier an allotment of 
such portion of his monthly pay as he could spare during his term of enlist- 
ment, to be appropriated for the support of his family, or for investment, as 
he should direct. The benefits resulting from this measure were simply incal- 
culable, as it not only brought hundreds of thousands of dollars directly into- 



382 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



the State, but it also saved the soldiers themselves from demoralization, their 
families from suffering, and the state from largely increased taxation. In 
March, 1868, Judge Poland, in connection with his son, J. Monroe, purchased 
the Vermont Watc/iman, which he continued until 1882, when he perma- 
nently retired from active business. This was a position of great labor and 
responsibility. The paper had been for sixty years under the able manage- 
ment of the Waltons, father and son, and was the leading journal of the state. 
It may with truth be said that Judge Poland left the paper with far more than' 
double the circulation it had when he assumed it. His aim in editorial life 
and labors is well summed up in a single sentence contained in his valedic- 
tory address to his patrons : " The extent of our boasting is this, that we have 
earnestly and conscientiously striven to furnish a periodical visitor in the 
homes of our people, which should be pure and healthful in its influence, and 
prove useful as an educator in all the best things in every relation of life." 

Since earlv life Judge Poland has been an active member of the Congre- 
gational church, and was for many years the publisher of the Vermont 
Chronicle, the organ of the denomination in the state; as he was also the 
founder and publisher for several years of the IVeiu Hatnpshire Journal, for 
the Congregational churches of that state. For nearly twenty years he has 
served as one of the deacons of Bethany church in Montpelier, and for an 
extended period as superintendent of its Sabbath-school. Simple justice re- 
quires that we add one or two brief testimonials to Judge Poland from his 
brother editors of the state on his final retirement : — 

"The Hon. Joseph Poland has retired from the Watchman arid Journal, 
whose editorial columns he has conducted with excellent ability and remark- 
able discretion for nearly twenty years. He has always hewed straight to the 
line on all great questions of deep public concern in morals and politics. One 
of the old anti-slavery men in days when it cost a man something to embrace 
that despised faith, Mr. Poland has always been an editor without fear, with- 
out malice, and without reproach. He has acted well his part in Vermont 
journalism; his influence has been large, and it has been uprightly exerted." 
— Rutland Herald. 

" But it is not so much in his relation to the public as an able and con- 
scientious journalist, a strong and graceful writer, that we feel moved to write, 
but rather of his relation to the editors and publishers of the state. In these 
relations Mr. Poland has been almost exceptionally free from the petty jeal- 
ousies, the spirit of detraction and disparagement, the rancor and unwar- 
ranted personal abuse, which have prevailed too generally among the editors 
of the state. He has been uniformly courteous and just, and even generous 
in his treatment of other editors, and in this respect he leaves to his profes- 
sional brethren a very worthy example." — St Albans Messenger. 

"From our earliest childhood we knew Mr. Poland as an active business 
man, of unimpeachable character, of warm sympathies, and as engaged with 
his whole soul in what was then an unpopular cause — the cause of the slaves 
in the South. As a public writer, and as editor of several influential news- 
papers, Mr. Poland has waged a long warfare against all the public evils which 
worked shame to the nation, detriment to society, and weakness to the church. 



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It was our personal knowledge of his honorable character, his noble work, 
and his business capacity, that induced those in our state who were project- 
ing the idea of establishing a denominational journal to accept the proposi- 
tion by Mr. Poland to publish such a journal in connection with the Chron- 
icle, which he was publishing for the churches of Vermont. To this plan he 
has devoted his energies and fine judgment. The first year's history of the 
New Hampshire Journal is filled with fears and hopes, and labors, and sac- 
rifices, the full share of which he has borne. The success which has already 
come to the enterprise, and which will increase with the years, will stand as- 
sociated with Mr. Poland's name." — Neiv Hampshire Journal. 

" As the Hon. Joseph Poland has been for years past the trusted publisher 
of the Vermont Chronicle, as well as the experienced editor and publisher of 
the Vermont Watchman a?id Stale Journal, we transfer to the Chronicle the 
Parting Word which he has prepared and published in the Watchman of this 
week. We do this for the history and reminiscences which it contains, and 
more for the large hope and charity, and the clear Christian spirit of the ex- 
perienced journalist and gentleman which breathes through it, and the tried 
words in which all this is expressed. We speak not for ourselves only, but 
for the churches and patrons of the paper. We know that they sorrow with 
us that he is no longer to sustain the relation of confidence and love in which 
he has hitherto stood. Yet while we sorrow for this we are comforted by the 
remembrance that his faithfulness and wisdom will still remain with us as an 
example and a guide." — Vermont Chronicle. 

Dr. Frederick W. Adams was born in Pawlet, in 1786, and came to Mont- 
pelier from Barton in 1836, where he had acquired a high reputation as a 
physician and surgeon. His reputation soon followed him if it had not pre- 
ceded him. He was soon a leading practitioner in town and the surround- 
ing country, although at first shunned by many on account of his reputed 
skepticism in religion. He was benevolent, generous, and kind hearted, and 
it was said of him : " He lived more practical Christianity daily than any 
other man in town." Of the rich he took a full professional bill, but forgave 
the debts of the poor and sometimes added a donation from his purse of five 
dollars, and sometimes slyly handed in at the back door of some very poor 
family a web of calico or cotton cloth. He died as he had lived, saying, " If 
there is a Christian's God, I am not afraid to trust myself in his hands." His 
death occurred December 17, 1858. 

Gen. James Stevens Peck was born in Montpelier, December 6, 1838, be- 
ing the oldest of the four children born to William Nelson and Julia Clark 
Peck. The three surviving brothers, all living in Montpelier, are George A., 
Roswell K., and John W. Gen. Peck entered the Univ^ersity of Vermont in 
1856, and graduated with the class of i860. He immediately commenced 
the study of law with Lucius B. Peck and Stoddard B. Colby, but two years 
later, after the war broke out, joned Co. I, 13th Vt. Vols., as second lieu- 
tenant, October 10, 1862. He was promoted to be adjutant of this regiment, 
and remained with it until mustered out, January 22, 1863. He fought with 
his regiment at Gettysburg, and distinguished himself by his coolness and 
efficiency. On April 12, 1864, he was commissioned adjutant of the 17th 



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Regiment, and later as major, remaining with it to the close of the war, until 
it was mustered out July 14, 1865. During this time it was engaged in the 
Wilderness, at Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and others of the most bloody bat- 
tles of the war, in all of which Gen. Peck " knew no fear," and faithfully dis- 
charged the dangerous duties assigned him. Returning home unscathed by 
wounds, but broken in health, he continued his law studies, and was admitted 
to the bar of Washington county in 1866. " Although a good office-lawyer," 
says a contemporary, "he was suited neither by natural temperament of 
mind or strength of body for the ruder experience of the public courts. He 
was a scholar and a soldier, but, better than that, he was a man of brave yet 
gentle spirit ; faithful and gallant in war, he was tender and true in peace." 
In 1868 he was appointed assistant adjutant and inspector-general, and in 
1872 succeeded Gen. William Wells to that office, which he held with effi- 
ciency and credit for nearly ten years. In 1881 he resigned, having been 
appointed postmaster at Montpelier, by President Garfield, which office he 
held at his death. Previous to his acceptance of it, from the spring of 1869 
until the fall of 1880. he was assistant United States district attorney under 
Hon. Benjamin F. Fifield. Gen. Peck was assistant secretary of the state 
Senate for four years prior to 1872 ; also one of the original members of the 
Reunion Society of Vermont officers, and for the last seventeen years its 
secretary. He was president of that organization at the time of his death. 
He married, in 1869, at Montpelier, Miss Mary E., daughter of Amplius 
Blake, thirty years ago a prominent citizen of Chelsea and president of the 
bank at that place. Gen. Peck was made a Mason in Aurora Lodge, No. 
22, in 1863, and was Master of this lodge from December, 1869, to 
1872. He received the degree in King Solomon Royal Arch Chapter, No. 
7, in 1868, and was its High Priest for two years. He was also a member 
of Montpelier Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters, and of Mount Zion 
Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar, in both of which he had held import- 
ant offices. " He was christened ' Hero ' when he stood on the crest of 
Cemetery hill at Gettysburg, under that fire of death from Lee's artillery, 
which was the prelude to Longstreet's famous charge. * * * He came 
home unscathed by wounds, although he was always in the front of the fight, 
but he did not come home untouched by disease ; for a severe attack of ty- 
phoid pneumonia before Petersburg had left his lungs so impaired in strength 
that his regimental surgeon and warm personal friend, Dr. Edson, now of 
Boston, warned him that nothing but the most vigilant care would save him 
from an early death. * * * Originally of a slender frame, he was 
never strong again, and some eight years ago he broke down with an attack 
of bleeding from the lungs. He rallied and preserved a fair show of health un- 
til about four years ago, when he had a second attack, so terrible that his life 
was for many days despaired of by his friends. He rallied again, however, 
and during the last four years had by constant care and vigilance made a 
successful fight for life, until his last fatal hemorrhage came on. Though hit 



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by no ball or shell, scared by no sabre or bayonet, he received his death 
wound upon the battle-field, and died a soldier's death, far from the din of 
battle, long after the clangor of war had ceased. He will be mourned long 
and tenderly by those who are clear-eyed enough to see. and humane enough 
to feel that the state suffers when a man of exceptional patriotism and hu- 
manity dies." Gen. Peck died May 28, 1884, at Loon lake, Franklin 
county, N. Y. 

The name of Dewey was originally De Ewes. They went from French 
Flanders into England in the reign of Henry VIII., when the name was called 
Dewes, and Simeon Dewes was erected a Baronet of Stow Hall about 1629. 
The first of the name who came to America was Thomas Dewey', who came 
from Sandwich, Kent, England, on the ship Lion's Whelp, and landed in 
Boston, Mass., in May, 1630, and settled in Dorchester, Mass., in 1633. He 
removed to Windsor, Conn., about 1638. March 22, 1638 or '39, he mar- 
ried widow Francis Clark. He held various positions, such as juror and 
deputy to the General Court. He died and was buried at Windsor, Conn., 
April 27, 1648, leaving five children. 

Josiah Dewey', second son of Thomas and Frances (Clark), born October 
10, 1641, settled in Northampton, Mass., removed to Westfield in 1672, and ta 
Lebanon, Conn., in 1696. November 6, 1662, he married Hepzibah Lyman, 
and, after her death, a second wife about 1672. The time of his death is not 
known, but he was living as late as 1731. He had eleven children by his 
first wife. In the year 1672 a company was formed at Westfield to build a 
grist and saw-mill. Joseph Whitney and Thomas, Josiah, and Jedediab 
Dewey composed the company. They were granted forty acres of land for 
the use of the mill. Other grants were made to Josiah Dewey; one was a 
lot to re-imburse him for expense m building the minister's house. He was 
one of the garrison of the fort for March 14, 1682-83. He held many of the 
offices of the Congregational church, and also of the town. Josiah Dewey, Jr'. , 
the third son of Josiah and Hepzibah (Lyman), was born December 24, 1666. 
January 15, 1690 or '91, he married Mehitable Miller, and lived some time 
at Northampton, Mass., but removed to Lebanon, Conn., about 1699. They 
had six children. Their son William* married, about 17 13, Mercy Bailey. 
He died November 10, 1759. ^^ ^^s father of five children. Simeon 
Dewey', son of William and Mercy (Bailey) Dewey, was born in Lebanon, 
Conn., May 12, 1718. March 29, 1739, ^^ married Anna Phelps. He died 
at Lebanon, Conn., March 2, 1750 or '51. His widow and their six children 
moved to Hanover, N. H., where she died September 25, 1807. William*, 
son of Simeon and Anna (Phelps) Dewey, was born at Bolton, Conn., Jan- 
uary II, 1746, and died at Hanover, N. H., June 10, 1813. He married 
Rebecca Corwin in 1768, and removed from Lebanon or Colchester, Conn., 
to Hanover, N. H., in 1776, and located on the Connecticut river, four miles 
above Dartmouth College. In his youth he was bound out to Joel Cham- 
berlin, of Lebanon, Conn., to leirn the "art, trade, or mystery" of house 

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and shop joiner. They were parents of fourteen children, of whom Capt. 
Simeon Dewey' was the second child. He was born in Lebanon or Colchester, 
■Conn., August 20, 1770, and died at the house of his son, Dr. JuUus 
Y. Dewey, in Montpelier, January i r, 1863. Capt. Simeon Dewey married 
Prudence Yemans, of Norwich, Vt., February 27, 1794, and resided in Berlin 
from that time until his wife died, April i, 1844. He then moved to Mont- 
pelier. He was many years a justice of the peace, and held other positions 
in public life. Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Dewey were parents of seven children. 

Dr. Julius Yemans Dewey^ son of Simeon and Prudence (Yemans) Dewey, 
was born at Berlin, Vt., August 22, 1801. He was educate3 at the Wash- 
ington County Grammar School, and then read medicine with Dr. Edward 
Lamb. He took his degree at the University of Vermont in 1823, and com- 
menced the practice of medicine at Montpelier. In 1850 he retired from 
active practice, and became the general agent of the National Life Insurance 
Co. of Vermont. In 1851 he was elected president of the company, and 
held that office for over a quarter of a century. He marrried, for his first 
wife, June 9, 1825, Mary Perrin, daughter of Zachariah and Mary Tolcott 
Perrin, who came from Gilead, Conn., and settled in Berlin, Vt., in 1789. 
She died in Montpelier, September 3, 1843, leaving four children, viz.: 
Charles', Edward', George'', and Mary". August 3, 1845, Dr. Dewey mar- 
ried for his second wife Susan Edson Tarbox, of Randolph, Vt., widow of 
Lund Tarbox. She was born July 15, 1799, and died September ii, 1854. 
For his third wife he married Susan E. G. Lilley, widow of Gibbs Lilly, of 
Worcester, Mass. Dr. Dewey always took a great interest in the Episcopal 
church, became a vestryman in 1841, and served as such for about thirty-three 
years. He also held the offices of junior and senior warden of the parish, and 
represented the same repeatedly to the diocesan convention. There never 
was a man more outspoken in praise of a good deed, or more ready to 
denounce a wrong, even though it lost him a former friend. He was a warm 
friend, loved his home, his children, and grandchildren, and they in turn loved 
and honored him. He died Tuesday morning. May 29, 1877. 

Charles Dewey", oldest son of Dr. Julius Yemans Dewey and Mary Perrin^ 
his first wife, was born in Montpelier, March 27, 1826. He was educated at 
the Washington County Grammar School, and graduated at the University of 
Vermont in 1845. He immediately commenced work as assistant secretary 
of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., was elected its secretary in 
January, 1850, and held that office until November i, 1871, and was a 
director of the company for over thirty years. He also became a director of 
the National Life Insurance Co. in 1851, vice-president in 187 1, and presi- 
dent of the company after his father's death, in 1877, and has served as such 
•ever since. In 1864 he became a director, and in 1878 was elected vice- 
president. He was for many years a trustee and one of the prudential com- 
mittee of the Washington County Grammar School, and has been president 
of the board of trustees since 1880. Among the various other positions of 



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trust are county senator in 1867, '68, and '69; state inspector of finance in 
1882-83; and for over a quarter of a century one of the vestry of Christ 
church, and for many years its senior warden. He married, May 3, 1848, 
Betsey Tarbox, daughter of Lund and Susan Edson Tarbox. Their chil- 
dren are: Frances Isabella'", born February 3, 1849, at Montpelier, and mar- 
ried, October 25, 187 1, Henry E., son of Orange Fifield and Melissa Nelson ; 
Ella Lutheria'", born October 29, 1850, and married, November 19, 1873, 
Carol P., son of Parley P. Pitkin and Caroline Templeton, and died May 30, 
1879; Williatn Tarbox'", born September 30, 1852, and married, November 
9, 1 881, Alice Elmore, daughter of James G. French and Orlantha Goulds- 
bury; Jennie'", born May 29, 1854, married, in June, 1881, EtUvard Dickin- 
son, son of Edward R. Blackwell and Persis J. Dickinson ; Mary Grace'", 
born January 20, 1858; George Perrin'", born August 18, i860, resides at 
Portland, Me., and is general agent for the National Life Insurance Co.; 
Gertrude May'", born September 18, 1862; Kate'", born August 31, 1864, 
married, December 27, 1888, Ernest Langdon Squires, and resides at Omaha, 
Neb.; and Charles Robert'", born October 27, 1867, resides at Boston, Mass. 

Edward Dewey', son of Dr. Julius Yemans Dewey and Mary Perrin, was 
born at Montpelier, March 27, 1829, and married, in 1856, Susan G. Lilley, 
daughter of Gibbs and Susan E. G. Lilley, of Worcester, Mass. He, like 
his father, has been for many years a member of the vestry of Christ church. 
He was educated at the Washington County Grammar School, and after a 
few years of office work, as assistant secretary of the Vermont Mutual Fire 
Insurance Co., he left the company's employ to engage in mercantile business. 
He was a quartermaster during the war of the Rebellion, with the rank of 
captain. Since he returned from the war he has been actuary, and for many 
years a director, and vice-president since 1877, of the National Life Insur- 
ance Co. The children of Edward Dewey' and Susan G. Lilley are Thomas", 
born May 22, 1857 ; Theodore'", born February 10, 1859, is an ensign in U. S. 
navy; Jessie'", born February 17, 1862, married, January 11, 1884, Hon. 
James Loren Martin, of Brattleboro, Vt.; Helen'", born February 27, 1867 ; 
Margaret Louise'", born April 2, 1875; and Julius Edward'", born January 
14, 1878. 

Capt. George Dewey', son of Dr. Julius Y. Dewey, was born December 
26, 1837. He attended school at Montpelier and Norwich, Vt., and gradu- 
ated at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis^ Md. He served through the 
war, and most of the time in the Gulf Squadron. October 24, 1867, he 
married Susan, daughter of ex-Gov. Ichabod Goodwin, of Portsmouth, N. H. 
They had one child, George, born at Newport, R. I., December 23, 1873, 
who now resides at Portsmouth, N. H. Mrs. Dewey died at Newport, R. I., 
December 28, 1873. 

Mary', daughter of Dr. Julius Y. Dewey, was born October 26, 1839. 
January 10, t86i, she married Dr. George P. Greeley, of Nashua, N. H., 
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William Tarbox Dewey'", son of Charles", born at Montpelier, September 
30, 1852. was educated at the Washington County Grammar School. He 
has been assistant secretary in the office of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insur- 
ance Co. since August 5, 1870, village bailiff or trustee for 1886-87, and was 
a member of the state militia six years, and resigned as lieutenant in 1886. 
He married Alice Elmore French, daughter of James G. French and Orlan- 
tha Gouldsbury, November 9, 1881. They have two children, viz.: James 
French", who was born March?, 1883 ; and Grace Elizabeth", who was born 
March 31, 1887. 

David L. Fuller, son of Emery and Hannah (Town) Fuller, was born in 
Barre, January 28, 182 1. His early boyhood was spent with his parents, con- 
stantly employed at various kinds of labor, and in attendance at the common 
school of his native village, from which he received his only school education, 
and which he left at the early age of seventeen years. At that age he had 
his first experience in business. He spent the season of 1837 on board the 
steamer Biirlingto/i, with Capt. Richard Sherman, as cabin boy. From 
1838 to 1841, inclusive, he was a clerk in a hotel at Chelsea. He then spent 
the ensuing six years as a clerk in a general store in Barre. In 1847 he 
came to Montpelier and conducted a restaurant about five years. At that 
time this village had a population of only 800, " all told." The only men re- 
maining here now that were then in business besides Mr. Fuller are Charles 
H. Cross and H. S. Loomis. The railroad was not completed until 185 1. 



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he commenced business at the depot store, where he remained until 
i860. He next conducted a commission business in farmers' produce the en- 
suing five years, and then bought of the patentee the Sanborn churn and butter 
worker, which employed him very successfully the next nine years, and is still 
making and selling this valuable and necessary divice for dairymen. July i, 
1874, he purchased the interest of George W. Scott, and formed the firm of 
Fuller & Howe (general merchants), which continued till 1879, when he 
bought the interest of Mr. Howe and organized the present firm of D. L. 
Fuller & Son, and commenced a jobbing and retail business in general hard- 
ware and agricultural implements, with a constant yearly increase of trade up 
to the present time (1888). October 31. 1847, Mr. Fuller married Mrs. Selina 
(Stevens) Stickney, widow of Edward Stickney, Esq., of Boston. Their union 
was blessed with an only son, Charles H., of the firm of D. L. Fuller & Son, and 
a daughter, Eva J., who died at the early age of eighteen years. Mr. Fuller 
and his son are not regarded as active politicians, but they have very decided 
convictions, and are always found in the Republican party. Mr. Fuller is an 
active member of the Methodist church, a generous contributor to all its in- 
terests, and a benevolent supporter of all the charitable and reformatory 
interests for the advancement of the general good of the society in which he 
resides. Now at three-score and six years he is still active and pushing in 
business, as he has been through all his long, honorable, and successful career. 
His son ably " plies the business oar," taking a large part of the jobbing trade 



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upon himself, but sparer, a little time for military affairs, in which he has a 
lively interest, and now holds the position of quartermaster of ist Regt. Vt. 
state militia. 

John A. Page, son of John and Hannah (Merrill) Page, was born in 
Haverhill, N. H., June 17, 1814. His father, John Page, Jr., was also born 
in Haverhill, received an academic education, was a practical farmer, held 
many high ofificial positions, and was the incumbent of the gubernatorial 
chair of New Hampshire from 1839 to 1842. He was born May 21, 1787, 
and died, after completing an honorable and useful life, September 8, 1865. 
John A. Page received a common school education, supplemented by about 
three years' attendance at Haverhill Academy. In 1831 he was engaged as 
a clerk in Portland, Me., in a wholesale dry goods establishment, where he 
soon developed special financial ability and was made confidential clerk, and 
put in charge of the counting-room. In 1832 he was offered and accepted a 
partnership in a general country store in his native town, where he remained 
in the firm of Blaisdell & Page until 1836. In the spring of 1837, after he 
returned from a tour South and returned through Illinois, he accepted the 
flattering offer of the position of cashier in the Grafton bank at Haverhill. 
This place he accepted, and held to the satisfaction of the parties concerned 
until the expiration of the charter of the bank, in 1844. He was also cashier 
of Caledonia bank, at Danville, Vt., three or four years, and treasurer while 
he resided in Danville three years. In September, 1848, he was chosen to 
represent his town in the legislature of Vermont. While in the discharge of 
his duties as representative he was induced by Gov. Erastus Fairbanks to take 
the post of financial agent of the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers railroad, 
and removed to Newbury. In March, 1849, he resigned this position, and 
very soon accepted the post of cashier of the Vermont bank, and settled in 
Montpelier, which has since been his home. In 1865, after a successful ex- 
istence, the Vermont bank was closed, and the First National bank sprung 
into existence, phenix-like, with nearly all the old officials in the new organ- 
ization. Mr. Page was elected director and president, and has held both of 
these offices from that time to the present (March, 1889). In 1853 the state 
failed to elect a treasurer, and the joint legislature wisely elected Mr. Page to 
that position. Mr. Page had affiHated with the Democratic party until 1861, 
but was always opposed to the extension of slavery. When the national flag 
was fired upon at Fort Sumter Mr. Page, with many other anti-slavery ex- 
tension Democrats, cast his lot with the Republican party. In 1866 he was 
elected state treasurer on the Republican ticket, and by consecutive elections 
was in that office until 1882, when, in consequence of declining years, he de- 
clined further service. Mr. Page is a deacon of Bethany (Congregational) 
church, a consistent Christian gentleman, and is ever ready to share in the 
necessary expence of the Bible, foreign, and domestic missionary causes. 
For twenty-five years he has been the treasurer of the Vermont Bible society. 



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Among financiers Mr. Page takes the first rank ; and as a citizen and a man 
he is held in admiration and respect. 

Maj. Alfred Lathrop Carlton, son of Benjamin F. and Betsey (Lathrop), 
cousin of Daniel Webster, was born in Morristown, Vt., in 1829. He ob- 
tained a good education and was several years a teacher. In 1854 he mar- 
ried Miss Margaret Fisk, settled as a merchant in Montpelier, where he 
remained a successful merchant until he died, with the single exception of the 
time he spent in the defense of our country in the late Rebellion. In the 
summer of 1862 Mr. Carlton enlisted into the Eleventh Regiment, then in 
camp at Brattleboro, and was very soon commissioned quartermaster of the 
regiment by Gov. Holbrook. This regiment was some time employed in the 
defense of Washington city. He was, while thus engaged, promoted to the 
responsible post of commissary of subsistance with rank of captain, and soon 
had the immense work of supplying the whole Army of the Potomac with 
stores and beef cattle. In a trip into Pennsylvania he took out half a million 
dollars, and drew on the government for half a million more, which he ex- 
pended in purchasing cattle. Senator Collamer was instrumental in his pro- 
motions, and inquired at headquarters after his standing and was answered: 
" He is a model officer. His capacity, integrity, efficiency, and invariable 
habit of closing up his affairs every day are worthy of all praise." As an 
attestation of his honorable record as an officer he was breveted major before 
he left the service. Mr. Carlton returned to Montpelier at the close of the 
war, and to the duties of citizenship, and soon united with Bethany church. 
He had deep convictions and strong prejudices, dispised hypocrisy and 
duplicity, and was an earnest worker in temperance and moral reforms. He 
died in Montpelier, May 29, 1874. 

Andrew C. Brown, son of Rev. Elisha Brown, was born in Sutton, Vt., July 
10, 1828. He was fitted for college at the Methodist Seminary at Newbury, 
but did not take a college course. Daring the time he attended the semi- 
nary, at vacations, he learned the trade of printer. At the age of eighteen 
years he commenced teaching, and taught the common and select schools 
for sixteen terms. At the age of twenty-three he settled in Bradford, Vt., 
and engaged in the printing business, and subsequently became the editor 
and publisher of the Northern Inquirer, a weekly, issued at Bradford. He 
disposed of his interest in the paper, in the fall of 1854 removed to Montpe- 
lier, and took the position of foreman in the office of the Watchman and 
State Journal. From 1857, for the ensuing five and a half years, while Mr. 
Walton was in Congress, he was the business manager and editor of that 
paper. In the fall of 1862, when President Lincoln issued his proclamation 
for nine months men, Mr. Brown raised a company of volunteers, of which 
he was elected captain ; and at the organization of the 13th Regt. Vt. Vols- 
he was elected lieutenant-colonel. He went to the front with his regiment 
and served with it about eight months, when he resigned to accept the 



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office of commissioner of the board of enrollment for the First Congressional 
district of Vermont. At the expiration of his term of service on that board, 
in the spring of 1865, he engaged in fire, life, and accident insurance in Mont- 
pelier, which he has followed with success to the present writing, and has 
built up a large and lucrative business. In December, 1880, he took the 
agency of the American Bell Telephone Co. for the counties of Washington 
and Lamoille, which enterprise he has successfully built up, as will be seen by 
referring to the sketch of the Telephone Exchange in this work. Mr. Brown 
began his political life with the "old line Whigs," and at the organization of 
the Republican party stepped into its ranks, where he has since done good 
service. He was first appointed by the press reporter of the House of Rep- 
resentatives, and when the place became official he received the appointment 
from the Speaker, and held the office fifteen consecutive years. Mr. Brown 
was reared a Methodist, but is very liberal in his religious opinions, and is an 
attendant at the Unitarian church. May i, 1851, he was united in marriage 
with Lucia A. Green, daughter of Joseph Green, of Waitsfield, Vt. The is- 
sue of this marriage was five children, of whom three are now living, viz. : 
Ella L., wife of Dr. C. A. Bailey, of Montpelier ; Rome G., a lawyer prac- 
ticing his profession in Minneapolis, Minn. ; and Joseph G., who is in com- 
pany with his father in the insurance business in Montpelier. 

Storrs L. Howe was born in Royalton, Windsor county, December 7, 1820. 
His boyhood was spent, like that of other farmers' boys, in attendance at 
school, and at hard labor on his father's farm. When he was but twenty- 
one years of age he was selected by his father, who was in poor health and 
very infirm, to conduct and manage the home farm, which filial duty he per- 
formed until 1852, In 1854 he came to Montpelier and conducted the 
freight department, at the railroad station, as an assistant of the present 
efficient general manager of the Central Vermont railroad, J. W. Hobart. In 
1858 Mr. Hobart was called to fill a position in the general office, and left 
the entire management of both the freight and passenger business of the sta- 
tion at Montpelier to Mr. Howe. The constantly increasing business at this 
station has been efficiently and faithfully performed by Mr. Howe all through 
the thirty consecutive years since, and he is still master of the situation, and 
enjoys the confidence of the company which he has so long and ably served. 
January 27, 1^845, Mr. Howe married Miss Eliza Durkee, of Fort Edward, 
N. Y., who was the mother of two daughters who died in early childhood. 
Mrs. Howe died September 19, 1872. November 29, 1881, Mr. Howe mar- 
ried, second. Miss Janette, daughter of Hon. Horace Fifield, of Barre. Mr. 
Howe, although not a politician in the common acceptance of the term, has 
decided convictions and opinions on that subject, and gives his influence and 
votes to the Republican party. He is very liberal in his religious views, but 
is generally in attendance at the Episcopal church. He is commanding in 
stature, standing over six feet in height, has blue eyes and a fair complex 



392 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



ion, — a reliable citizen, courteous and gentlemanly in his intercourse with 
others, and very fond of his home, where he prefers to spend his few hours of 
leisure time. 

Charles W. Bailey, son of George W. and Rebecca (Warren) Bailey, was 
born in Elmore, Vt., February 9, 1831. He received an English education 
in the common schools and academies, taught school for awhile, and in 1855 
settled in Montpelier. He and his brother, J. Warren Bailey, entered into a 
partnership in West India goods and a general produce business, with the 
firm name of Bailey Bros. Their business from the first was mainly dealing 
in cattle, horses, sheep, and swine, which so increased that, in i866, they dis- 
continued the store and devoted their whole attention to the trade in live 
stock. In 1 86 1 these brothers had a large contract with the United States, 
to furnish horses for the army, which they satisfactorily executed. The part- 
nership was closed in 1872, and the brothers each pursued a distinct and sep- 
arate business. Charles W. Bailey continued the trade in live stock, and 
estabhshed a regular and systematic business with the dealers in Boston. His 
trade extended over Vermont and Northeastern New York, and his transac- 
tions were exceedingly large. His accurate judgment made him an able and 
bold speculator. His quick decision enabled him to transact an almost in- 
credible amount of business. Mr. Bailey was not only most emphatically a 
business man, but he was more. It is true that he was energetic, penetrat- 
ing, and shrewd, and had a will of his own ; and when a position was once 
taken he did not recede from it, but he arrived at conclusions by a fair course 
of reasoning. He was impressive in appearance, frank, outspoken, generous 
to the poor and unfortunate, and a genial and agreeable companion. He 
was honest, and told the truth ; hence he was trustful of others. Mr. Bailey 
loved his home, and was a kind and indulgent husband and father. June 4, 
1857, he married Olive Eaton, of Elmore. Their children are Burnside, 
Bernard, Florence, wife of Hon. C. W. Porter, secretary of state of Vermont, 
and James Edward, all of whom reside in Montpelier. Mr, Bailey was in- 
stantly killed in the full vigor of manhood, by the cars, at Essex Junction, 
September 23, 1876. About 1875 J- Warren Bailey engaged with V. W. 
Bullock in the grain business in BurUngton, Iowa. About 1879 his brother, 
E. W. Bailey, removed to Chicago, and assumed the active management of 
the new firm of Bailey, Bullock & Co. J. Warren Bailey was bluff in ways 
and manners, quaint in humor, had a fund of anecdotes, was quick at rep- 
artee, and was universally liked. In 1855 he married Harriet Guyer, of 
Wolcott, Vt., who survives him. They were parents of two daughters, Ella 
and Clara. Mr. Bailey died April 21, 1880. 

Dr. C. B. Chandler was born in Chester, Vt., April 24, 1796. During his 
minority he resided upon his father's farm, and acquired at the common 
school and Chester Academy sufficient education to become a successful 
teacher. He read medicine with Dr. Bowen, attended lectures at Wood- 
stock, and subsequently at Brown University, R. I., where he graduated. He 




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commenced practice in Tunbridge, Vt., in 1823, and about the same time 
married Nancy Atherton, of Baltimore, by whom he had two sons, both liv- 
ing, one of whom succeeded him in business in this town, and is now in full 
practice. After the death of his first wife, in 1837, he married Amanda Chap- 
man, of Tunbridge, who died in 1841. His third marriage was with Mrs. 
F. A. C. Harvey, of Cabot, who survived him. Having practiced his pro- 
fession successfully thirty-three years in Tunbridge, he came to Montpelier 
and bought out Dr. Orrin Smith, and soon acquired a good practice, showing 
himself, in the ten years which he resided here, to be a careful, judicious 
physician, a good surgeon, a friendly, generous, and strictly honorable man. 
He died instantly, January 8, 1867, of apoplexy. He performed with scru- 
pulous fidelity and with untiring labor every prompting of the warmest and 
kindest heart, and was in all his life the truest type of the upright, benevolent 
man. Ever humane and self-sacrificing, he as cheerfully bestowed his pro- 
fessional aid on the poor, when he never asked or expected pay, as on the 
wealthy and influential ; and it was this noble trait, in addition to his fine 
social qualities, his entire sincerity and sterling worth as a man, which so 
widely endeared him to all classes of people. He once told a friend that he 
wanted no higher fame and no better reward than to have it thought and said 
at his death that he sincerely endeavored to do all the good he could, and 
to be a kind and honest man. 

Charles M. Chandler, M. D., son of Dr. Charles B. Chandler, was born in 
Tunbridge, Vt., July i, 1827. He graduated from the Medical department 
of Harvard College in 1854, and settled in the practice of his profession in 
Strafford, Vt., where he remained until May 15, i860, when he married, and 
immediately moved to Montpelier, where he is still in practice, the oldest 
physician in the place and in practice the longest time. Dr. Chandler was 
surgeon of the 6th Vt. Regt. from 1861 to 1863. In the spring of 1863, by 
the request of Gov. Smith, he returned to the Wilderness, where he remained 
two months, then went on board the hospital boat State of Maine, with Dr. 
Janes, of Waterbury, where they were in service until the fall of 1864. Soon 
after Sloan hospital was established in Montpelier, Dr. Chandler returned 
home and occupied the position of executive officer. Dr. Janes being in 
charge. He was in Sloan hospital a year, till it was closed. Dr. Chandler 
has held the offices of the Vermont State Medical society, of which he is a 
member, and was one of the board of pension examiners for his district. 
All that is said of his father as a physician and citizen may truly be said of 
the son, and his pity and kindness to the poor was intensified in the latter. 
He has a son, Dr. Charles £. Chandler, a graduate of the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons of New York, in practice in Montpelier, and his daughter 
is teaching in the Union Graded School of the same place. 

Dennis Lane was born in Barre, Vt., February 10, i8i8. Soon after he 
attained his majority he settled in Plainfield, where he built one or more 
houses. About 1858 Mr. Lane was the proprietor of a saw-mill in Plainfield. 



394 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



The inconvenience, inaccuracy, and imperfections of the machinery for set- 
ting the log forward, and gaging the thickness of the successive cuts of the 
saw, led him to closely investigate the matter, and the outcome from his study 
was the invention of the Lane patent lever-set saw-mill, which is now in gen- 
eral use throughout the world. In 1863 he removed to Montpelier, and 
bought the machine shop and foundry upon the site of those now owned by 
the Lane Manufacturing Co., in order to keep pace with the constantly in- 
creasing demand for his mills. Two or three years later Gen. P. P. Pitkin 
and J. W. Brock joined in partnership with Mr. Lane. This company was 
incorporated as the Lane Manufacturing Co. in 1873, with Mr. Lane its 
president, who held the position at the time of his decease. This corpora- 
tion is the leading industry of the town, and is the most successful manu- 
factory ever established in Montpelier. 

Mr. Lane made improvements upon the original mill, and in fact upon 
about all the machinery he ever used, and constantly brought out new and 
always useful and practical inventions which will be an enduring monument 
to his name as an inventor. Mr. Lane was honored by his townsmen in 
Plainfield with most of the offices of the town. He represented Plainfield 
in the popular branch of the legislature in 1858-59, and at the time of his 
death he was serving his fourth term as selectman of Montpelier, and was 
then chairman of the board. In 1880 he was elected to the directorship of 
the Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Co., was a heavy stockholder in the 
company which bears his name, owned a large interest in timberlands and 
lumber-mills at Lanesboro, was an extensive owner of real estate in Montpe- 
lier, and rented many tenements. Mr. Lane was born a mechanic. It is 
said that his most agreeable passtime in his boyhood was in fashioning wa- 
ter-wheels with his jack-knife. But he was not simply an inventor. He also 
had an acknowledged capacity for general business affairs, and had a mind 
of his own, which guided him in forming conclusions that were evidences 
of his good judgment. Mr. Lane was a silent, unassuming man, but a close 
thinker. He was independent in action, but very liberal in his treatment of 
those who differed with him in sentiment, either political or religious. He 
disliked ostentation, show, cant, and hypocrisy. His interest in the poor and 
pity for the unfortunate was proverbial. He not only said " be ye warmed, 
clothed, and fed," but in a substantial manner proved his sincerity, and was 
the author of many deeds of charity positively known only to himself. He 
loved his home, where he was always the kind, considerate, generous, and in- 
dulgent husband and father. July 28, 1844, Mr. Lane united in marriage 
with Miss Orleska E. Freeman. The present family consists of her who had 
been his companion for forty-four years, their daughters, Jennie, wife of Os- 
car G. Barron, of White Mountains hotel fame, and Hattie E., wife of Thomas 
S. Brophy, of Montreal, and their sons, Albert D. and George L., of Mont- 
pelier. 



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Hiram Atkins, editor of the Argus and Patriot, was born in Ulster county, 
N. Y., but was taken by his parents to Poughkeepsie when very young, and 
resided in that town and city until he attained his majority. After working 
three years as a dry goods clerk he became an apprentice to the printing busi- 
ness, in the office of the Poughkeepsie Eagle. He afterwards went to Kings- 
ton, N. Y., and in 1853 came to Vermont, as junior partner in the publi- 
cation of the Battle Ground dit North Bennington. After remaining there a 
few weeks he left that paper in the hands of his partner, and went to Bellows 
Falls, where he embarked in the publication of the Argus, which succeeded 
the Republican Standard, a paper that had been published for three years at 
a considerable loss to those engaged in the enterprise. His only capital was 
good habits, energy, and industry, and by the well judged use of those quali- 
ties he made a success of the venture. Ten years afterward, in February, 
1863, he purchased the name and good will of the Vermont Patriot, at Mont- 
pelier, the publication of which had been suspended for a time, and moved 
to the capital, consolidating the Bellows Falls Argus with the Patriot. That 
he did not misjudge in making this change is proved by the fact that the 
Argus and Patriot now has much the largest circulation of any journal in 
the state, and is probably the best paying newspaper property in Vermont. 
From 1857 to 1861 he was postmaster at Bellows Falls, the only official posi- 
tion he ever held until appointed superintendent of the new federal building 
at Montpelier in 1886. He was the second member of the Democratic state 
committee from 1863 to 1873, ^"^ since then has been its chairman, succeed- 
ing the late H. B. Smith, of Milton, at the time of his sudden decease ; he is 
also now the Vermont member of the Democratic national committee. His 
interest in politics is attested by the fact that he has attended every Demo- 
cratic national convention from i860 to 1888, inclusive, except that of 1872. 
His religious affiHations are Episcopal. He has been a vestryman of Christ 
church for many years; a delegate to the diocesan convention ; a trustee of 
the Episcopal fund ; and one of the board of land agents. He is fifty-seven 
years old. 

Col. Orange Fifield, whose own remark that he '' belongs to the old line " 
is as accurate as he once gave our lamented and esteemed townsman, Charles 
T. Sabin, the credit of being, has lived in Montpelier for about a quarter of a 
century. His " six foot " form, his business capacity, his large acquaintance 
with men, and his command of a full vocabulary to express forcibly such 
of his large stock of original ideas as he has thought best to make public, 
have made him a notable man in the communities where he has lived. He 
has been the author of the matter for a large number of books of the size 
and pith of Poor Richard's Almanac — books never made, however, because 
in his day it was not the fashion to have a private stenographer. He is the 
son of Captain Samuel Fifield, who came from near Concord, N. H., and 
early settled in the town of Orange. Col. Fifield was born April 12, 1803, 
in Orange, where he "grew up," and became a merchant and general dealer, 



396 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



and spent the greater part of a very active business life. He bought wool 
and country produce all through Northern Vermont, and was largely engaged 
in buying wool in the West, and also in the cattle trade in the days when 
beef came east "on the hoof" instead of being transported under the pro- 
visions more or less well observed of the interstate commerce act. Col. Fi- 
field accumulated a large property, but like many other Vermonters be- 
lieved in real estate to his financial injury in his later days. 

He obtained his title of colonel by being the commander for some years 
of a regiment of tlie old militia. He was the cotemporary of George CoUa- 
mer, and many other active and live business men of tlie olden time. His 
wife, lately deceased, was a daughter of Captain David Nelson, of Orange ; 
she was descended on her mother's side from the Adamses, of Massachusetts. 
There were six children of the marriage, of whom Hon. Benjamin F. Fifield, 
of Montpelier, is the eldest. And the son never brought sharper wit or 
clearer thought to unravel the tangled skein of the long railroad litigation 
than the father used in his every day stock in matters little and big. Col. 
Fifield, since he came to Montpelier, lived in the house just east of the 
Pavilion, where, since the decease of his wife, a daughter has kept house for 
him. 

He was an old Whig, and in later days has been a very lively and "set " 
Republican. His ofi"-hand platform in 1880 — perhaps in parts brought down 
from earlier times — was: "Free speech, free soil, protection to American in- 
dustry : let brains win and salt water bound us." That same year, when the 
Democratic town committee had secured Village hall for a meeting the even- 
ing before freemen's meeting, and some of the Republicans were worrying 
because " the Democrats had got our hall," his answer was: " Got our hall f 
The Democrats got our hall ? Our hall is America ! " And last July, near the 
opening of the campaign, after hearing some vigorous Democratic stump or 
other oratory, he remarked : " The voice of the quiet, good people is going 

to elect Harrison. It isn't these bawling, cusses that are going to carry 

this election. The quiet, good people are going to elect him, sir; what do 
you say ? " When George W. Wing was going off to try a lawsuit for him, 
and on the way inquired what about his proof of certain matters, his lawyer's 
heart was comforted by the assurance: "Got it right here in black and 

white ; that wasn't any gabble on a knoll." He it was who some years 

ago assured the writer that his memory as to things of later years was not very 
good, but " as to things that happened sixty years ago it 's like the sight of a 
diamond's eye." But one never took the pains to make a note of anything he 
said that was the source of keen mental enjoyment, because any one who 
knew him well understood that the next time he saw him he could get afresh 
batch as original as any that had come before: so a host of sayings, with a 
nugget of philosophy in many a one of them, have gone their way — some 
forgotten at once, some heard by Charles T. Sabin, or Charles H. Heath, or 
Clarence H. Pitkin, or George W. Wing, or men of that kind, kept for a 



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little while passing about among appreciative acquaintances, but, like all 
things resting in tradition, resisting in their original clear cut from the eating 
tooth of time. One mure, however, comes now to mind. When Charles 
VV. Willard died Col. Fifield said to the writer, " All our good men seem to 
be dying off; and the villages don't grow those to take their places; we've 
got to rake 'em in off the side hills." 

John Victor Morrow was born in Plattsburgh, N. Y., May i6, 1843, 
learned the trade of marble worker, and at the age of fifteen years enlisted 
into Co. A, 7th Regt. N. Y. militia, and was promoted from sergeant to first 
lieutenant, and, ne.xt, to the post of captain, in i860. At the breaking out 
of the war, in 1861, his company, by the requisition of Gov. Seymour, was 
ordered to the seat of war. April 11, 1861, this boy captain, less than eigh- 
teen years old, led his company of eighty-five men to the front. The even- 
ing of his arrival at Washington, without stopping for supper or rest, he was 
ordered to Baltimore Turnpike, just across the Potomac, in Maryland, and at 
twelve o'clock at night was engaged in battle, with four companies of the 
rebel militia under command of Stonewall Jackson. The enemy was repulsed 
with terrible slaughter, and fifty prisoners were captured. Capt. Morrow re- 
ceived a gun-shot wound in the left arm, and a severe one in the lower jaw, 
with the loss of five teeth. One of his men was slain and five wounded. 
Notwithstanding his wounds Capt. Morrow refused to go to the hospital, but 
remained with his command. Later he was attached to Buell's corps, par- 
ticipated in the battle at Fairfax Court House, and at the end of three 
months, when he was mustered out of service, there were only sixteen of his 
eighty-five men left. In New York city he at once reenlisted in Col. Ells- 
worth's regiment, with rank of first lieutenant, was present when that brave 
officer was murdered, participated in twenty-eight engagements and thirty-two- 
skirmishes, and received a wound in the knee and another in his ankle. June 
25, 1864, for bravery on the field, he was promoted captain in the regular 
army and transferred to Gen. Sherman's army, at Atlanta, Ga., and "marched 
to the sea." In crossing the Savannah river, in charging the bridge, he lost 
heavily of his company and received a bullet in his right side near the hip,, 
and another through the left lung, which lodged in his left shoulder, where it 
still remains. He was nineteen weeks on board the hospital ship Cosmopol- 
itan^ receiving excellent treatment, and as soon after as he was able he re- 
signed his position and returned to civil life. He now resides in the village 
of Montpelier, on the old hospital ground, where he has been since the war. 

Dean G. Kemp, M. D., son of Phineas A. and Betsey (Blanchard) Kemp,, 
was born in Worcester, Vt., November 8, 1841. He resided with his father 
until he was about eighteen years of age, and like other farmers' boys spent 
his time in attendance at the district school and at hard labor. He then- 
went to Montpelier and was in attendance at Washington County Grammar 
and Union School about three years, with the medical profession as the ob- 
ject to be attained. In 1862 he entered, as a medical student, the office of 



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Dr. W. H. H. Richardson. He remained with Dr. Richardson, attended med- 
ical lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city, graduated 
March 26, 1866, and commenced the practice of his profession with his 
tutor, Dr. Richardson, one week later. April i, 1867, he purchased the resi- 
dence of Dr. Richardson, and succeeded him, where he is now in successful 
practice. Dr. Kemp was a member of the board of examining surgeons for 
pensions in the administrations of Presidents Garfield and Arthur. He held 
the honorable position of president of the Vermont State Medical society in 
1886, has been secretary of the school board for several' years, and is a 
director of the Montpelier Electric Light and Power Manufacturing Co. In 
politics Dr. Kemp is a decided Republican, and is a member of Bethany 
church. September 5, 1866, he united in marriage with Annette C. Max- 
ham, of Northfieid, an amiable and highly cultivated lady. 

Enoch D. Putnam, son of Jacob, was born in Alstead, N. H., March 26, 
1813. In 1820 his father moved with his family from Alstead to Marshfield, 
Vt. His education was acquired in common schools and the Washington 
County Grammar School of Montpelier. In early manhood he taught 
common schools eight terms, in the towns of Marshfield,'Cabot, Peacham, 
Vt., and Canajoharie, N. Y. In 1835 he entered the store of George D. 
Dana, in Cabot, as clerk, and in the spring of 1836 he settled in Kenosha, 
Wis., in the employ of Denning & Durkee, merchants. In the spring of 
1837 he opened a store at Fox River, now Burlington, Wis., in company 
with his late employers, where he traded until the following December, when 
he returned to Vermont. April 4, 1840, he bought the store and stock of 
goods of H. McLane, Jr., & Co., in Marshfield village, where he continued 
in trade fourteen years. In 1848 he represented Marshfield in the legisla- 
ture, was elected assistant judge of Washington County Court the same year, 
and was reelected in 1849. While in trade in Marshfield he manufactured 
potato starch seven years. In March, 1854^ he formed a mercantile partner- 
ship with A. F. Sprague, in Cabot, where he continued thirteen years. In 
1858 he was state senator for Washington county and reelected in 1859. 
In 1868 he sold to Mr. Sprague and removed to Montpelier, and assumed 
charge of the large boarding-house of the< Vermont Methodist Seminary, 
where he remained two years. In July, 1871, he engaged in the wholesale 
trade in tea, tobacco, and spices, with the firm of Tute, Putnam & Co., of 
Boston. In the fall of 1873 ^^ sold his interest in the store in Boston to 
L. W. Jones, of Montpelier, and in company with his son-in-law, Thomas 
Marvin, bought the stock of groceries, crockery, and glassware of Mr. Jones. 
At the great fire in Montpelier, May 31, 1875, their store and stock of goods, 
worth about $7,000, were entirely destroyed, but their business was sus- 
pended only two weeks. Mr. Putnam continued the senior member of this 
firm until June 5, 1888, when he retired from the firm. Mr. Putnam entered 
the mercantile business in 1835, and continued in it with very little interrup- 
tion about fifty-three years; and now (1889) he is enjoying good health, with 



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his mental faculties unusually well preserved. March 26, 1845, he married 
Mary Ann Stone, of Cabot. Their children were Charles B., born in Marsh- 
field, January I, 1846, who is a printer, and is now engaged in the office of 
the Rutland Herald ; Clara R., born in Marshfield, August 19, 1847, died in 
Cabot, July 14, 1856; Eva, born in Marshfield, October 7, 1853, married 
Thomas Marvin, a merchant, of Montpelier ; and Isabel, born in Cabot, June 
16, 1862, married Henry A. Phelps, of the firm of Phelps Brothers, hard- 
ware merchants, of Barre. 

George C. Chandler, son of Dr. Charles B. and Nancy (Atherton) Chand- 
ler, was born in Tunbridge, Vt., August 16, 1831. He received a common 
school education and commenced life as a merchant in Waterbury, Vt., at 
the age of nineteen years. After being in Waterbury six years he emigrated 
to Lawrence. Kan., and was there three years dealing in real estate. He 
was a real estate broker in the city of New York, from 1872 to 1885. In 
January, 1886, he removed to his present residence in Berlin, where he is now 
engaged in farming. He married, April 18, 1853, Margaret R. Sears, of 
Waterbury, who died in 1863. He married his present wife, Alathia M. 
Smith, December 12, 1865. 



MORETOWN lies a little west of the center of Washington county, in 
latitude 44" 15' and longitude 4° 19', and is bounded northerly by 
the Winooski river, which separates it from Middlesex and Water- 
bury, easterly by Berlin, southerly by a part of Northfield and Waitsfield, and 
westerly by Duxbury. 

This township was chartered June 7, 1763, by Gov. Benning Wentworth, 
of New Hampshire, is about six miles square, and contains 23,040 acres. 

Moretown is mountainous and quite broken in surface, but contains many 
good dairy farms and sugar orchards. It is well watered by numerous mount- 
ain streams and springs. Mad river is the principal water-course, which 
enters the town from Waitsfield, about a mile from the southwestern corner, 
and traverses in a northeasterly directon entirely across the township, and falls 
into the Winooski, This stream affords some of the best water-powers in the 
state. Moretown also boasts of several good mineral springs. 

The rocks that form the geological structure of this territory are principally 
the talcose schist formation. Beds of saccharoid azoic limestone have been 
discovered, and one of steatite. 

The settlement of the town was commenced about i 790. In that year 
Ebenezer Haseltine came from Lunenburgh, Mass., and commenced to clear 
a farm on the Winooski river about a mile and a half from Duxbury line. 
Mr. Haseltine found that he had a neighbor who had preceded him, Seth 
Munson was then living near where Mr. Haseltine made his pitch. Those 



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who did not resort to the stump-mill, an immense mortar constructed by- 
burning a large and deep cavity in the top of a solid stump, in which the corn 
was placed and reduced to meal by pounding with a huge pestle, went down 
the Winooski, with their corn, to a mill in Burhngton, carrying both the skifif 
and corn past the Bolton falls. Col. Jacob Davis erected a grist-mill at 
Montpeher in the summer of 1789. If the above statement is authentic his- 
tory, as given by a descendant of Mr. Haseltine, and also found in Hemen- 
way's Gazetteer, we conclude that the inhabitants of Moretown preferred the 
easy water-course to Burlington, with the exception of Bolton falls, to the 
probable rough and rugged road to Montpelier. Possibly there was no road 
at all as early as 1790. 

The town must have settled quite rapidly the next two years, for the town 
records show that, March g, 1792, Joseph Haseltine, Seth Munson, David 
Parcher, and Ebenezer Haseltine petitioned Richard Holden, a justice of the 
peace of Waterbury, to call a meeting of the voters in Moretown, to be held 
at the house of Joseph Haseltine, for the purpose of electing officers for More- 
town. The inhabitants met in accordance with this warning, March 22, 1792, 
and proceeded to elect the following list of town officers : Daniel Parcher, 
moderator ; Seth Munson, town clerk ; Joseph Haseltine, Daniel Parcher, 
and John Heaton, selectmen ; Phillip Bartlett, treasurer ; Joseph Haseltine, 
constable ; John Heaton and Ebenezer Haseltine, listers ; Joseph Haseltine, 
collector ; and Joseph Parcher, highway surveyor. 

In those early days the robust wives and daughters of the pioneers not 
only spun, wove, and made the clothing for their famiUes, but they also 
assisted in the field work. Mrs. Ebenezer Haseltine and Aunt Judith Has- 
eltine gathered sap on snow-shoes, and caught quantities of trout from the 
Winooski. 

The first school district in town was organized in the Haseltine neighbor- 
hood. The first birth in town was probably that of Polly Phemia Munson. 
Paul Knapp, who was killed by a falling tree, was the first person who died in 
town. Rev. Mr. Brown (Universalist) was the first minister who settled in 
town, and deeded to the town, for the benefit of its schools, the lands re- 
served for the first settled minister. Moretown was first represented in the 
legislature by Luther Moseley, who was chosen by seven voters. 

VVinship & Thornton were the first merchants, and opened their store in 
18 1 5, and their first load of goods was brought from Burlington by Cephas 
Carpenter. In 1822 Mr. Stevens commenced business as a merchant, and 
built a distillery and made whiskey. His death, which occurred about two 
years later, was considered a loss to the town. Martin L. Lovell and Francis 
Liscomb built a starch factory in 1833, and operated it about five years. It 
was then converted into a tannery by Jesse Johnson, and burned three or 
four years later. Joseph Sawyer built the first hotel in town, in 1835. The 
first physician was Dr. Stephen Pierce. He was a successful, skillful, and 
highly respected physician, and died in Barnard about 1864. Soon after the 



TOWN OF MORETOWN. 40I 

young Doctor located in the town the neighbors were discussing his merits, 
and one gave as his opinion that he had a very good theory of physic, but he 
lacked the practice. Very soon after this Mr. A. March, who had a sick 
child, called on the Doctor and asked for some '"theory of physic " to admin- 
ister to his child. The Doctor supplied him, and often related the joke to 
his friends. 

In 1840 Moretown had a population of 1,128, and in 1880, 1,181. la 
1888 the town had eleven school districts and supported twelve schools,, 
taught by one male and twenty female teachers^ at a weekly salary of $6.67 
for the male, and an average weekly salary of $4.31 for the females. The 
whole number of children in town who attended school was 226, of whom 
seven attended private schools. The total income for school purposes was 
$1,811.63. The whole amount expended for all school purposes was. 
$i>57i-3i- U. P. Child was superintendent. 

Owing to the mountainous condition of the township it is divided into 
several separate neighborhoods, which prevents building up any large village 
within its borders, and many of the farmers market their produce in Water- 
bury, Montpelier, and Northfield. 

Moretown village and postoffice is located in the southwestern part of the 
town, on Mad river. It contains two general stores, a hardware store, two 
grist-mills, two saw-mills, two blacksmith shops, an hotel, an undertaker's and 
carriage shop, one box factory, two churches (Roman Catholic and Methodist), 
and a population of about 200. 

The grist-mill now owned and operated by I. D. Robinson & Son is 
located at Moretown village, and was built by Charles Howe in 183 1. It has 
four runs of stones, and does custom work. In connection with the grist- 
mill I. D. Robinson & Son are proprietors of a saw-mill, which was built in 
1874 by I. D. Robinson. The mill cuts from 100,000 to 200,000 feet of 
lumber and about 200,000 shingles annually. 

Messrs. Parker cS^ Gilletfs saiv-mills are located at Moretown village, and 
were built by Charles Howe. The property was purchased by Mr. Parker in 
1873, ^'^^ i" 1SS5 ^^- Gillett became his partner. This firm now turns out 
annually from 200,000 to 300,000 feet of lumber and about 200,000 shingles. 

Orville H. Richardson's lumber and clapboard-mills are located on the Wi- 
nooski river, opposite the village of Middlesex. Mr. Richardson purchased 
the property in 1883. He turns out annually about 1,000,000 feet of clap- 
boards and other lumber, and employs six men. 

The sawmill, butter ttib factory, and cider-mill oi C. A. Stevens are located 
on Jones brook, corner of roads 17 and 15. This property was purchased by 
Mr. Stevens in April, 1884. He manufactures about 20,000 feet of coarse 
lumber, 12,000 butter tubs, and 1,000 barrels of cider annually. He also 
manufactures, as a specialty, stone boat or drag plank. 

The carriage and undertaking shops of Lovejoy & Towle, at Moretown 
village, were built by Calvin Foster in 1850, and became the property of the 

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402 TOWN OF MORETOWN. 



present owners in 1867. This firm does undertaking, and manufactures car- 
riages, wagons, and sleighs, and does general repairing in their line. 

H. O. Ward's box factory and grist-mill, at Moretown village, on Mad 
river, gives employment to six men, and manufactures about 1,000,000 feet of 
lumber into boxes annually. An old mill was burned on this site May 15, 
1887, and J. B. Farrell and his wife, who lived in one part of it, perished in 
the flames. Mr. Ward's mill was built in the ensuing fall. Charles H. Dale 
operates the grist-mill, and grinds from 20,000 to 25,000 bushels of grain per 
year. Mr. Ward resides in Duxbury. 

Joseph M. Brown &= Son's saw and planing-tnills, on road 33, are run by 
water-power and a forty-horse-power steam engine. This firm employs four 
men, and turns out from 600,000 to 800,000 feet of lumber annually. 

G. S. o^ P. A. Chapman s s aw -mill v?, located on road 33, in the eastern 
part of the town. It is run by water-power, and cuts about 200,000 feet of 
lumber annually. 

John Foster, from Bridgewater, Vt., settled in Moretown on the farm where 
his grandson, Charles A. Foster, now lives. He reared a numerous family, 
and died in 1842. His son John was born in Moretown, in 1793, where he 
died in 1837. He married Ruth Rich, and they were parents of four chil- 
dren, all of whom are Uving, viz. : Charles A., Ruel S., John R., and Harriet J. 
(Mrs. N. K. Herrick), of Middlesex. Charles A. Foster, who resides on the old 
homestead, as before mentioned, has held the office of selectman of his town, 
and has been justice of the peace the past sixteen years. He married Huldah 
A. Hathaway, of East Montpelier. Their seven children now living are Mrs. 
F. M. McElroy, of Middlesex, Mrs. E. A, Drew, of Barre, Mrs. Ernest 
Crown, of Manchester, Vt., John E., of Bridgeport, Conn., Charles F., of 
Taunton, Mass., Arthur C, of Hartford, Conn., and Jesse J., of Pittsfield, 
Mass. 

Ebenezer Haseltine came to Moretown from Lunenburgh, Mass., and set- 
tled on the banks of the Winooski in 1790. He was elected lister at the 
organization of the town, March 22, 1792. At the same meeting his brother 
Joseph, who probably came to Moretown about as early as he, was elected 
selectman, constable, and collector. Joseph Haseltine and six of his brothers 
served as soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer, 
resides on the farm where he was born, in 1813. 

AUeduren Stowell, from Connecticut, was a pioneer of Moretown, and one 
of the earliest settlers. He located at the Common, where he cleared a farm 
and reared a large family, all now deceased. He died about 1840. His 
daughter Polly was the wife of John Howes, whose son George resides on 
road 26. He represented Moretown in the legislature of 1878. John Howes 
settled in the town at an early date. He died in 1846. His son John was 
born in Moretown, and here resided until his death, in 1881, aged sixty-one 
years. He was selectman, and held other town offices. Five of his children 
reside in Moretown. 



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Amos Holt and his father, Humphrey Holt, came from New Hampshire 
to Montpelier at an early date. They made the shingles that covered the 
first State House. Amos Holt was a man of good abilities. His wife, Hopy, 
daughter of Abraham Howland, one of the first settlers of Calais, lived to the 
advanced age of ninety-four years. Their son David C, a school teacher, 
carpenter, and surveyor, served as fifer one year in the late war, in Co. G, 
6th Vt. Regt. Amos Holt died in Moretown. 

Abner Child, a native of Thompson, Conn., came to Moretown from 
Sharon, Vt., in 1805, and settled on the farm where his son Roswell now 
lives. He cleared the farm and reared to maturity a family of six children, 
of whom Dennis, residing in Wisconsin, and Roswell, before mentioned, re- 
siding on the old homestead, are living. Mr. Child was interested in the 
welfare of his town. He was captain of the militia and clerk of the town 
many years, and one of the foremost in prominence and influence. He died 
in i860. 

David Belding, from Swanzey, N. H., came to Moretown about xSio. He 
was a farmer, and settled on Mad river. He resided awhile in Duxbury, but 
died in Moretown in i860, aged seventy-four years. Mr. Belding took an 
active part in the affairs of his town, and officiated as justice of the peace, 
lister, and selectman, and represented his town several terms in the legisla- 
ture. Three of his children reside in Washington county, viz. : Mrs. Mar- 
shall and David Belding in Moretown, and Eben Belding in Duxbury. -- \ y 

Barnabas Mayo came to Moretown from Acworth, N. H., in 181 2, and 
settled on the farm where his son Barnabas now lives. He was a man of 
considerable influence and represented Moretown in the state legislature sev- 
eral terms. He died in 1847. 

Osgood Evans, a native of Weare, came to Moretown from Bow, N. H., in 
1827, and settled on a farm where Thomas Grandfield now lives. He was 
an influential citizen and served as representative in the legislature, and held 
other positions of trust. He died at the village in March, 1886. His wife, 
Mary P. (Bailey) Evans, still survives, and resides with her son George in 
Moretown. Their other surviving son, M. O. Evans, is an enterprising mer- 
<:hant of Waterbury. 

Moses P. Heath, a native of Concord, N. H., came to Moretown about 
1834, and died here in 1876. He was justice of the peace over twenty con- 
secutive years, and filled acceptably other town offices. His son Ephraim A. 
was born in Lincoln, Addison county, in 1846, and was admitted to the bar 
of Washington county, September 25, 1869. He began the practice of law 
in Montpelier, where he remained one year, and then returned to Moretown, 
where he has since resided and practiced his profession. 

Roger G. Bulkeley came into Vermont from Colchester, Conn., where he 
was born May 6, 1786. After being in Yale College awhile he commenced 
the study of law in his native state, but completed his studies in the office of 
Charles Bulkeley, at Montpelier. He was admitted to the bar in Orleans county. 



404 



TOWN OF MORETOWN. 



August 8, 1809, and immediately commenced practice in Williamstown, 
where he remained until the War of 1812. He enlisted and served through 
the war, and returned holding the warrant of a non-commissioned officer. 
His home was in Washington a part of the time through the war and until 
1817. At that time he moved onto a farm in Duxbury, and finally moved to 
Moretown, where he resided until his decease, February 2, 1862, and was a 
pensioner at the time of his death. Mr. Bulkeley was justice of the peace, 
town agent, lister, selectm.an, and an active member of- the Constitutional 
Convention of 1857. He married Sally Taylor, of BerHn, about 1808, and 
they were parents of twelve children who lived to mature age, five of whom 
are now living, George, Harry, and Lucy (Mrs. Austin G. Prentiss) in More- 
town, Charles in Clinton, Conn., and Rowland T. in Illinois. George 
Bulkeley has held the positions of lister, town agent, and selectman, and was 
representative in 1863. Harry has represented Duxbury in the legislature 
several terms, and is now the agent of Moretown. 

Lester Kingsley, M. D., the venerable doctor of Moretown, was fifty-two 
years in active and successful practice here. He settled in town in 1827, and 
died January 4, 1881, aged seventy-six years. Dr. Kingsley was elected town 
clerk in March, 1832, and held the position continually thereafter until his 
death, a period of nearly forty-nine years. He was postmaster from 1837 for 
the ensuing twenty-five years, and represented his town in the legislature of 
184T and 1842. 

James Haylett, M. D., was born in North Hero, Vt., in 1844. He studied 
medicine with Dr. G. N. Brigham, of Montpelier, and graduated from Hahn- 
emann Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1869, and located that year in 
Moretown, where he has built up a fine reputation and a successful practice. 
Dr. Haylett succeeded Dr. Kingsley as town clerk, in 1881, and holds the 
position at the present time (1888). He was elected to represent Moretown 
in the legislature of 1886. 

The following account of a most extraordinary thunder-storm was writ- 
ten by the late Hon. D. P. Thompson, of Montpelier : — 

" The most remarkable instance of a sudden and great fall of water, which 
was ever known in this region, occurred about thirty years ago [now about 
fifty or sixty], round the sources of Jones's brook, a small mill stream that 
rises in Moretown Mountains and empties into Winooski river three miles 
below Montpelier. The mountains round the source of this stream rise to 
the height of about 2,000 feet, with unusual abruptness, and, at the same time, 
so curve around as to leave the intermediate space in the form of a deep half 
basin, down the precipitous sides of which a sudden shower descends almost 
as rapidly as water rushing down the steepest roof of a house, and, collecting 
at the bottom, pours in a raging river down the valley to the outlet of the 
stream. It was over this mountain-rimmed basin that burst the extraordinary 
thunder-storm which I have undertaken to describe, and which passed among 
the inhabitants under the mame of the bursting of a cloud. 

" The inhabitants of the basin, when the storm burst upon them so suddenly 
and unexpectedly, were struck with astonishment and alarm at the unwonted. 



TOWN OF MORETOWN. 405 



quantity of water that descended upon them, from the seemingly flooded 
heavens. A settler who lived nearest the foot of the mountian described 
the rain as ' coming down in bucketsful.' ' I was in a field a short distance 
from my house when it struck, and was so astonished at first I knew not 
what to do. But the rain, if it could be called ram, coming thicker and faster, 
I ran with all my might for the house, but was almost drowned before I got 
there, and then it was only to find the water gushing into the house on all 
sides till it was nearly knee deep on the floor.' And so with all the inhabi- 
tants of the basin. No place aff'orded them any protection ; rivers were 
within all their houses, and rivers, rising into seas, were all around them 
without ; and they looked on with mute consternation at that tremendous 
outpouring of the clouds. But they were the first to be relieved. The rain, 
after a brief duration of less than half an hour, ceased as suddenly as it came, 
and the inhabitants ran out of their drenched houses just in time to behold 
the numerous uniting streams, that had come pouring down the encirculing 
mountain, gathering into a mighty river that swept away shanties, fences, old 
trees, logs, lumber, and everything in its path, and bearing them in wild con- 
fusion on its surface, went foaming, trembling, and roaring like a cataract, 
with amazing force, down the valley towards the outlet three or four miles 
below. 

" But the principal scene arising from the destructive and fatal progress 
occurred at the saw-mill of Oren Clark, and situated about a mile from the 
mouth of the stream. Mr. Clark and his hired man were at work in a field 
near the mill, and being warned by the appearance of the clouds that a flood 
would soon be down upon them, ran to the mill to make some necessary pro- 
tection for its safety. While thus engaged, they were aroused by a deafening 
roar, that burst suddenly upon their ears from the stream but a short distance 
above the mill ; when looking up they beheld, to their astonishment and alarm, 
a wild, tumultuous sea of commingling flood-wood and turbid waters, with a 
wall-like front, ten feet high, tumbling and rolling down upon them with 
furious uproar, and with the speed of the wind. They attempted to secure a 
retreat over the log-way which extended from the mill to the high ground five 
or six rods distant. Over this they made their way with all possible speed. 
But such was the velocity of the on rushing torrent, that they had not pro- 
ceeded half way before the mill came down, with a crash, behind them, the 
log-way was swept from beneath their feet, and they were struggling for their 
lives in a flood a dozen feet deep, foaming, boiling, and so filled with trees, 
timber, and all sorts of ruins, that it did not seem possible for a human being 
to be borne along in the frightfully whirling mass and live a single minute. 

" Mr. Clark said, ' I saw Eastman once more when I rose to the surface 
after the first plunge. He was struggling desperately to get his head above 
the flood-wood. But I saw him no more. The next moment a raft of logs 
swept over me, and I was whirled onward, sometimes with my head above 
and sometimes below the water, until I neared the wooded bank down and 
on the opposite side of the stream, when I came within reach of a small 
tree which I grasped, which about as soon came up by the roots, and I was 
again plunged into the flood. I struggled on and soon was so fortunate as 
to grasp another sapling, and drew myself ashore, and fell down half dead 
from bruises and half drowned.' 

"The remains of poor Eastman were found next day near the mouth of 
the stream." 

A Congregational church was the first religious society organized in More- 
town. The meeting for its organization was held in the first log school-house. 



^o6 TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 



The members that composed it were Reuben Hastings, John Stockwell, 
Samuel Eaton, Mrs. Eleazer Wells, and Mrs. Stockwell. Deacon Nathan 
Benton and Philemon Ashley were among its early and prominent members. 
The school-house and afterwards the town house at the village were used as 
places of worship. This church continued a separate organization until some 
time between 1836 and 1840, when the membership was so small that the 
church was dissolved and merged in the Congregational church at Duxbury. 

The Methodist Episcopal church of Moretown is located in the village of 
Moretown. Rev. Amasa Cole was probably the first one of that order who 
preached in this tour. In 1809 Joshua Luce, a local preacher, settled in town, 
and was the pioneer of Methodism here. By his efforts, aided by his wife 
and daughter, a Methodist class was organized. They held meetings in barns 
and school-houses. Moretown became a part of the old Barre circuit, and 
for several years had no resident pastor. Their first meeting-house was built 
on the Common in 1832, and was occupied until 1854, when their present 
church edifice was erected at the village. It is a wooden building, will com- 
fortably seat 250 people, and with grounds and all other church property is 
valued at $4,000. Rev. William H. Dean is the pastor, and the church has 
sixty-two members. 

The first Catholic priest who officiated in Moretown was Father Jeremiah 
O'Callaghan, and he is said to have been the first resident Catholic priest in 
Vermont. In 1853 Col. Miller, of Montpelier, and Frank and Peter Lee gave 
to the Catholic society here the site for a church and land for a burying- 
ground. In i860 Rev. Z. Druon built their present church edifice, a little 
more than a mile east of the village. Previous to this time the mission had 
occasionally been visited by Rev. Fathers O'Callaghan, Daly, Drolet, Maloney, 
and Coopman. The number of Catholic families in this mission is forty or 
fifty, mostly farmers. They are attended now by Rev. J. Brelivet, from North- 
field. 



NORTHFIELD lies in the southern part of Washington county, in 
latitude 44" 8' and longitude 4° 2', and is bounded northerly by Berlin 
and a part of Moretown, easterly by Williamstown, southerly by Rox- 
bury, and westerly by Waitsfield. The township was chartered by Gov. 
Thomas Chittenden, in the name and by the authority of the freemen of Ver- 
mont, October 10, 1781, to Joel Matthews and sixty-four associates, with the 
usual reservation of the college, county grammar school, and first settled 
minister's rights, and right for the propagation of the gospel. The original 
grant contained 18,518 acres. November 7, 1822, the area of Northfield was 
enlarged by annexing to it about 6,000 acres taken from the east part of 
Waitsfield. 



TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 407- 

The surface of Northfield is uneven, hilly, and in part mountainous. Two- 
ranges of highlands extend north and south across the township, one on each 
side of Dog River valley. The soil is generally good. The timber was prin- 
cipally maple, beech, birch, hemlock, and spruce, with a mixture of fir, pine,, 
ash, and butternut in some places. 

Dog river is the principal stream, which, with its numerous tributaries from 
the highlands and springs, affords an abundant supply of pure water to the 
entire population. The river is formed in Northfield by the union of several 
streams, principally from Roxbury and Brookfield, and takes a northerly 
course through Berlin and enters the Winooski about half a mile below Mont- 
pelier. In its descent it affords numerous fine water-powers. 

The rocks that form the geological structure of this town are of the talcose 
schist, clay slate, and calciferoiis mica schist formation. The latter predomi- 
nates and occupies more than half of the territory in the western part of the 
town. Adjoining this is a broad belt of clay slate that extends across the 
town, and the extreme eastern edge, along the line of WiUiamstown,is formed 
of calciferoiis mica schist. There is a bed of serpentine in the western part 
of the town, and traces of gold in alluvium are found along the brooks. 
There is also a quarry of silicious talcose schist, from which an excellent 
quality of scythestones have been made. This quarry is near the junction of 
the talcose schist and clay slate, and about three-fourths of a mile northeast 
of the village. 

The first meeting of the proprietors of the township was held at the house 
of William Gallup, in Hartland, Vt., November ii, 1783. Later they held 
meetings from time to time in Hartford, Windsor, Hartland, and Pomfret, 
until the town government was organized in 1794. At one of these meetings 
the proprietors 

"Voted that Mr. Marston Cabot be allowed 27 days in surveying North- 
field. 

£• s. d. 

" At 9s per day 12 3 o 

" And i8s expense money o 18 o 

"And for three gallons of West India rum at 8 /per 
gal. and one of New England ditto at 5 / 6 per gal- 
lon I 96 

"14 10 6." 
At a meeting of the proprietors held at Burch's inn, in Hartford, Vt., the 
second Tuesday of November, 1784, it was voted that Elijah Paine should 
have the privilege of pitching at his option the 200 acres in Northfield if he 
would build a good saw-mill in said Northfield within eighteen months, and 
200 acres if he would build a grist-mill m a year. He selected for the pur- 
pose a site in the ravin on a brook near the road to Williamstown, where he 
built the mills, and this grist-mill was the only one in the town for many 
years. Again, on the 5th of August, 1788, as an inducement for permanent 



4o8 TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 

settlement, " Voted that the proprietors of Northfield will give to the wives 
of Stanton Richardson and William Ashcroft, each, one Lot of land in the 
second division of Northfield, to be to them, their heirs, and their assigns 
forever; on condition that said Stanton and WiUiam shall continue to live in 
Northfield five years each, and the above women to have an equal share in 
the second division." 

The first permanent settlement was made by Anjos and Ezekiel Robinson 
and Stanton Richardson, in May, 1785. Kezia, daughter of Amos and 
Batheny Robinson, in 1787, was the first child born in Northfield. She mar- 
ried Ira Sherman, of Waterbury, and died in 1877. The first town meeting 
was convened at the house of Dr. Nathaniel Robinson, March 25, 1794, by 
the order of Cornelius Lynde, Esq., of Williamstown. At said meeting the 
following list of officers was elected : Cornelius Lynde, moderator ; Na- 
thaniel Robinson, town clerk ; Stanton Richardson, Amos Robinson, Ezekiel 
Robinson, selectmen ; David Denny, constable ; William Ashcroft, Stanton 
Richardson, Ezekiel Robinson, listers ; David Denny, collector of taxes ; 
Aquillo Jones, Samuel Richardson, highway surveyors. 

The town was first represented in the legislature in 1801, by Amos Robin- 
son. The total amount of the grand list of 1794, which is the first on the 
records of the town, is ^295, 5s. In 1797 the grand list was first given in 
decimal currency, — amount, $1,738.35. The amount of the grand list for 
1888 is $11,672.42. The first recorded freemen's meeting was held Septem- 
ber I, 1801. 

Rev. John Gregory states, in his history of Northfield, that in 1800 the first 
votes were cast in Northfield for governor, lieutenant-governor, and twelve 
councilors ; that each received twelve votes, on the ticket headed by Isaac 
Tichnor for governor, showing a complete unanimity of the voters. He 
adds, " which must have been near the number of legal voters in town." The 
next year ( 1 80 1 ) three school districts are reported, with an aggregate of ninety- 
six children of school age, and the names of twenty-nine men who were the 
fathers of these children. By the census of 1791 we find that Northfield 
then had a population of forty souls, and in 1800 two hundred and four. This 
would, by Mr. Gregory's estimate, make the ratio of the voters as one to 
seventeen, when, in fact, it would be about as one to five ; and instead of 
there being but twelve voters in Northfield in 1800, there must have been 
forty at least. 

It is not certain who cut the first tree and cleared the first acre in North- 
field, although Judge Paine is credited with that honor. Judge Paine did not 
receive the proposed grant of land for building mills (before mentioned) until 
the close of the season for clearing land, and we find that Amos and Ezekiel 
Robinson, with their wives, were here in May, 1785. Dr. Nathaniel Robin- 
son was the first physician and first town clerk of Northfield. He settled on 
East hill, was a good doctor and very popular, and died of measles in 1813. 
John L. Buck was admitted to the bar in Montpelier, in September, 1825, 



TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 409 



settled in Northfield some time in the next month, and was the first per- 
manent lawyer in the place. He had been preceded by Simon Smith but a 
very short time, who soon moved away. 

The first church edifice erected in Northfield was the Union meeting-house, 
built by the united efforts of the town m 1820. All but twelve of the fifty 
pews were sold at auction for $760. This house was very plain, without a 
steeple, and was painted yellow. It is said to have resembled a barn. Hence, 
in derision, it had in the mouths of the wicked and ungodly the sobriquet of 
" God's yellow barn." 

The early civil history of Northfield, like that of other towns, is a record of 
town meetings, levying necessary taxes, laying out highways, organizing school 
districts, records of people warned out of town, whether sick or poor, that 
they might not become a charge to it as paupers, and records of births, 
deaths, and marriages. Its pioneer settlers were hardy, energetic, and gen- 
erally young men who came from the southeastern part of Vermont, New 
Hampshire, and the older Eastern states. They were not afraid of the labor 
and hardships necessary to level the forest and build a town. They cut down 
the giant trees, built houses, barns, school-houses, and manufactories, good 
highways and turnpikes, and established mail routes and stage lines. They 
drove out the bears and wolves, and reared sleek horses, cattle, and sheep. 
They were prudent, honest, and plain ; their means were generally small, but 
their wants were few. The skillful housewives and their industrious daugh- 
ters spun, wove, and made the clothing for their families. Their tables were 
supplied with bread and vegetables from their own fields, and with pork and 
beef of their own growing. And they were so habituated to toil that labor to 
them was no hardship. They were healthy, and consequently happy. "Why," 
said an old settler, " the forest lands, where we were generally at work, smelt 
so pure and sweet that we drank in health at every breath, and the doctors 
found mighty poor picking." 

In 1880 Northfield had a population of 2,836. In 1888 it had sixteen 
common school districts and one Union graded school district, and employed 
two male and thirty-five female teachers, at an average weekly salary of $23.83 
for the former and $4.78 for the latter. The whole number of scholars who 
attended any school during the year was 575, of whom thirty-nine attended 
private schools. The entire income for all school purposes was $6,773.30, 
while the whole amount expended was $5,070.95, with I. P. Booth, super- 
intendent. 

Northfield (p. o.), commonly called the Depot Village, is incorporated, 
and has the usual complement of municipal ofiicers. It is located a mile and 
a half or two miles east of the center of the town, on Dog river and the Cen- 
tral Vermont railroad. This village mainly sprung into existence on the com- 
pletion of the Vermont Central railroad, and the establishment of the oftices 
and shops of that corporation here, about 1848. The village enjoyed a very 
prosperous existence from that time until the offices and .shops were removed to 



4IO TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 



St. Albans. Since then its manufacturing interests have materially declined^ 
but it is still an attractive village. It is built partly upon the Plain near the 
river, but mainly upon irregular and elevated terraces from thirty to 150 feet 
above that stream. It contains a fine park (Central Square), five churches 
(Congregational, Episcopal, Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Universahst), 
a National bank, a Savings bank, fifteen or twenty stores, a good graded and 
and High school, Norwich University, and is still a place of considerable 
manufacturing. Besides its excellent schools Northfield village supports a 
circulating library of 1,000 volumes. 

GouLDSViLLE (p. o.) is near the north line of Northfield, and is also on 
Dog river and the railroad. The leading industry of this little village is the 
woolen-mills of J. Gould & Son, and which is the main support of the place. 

South Northfield (p. o.) is situated on a mill stream, and has a main 
street extending along the brook which furnishes the power to run a sash and 
blind shop, grist-mill, and other machinery. It contains a school-house and 
from twenty to twenty-five dwellings. 

Northfield Center is a hamlet just south of Northfield village. It con- 
tains a store and about thirty dweUings, built around a level three-sided park 
or common. 

The proprietors of Northfield saw that they could serve their own interests 
in the sale of their lands if they could provide a saw-mill to cut lumber for 
the pioneers to build their cabins, and a grist-mill to grind their grain. Hence 
they made provision for building both, several months before there was a 
single inhabitant in town. Soon after Judge Paine built the first mills in 
town, Aquillo Jones built a saw-mill near the WiUiamstown line, on the same 
stream, near the outlet of Bennett's pond. When the water is very high a 
stream also runs north from it into Berlin pond. As the settlements of the 
town increased saw-mills were built at convenient distances, so that the inhab- 
itants of Northfield escaped the hardships of going long distances for the 
indispensable necessaries of food and lumber. J. K. Egerton says : " There 
have been seventeen saw-mills in Northfield, and nine grist-mills at different 
times," Wool-carding and cloth-dressing was also one of the early indus- 
tries. Judge Paine built a woolen-mill, to manufacture broadcloth, at a cost 
of $40,000, so early that it is said to have been built in the woods. He em- 
ployed from 175 to 200 operatives. Brickmaking was once an important 
industry. 

The Northfield Black Slate Company was incorporated in July, 1885, with 
George Nichols, president ; C. A. Edgerton, clerk and treasurer ; and A. E. 
Denny, manager. The quarry is located near Northfield village, and was 
opened about twenty years ago by parties from Boston under the firm name 
of "Adams Slate and Tile Co.," which continued the business about fifteen 
years, when it was succeeded by the Hillside Slate Co. This firm continued 
the business until the property passed to the present company. The produc- 



TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 411 



tion is now about 3,000 squares per year. For depth and durability of color, 
softness and tenacity of texture, this slate is unsurpassed by any in America. 

Albert C. Chase's carriage shop, opposite the depot, was built about 1870. 
Mr. Chase, with various partners, carried on the business the ensuing eight 
years. The last ten years Mr. Chase has conducted the business alone. He 
gives his attention to building fine carriages to order. His specialty is in 
manufacturing hearses, top-buggies, and sleighs. 

y. Gould (3^ Son's woolen-mills are located at the village of Gouldsville, 
on Dog river, which furnishes the power, with steam as auxiliary. This firm 
manufactures white flannels, and employs sixty-five hands in all departments. 
The mills contain forty-six looms, and the necessary carding and spinning 
machinery. In the language of the manufacturers it is a "five set " mill. As 
early as 1833 or '34 James Gould and Erastus Parker were manufacturers 
here, and on the same site. John Gould and William Moorcroft operated 
the mills from 1852 to 1857, when Joseph Gould purchased the entire prop- 
erty. In 1866 Joseph W. Gould became a partner with his father, with the 
firm name of J. Gould & Son. Under this title this leading industry of 
Northfield has since been conducted. In 1868 J. Gould & Son purchased 
the mill built by Walter Little, standing just below theirs, which added two 
sets of machinery to their manufacturing capacity, and increased it to five 
sets. These buidings were all of wood, and were entirely destroyed by fire 
January 31, 1873. The present first-class brick buildings were erected in 
1874. The main building is 110x55 ^^^t, four stories and basement. At- 
tached is an ell two stories high and 25x40 feet. 

G. B. Andreivs's saw and grist-mills are located on the east branch of Dog 
river, on road 33, and have been owned and operated by him since 1879. He 
has rebuilt both of these mills. The grist-mill is furnished with one run of 
stones, driven by water-power with a fall of twenty-three feet. He sells from 
six to twelve car-loads of corn and meal, six of feed, and one of flour per 
year. He also grinds for merchants about fourteen car loads of corn, and 
besides does a large amount of custom grinding annually. His saw-mill, with 
a fifteen- feet water-fall, turns out of rough lumber annually from 100,000 to 
300,000 feet, and his shingle-mill, with a water-fall of eighteen feet, cuts 
2,500,000 shingles. Mr. Andrews employs from six to eight men. 

George F. Gliddens steam saw-mill, located on road 19, has been owned 
by him since 1865. He built his present mill on the site of the old one, in 
1872, and a few years later put in steam-power. The mill is fitted with saw- 
ing, planing, matching, shingle, and clapboard machinery. In 1887 Mr. Glid- 
den cut about 300,000 feet of lumber and 300,000 shingles, and employed 
three hands. 

Thomas Slade's grist and flouring-mill is located at the South village, on 
the east branch of Dog river, which affords the power. This is the only flour- 
ing-mill in town. The mill has three runs of stones, and grinds over 5,000 
bushels of wheat and about the same amount of custom provender per an- 



412 TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 



num. Mr. Slade sells about S,ooo bushels of corn and meal and three car 
loads of shorts yearly. 

Harvey M. Cutler s saw-mill, on road 9, was purchased by him about 
1869, and has been mostly rebuilt. He manufactures about 200,000 feet of 
rough and dressed lumber and 250,000 shingles per year. He also does 
general millwright work and repairing. 

J. B. Shortridge manufactures doors, sash, blinds, and builders' furnishings. 
He commenced business in Northfield, in 1856, and removed to his present 
quarters in Paine factory, from Union street, in 1870. 

JR. J. Houston s grist and pla7iing-niills and spring bed factory are located 
on Union street. Mr. Houston has owned this property about seven years. 
He has a provender-mill, grinds and sails about a car load of corn meal and 
feed per month, and also does custom grinding and planing. He manufact- 
ures, as a specially, the Monitor spring bed. He sells about 500 of these 
and 200 mattresses per year. 

George H. Fisher s carriage shop, on road 3, was built about 1848, by 
Alpheus Kathen. Mr. Fisher has been its proprietor the past fifteen years. 
He manufactures carriages, farm wagons, and sleds, and does repairing. He 
also manufactures from 100,000 to 200,000 shingles per annum. 

C. W. Nelson s butter tub shop, on road 29, was built in 1887, and is run 
by water-power. He manufactures spruce butter tubs. 

The firm of F. L. Hotue &■= Co. was formed in i88r. They have shops on 
Main street, where they are manufacturing monumental marble mork, and 
dealing in granite monuments, curbing, etc. 

Alfred F. Spaulding established a machine shop on Main street about 1877, 
where he does general jobbing in machine work and repairing. He also 
manufactures his powerful force pump and angular and upright drills. Of 
these he is the inventor and sole proprietor. 

Charles D. Sawyer, a marble worker, has been engaged in the business the 
last eight years in Northfield, where he still does all kinds of monumental 
marble work. 

L. P. Harris' s grist, saw, and planing-mills, located at Paine factory, have 
been conducted by him since 1885. He cuts from 100,000 to 300,000 feet 
of lumber annually, and does custom planing. He grinds about 20,000 
bushels of grain and handles about 12,000 bushels of Western corn per year. 

Martin Cobleigh has shops located at South Northfield, where he manu- 
factures doors, sash, blinds, and cabinet work. He has been at this location 
since 1866. His buildings were burned January 14, 1887, but he has since 
rebuilt and put in new machinery. 

Charles H. JVewelfs wood turning shop is located at Paine factory. Mr- 
Newell maniifactures fork, hoe, and broom handles, and chair stock. He 
consumes from 50,000 to 75,000 feet of rough lumber annually. 

Frank I. Harris' s jobbing machine shop has been conducted by him since 
1884. 



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413 



Alfred O. Chase has conducted a carriage and repair shop on Main street 
since 1878. He does custom work in building and repairing carriages, 
wagons, and sleighs. 

NortJifield National batik was organized in 1866, at the closing up of the 
old Northfield bank, which was organized in 1854 under state laws, and was 
the first bank chartered in the town. The Northfield National bank com- 
menced business with a capital of $75,000, which was increased to $100,000 
in 1869. Since its organization the bank has paid regular semi-annual divi- 
dends. Dr. George Nichols is president and C. A. Edgerton, cashier. 

N'orthfield Savings bank was organized in 1869, and received its first 
deposit May 29, 1869. The aggregate deposits, February i, 1888, were 
$348,99302. George H. Crane is president, and J. C. B. Thayer, treasurer, 
who has held the position since the organization of the institution. 

Northfield Graded and High School. — The following has been compiled from 
a description by James N. Johnson, Esq.: — 

The Northfield Graded and High School, the most important public school 
in Dog River valley, was established in nearly its present form in 1870. The 
High School is the successor of the Northfield Institution, formerly Northfield 
Academy, chartered by the legislature in 1846. Gov. Paine donated the site 
in 1850. Through his exertions, aided by Heman Carpenter, John L. Buck, 
James Palmer, George R. Cobleigh, Benjamin Porter, Leander Foster, and 
the subscriptions of nearly a hundred other public spirited men, $2,400 was 
raised for erecting a school building, which was accomplished in 185 1, at a 
cost of $2,600. The house was dedicated and opened, in September of the 
year last named, as Northfield Academy. In 1854, by the act of the legis- 
lature, the name was changed to Northfield Institution. The school had a 
successful existence until during the war of the Rebellion, when, not having 
any endowments, it began to decline. In 1870 a permanent arrangement 
was made with the village school district to take the building, repair it, and 
institute in its stead a graded and High school, free for all pupils in the dis- 
trict. This was accomplished through the friends of popular education, 
notably Heman Carpenter, James N. Johnson, Rev. William S. Hazen, 
T. L. Salisbury, A. S. Braman, and J. S. Richardson. The school opened in 
September, 1870, with 331 pupils. This building was burned in 1876, and 
the season ensuing the present fine building was erected in its place, at a cost 
of about $ir,ooo. It requires a yearly outlay of from $2,500 to $3,000 to 
sustain this school. But it makes it possible for every boy and girl in the 
district to obtain a good academic education and prepare for college. The 
number of different scholars in all grades the past school year was 271, fifty- 
six of whom attended the High school, four studied Greek, sixteen studied 
Latin, eight French or German; four graduated, and two are going to col- 
lege. The school library contains 463 volumes. 

Norwich University. — This institution was founded by Capt. Alden Par- 
tridge, in 1819, and was known as the American Literary, Scientific, and Mil- 



414 TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 



itary Academy. It retained the name until November 6, 1834, when a 
charter of incorporation was granted it by the state of Vermont under the 
name of Norwich University. Thus was founded theyfr^/ scientific, classical, 
and military college in the Union. This new departure met with universal 
favor, and its halls were soon crowded with young men from every state in the 
Union. In March, 1866, the university buildings at Norwich were destroyed 
by fire and the university was removed to Northfield, Vt., where the citizens 
offered fine grounds and commodious barracks. Here the same system of 
instruction and mihtary discipUne is maintained, and many young men have 
been enabled to go forth to fill high positions in various professions. This 
was the first institution in the country to lay down a purely scientific course 
of study, and up to the time of the RebelUon the only one which embraced in 
its curriculum thorough military, classical, and scientific courses. By her work 
for half a century Norwich University merits the general confidence of the 
pubHc. Special attention having been given to military science and engineer- 
ing, her graduates have become particularly distinguished as army offi- 
cers and civil engineers, some having risen to the foremost ranks of military 
commanders. The Roster of Alumni and Past Cadets contains more than 
fifteen hundred names, and the institution is to-day in a most prosperous con- 
dition. When, in 1861, the nation called for defenders, the graduates of 
Norwich University were sought for throughout the loyal states as officers, 
and the long list of names on her army-roll shows how nobly they responded. 
So generously did the under-graduates respond to the call upon the institu- 
tion, that for two years there was no commencement, all of the senior class 
and many from other classes having gone into the army. The Norwich Uni- 
versity roll of honor contains the names of twelve general officers, forty col- 
onels, and a host of officers of lower grades, brave men and true, a large 
number of whom laid down their lives that their country might live. It has 
ever been the design of this university, while disciplining the minds of young 
men, to give them, at the same time, that practical instruction that best fits 
men for business Hfe. How well this work has been done let the story of the 
lives of those who have gone out from her halls bear record. 

In the late civil war Northfield nobly responded to the President's call for 
help. May 2, 1861, the " New England Guards of Northfield " were mustered 
into the service of the United States, and were soon on the way to the seat 
of war. The company was composed as follows : William H. Boynton, cap- 
tain; Charles A. Webb, first lieutenant ; Francis B. Gove, second lieutenant ; 
Charles C. Stearns, Joseph C. Bates, John Randall, Silas B. Tucker, ser- 
geants ; Wesley C. Howes, John H. Hurley, John L. Moseley, Adin D. 
Smith, corporals; and thirty-two privates. According to the Adjutant- 
General's Report, Northfield furnished during the war seventy-four nine 
months' men, 188 for three years, three for one year; thirty-nine reenlisted, 
twenty-one were drafted ; seven of these procured substitutes, two of them 
entered service, and seven enlisted into the United States navy. 



TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 415 



Elijah Paine* was born in Brooklyn, Conn., January 2c, 1757, and died in 
Williamstown, Vt., April 28, 1842. He graduated at Harvard College in 
1 78 1, and removed to Vermont in 1784. Mr. Paine was a scholar, a well read 
lawyer, and also a farmer, a road maker, and a pioneer in the manufacture of 
American cloths, for which purpose he constructed an establishment in North- 
field. He was a member and secretary of the convention to revise the con- 
stitution in 1786; member of the legislature in 1787-91; a judge of the 
Supreme Court in 1791-95; United States Senator ini795-i8oi ; and United 
States judge, "appointed by President John Adams," in 1801. In 1789 he 
was one of the commissioners to settle the controversy between New York 
and Vermont ; president of the Vermont Colonization society, of which, as well 
as to Dartmouth College and the " University of Vermont," he was a liberal 
benefactor ; and Fellow of the American and Northern Academies of Arts 
and Sciences. In 1782 he pronounced the first oration before the Phi Beta 
Kappa society of H. U., and was elected its president in 1789 " Mr. Paine 
built a factory in Northfield to make broadcloth^ when it was a wilderness, at 
a cost of $40,000. This factory was 180 feet long, forty-two feet wide, and 
contained six sets of woolen machinery, employed from 175 to 200 workmen, 
and indirectly several hundred more." 

Ithamar Allen, from Gill, Mass., settled in the eastern part of Northfield 
with his family at a very early date. His son Ithamar, Jr., married Nancy, 
daughter of Aquillo Jones, and about 1803 located upon and cleared the farm 
west of the river, at the falls village, and it is still occupied by his descend- 
ants. The whole valley of Dog river from the depot village to the Berlin 
line was then covered with forest. The children of Ithamar, Jr., and Nancy 
Allen were Elijah, born in 1803; William, born in 1805; Charles, born in 
1808; Sally, born in 1811; Chloe, born in 1812 ; Amanda, born in 1814; 
Edna, born in 1816; Warren, born in 1819 ; and Adaline, born in 1825. 
William Allen is now the oldest survivor, and lives upon the farm where he 
was born. William married Esther E. Libby, of Strafford, and had two sons, 
Harrison P., who served three years in the late war, and John W., and three 
daughters, viz. : Emma (Mrs. C. W. Chandler), Edna (Mrs. Locklin), and 
Miss Marietta C. Nancy, the eldest daughter of William Allen, married 
James Smith, and had one daughter, Hattie E. (Mrs. F. U. Smalley). 

Capt. Abel Keyes was born in Putney, Vt., September ir, 1773. He was 
a carpenter and builder, and in 1790 settled in Northfield, with the impres- 
sion that its fine water-power would make of it a great manufacturing town. 
In the spring of 1791 he bought of Judge Paine 100 acres of land on East 
hill, including the mills. Here he remained about five years, improved the 
mills, and sold his land to his brother William, and the mills to Judge Paine. 
In 1807 Capt. Keyes bought a saw-mill and a few acres of land of David 
Denny, in South Northfield. He enlarged and improved the saw-mill, built 



* From the American Encyclopedia. 



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a grist-millj potashery, and several dwellings. In three years (1810) he sold 
his property to C. W. Houghton, of Montpelier. Through his energy he had 
made an active and flourishing little village of the place in three years' time, 
known as " Slab City." In 1839, after moving from one location to another, 
this pushing, restless, industrious, enterprising man emigrated to Illinois, and 
in one year morfe moved to Lake Mills, Wisconsin, where he died in 1848 
aged seventy-five years. Capt. Keyes was for nearly forty years one of the 
most thoroughly active men in Northfield. About forty buildings that he 
erected in Northfield are his testimonials as an active builder. The old yel- 
low meeting-house was one of them. While in Northfield he was captain of 
militia, justice of the peace, selectman, and representative. 

David Denny was born in Windsor, Vt., January 7, 1764, and was one of 
the earliest settlers in Northfield. He was a collector of taxes, and held a 
number of town offices. He located on the hill, near the South village, where 
his grandson David now resides. The numerous family of Dennys in North- 
field are his descendants. He married Betsey Spooner, and they had nine 
children, viz.: Paul S., born in 1792; Asenath, born in 1794; Adolphus, 
born in 1796; Amasa, born in 1798 ; Sally, born in 1800; Samuel, born in 
1803 ; Harriet, born in 1805 ; Eliza, born in 1807 ; and Joseph, born in 1810. 
Mr. Denny died in 182 1. 

Aaron Martin, of Scotch descent, was born in Windham, Conn., in 1742. 
He married Eunice Flint. Mr. Martin died in Williamstown, Vt., March 12, 
1819. Mr. and Mrs. Martin had born to them eight sons and seven daugh- 
ters, fourteen of whom reared families. The sons all settled in Williamstown 
about 1793, and their descendants are the most numerous of any family in 
that town, and are also numerous in the adjacent towns. Aaron Martin, Jr., 
came to Randolph as early as 1791, remained one season, and returned to 
his home in Connecticut on foot, in three days, a journey of sixty miles per 
day. He located his home on West hill, where he resided until the close of 
his life, April 13, 1865, aged eighty-nine years. He was prominent in town 
affairs, and held several of the offices. He was thrice married. His first 
wife, Harriet Martyn, was the mother of two sons and a daughter. His 
second wife was Hannah Wise. His third wife, Polly Burnham, was the 
mother of two sons and four daughters. Allen Martin, second son of Aaron, 
Jr., was born June 21, 1798. He married Betsey Nelson, of Orange, and 
settled on a farm in Barre, in 1822, where he resided until his death, fifty- 
five years after. Mr. and Mrs. Martin were parents of eight sons and two 
daughters. Their son Newton, of Gouldsville, now owns the old homestead 
in Barre. He was selectman in Northfield in 1885 and '86. Mr. Martin 
married Martha A. Hackett. 

William Cochrane came to that part of Northfield which was annexed from 
Waitsfield about 1799. ^'^ son Stephen, born in September, 1801, was the 
first child born in that part of this town, and is the oldest living man born on 
Northfield soil. Stephen Cochrane is the only survivor of the eight children 



TOWN OK NORTHFIELD. 417 



of William, and the only one that ever married. He was a merchant tailor, 
commenced business in 1827, (the first in Northfield,) and continued over 
forty years. 

Elieda and Justus Brown were among the first settlers in Dog River valley 
in Berlin. They located upon the farms now owned by William and Charles 
Dewey, about 1790. They were from Windham, Conn. Elieda was twice 
married, and raised a large family. He had served through the Revolutionary 
war before he was married, and late in life drew a pension. He died in 
Wisconsin, aged ninety- four years. His son, Anson D. Brown, was a harness- 
maker, and was in business in Northfield six or eight years. He died in 
Gouldsville. His son, Albert H. Brown, has been engaged in harnessmaking, 
in Gouldsville since 1855. 

Edward Ryan was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1826, came to America 
in 185 1, and soon settled in Northfield. In 1858 he married Ellen Leahy, 
and has five sons and two daughters. 

Gov. Charles Paine was born in Williarastown, Vt., April 10, 1799. At the 
age of seventeen years he entered Harvard College, where his father had gradu- 
ated in his early manhood and became one of the most noted men of his time 
in Vermont. After a four years' course he graduated with honor, and was 
regarded with respect and esteem by each and every one of his fellow stu- 
dents. " On his return from college," said Hon. John Wheeler, of Bur- 
lington, and a former president of the university, " he showed no inclination for 
professional study, but asked to enter upon the employment of practical life, 
both to lessen the labors of his father and to advance his own interests. This 
was allowed without much thought, but it was thought he would soon grow 
weary of it and call for a different mode of employment. ' I was greatly 
surprised,' said his father, * at the readiness with which he took hold of labor, 
the energy with which he followed it. and the capacity and completness with 
which he finished it. I found he could do as much and as well as I could in 
my best days.' Those of us who ^ive in Vermont know that such a parent 
could scarcely give higher praise." Charles Paine was elected governor of 
Vermont in 1841 and '42. 

Hon. E. P. Walton said of him at his funeral : " The youngest man, I 
think, in the gubernatorial office in the state, I am sure there never was 
any man who more highly esteemed the claims of age and wisdom and ex- 
perience, or was more ready to distinguish and encourage whoever among the 
young gave hopeful promise of an honorable and successful public career." 
He gave his great influence in the community of Northfield to build up its 
schools and churches, and contributed generously from his abundant means. 
He built a church near his mills from his own funds, for the benefit of his op- 
eratives and their families, which was open for the entire public. He gave the 
site for the first academy, and $500 towards erecting a suitable building. The 
great event of his life and his crowning glory was the building of the Vermont 
Central railroad, and to him more than any other man should be ascribed the 
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honor of the achievement, although he was ably assisted by Jan>es R. Lang- 
don, E. P. Walton, E. P. Jewett, and the late Daniel Baldwin. The road 
was built, but in a financial view (and in that view only) it was disastrous to 
ihose who were stock owners. We again quote from Mr. Walton's address : — 

" His ambition in that great undertaking was of a character which the 
world justly esteems to be noble; he aimed to win for himself an honorable 
public name, by rendering a great public service. However much of direct 
personal advantage he naturally and properly may have expected from it, I 
am sure his chief purpose was to win an honorable name. In the brightest 
days he looked joyfully to this reward, and in the darkest, when every other 
hope seemed to fail, this remained to solace him. It was on one of these 
darkest days, and at a time when courage, hope, and health were all failing, 
that he said to me, in his familiar mode of conversation, ' Well, Walton, 
whatever may become of the corporation, they cannot rob us of the road ! It 
is done ; it will be run ; and the people will, at any rate, reap the blessings 
which we designed. Oh ! if it were not for that, I really believe I shou d 
die.' " 

The Hon. Heman Carpenter truthfully and appropriately said in his eulogy 
of him, in referring to the building of this stupendous work, " Inhere is his 
monument/ " He loved his fellow men, and he avowed the significant poem, 
" Abou Ben Adhem," was his religious creed. 

Joel Hildreth came from New Hampshire to Roxbury in 1802, and settled 
in the northwestern part of the town. His was the fifteenth family in Rox- 
bury. His son Jared, who married Arthusa Rice, was then but twelve years 
old. They were parents of one son, Samuel M. Hildreth. Jared Hildreth 
was a soldier six months in the War of 18 12, and his father was a volunteer 
.and went to Plattsburgh when it was invaded by the British. 

Josiah W. Williams, born in Strafford, Vt., in 1818, came with his father, John 
Williams, to Northfield in 1832. John WiUiams made the first clearing on the 
farm where his son Josiah W. now lives. He was a volunteer from Strafford 
to defend Plattsburgh in the War of 181 2, and died in Roxbury at the age of 
seventy-two years. He was the father of seven sons and three daughters. 
Josiah W., before mentioned, married Delight Smith, of Roxbury. He 
bought the farm where he now lives, in 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have 
had ten children born to them, and reared three to mature age, viz.: Van 
Ness F. (deceased), Etta M. (Mrs. Willie Dunsmoor, deceased), and Ella M. 
<Mrs. Herbert W. Kibbe), of Utica. 

Sampson Bates was an early settler in the east part of Roxbury. He mar- 
ried Keziah Warden, and reared three sons and tliree daughters, viz.: Orin, 
Jacob W., Joseph, Emily, Lucinda, and Olive M. Orin married, first, Lucre- 
tia Webster, who was mother of three children. His second wife was Louisa 
M. Hedges. Their children are G. C, Jacob, Frank, and one daughter. 
Jacob, a farmer, is deceased. Joseph is a farmer in Roxbury. Emily (Mrs. 
Loyal C. Rich) has two sons, Alonzo L. and Elmer W., and one daughter. 
Rose P. Lucinda married George Bliss, and is a widow. Olive M. died 
unmarried. 



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David Hadley was born in Sandwich, N. H., in 1778. In 1803 he married, 
and the next year he and his wife, Hannah Hadley, settled in Northfield on 
the farm now owned by his son Judge David W. Mr. Hadley died in 181 1, 
at the early age of thirty-three years. In 18 16 Mrs. Hadley united in mar- 
riage with John Brown, and lived to the advanced age of nearly ninety-two 
years. 

Judge David W. Hadley, before mentioned, was born in i8o8. He mar- 
ried Louisa Brown, of Williston, Vt., and settled on the homestead. Their 
children are Helen M., Louisa J., Jane E., Lucina A., Caroline A., Mary E., 
George W., and Flora L. Judge Hadley, now at the age of four-score years, 
has the satisfaction that in his long life he sustains a well earned and enviable 
reputation, and has been honored by his townsmen with many positions of 
trust. He represented his town in the legislature of 1S43, '45, '56, and '70; 
was assistant judge of Washington County Court in 1850 and 1851 ; and has 
served his town as selectman nineteen years. 

Joseph Williams, a pioneer of Northfield, married Pamelia Robinson, and 
settled on the farm where his grandson, A. L. Williams, now lives. His 
children were Phebe, born in 1806 ; George, born in 1807, settled in Rox- 
bury ; Sally, born in 1809, married George Harlow; Ira, born in i8t2; 
Oliver, born in 1814, and died in Middlesex; and Alta, who died in Roxbury. 
Ira married Emeline Thresher, and passed his life upon the paternal home- 
stead. He died in 1851, aged thirty-nine years. 

Eleazer Loomis was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and a company 
officer under Capt. Paul Brigham, afterwards lieutenant-governor of Vermont. 
Mr. Loomis was granted a tract of land for his service in the army, located 
in Norwich, Vt. This land he exchanged with Gov. Brigham for land in 
Northfield, which he transferred to his sons Eleazer and Dyer. When these 
sons were respectively aged nineteen and seventeen years, they left their 
home in Hinsdale, Mass., and came to Northfield and settled on their land 
on the mountain. They experienced the hardships and privations incidental 
to pioneer life. The mountains and forests were then infested with bears, 
wolves, and catamounts. Their bowlings made night hideous, and, as they 
said, made their hair stand on end. Eleazer went to his corn-crib one morn- 
ing when a huge bear, more bold than welcome, jumped down from the 
crib. This alarmed the young man, and to avoid bruin he ran round on 
the other side, and the bear and he met face to face. They at once con- 
ceived a mutual dislike for each other's company, and turned and ran round 
the crib again. From their elevation they could look down into the beauti- 
ful valley of Dog river, which was then a primeval forest. After a few years 
these brothers moved to the "North Corner," where William H. Loomis, 
son of Eleazer, now resides, and where he was born in i8i8. Eleazer, born 
in 1785, married Polly Buck, who was born in 1787, in Connecticut. Their 
children were Roxana, Eleazer, Louisa, Cynthia, William H., Mariette, and 
Adaline. Mr. Loomis died in 1866, and Mrs. Loomis in 1835. Dyer 



420 TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 



Loomis was born in 1787. He married Lucy, daughter of Thomas Averill. 
In 1824 he removed to Middlesex, Vt. He was a successful farmer, and 
acquired a competence. Mr. and Mrs. Loomis were parents of eleven chil- 
dren. Mr. Loomis died in 1875, and his wife in 1877. William H. Loomis, 
son of Eleazer, before mentioned, married, in December, 1847, Miss Eliza 
M. Andrews, of Berhn. He taught a school ten winters, and has served as 
justice of the peace a long term of years. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
WiUiam H. Loomis are George B., Jennie E., and Edmund A. 

Silas Rice, a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner, moved into Northfield 
in 1810, and settled on West hill. His son Silas, Jr., from Acworth, had 
settled in the neighborhood a short time before. Soon after Silas, Jr., sold 
out to Harry Ainsworth and returned to New Hampshire. Titus Rice, son 
of Silas, Sr., was born in Rockingham, Vt., August 2, 1798. He married 
Louisa Jones, who was born in Charlestown, N. H., May i, 1801, and settled 
on the homestead with his aged parents. He was industrious and a hard 
worker; and later in life was crippled with rheumatism. Mrs. Rice's mother 
lived to the great age of ninety-eight years, and could read at that age with- 
out spectacles. It happened that Mrs. Rice was alone with an invalid son 
of her own, and Mr. Rice's father and mother, who were so aged and infirm 
that they were unable to do anything for themselves. At this time the wind 
was blowing strong. Mrs. Rice thought she heard the crackling of fire, and 
looking about she found the roof of their house m flames. With admirable 
presence of mind she carried water quite a distance to the attic, and put the 
fire out on the inside so she could open the scuttle. She then climbed to the 
roof and quenched the fire there also. 

Ariel Egerton was born in Norwich, Conn., June 8, 1796. His father 
moved with his family to Brookfield, Vt. Mr. Egerton came to Northfield in 
the fall of 181 1. The following winter he taught school on the East hill, and 
the next he taught near Judge Paine's factory. In 18 15 he built a house and 
store at the Center village. His store was the first building erected in that 
village for business purposes. He continued there in trade until the year 
1819. In 1824 he bought of Judge Paine the grist-mill on the East hill, 
which he carried on about five years, when the mill was abandoned. In 1829 
he bought a large building at the South village, and started a chair factory, 
which he kept in operation about five years, and then removed from North- 
field. Mr. Egerton was among the first in this vicinity to observe the inju- 
rious effects arising from the use of liquors, and very early he became active 
in the cause of temperance. In the winter of 1826 he invited the people 
living in his neighborhood to meet at their school-house and listen to some 
statements with regard to the use and abuse of intoxicating drinks. About 
forty people were present, and that was, as we believe, the first attempt in 
this state, aside from pulpit addresses, to present the temperance question in a 
public lecture. In 1828 about twenty of the citizens of the town united to 
form a temperance society. Mr. Egerton was elected its first president, and 



TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 42 1 



Orange Hovey, secretary. Mr. Egerton delivered an address in the Center 
meeting-house, which was published in the Montpelier Watchman and other 
papers in the state. Mr. Egerton died in Quechee, Vt., in 1859. In No- 
vember, 1 813, he united in marriage with Abigail P., only daughter of Cap- 
tain Abel Keyes, who was born in Putney, Vt., August 11, 1796. Their 
children were Almira E., Laura E., Olive S., Cynthia M., Abby S., Charles B., 
John S., and Joseph K. Joseph Keyes Egerton lived in Quechee, Vt., until 
the death of his father, when he moved to Norwich, Vt., where he resided 
fifteen years, then came to Northfield in March, 1877. He married Sarah F. 
Tyler, of Claremont, N. H., in 1856, and they were parents of two children, 
viz.: Edith K., born in 1858, and Fred T., born in 1862. Mr. Egerton has 
had a number of offices conferred upon him, which he has filled with credit 
to himself and to his fellow citizens. He was clerk in J. C. Brooks's store, 
in Hartford, four years, one in Cleaveland's, at Brookfield, and one year with 
Camp & Thayer, in Northfield. He was postmaster at Quechee from 1853 
to 1 86 1, then removed to Norwich; was town agent, town treasurer, and 
justice of the peace ; joined the Odd Fellows in Northfield in 1852, and the 
Masons in 1854, and was Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Vermont 
three years, from 1867 to 1870. He is now engaged in the insurance busi- 
ness, and is the clerk of the town of Northfield. 

Thomas Coburn came from Brookfield, Me., and settled on West hill, in 
Northfield, in 1815. He bought wild land and cleared it for a farm. He 
married Rebecca VVarren, of Monmouth, Me. Their only son, Washington, 
born in August, 1816, has always lived in Northfield. He married Harriet 
N. Thompson. He and three of his sons, George F., Benjamin F., and 
Charles H., served in the late war for the Union. Benjamin F. Coburn mar- 
ried Lucinda, daughter of William Sulham, of Cabot. 

Joel Simonds settled in Northfield m 1816. His permanent location was 
east of Paine Mountain, and the homestead is now owned by his son, Rev. 
Joel Simonds. The old farm house, built by Mr. Simonds in 1828, is still 
standing. Mr. Simonds was one of the founders of the Christian church 
and one of its deacons, and was influential in building the first school-house 
in the Loomis district. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Luman 
Judd, in Strafford. He married Lydia, daughter of John Braley, and their 
children were Daniel, Polly, Joel, Horace, Albert, Clark, Charles, Rufus, 
Seth, John, Lydia, Harriet, and John. Rev. Joel Simonds, their son, resides 
at the Center village, is a minister of the Christian church, and has spent 
most of his past life in Northfied. He married Olive, daughter of Jonathan 
and Betsey (Cummings) Pitkin, of Hartford, Vt.,from Hartford, Conn. Rev. 
Clark Simonds, another son, married, first, Abagail Drew, and for his sec- 
ond wife Rhoda McDonald. He has been a Christian preacher forty eight 
years. 

Samuel Dunsmoor came with his bride (Anna Powers) from Charlestown, 
N. H., and settled on West hill, in Northfield, in 1814. He cleared the farm 



422 TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 



where he first settled, and resided on it until 1848. He enlisted in the War 
of 181 2, was a volunteer to go to the battle of Plattsburgh, and in conse- 
quence was a pensioner. Mr, Dunsmoor was a member of the Free Bap- 
tist church. His youngest son, Edwin, born in 1835, served three years in 
the late war. William, son of Samuel Dunsmoor, was born in 181 5, mar- 
ried Maria Ainsworth, and died at the age of sixty-eight years. His children 
were Walter H., Alice, Elsie, Francis, Victoria, Willie E., Ida, Mary, Frank, 
Ella, and Kate, and three who died in infancy. Walter H. Dunsmoor mar- 
ried Julia, daughter of Samuel Wales, of Roxbury. The issue of this mar- 
riage is four daughters and two sons. 

Samuel Dole, a native of Bedford, N. H., removed from Danville, Vt., to 
Northfield, in 18 18, and settled on Dole hill. After a residence there of ten 
years he removed to the South village, and conducted a saw-mill and a grist- 
mill. Mr. Dole returned to Dole hill in 1838 or '39, and died there in Au- 
gust, 1 841, aged fifty-three years. He married Mary Sargent, of Danville, 
and their children were Christopher, Jane, Mary, Cynthia, Harriet, Samuel, 
George, Jason, and French. Christopher married Harriet, daughter of Amos 
A. Howes, and spent his life on the farm now owned by his son, Rev. Walter 
Howes. He died in June, 1888, aged sixty-six years. Their children were 
Charles, Heman, Walter, Harry C, Mary M., Martha A., and Jason E. 
Charles Dole was seventeen years professor of political economy in Norwich 
University, and nine years superintendent of schools. Hennan died in the 
Union army. Rev. Walter is a Universalist clergyman, and Harry C. is a 
journalist. Jason E. Dole married Anna S. Pike, of Stowe, in 1863. Their 
children are Ella M. (Mrs. Des Rochers), Hermon E., Amy A., George W., 
Fred J., and Arthur L. 

Samuel Fisk was born April 13, 1795. ^^ married Keziah, daughter of 
Thomas Averill, September 7, 1820, and settled at once on Dog river. 
March 7, 183 1, he removed to the farm where his son Elliott C. now lives, on 
West hill. He was a substantial farmer and highly respected. Mr. Fisk died 
July 24, 1848. His children, all born in Northfield, were Levina A., born in 
1821 ; Eveline M., born in 1827 ; Elliott C, born in 1832; and Elizabeth 
A., born in 1836. Mrs. Fisk survived her husband many years and resided 
with her son Elliott C. on the homestead. She was honored by a surprise party 
on her eightieth birthday. Levina A., her daughter, married Daniel D. Dyke, 
in 1840. Mr. Dyke came to Northfield from Cavendish in 1831, and died in 
1873. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Dyke are Frederick C, Maria E., El- 
liott C, who enlisted in Co. H, 17th Vt. Regt., and died at City Point, Va., 
August 25, 1864, Samuel J., Ella L., and Carlos E. Eveline M. Fisk mar- 
ried Almon Latham, who was born in 1821. Their children now living are 
Emma L., Eunice M. (Roberts), Addie E., and Eva L. 

Charles H. Dutton, son of Ashley H. Dutton who was an early settler in 
Moretown, was born in Moretown in 1843. He has been a farmer and em- 



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ployed in woolen-mills generally. In the late war he was a soldier in the 3d 
Vt. Battery, where he served to the close of the war. 

Isaac Kinsman moved to Northfield from Williamstown in 1820, and 
settled on West hill. He died at Gouldsville. He married Matilda Knapp, 
who bore him eleven children, of whom Mrs. Zilpha Balch, Mrs. Philura 
Carpenter, and Mrs. Diantha Chamberlin are living. Zilpha, his second 
daughter, married William D. Balch, who served in the war for our Union^ 
and died in the service of his country, at New Orleans, October 12, 1862. 
Seven of their ten children are now living. 

David and Jonathan Rich were born in Strafford, Vt., where their ancestors 
from Connecticut were pioneer settlers. About 1820 David and Jonathan 
wended their way to Washington county. December 5, 1822, David married 
Sophia Coburn, and settled in the southwestern corner of Berlin. They en- 
joyed the unusual long period of sixty-five years of wedded life, and reared 
six sons and three daughters. Three of their sons, Alden, Luther, and Hollis, 
and two daughters, Luvia (Mrs. LockUn) and Julia (Mrs. Smith), still survive 
and reside at Northfield falls. Jonathan Rich married Prunella Corey and 
settled in Northfield. They were parents of ten children, two of whom, 
Eugenia and Anna, reside at Northfield falls. 

Samuel U. Richmond, Esq., born in 1803, came to Northfield with his 
father in 1823. He was prominent in the Methodist church, and a leader in 
the Democratic party. No man was ever turned hungry from his door. He 
was prompt, industrious, well regulated, and his word was as good as his bond. 
He moved to the depot village in 1867, and died very suddenly in 1873. He 
married Sophia, daughter of Capt. Henry Knapp. 

Samuel L. Adams, born in Brookfield, in October, 1796, married Harriet 
Cobleigh, in July, 1828, and settled in Northfield. He was a believer in the 
doctrine of the restitution of all things, and a good Mason. His wife died in 
1849. M''- Adams died at the home of his oldest daughter, in Eevere, Mass.^ 
in December, 1877, aged eighty-one years. His remains were brought to 
Northfield and buried at the Center cemetery with Masonic honors. 

Hiram Henry was born in Alstead, N. H., January 14, 1804. He came 
to Northfield and settled on West hill. Afterwards he bought the Col. Robin- 
son farm, on East hill, where his son John now lives, and where he died in 
1851. He married Polly Bean, of Gilmanton, N. H., who was born January 
8, 1805. Their children were Jane A., born in 1828; Johnson H., born in 
1829 ; John, born in 1833 ; Mary, born in 1844 ; and Martha, born in 1846. 
All were born in Northfield. John Henry, son of Hiram, married Helen 
M. Foss, (who was a native of Concord, N. H.,) in January, 1859. He has 
lived at his present home the last fifty years, and has reared five daughters 
and three sons. 

Amos Howes was born in Windham, Conn., in 1792. He married Melinda,. 
daughter of Libbeus Bennett, Esq., who was born in Bernardston, Mass., in 
1799. Their children, all born in Chelsea, are Augusta, born in 1820- 



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Harriet, born in 1822; Fannie, born in 1827; Lucinda, born in 1830; 
Maria M., born in 1832; Elizabeth, born in 1834; Seymour, born in 1837 ; 
Adelia L., born in 1840; Edward H., born in 1843; and Libbeus, born in 
1847. Edward H. Howes married Susan S. Putney and has two sons. 

Caleb Winch, from Troy, N. H., settled or> a farm on Starkweather hill, 
Northfield, in 1826. He married Lucy Farral, and their children were Eliza, 
William, and Caleb M. His son William, born m i8ig, an honored deacon 
of the Congregational church, married Lydia Nye and settled on the home 
farm. Their children are George W., born in 1845; Caleb M., born in 
1847 ; Susan E., born in 1850; John H., born 1855 ; and Samuel W., born 
in 1858. Dr. John H. Winch, son of William, began the study of medicine 
with Dr. W. J. Sawin, of Chicopee Falls, Mass., graduated from the Medical 
department of the University of Vermont in the class of 1880, and located 
for the practice of his profession in Northfield. In November, 1880, he mar- 
ried Ella M. Sylvester, of his native town. 

Dr. Daniel Johnson was born in Sheldon, Vt., in 1853, fitted for college at 
the Vermont Methodist Seminary, graduated from Dartmouth College in 
the class of 187S, and from the Medical department of that institution in 
1 88 1. He began practice in Highgate, Vt., and about two years after, in 
April, 1883, he settled in Northfield, where he has a constantly increasing 
practice. In 188 r he married Miss Minnie E. Gregg, of Northfield. 

Marvin Simons, Esq., was born in Williamstown, Vt., December 11, 1S06, 
and settled in Northfield in 1829, where he resided until his decease, in 1829. 
He was one of Northfield's most respected citizens, and had shared in the 
honors and responsibilities of the town's affairs. He served nineteen years 
as justice of the peace, was selectman twelve years, and held during his life 
many positions of trust involving large amounts of property. His sound judg- 
ment and unswerving integrity fitted him to discharge impartially and 
acceptably all the duties delegated to him by his townsmen. March 24, 
1829, he was united in marriage with Olive Fisk, of Williamstown, who was 
born December 11, 1806. Their children were Marcellus M., Lycurgus L. 
(deceased), Darwin A,, Cordelia J. (Mrs. J. W. Gould), Olive M. (deceased). 
Alma A. (Mrs. D. R. Melcher), of Cambridgeport, Mass., and William G. 
Darwin A. and William G. Simons are extensive dealers in house furnish- 
ings at Manchester, N. H. Olive, widow of Marvin Simons, still survives, at 
the great age of eighty-two years, and resides at Gouldsville. 

James Steele was born in Antrim, N. H., in 1793. In 1815 he married 
Esther Smith, in East Roxbury. In April, 1829, Mr. Steele, with his wife and 
three children, removed from Brookfield to Northfield. He drew his goods 
the last two miles on a hand sled, through the woods, without a road, to his 
log cabin covered with hemlock bark. This domicile had neither floor, doors, 
windows, or fireplace. Their fire was built on the ground in the center of 
the cabin; the smoke escaped through an aperture in the roof; light was ad- 
mitted through oiled paper pasted over holes cut in the walls; and a blanket 



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was hung up for a door. Mr. Steele died at his homestead, April i6, 1869. 
Mrs. Steele survived until December 29, 1875. Their children are Fannie 
E., Sylvanus, Marcia M., James E., S. Warren, and Frederick W. James, Jr., 
married Esther Smith, and settled on West hill in Northfield. 

John H. Blodgett, a native of New Hampshire, came with a family to 
Roxbury. At the age of twenty-one years he went to work for Judge Paine, 
in his factory, and remained in his employ about five years. He married 
Lucinda Royce, and they were parents of Orlando F., born in 1S32, and Cor- 
delia E., born in 1838. Mrs. Blodgett died in 1877. 

Michael Wentworth Leavitt, the youngest of a family of eight sons and 
one daughter, was born in Deerfield, N. H. He was a soldier in the War of 
181 2, stationed at Portsmouth, and was discharged from service in February, 
1815. He settled in Northfield in 1827, and died in Chelsea in 1845. His 
widow, Sally (CoUins) Leavitt, born in Salisbury, N. H., in June, 1796, still 
survives, and is one of the oldest persons living in Northfield. 

Oscar O. Miller was born in Charlestown, N. H., and was brought by his 
uncle, Hoit Glidden, to Northfield in 1832. He was then an infant, and was 
reared in his uncle's family. Mr. Miller settled on the farm where he now 
lives, in 1851. 

David C. Roberts was born in Westmore, Vt., in 1812, and married Fanny 
E. Steele. Their sons are Francis H., who married Eunice M. Latham, and 
James H.; their daughters are AUce (Mrs. W. H. H. Slack), Esther E. (Mrs. 
W. W. Spearin), Ann O, (Mrs. Henry A. Culver), and Mary R. (Mrs. Chan- 
dler Culver). Mr. Roberts came to Northfield in 1832. He died in Octo- 
ber, 1 88 1. 

Stephen Thresher was born in Connecticut, in 1788. He settled on 
West hill, in Northfield, in 1 831, on the farm now owned and occupied 
by Jonathan Edwards. His place was then a wilderness, which he cleared 
and converted into a home. His son Freeman, then a lad of twelve 
years, drove the only cow, with a young calf and some other stock, alone, 
and the last four miles through the woods after dark. Later he gained 
notoriety as a school teacher. Mr. Thresher married Sally Smith, of Ran- 
dolph, who was born January 11, 1790. He died in 1857. Mrs. Thresher 
survived until 1878. They were parents of ten children, viz.: Lewis B., 
Lyman, Mary M., EmeUne, Freeman, Betsey, Cephas, Fidelia, Wilbur, and 
Infant. Lyman settled where A. Grandfield now lives, on road 4, and raised 
three sons and two daughters. 

Gurdon Randall, a native of Scotland, Conn., born in 1795, married Laura 
S. Warner, of Putney, Vt., who was born in 1803, and settled in Northfield 
in 1832. In early life he studied medicine, but never practiced. He fol- 
lowed the vocation of m.illwright and carpenter, and held the office of justice 
of the peace. He died in 1861. Mrs. Randall survived until February 16, 
1880, aged seventy-six years and nine months. Their children are Gurdon 
Paine, born in 1821; Frencis Voltaire, born in 1824; Laura T., born in 



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1825 / Jean J. R., born in 1828 ; Maria M., born in 1831 ; Rouena M., born 
in 1834 : Edward H., born in 1837 ; Citizen Francis Voltaire, born in 1839 ; 
and Charles Rush, born in 1842. Gurdon P. Randall was an architect. He 
removed to Chicago, and died there September 20, 1884. Laura T. married 
Samuel Hildreth, of Roxbury, now deceased. J. J. R. Randall is an archi- 
tect in Rutland. Maria M., who married W. H. Morris, is deceased. Rou- 
ena M. is the wife of Col. C. H. Joyce. Rev. Edward H. is the rector of 
St. John's Episcopal church, of Poultoey. C. F. V. Randall was train dis- 
patcher for Central Vermont railroad. Charles R. was drowned in childhood. 

Hoit Glidden came to Northfield from Unity, N. H., in April, 1832, and 
settled on a farm of forty five acres, which he bought of David Carpenter. 
His purchase included a small clearing and a log cabin. About three years 
later he built a more commodious house, in which he lived the remainder of 
his life. He died in August, 1884. His widow, Drucilla P. (Pierce) Glidden, 
now (1888) aged eighty-one years, resides with her son George F. Their 
daughter Malvina is the wife of Rev. E. W. Culver. 

Wallace Felch was born in Henniker, N. H., and came to Northfield m 
1852. He married Estella Houghton, daughter of James. Their only 
daughter, Delia M., married Walter Ordway, of Barre. She died February 
5, 1888, and left one child. 

Lyman L. Putney was born in New Hampshire in 1825. In 1834 he 
went to Northfield and resided in the family of Rev. Joel Winch. He mar- 
ried Orinda, daughter of Israel Briggs, and their children are Elwin L., Su- 
san S. (Mrs. E. H. Howes), and Clara E. (Glidden). 

Dan Guild was born in Coventry, Vt., in 1816, where he resided until 
1875. He then removed to Northfield. His first wife, Sophronia (Sias) 
Guild, bore him six children. In 1866 he married Lucretia R., widow of 
Theodore L. Smith, and daughter of Chester Bancroft, a descendant of an old 
family in Barre. Her two daughters by her first husband are Dora L. (Mrs. 
W. W. Holden), and Miss Minnie E. Smith, a milliner in Northfield. 

Gen. Alonzo Jackman, LL. D., was born in Thetford, Vt., March 20, 1809. 
He was the son of Joseph and Sarah (Warner) Jackman. Alonzo's father, 
a worthy farmer, died when he was only three years old, and left his mother 
in destitute circumstances with three small boys, Enoch, Alonzo, and Joseph. 
Young Jackman 's early life was spent in hard labor for his support, and with 
but little opportunity for schooling. In 1820, at the tender age of eleven 
years, he and one brother left home never to return again, with this 
parting admonition from their mother : " Go for yourselves and remember 
there is a God." She had married Eli Clark in 181 6. At the age of twen- 
ty-one Alonzo received from his employer the munificent sum of $4, and 
two days' provisions for six years' hard labor. The contract with his employer 
was that he should have three months each year at school, which ?ie received 
only in part. He passed the next three or four years at labor, with an oc- 
casional term at school. About December i, 1833, he entered Franklin 



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Seminary, at Norwich, with the determination of pursuing a regular course 
of study. While he was pursuing his own studies in the academies he taught 
mathematics, his favorite branch, to pay his way. Norwich University had 
been opened in 1834, and in December, 1835, he entered the senior class 
of that institution, and graduated with the degree of A. B. in August, 1836. 
He was the only graduate that year, and the first from that institution. Soon 
after he accepted the chair of mathematics in the " N. U.," and remained in 
connection with the university, with the exception of two periods of about 
three years each, until his death, February 24, 1879. He wrote and pub- 
lished an article on the subject of a submarine oceanic magnetic telegraph, 
in which he gave detailed plans for the construction and the method of lay- 
ing the cable across the Atlantic. The same year (1846) Hon. Amos Ken- 
dall, president of a telegraph company at Washington. D. C, communicated 
through a Philadelphia paper the difficulties of crossing large bodies of 
water with a telegraph. Mr. Jackman wrote Mr, Kendall how all difficult- 
ies could be surmounted, and sent the article to periodicals in Washington, 
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, but the editors refused to publish it 
as too visionary. He procured its publication in the Vermont Mercury, of 
Woodstock, Vt., in the number issued August 14, 1846. He sent copies of 
this number to scientists and prominent men in the United States, Canada, 
England, and France. Thus he secured the credit to himself of being the 
originator of the plan of this gigantic and beneficent enterprise. 

Prof. Jackman was an excellent tactician and drill-master, and was ap- 
pointed by the governor of New Hampshire brigade drill-master with the 
rank of major, and drilled the officers of the militia of that state in 1847 and 
'48. In 1857 the cadets of Norwich University were organized as an infantry 
company under the malitia law, and Prof. Jackman was commissioned cap- 
tain. In 1859 he was commissioned colonel of the Second Regiment, and 
the next year the Vermont militia were consolidated into one brigade and he 
was its brigadier-general. At the beginning of the late war Gov. Fairbanks 
summoned him, with Generals Baxter and Davis, to St. Johnsbury, for con- 
sultation. The Governor offered Gen. Jackman any position in his power to 
grant if he wished to go to the front, but wished him to remain and prepare 
others for duty. In this field he was untiring. He prepared and got the old 
militia in readiness, organized new regiments and sent out cadets to drill new 
companies in all parts of the state, and gave clear, precise, and thorough in- 
struction to officers. Honor is therefore due the General for the good results 
for the state and Union. 

James Hopkins, from Scotland, was an early settler in Williamstown, where 
he reared a large family and lived to an advanced age. His grandson, 
Marshall Hopkins, was born in Williamstown, in March, 1816. In 1840 he 
married Prudence Jones, and three or four years afterward settled in North- 
field. Their children were Edwin B. (deceased); John G., a farmer in North- 
field; and Francis H., a manufacturer of granite in Barre. 



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Michael Cressy, from Chesterfield, N. H., moved to Berlin, in February, 
1828, and settled on West hill. He reared six children, and died at the age 
of sixty-nine years. 

Andrew J. Morton was born in Ellsworth, N. H. He came to Northfield 
in 1858, where he has since resided. He married Sarah E. Avery, and four 
of their six children are now living. 

Jacob Wardner, born July ao, 1752, and his wife, Olive, born August 9, 
1759, of Alstead, N. H., settled first in East Roxbury. He died December 
10, 1832. Mr. and Mrs. Wardner were parents of thirteen children. His 
son Joseph, born August 25, 1798, was a farmer in Brookfield, married 
Lovinia Smith, and reared four sons and five daughters. Amos Wardner, son 
of Jacob, born October 30, 1791, married Elizabeth Belcher. He and his 
brothers Joel and Joseph came from Randolph, Mass., and early settled in 
East Roxbury. His children were Amos and G. VVashington. Amos, Jr., 
married Mary E. Pike, and they are the parents of Mrs. T. B. R. Hildreth. 
G. Washington married Mary C, daughter of Rev. Joel Winch, and settled 
in Northfield about 1847. I" that year he was accidently killed in a grist- 
mill, located where G. R. Andrews's mill now stands. His children are Sarah 
B. (Mrs. Bingham), Ursula (Mrs. L. W. Chase), and Mary A. 

Leonard Pearsons was born in Windsor, Vt., in 181 9, and came to North- 
field in 1842. He is a shoemaker and stone mason. He enlisted in Co. I, 
nth Vt. Regt., in July, 1862, and served until he was discharged for dis- 
ability. In 1844 he married Fanny A., daughter of Thomas Houghton, who 
came from Putney, Vt., to Northfield, in 1821. Their children are Dennis, 
Ellen (Mrs. John Nichols), Betsey Ann, Hattie (Mrs. Loring Brown), Ella F. 
(Mrs. S. H. Stone), and Marion F., and seven deceased. 

Charles E. Quimby was born in Chelsea, Vt., in September, 1848. He 
engaged in the service of the Central Vermont railroad at the age of nineteen 
years, and was promoted to the position of conductor when only twenty, and 
has held that responsible place the last nineteen years. December 30, 1869, 
he united in marriage with Ida, daughter of D. F. Andrews, and they have a 
family of three sons and one daughter. 

Theophilus G. Cass was born in Epsom, N. H., in 1804. His father, 
Theophilus G. Cass, Sr., was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and served 
through that prolonged and sanguinary struggle for our independence. The 
subject of this sketch early engaged in the occupation of stone mason, which 
he has followed through a long and active life. He built the stone work of 
that portion of the Lowell railroad between Lowell and Billerica, Mass., the 
first railroad in New England. In 1836 he removed to Barre, Vt. Nine 
years later he removed to Northfield, and at once engaged in business. He 
has constructed the stone work for over a hundred buildings, mills, and 
dweUings in Northfield, all the stone work upon the Montpeher & Wells River 
railroad, and superintended the stone work upon the Niagara Sz Hamilton 
railroad in Canada. He has had numerous other large contracts. The last 



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sixteen years he has resided in Gouldsville. He married Lavinia Webster, of 
Kingston, N. H. Their children are Ellen (Mrs. Frank Thayer), Abbie (Mrs. 
Calvin Smiley), George (deceased), Lewis, David, Emory (Mrs. Horace W. 
Thresher), Emma (Mrs. C. H. Dutton), Jeannette (deceased), Walter (de- 
ceased), Zora (Mrs. Cochran), and George W. Lewis served as a soldier in 
Co. K, 4th Regt. Vt. Vols., in the late war. 

Hon. Edwin K. Jones, son of Daniel and Rhoda (Pratt) Jones, was born in 
Randolph, Vt., in 1828, and raised in Warren. At the age of twenty he 
located at Northfield village and engaged in carpentry. In i860 he removed 
to the South village, to settle the estate of his brother-in law, George S. Edson,. 
merchant. He soon engaged in mercantile business, and continued in trade 
twenty-seven years. He has also been engaged in lumbering and chair man- 
ufacturing. Mr. Jones has also been honored and entrusted by his towns- 
men with most of the offices in their gift. He has served as selectman, justice 
of the peace, notary public, representative in 1866, and senator from 1882 to 
1885. He has been interested in the success of the Dog River Valley Fair 
association since its organization, and has served as its president and secre- 
tary. In 1852 Mr. Jones united in marriage with Miss Harriet E. Dodge. 
Their children are Fred A , Susie E., Minnie H., and Jessie A. 

Perley Belknap was born in Randolph in 1807. He was reared a farmer,, 
and was a tiller of the soil until he was thirty-five years of age, when he came 
into the possession of an iron foundry, which he conducted until 1848, when, 
at the solicitation of Gov. Charles Paine, he removed to Northfield and 
established a foundry and machine shop, to do the repairing and building 
for the Central Vermont railroad. He made the castings for nearly all the 
railroad work until the death of Gov. Paine, and employed as many as fifty 
men. Mr. Belknap has been largely interested in erecting several of the 
principal buildings in Northfield, notably the Paine block and Norwich Uni- 
versity. He was instrumental in the organization of Northfield bank, and 
was its second president, and held the position when it was converted into the 
Northfield National bank, atid was the first president of the new organization. 
He also assisted in the organization of the Northfield Savings bank. He, in 
company with Alvin Braley and T. L. Salisbury, built a woolen factory, which 
they operated five years. Mr. Belknap was among the first to open a slate 
quarry, and has largely given his aid to develop this industry in Northfield. 
He married Huldah, daughter of Dr. John Edson, of Randolph. 

Rev. Edward Bourns, late president of Norwich University, was born in 
Dublin, Ireland, October 29, 1801, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. He 
graduated with the degree of A. B. from Trinity College, July 9, 1833, and 
passed the theological examination in June, 1834, but did not then take 
orders in the ministry. He emigrated to America in 1837. In 1838 he 
went from Philadelphia to Geneva, N. Y., and received the degree of M. A. 
from Geneva College, and that year was made adjunct professor of Latin 
and Greek. In 1841 the same college conferred on him the degree of LL. D.,. 



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and March 12, 1842, he was ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal 
church. In September, 1850, he was elected president of Norwich Univer- 
sity, which place he held for the ensuing fifteen years, and discharged the 
duties of professor of Latin and Greek from 1850 to near the time of his 
death, July 14, 187 1. Dr. Bourns was a ripe scholar, an able, classical teacher, 
and a clear and forcible sermonizer. 

Rev. John Gregory was born in Norwalk, Conn., November 18, 181 o. He 
went to Albany, N. Y., when a lad, and served an apprenticeship of seven 
years at fancy painting. He commenced to study for the ministry of the 
Universalist denomination when he was twenty-one years of age, and made 
his first settlement in the ministry in Salisbury, N. Y., where he was ordained 
in 1832. He had several locations up to 1850, and seems to have been a 
good deal of an itinerant, and remained from one to three years in a loca- 
tion. About 1838 he went to Charleston, S. C, where he was editor of the 
Southern Evangelisl, and supplied the pulpit of that city one year. In 1842 
he was pastor of a church in Quincy, Mass., and represented that town in 
the legislature. In 1850 he made a permanent settlement on a farm in North- 
field, where he became a prominent stock grower, and was noted for raising 
Morgan horses, French Merino sheep, Hereford, Devon, Ayrshire, and 
Shorthorn Durham cattle, and for a quarter of a century occasionally preached 
in the vicinity of Northfield. In 1850 he represented his town in the legis- 
lature. In 1856 he was a senator of Washington county, and was reelected 
in 1857. During the administration of President Lincoln he received the 
appointment of assistant U. S. assessor, was reappointed by Andrew Johnson, 
and was in service ten and one-half years. Mr. Gregory was an active 
worker in the two great reforms, human freedom and temperance. He died 
at his residence on Main street, in Northfield, September 25, 1881. 

Robert M. Gregg, a native of Johnson, Vt., in early life was an engineer 
on the Boston & Maine railroad. He settled in Northfield in 1852, and was 
an engineer in the employ of the Central Vermont railroad from that time 
until his death, in 1880, a period of nearly twenty-nine consecutive years. 
He married EHza J. Buxton, of New Boston, N. H. Their children are 
Minnie (Mrs. Dr. Johnson); Charles A., a machinist at St. Albans; Fred W., 
a graduate of Dartmouth College, and a lawyer in San Bernardino, Cal.; and 
Fannie, deceased. 

William Stone was born in Windsor, Vt., in August, 1829. In early life he 
was employed in various capacities by the Sullivan railroad, and later by the 
Central Vermont. In 1862 he enlisted in the service of the United States, 
in the 15th Vt. Regt., where he served his term. In September, 1863, he 
reealisted in the Third Battery and served to the close of the war. He mar- 
ried Lucy M. Keyes, of Windsor, and has three daughters and one son. 
His residence has been in Northfield for thirty-five years. 

Hon. Philander D. Bradford, M. D., was dorn in Randolph, Vt., April n, 
i8ii. His father, John Bradford, was born in Kingston, Mass., December 



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26, 1765, married Lucy Brooks, January 9, 1799, settled in Alstead, N. H., 
and later removed to Randolph, where he died November 19, 1814. Four 
years later his mother died. Orphaned at the age of seven years, he was 
cared for by the relatives of his mother in Alstead. He returned to Ran- 
dolph when he was fifteen and entered the Orange County Grammar School, 
where he received his education preparatory to the study of his profession. 
At the age of twenty he commenced the study of medicine in the office of his 
brother, Dr. Austin Bradford. In 1834 he graduated at the medical school 
in Woodstock, (a branch of Middlebury College,) and received the degree of 
A. M. from the University of Vermont in 1850. He permanently settled in 
Northfield in 1854, where he still resides, and has the reputation of being a 
skillful physician. In 1853 and 1854 Dr. Bradford represented Randolph in 
the state legislature, and was a prominent member of the Free Soil party, 
and remained steadfast and true t' '■ • interests and the cause of human 
freedom. In 1854 and 1855 he ^^^ elected commissioner of insane. In 
1857 he was elected to the chair of professor of physiology and pathology 
in the medical college at Castleton, where he continued until that institu- 
tion was suspended, in 1862. He accepted from Gov. Holbrook the com- 
mission of surgeon of the Fifth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, in December 
1862, but on account of illness he was compelled to resign the position in 
the following March. In 1862 and 1863 he was a state senator, and also 
president of the Vermont Medical society the last named year. In i860 he 
was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F. of his state, and in 
186 1 was the head officer of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance 
of Vermont. He was elected a trustee, also professor of physiology, in Nor- 
wich University in 1867, and was a member of the Grand Lodge of the 
I. O. O. F. of the United States in 1875-76. He identified himself in early 
life with the cause of human rights and temperance, and is always ready to 
aid and encourage every enterprise that has for its object the improvement 
of the human race. Dr. Bradford is quite a relic hunter, and has gathered 
an extensive collection of the most unique and curious "old things " found 
in any private cabinet in Vermont. The Doctor is an able physician, a good 
and instructive conversationalist, and a genial companion. 

Hon. George Nichols, M. D., was born in Northfield, April 17, 1827. His 
parents were James and Annis A. (Dole) Nichols. His father was born 
in Putney, Vt., in 1796 ; came to Northfield with his father, Eleazer, in 1809 ; 
was an industrious and worthy man ; followed the trade of carpenter and 
joiner; and died in 1873. Dr. Nichols was educated at the common school 
and Newbury Seminary, fitted for college, but never entered, having deter- 
mined to study medicine, and could not see the way clear to pursue both 
courses. He commenced teaching school previous to his fifteenth birthday. 
In 1848 he was appointed state librarian by Governor Coolidge, and received 
successive annual elections till 1853. He studied medicine with Dr. S. W, 
Thayer ; graduated at the Vermont Medical College, at Woodstock, in 1851 • 



432 TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 



commenced business in his native town, combining with it that of apothecary 
and druggist in 1854, which latter business he still retains, and continued 
in the practice of his profession with eminent success till his return from the 
army, in 1863, having served as surgeon of the 13th Regt. Vt. Vols. In 
1865 he was appointed secretary of state by Governor Smith, which office he 
has since continuously held. In 1870 he was a member and president of the 
Constitutional Convention ; in 1872 a delegate to the National Republican con- 
vention, was made a member of the National Republican committee, and 
has been a member and secretary of the Republican state committee since 
that year. In 1868 he was elected director, and in 1874 president, of the 
Northfield National bank ; in 1872 chairman of the board of commissioners 
to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of the Central Vermont Railroad 
Company, and has been clerk of the same since its organization. The 
Doctor has been repeatedly honored by election to the various municipal 
offices of trust and responsibility^ and what may be worthy of mention, with 
the exception of the years 1856, '58, '59, '63, and '66, has been moderator 
of the annual town meeting since 1854. 

William H. Boynton was born in Pepperell, Mass., March 25, 1832. His 
father v-^as a butcher, and Mr. Boynton was engaged in that business, and 
buying cattle for market. He was well known as a live stock buyer through- 
out the county. In 1859 he married Laura A. Mead, and they are parents 
of one son, William H., Jr., who is now in the employ of the Central Ver- 
mont railroad. He settled in Northfield in 1859, and there passed his after 
life. He was the captain of a military company of Northfield when the war 
broke out, and he and his company were among the first to offer their ser- 
vices to the government, and went to the front as Co. F, of the ist Regt. 
Vt. Vols. He participated in the battle of Big Bethel, and served the term 
of his enlistment. 

Charles A. Tracy was born in Stowe, Vt., spent his boyhood in Middlesex, 
and settled in Northfield in 1850. He married Ellen J. Rice. Their chil- 
dren are Kate M. (Mrs. Chase) and Mary L. Mr. Tracy has held the offices 
of lister for four years and selectman three years. 

Sylvester Martin came from Rehoboth, Mass., and settled in Grafton, N. H., 
before 1789. His son Eleazer was born in that town, in August of that 
year, and spent most of his life in Canaan in trade with his brother Jesse. 
Eleazer Martin settled many estates, served as judge of the Probate Court 
of Grafton county a long term of years, and generally held some town office. 
He died in Manchester, N. H., in May, 1865. He married Polly, daughter 
of John Kimball, of Grafton, and their children are Nancy B., Albert, Ce- 
hna, Sophia H., and Lucien E. Nancy B., in 1848, married William P. 
Downing, then a merchant in Canaan, and removed that year to Washing- 
ton, Vt. In 1871 they located in Northfield. Their children are Sarah (Mrs. 
Goss), Fred B., Florence C, and Arthur E. 

Dr. William B. Mayo, born in Moretown, January 3, 1854, passed his boy- 



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hood days on his father's farm and in attendance at the common school and 
Randolph Normal School. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr.. 
H. C. Brigham, of Montpelier, and graduated at the Homeopathic Medical 
College of New York, March 8, 1877. In April ensuing he located for the 
practice of his profession in Northfield, where he has gained the confidence^ 
of the people, and has a large and lucrative practice. February 13, 1878,. 
he married Emma, daughter of Judge John Lynde, of Williamstown. Dr.. 
Mayo has served on the board of directors of Northfield graded school six 
years, and represented the town in the legislature from 1884 to 1888. His- 
grandfather, Barnabas Mayo, from Acworth, N, H., settled in the forest in. 
Moretown about 181 1. His father, Barnabas, Jr., resides on the homestead. 

Prof. Jesse M. Hitt was born in Martin county, Indiana, in 1854. His 
father was Gen. Caleb Hitt, who served as brigadier-general in the Army of 
the Cumberland in the late war, and died in the service. Prof. Hitt grad- 
uated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1876, engaged in 
his chosen profession of teaching, and spent the next four years in Indiana. 
In 1880 he was professor of sciences in the Vermont Methodist Seminary. 
In the fall of that year he accepted the position of principal of Northfield 
graded and High school, which he held until the spring of 1888, when he 
resigned to take a position in a publishing house in Boston. 

John S. Green was born in Williamstown, Vt., in May, 1841. His father 
died just before he was born, and left a wife and five other children. Mr. 
Green's mother died when he was but six years old, and from that time until 
he was fourteen this orphan boy had a home with Dr. Waldo, of Williams- 
town. He then went to Chicago and engaged in canvassing. When but 
sixteen years old he was employed by a wholesale firm of St. Louis as a col- 
lector and buyer, and filled the position about three and a half years, and 
until about the time of the late war between the North and South. Mr. 
Green then enlisted in the 4th Vt. Regt., and served three years and re. 
ceived three wounds. Most of the time of his service he was the head clerk 
of the provost-marshal's ofiice. After the war he v/as a book-keeper, in 
the employ of the Miles Manufacturing Co., of New York. Since 1880 he 
has made a home in Northfield. Mr. Green married Annie P., daughter of 
Richard L. Martin, of WiUiamstown. They are parents of a daughter and 
two sons. 

The First Congregational church of Northfield is located on Main street 
and Central square in the village of Northfield. This church was organized 
by Rev. Elijah Lyman and Rev. Ammi Nichols, May 27, 1822, and was 
composed of the following nine members : Josiah B. Strong, Virgil Wash- 
burn, Moses B. Dole, Samuel Whitney, Thomas Houghton, Lucy Whitney, 
Clarissa Strong, Rizpah Whitney, and Betsey Houghton. Rev. Calvin Gran- 
ger was their first settled minister, in 1836. In 1836 Gov. Paine erected a 
meeting-house and invited the church to worship in it. This they occupied 
six years, when the society built a meeting-house at the Center, and dedi- 
as* 



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cated it in August, 1843. In 1854 the society bought of the heirs of Gov. 
Paine the meeting-house which he had erected in 1836, and has since wor- 
shipped there. The church, in 1887, had a membership of 135. Their 
church will comfortably seat 350 people. The Sunday-school has in attend- 
ance of 100 scholars and twelve teachers, and has a library of 350 volumes. 

The Methodist Episcopal church of Northfield. — \K\ 1804, eight years after 
the introduction of Methodism into Vermont, Barre circuit was formed, and 
Northfield was included in this circuit, and the " circuit preachers " had reg- 
ular appointments in the town. Rev. Oliver Beal was the first regularly ap- 
pointed minister. In 1805 Rev. Elijah Hedding, afterwards a bishop of the 
church, and Rev. Dan Young were appointed to the circuit. They held their 
meetings in school-houses, private dwellings, barns, and groves. In 1820 the 
first meeting house (Union) was built in town, and the Methodists occupied 
it their quota of time. In February, 1840, Gov. Charles Paine tendered to 
the use of the Methodist society the meeting house owned by the Northfield 
factory, which the society gratefully accepted and continued to occupy until 
the death of Gov. Paine. In 1854 this house was sold by Gov. Paine's heirs 
to the Congregationalist society, and the Methodist society immediately set 
about building their present church edifice, which they completed at a cost 
of $4,734 and dedicated in December, 1854. The estimated value of the 
property, including buildings and grounds, at the present time, is $10,000. 
The house will conveniently seat 400 people. The Sunday-school has an 
average attendance of 129 scholars, with 18 teachers, and owns a large 
library. The Methodists of this district have a fine camp-ground near the 
village, on which there are about thirty cottages. Camp-meetings are held 
on these grounds yearly. 

St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic church in Northfield. — Before any 
permanent mission was established this place received occasional visits from 
the Rev. Fathers O'Callaghan, Daly, Drolet. Maloney, and Coopman. Father 
R. J. Maloney purchased the old yellow Union meeting-house in 1855, — 
the first meeting-house built in town, — and had it removed to a lot given to 
the Catholics by Gov. Paine, which is still used as a burying-ground. Rev. 
Z. Druon, of MontpeHer, attended this parish every other Sunday from 1856 
to 1864. He commenced to extensively remodel the old church in 1863, 
which was finished and dedicated by Rev. F. Clavier in October, 1S70. The 
church was struck by lightning and entirely consumed in July, 1876. Father 
Clavier, soon after he was appointed pastor of this parish, purchased a fine 
residence, and on his lot near his own house he built a large chapel for week- 
day service, and which served as a temporary church while the present church 
was in process of construction. Rev. John Galligan went to reside in North- 
field in October, 1876, and erected their present beautiful church, which was 
blessed on October 24, 1877. This handsome church, the finest in town, is 
constructed of wood, at a cost of $10,000, and including grounds and all 
other church property is valued at $20,000. The church is located on Vine 



TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 435 



Street, has seats for about 600 persons, has a large number of communicants, 
and is under the pastoral care of Rev. J. Brelivet. 

St. Mary's Parish of Northfield {^xoX-^zidsit Episcopal) was organized April 
10, 1851, by Rev. Dr. Josiah Perry, who died a few months later. The first 
service was conducted in a school-house, but after Dr. Perry's death no 
services were conducted until the winter of 1856-57. At this time there 
were but four communicants. The summer following a change was made 
from the Center to their church edifice standing on Main street, in North- 
field. This house was formally opened for worship by the Rt. Rev. John 
Henry Hopkins, D. D., LL. D., on Christmas day, 1857, and on the follow- 
ing day was solemnly set apart as a church. Rev. William C. Hopkins was 
the first rector, with H. H.Camp, senior warden; Perley Belknap, junior 
warden ; George Nichols, clerk ; and Ozro Foster, treasurer. The following 
is a list of the rectors : Rev. \V. C. Hopkins, 1855-64; Rev. John B. Pit- 
man, 1865-66 ; Rev. Roger S. Howard, D. D., 1869-72 ; Rev. George C. V. 
Eastman, A. M., 1873-75; Rev. WiUiam Lloyd Himes, 1875-77; Rev. 
Frankhn W. Bartlett, 1877-82; Rev. Frederick C. Cowper, 1883-85. The 
present rector, Rev. Homer White, commenced his pastorate in May, 1886. 
Their church edifice was constructed at the cost of $1,100, and with grounds 
and all other church property is valued at about $3,000. It will comfortably 
seat 200 people. The church has sixty-seven members, and the Sunday 
school six teachers and forty-two pupils. 



PLAINFIELD is a small town situated in the southeastern part of the 
county, in latitude 44° 14' and longitude 4° 35', and is bounded north- 
erly by East Montpelier and Marshfield, easterly by Marshfield and 
Harris Gore, southerly by Orange and Barre, and westerly by Orange, Barre, 
and East Montpelier. 

Before the annexation of Goshen Gore it contained very little waste land, 
and its surface was moderately hilly. The timber was mainly hard wood, 
interspersed with spruce and hemlock in some locations, and most of the 
farms have beautiful sugar orchards, from which large quantities of maple 
sugar are annually made. A tract containing about 9,600 acres, the original 
town of Plainfiekl, was granted to Gen. James Whitelaw, of Ryegate, James 
Savage, of New York, and William Coit, of Burlington, October 23, 1788. 
The line between the townships of Truro and Kingsboro, chartered by New 
York, passed through about the center of Plainfield. In 1773 Samuel Gale 
attempted the survey of one or both of these townships ; but learning the 
fact, probably from a hunter whom he met, that Ira Allen, with a party from 
Colchester, was in pursuit of him, acting upon the principle " that discretion 
is the better part of valor," suddenly decamped, and surely escaped being 
sealed with the leech seal. 



436 TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 



In 1874 the town was enlarged by the annexation of Goshen Gore,, a par- 
allelogram three and one-half miles long by one and one-half miles wide, lying 
along the eastern boundary of Plainfield, containing 3,000 acres. This gore 
is mountainous and unfit for cultivation. It was included in the New York 
township of Truro, but formed a part of the town of Goshen, in Addison 
county, until 1854. Dr. Dudley B. Smith measured its highest peak, to which 
he gave the name of Mt. Truro, and found it 2,229 feet above Plainfield sta- 
tion, and about 2,984 feet above the sea. This commanding peak is covered 
with forests, and its magnificent views are only obtained by such as- mount 
the tree-tops. 

The Winooski river has a course of about one and one-fourth miles across 
the extreme northern corner of the town. Great brook, which rises in 
Harris Gore, enters Plainfield at its soutliern corner, and flov/s north through 
the town into the Winooski at Plainfield village. The township is well watered,, 
having other numerous streams and springs. There is a medicinal spring on 
the banks of Great brook, in the southern part of the town, said to be 
efficacious in healing cutaneous diseases. The waters of this spring are 
similar to those of the famous Montebello spring of Newbury. 

The rock formations in Plainfield are calciferous ttiica schist underlaying 
about one-third of the western part of the town, and granite in the remaining 
part. 

Whitelaw, Savage, and Coit deeded their territory, then known as St. 
Andrews's Gove, to Ira Allen and Gamaliel Painter, who employed as their 
agent Col. Jacob Davis, who made the surveys and gave warrantee deeds in 
his own name. This was recognized by Allen and Painter up to 1799. A 
litigation was commenced by Mr. Davis against Mr. Allen in the County 
Court at Danville, when, in 1804, Davis recovered $2,500, and a part of the 
town was set off to him on the execution, and Davis conveyed it over again 
to the settlers to whom he had before given deeds. About the same time 
the University of Vermont recovered $15,000 of Ira Allen, and the remain- 
der of the town was set ofif to that institution. Two years previous, in 1802, 
Ira Allen had quitclaimed his riglits in the town to Heman Allen, of Col- 
chester. In 1807 Heman Allen purchased the claim of the university. By 
deeding his claim to James Savage, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., Mr. Allen, as the 
attorney for Savage, was enabled to bring suits of ejectment against the 
settlers, which were decided in his favor in 1808. This compelled the settlers 
to pay for their lands the second time. But the laws of Vermont gave them 
their betterments, and one-half the rise of their lands besides. 

In 1880 Plainfield had a population of 728 souls. In 1887 it had seven 
school districts and six common schools, taught during the year by two male 
and eleven female teachers, at an average weekly salary, including board, of 
$9.75 for the former and $5.50 for the latter. There were 201 scholars^ 
three of whom attended private schools. The value of all the school build- 
ings, including furniture, is $4,365. The amount of money raised for school 



TOWN OF PLAINFIELU. 437 



purposes on the grand list was $884.06, while the entire expenditures were 
$1,283.66. Miss Bertha E, Chamberlain officiated as superintendent. 

Plainfield village is located in the extreme northern part of the town, at 
the confluence of Winooski river and Great brook, and is a station on the 
Montpelier & Wells River railroad. This pretty little village was incor- 
porated in 1867, and includes a small portion of Marshfield. It contains two 
churches (Methodist and Congregational), one hotel (Plainfield House), and 
several manufacturing establishments, the leading ones of which are ]. M. 
Batchelder & Son, chair stock, and the grist-mill of H. E. Cutler. There are 
also two lawyers, two doctors, seven or eight stores, the usual number of 
mechanics and artisans, and about eighty or ninety dwellings, sheltering a pop- 
ulation of about 450. 

Seth Freeman, of Weldon, N. H., and Isaac Washburn, of Croydon, N. H., 
came as explorers to Plainfield in the fall of 1791, and encamped the first 
night by the side of a hemlock log. Washburn chose the location at the 
four corners, near the residence of L. Cheney Batchelder, and Freeman se- 
lected his pitch near the site of the Freeman school-house. Next year they 
returned and made clearings on these pitches. They returned again in 1793, 
and others also made clearings ; but only Theodore Perkins, his wife, and 
Alden Freeman, a widower, who boarded with the Freemans, remained. 
Theodore Perkins and wife, Martha (Conant), were from Bridgewater, Mass., 
but came to Plainfield from Pomfret, Vt., March 10, 1793, and located on 
a pitch in the southwestern part of the town. In 1794 Mr. Perkins sold 
his claim to Joshua Lawrence, and removed to Montpelier. In 1798 he went 
to Kentucky to look after a tract of several thousand acres that he inherited. 
He wrote back that his claim was good, and that he was coming back for 
his family, but was never heard from after. His friends thought he was 
murdered. His wife removed to Lyme, N. H., in 1800. Their son Alfred, 
born in December, 1793, was the first white child born in Plainfield. 

Isaac Washburn moved his family onto his claim in the spring of 1794. 
Polly Reed came with them and afterwards married Benjamin Niles. Isaac 
Washburn and Isaac, Jr., removed to Lisle, N. Y., in i8r2, and thence to 
Indiana. 

Seth Freeman was the patriarch of the family. He added by purchase 
130 acres to his pitch, which made a tract of 430 acres. This he divided 
with his brothers Alden, Ebenezer, Edmund, Isaac, and Nathan. 

Lieut. Joseph Batchelder made a pitch of 650 acres in the southwestern 
corner of the town, commenced a clearing upon it in 1792, and settled with 
his family permanently in 1794. His daughter Polly, born July 26, 1795, 
was the first white female and second child born in Plainfield. In 1795 
Lieut. Batchelder's brother Moulton settled on the Batchelder pitch. 

Theodore Perkins, Isaac Washburn, the Freeman brothers, and the Batch- 
elders were the first four families that settled in Plainfield. The first death 
in town was that of Justus, son of Rev. Jonathan Kinne, March 6, 1796. 



438 TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 



The first marriage was that of Alden Freeman and Priscella Washburn, 
daughter of Isaac Washburn. Isaac Freeman taught the first school. Capt. 
Jonathan Kinne built the first framed house in town, in 1794, and moved into 
it in 1795. He was the first minister of the gospel. Isaac Washburn, Jr., 
kept the first tavern. Miles, brother of Isaac Washburn, built the first 
blacksmith shop in town. Later, in 1803, he built a house and the first 
blacksmith shop in the village. Ebenezer Bennett was the first tanner. The 
first merchant was Joseph Kilburn, in 1803 or 1804. Thomas Vincent was 
the first town clerk. Bradford Kinne was the first representative. Amherst 
Simons, from Windham, Conn., was the first physician, in 1801. The first 
lawyer was Charles Roby, in 1812. • 

J. M. Batchelder &> Son built their extensive mills in the village of Plain- 
field, on the Winooski river, in the summer of 1877. The river, and steam 
as auxiliary, furnishes the ample power. They manufacture hard and soft 
wood lumber, chair and cab stock, and shingles. In this leading industry of 
their town they use annually from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 feet of lumber,, 
and employ a force of thirty men. 

Plainfie/d grist mill W3i% built by J. M. Batchelder & Son, and is connected 
with their manufactory. In 1882 Mr. H. E. Cutler, the present proprietor, 
purchased this mill, which is furnished with two runs of stones, and is run by 
water-power. Mr. Cutler does custom grinding, besides a large amount of 
his own stock. The grinding capacity of the mill is 600 to 800 bushels per 
day. 

Nelson J. Satiborri s steam carriage }fia?mfaetory and repair shops, in the 
village of Plainfield, were built by Sanborn & Yaw (E. E. Yaw) in the spring 
of 1884. He manufactures carriages, wagons, and sleighs to order, and does 
jobbing and repairing in his line. Mr. Yaw retired in the summer of 1888, 
and now Mr. Sanborn conducts the business alone. 

Olin L. Tillotson s butter tub majiufactory was built in the fall of 1884, by 
O. L. and C. F. Tillotson, brothers. The motive power is steam. Mr. Til- 
lotson employs six men, and turns out annually from 800 to 1,000 tubs. 

Solomon Bartlett, brother of Hon. Josiah Bartlett, whose name appears 
as the second signer of the Declaration of Independence, emigrated to 
Hanover, N. H., from Brookfield, Mass., in 1790, or a little later, and 
a few years after removed to Orange, Vt., and later to Plainfield, where he 
died. He was married four times, and was the father of seven children. 
His sons Chauncey and Levi settled in Plainfield. Chauncey married 
Mehitable Curtis, and their ten children were Benoni B., Joel, William 
C, Sarah, Chauncey, Thomas P., Levi C, Henry, Mark P., and Susan 
B. Four are living. William C. married Clarissa Howland, and three 
of their four children are living. Sarah (Mrs. E. K. Gladding) has eight 
children that are living. Chauncey married Nancy Pitkin, and two of 
their four children, Frank P. and Truman H., are now living. Thomas 



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P. married three times, first, Rosalmda Chadwick, second, Martha R. Page, 
and third, Daphne E. Brown. 

Levi Bartlett, son of Solomon, married Nancy Batchelder. Of their six 
children, four are living, viz.: Mary J. (Mrs. D. M. Perkins), who resides in 
Marshfield, and has four children ; Solomon, who married Abbie Reed, and 
has one child; Joseph, who married Clara Hutchinson, and had six children, 
five of whom are now living ; and Edward J., who married, first, Mary Nye, 
who was the mother of his only child. His second wife was Harriet Kidder. 

Elder James Perry, son of Elijah, was born in Barre, Mass., May 19,1756. 
He married Esther Tinkham, June 20, 1779, who was born in Barre, Mass.,. 
February 8, 1759. They emigrated to Woodstock, Vt., about 1785, and 
came to Plainfield ten years later and settled on the farm where their grand- 
son, Daniel A. Perry, now lives. Their children were Isaac, born February 
4, 1781; Sarah, born April 15, 1783; Elijah, born September 17, 1785; 
Hannah, born December 20, 1787; James, Jr., born September i. 1790; 
Stephen, born January 20, 1795; Daniel, born February 10, 1798; and 
William, born April 13, 1800. All are deceased. Elijah married Abigail 
Batchelder, July 10, i8o8, and resided on the old homestead. Their union 
was blessed with five children, viz. : Elijah M., born November 14, 1809; 
Daniel A., born October 20, 1812; Abigail N., born October 26, 1816; 
Hannah C, born September 6, 1819; and William J., born June 25, 1825. 
Of these, Daniel A. is the only survivor. He was born on the homestead 
where he now lives, which has been in the possession of the family since the 
settlement of Elder James Perry in 1795. Daniel A. Perry married Dulcena 
Freeman, of Plainfield, February 27, 1834. Their children are Theresa A., 
born October 21, 1835, who married P. G. Camp, and resides in Barre; 
James M., born February 28, 1838, who married Alma Martin, is a merchant 
in Barre, and has a family of four children ; Altezerah L., born February 25, 
1841 ; William A., born August 24, 1844, who married Olive Ayers, has five 
children, is now town clerk and treasurer of Barre, and was postmaster about 
eight years ; Courtland E., born February 29, 1848, married Viola Reed, and 
is blessed with eight children; and Tneron C, born November 28, 1853, 
married Cora A. Mills, of Orange, and has three children. Stephen, son of 
Elder James Perry, married Alice Batchelder, of Plainfield. Their children 
were Abalana, William W., Stephen A., Henry O., C. L., Charles C, 
and Fannie A. Those Uving are Stephen A., in California; Henry O., in 
Plainfield ; and Fannie A. (Mrs. William Ripley), in Burlington, Vt. 

Jeremy Stone, one of the pioneers of Plainfield, came from Ward, Mass., 
in 1796. He married Abigail Davenport. Their children were Ira, Rev. 
Jesse, of Maine, Jeremy, Mrs. Hiel P. Chamberlin, and Mrs. Marian (Stone) 
Tarbell, and several others whose names we do not have. Ira Stone was 
born in Plainfield, September 14, 1812, and was twice married. His first 
wife was Abigail N. Perry, who was the mother of his two children, Emily A. 
and Truman, both deceased. His second wife was Julia Pitkin Bancroft. 



440 TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 



Mr. Stone represented Plainfield in the legislature in 1882, at the age of 
seventy years. At that session there was but one older member in the House. 
He now resides in Plainfield village, but has always been a farmer. Six of 
the children of Jeremy Stone are yet living, the eldest aged eighty-six years. 
and the youngest sixty-seven years. 

Jesse Martin, who had served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, came 
to Montpelier (now East Montpelier) from Francestown, N. H., in the 
autumn of 1800. In the following spring he settled on Maple hill, in the 
town of Marshfield, but eventually made his last and final residence in Plain- 
field, where he died November 3, 1832, aged eighty-one years. His children 
were James, William, Jesse, Allen, Mary, Ebenezer, and Joshua B., none of 
whom are now living. Joshua B. Martin married Betsey Shepard, and settled 
in Marshfield, where he resided until the close of his life, in February, 1878, 
aged seventy-eight years. Their children were VVillard S., George F., Laura, 
Caroline M., Nancy, Henry H., Howard P., and Ellen A. (Mrs. W. J. 
Batchelder). 

Hon. Willard S. Martin,* whose portrait accompanies this sketch, was born 
in Marshfield, Vt., January 26, 1827. He remained in his native town un- 
til i860, when he removed to Plainfield and settled on the fine farm where he 
now resides. He has been an extensive dealer in live stock, and is now 
giving his attention to raising fine stock. Judge Martin is a staunch Repub- 
lican, and is not without political honors. He has held many of the town 
offices, and has been a justice of the peace many years. He represented 
Plainfield in the popular branch of the legislature in 1864-65, was president 
of Washington County Agricultural society two years, and a director of the 
National Bank of Barre a number of years. From 1874 to 1878 he served as 
associate judge of Washington County Court, and was a state senator in 
1882. 

Judge Martin commenced his active life with a common school education, 
but by his course of reading, and his contact with men in his political and so- 
cial relations, he is practically educated, and ranks with the well informed men 
of the day. He has been fairly successful in financial affairs, and has met 
with few reverses. The only heavy losses that he has sustained were occa- 
sioned by others, whom his generous impulses prompted him to trust and aid. 
He possesses quick and sincere sympathies, and is always ready to help the 
worthy unfortunate. His sterling integrity and character have won him the 
esteem and friendship of all his large circle of accjuaintances He united in 
marriage with Fanny, daughter of Orlando F. and Cecilia Lewis, of East Mont- 
peher. Their children are K. Alice, born July 10, 1862, graduated at God- 
dard Seminary, in Barre, in 1883, and is a teacher; Willard S., Jr., born 
January 28, 1868, who is now a student at Goddard Seminary; Orlando L., 

* The accompanying portrait was furnished by Mr. Martin's children and dedicated to 
their father. 




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TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 441 



born April 28, 1872 ; and Edgar L. and Artlmr R., twins, born March 24, 
1876. Arthur is deceased. The parents of Mrs. Martin, Orlando and 
Cecilia Lewis, had seven children, viz.: Mary, Christna, Fanny (Mrs. Mar- 
tin), Lucy, George W., Rev. J. Jay, and Orlando, Jr. Rev. J. Jay Lewis has 
been pastor of the South Boston Universalist church, of South Boston, Mass., 
for twenty years. 

Parker Page, from Goffstown, N. H., came to Marshfield about 1S05, and 
settled on a farm where he spent the remainder of his life. His wife was Polly 
Mellen, and their six children are all deceased. Daniel, brother of Parker Page, 
also settled on a farm in Marshfield, about 18 10, where he died in 1828. He 
married Rebecca Fuller, and they had eight children, viz.: Mark M., Lovina, 
Seth F., Daniel B., Ira F., Nathaniel C., J. Parker, and Clarissa F. Mark M. 
married, first, Betsey Stevens, who bore him four children, viz.: Mary, Martha, 
Walter B., who lives in Plainfield, and Wilbur. His second wife, Hannah 
Bean, bore him five children, three of whom are living, viz.: Laura (Mrs. 
George Wells), Cora (Mrs. Henry Dunbar), and Ada (Mrs. Fred Perrin). 
Lovina married Thomas Hutchinson. Their children are Augusta and Clara 
(Mrs. Joseph Bartlett). Seth F. married, first, Cynthia Fuller. Of this mar- 
riage only one child, Mrs. Sidney Bemis, is living. His second wife was 
Alma Ayers, and their children are Fred, Frank, Bushrod P., Arthur, Viola, 
Sarah, and Flora. Daniel B. married Aurora Clark. Their children are 
Sarah, De Witt, Alson, William, and Albert. Ira F. married Eunice Bancroft. 
Their children are Mason T., Josie M., Annie L., Emma R., Dan I., and 
Alice P. Nathaniel C. was twice married. His first wife was Lucinda 
Waterman, who was the mother of ten children, seven of whom are living, 
viz.: Mark, J. Orvis, Maria L., Alonzo W., Ann E., Rebecca, Nat. D., Wil- 
lie S., Lovina, and Mary. J. Parker married Eliza Percy. Their children 
are Lucy, Leonora, Frank P., Aram, and Willie. Clarissa F. married Cotton 
W. Alvord, and they had no children. 

Newell Greeley was born in Canterbury, N. H., in 1804, and was a distant 
relative of the late Horace Greeley. When be was seven years old he came 
■with his mother and two younger sisters to Marshfield, Vt., where he after- 
wards resided and was a farmer. He died October 20, 1851. He married 
Miranda Cate. Their children were Archelaus, Ambrose N., Stephen, and 
Webster. Ambrose N. Greeley, the only one now living, married Ellen M. 
Parks, March 19, 1859. Their children were Elmer Els worth, who died in 
infancy, and Gertrude L. Mr. Greeley is a mason, and with his wife and 
daughter resides in Plainfield village. 

Silas Skinner, son of Giles, was brought to Plainfield by his parents when 
he was but three years old, and always resided here except one year spent in 
Croydon, N. H., where he married Betsey Powers. Their children were all 
sons. Edward R. lives in Tunbridge, Vt.; Silas W. settled in Lathrop, Mo.; 
Josiah died at the age of seven years; and Nathan and Ezekiel live in Plain- 
field. Nathan married Philena W. Hooker, of Peacham, Vt. Their chil- 



442 TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 



dren are Hartwell A., born September 12, 1854; Effie P., born February 6, 
1856; Hiland H., born June 15, 1858, and is engaged in the postoffice in 
New York city ; Eva S., born February 13, 1861 ; Minnie E., born August 
8, 1865; Mittie P., born January 19, 1869; and Blanche H., born February 
16, 1872. Mr. Skinner is an enterprising and successful farmer, and has 
given all his children an opportunity to gain a good education. 

Sullivan B. Gale, son of John and Rebecca (Boutwell) Gale, was born in- 
Barre, February 20, 18 16. He learned the tanners' trade of David French, 
in his native town, and was employed at his trade by others until 1838, when 
he bought the tannery of James Farmer, at Plainfield, which he conducted 
until he sold it in J867. Several years later he was again its owner, and con- 
tinued the business until 1886. He then disposed of it and retired from 
active business. Mr. Gale has been married twice. His first wife was Mar- 
garet French, of Barre, who was the mother of four children, three of whom 
are now living, viz. : Eutheria (Mrs. Stephen Spencer); Rev. Sullivan F., 
who married Elizabeth Felt, of Temple, N. H., and is now a missionary at 
Jackson, Fla., sent there by the American Home Missionary society; and 
Gertrude (Mrs. George Dodge), of Berlin. He married, second, Laura W. 
Bailey, of Berlin, by whom he had nine children, five of whom are living, viz.: 
Mary (Mrs. J. O. Sherburne) ; Dr. Fred P., who married Mary Nevins, of 
Cabot, where he is settled in the practice of his profession ; Charles B., who 
is in Floiida ; and Laura and Burton, who reside with their parents. 

Hon. H. E. Cutler, son of Jacob, was born in Orange, Vt. In 1874 he 
engaged in farming in Marshfield, which he continued until he purchased the 
grist-mill he now owns, and removed to Plainfield village. He is a man of 
good abilities, sound judgment, and great energy. He is appreciated in his 
town, in which he takes an active interest, and has served as justice of the 
peace, lister, selectman two years, and is now representative in the state 
legislature. 

The Revolutionary soldiers who resided in Plainfield were Lieut. Joshua 
Lawrence, John Bancroft, Solomon Bartlett, and Moses Reed. 

Plainfield furnished sixty-eight soldiers in the late war of the Rebellion, 
five of whom deserted, one was killed in battle, two died of wounds, eleven 
died of disease, twelve were discharged before term of enlistment expired, 
and thirty-seven served their term or were discharged at the close of the war. 
Ten drafted men paid commutation and one sent a substitute. 

The Congregational church of Plainfield was organized at the house of 
Capt. Jonathan Kinne, November 13, 1799, under the name of "The Church 
of Christ in Plainfield," by a council composed of Rev. Richard Ransom, of 
Woodstock, Rev. John Ransom, of Rochester, Rev. James Hobart, of Berlin, 
Dea William Wood, of Woodstock, and Capt. Peter Salter, of Orange. Dea. 
Judah Willey, Henry Taft, and Joseph Sterling, of Barre, were invited to 
join the council. The church thus organized contained six members, viz. : 
Capt. Jonathan Kinne, James Perry, Esther Perry, James Boutwell, Deborah 



TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 445 



Boutwell, and Judith Batchelder. Capt. Kinne was the preacher until 1826, but 
was not ordained or recognized by his ministerial brethren, because he dis- 
believed in infant baptism. In 1829 Rev. Joseph Thatcher became the first 
settled ordained pastor. The first house of worship was erected, of wood, 
in 1819, and the present one, of the same material and on the site of the first 
one, in 1854. The church now has a membership of fifty-four, with Rev. 
W. T. Swinnerton, pastor. The present church edifice was built at a cost of 
$2,400. The church property, including buildings and grounds, is valued 
at $4,000. The house will seat 200 people. Seventy children attend the 
Sunday-school. 

The Methodist Episcopal church of Plainfield was organized by Rev. 
Nicholas Sneathen, in 1801. He was a very able man, and was chaplain of 
Congress in 1812. He came to Seth Freeman's and attached nearly all the 
people in the southern part of the town to the Methodist church, including 
Dea. James Perry, who became a Methodist preacher and the first that resided 
in town. This church at its organization was a part of Barre circuit, and had 
no pastor stationed here until David Kilburn came in 1812, and again in 
1825. In 1819 a house was built of wood in the village, for the Methodist 
society, with an agreement that when they had no preacher " any other 
Christian denomination such as Calvinists, Anti-Baptists, Freewill Baptists, 
Friends, so-called, Universalists, etc., who had a preacher might occupy it." 
The parsonage (the Asa Washburn place), including fifteen acres, was given 
to this church by Judge Kinne, in 1820. This was afterwards sold and an- 
other bought in the village. In 1852, when Rev. Peter Merrill was pastor, the 
church edifice was sold to the Baptists and removed, and the present church 
was built at a cost of nearly $1,600. The church now has a membership of 
158, under the pastoral care of Rev. C. H. Farnsworth. The church will com- 
fortably seat about 275, and the entire church property is valued at $5,000. 
In addition the church has a fund of $1,600, bequeathed by the late Elijah 
Batchelder. The Sunday-school ha^ 200 scholars and an average attendance 
of no. Mr. H. Q. Berry has been its superintendent the last thirty-five 
years. 

The Church of the Restoration was organized in 1840, by Rev. Samuel H. 
Tabor, who was the first pastor and remained three years. In 1841 the pres- 
ent house of worship was built, of wood, at a cost of $1,770, above the foun- 
dations, and when supplied with furniture and a bell the entire cost was $2,300. 
The estimated value of the church property, including grounds, at the pres- 
ent time, is $2,000. The church edifice will comfortably seat 350 persons. 
The church is now without a regular pastor, but has an occasional supply. 
The Sunday-school has thirty scholars. 



444 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



ROXBURY lies in the southwestern part of Washington county, in lati- 
tude 44" 4' and longitude 4" 18', and is bounded northerly by North- 
field, easterly by Brookfield in Orange county, southerly by Braintree 
in Orange county and Granville in Addison county, and westerly by Warren. 
Roxbury was granted November 6, 1780, and chartered to Hon. Benjamin 
Edwards and sixty-four associates, nearly all of whom were residents of Wind- 
sor county. The charter was given by his excellency Gov. Thomas Chitten- 
den and council, August 5, 1781, with the usual reservations for ministers, 
schools, grammar school, and gospel lots. The territory chartered contains 
23,040 acres. Two of the original proprietors, it is thought, settled in this 
town. We find in the list of names of those to whom this township was char- 
tered, Thomas Chittenden, Paul Spooner, and others who were prominent in 
the early history of Vermont. 

The first meeting of the proprietors was held at the house of Benjamin 
Burtch, an innholder in Hartford, Windsor county, November 20, 17S3. 
Hon. Paul Spooner was moderator, and Briant Brown, clerk. A committee 
■consisting of Briant Brown, Esq., Capt. John Strong, Elisha Gallup, Abel 
Lyman, and Asa Taylor, was chosen to examine the township, and to lay 
out a first division of 100 acres to each proprietor, with an allowance of five 
per cent, for highways. The ensuing Christmas day they held an adjourned 
meetings and voted a tax of ten shillings lawful money on each proprietor's 
right, to pay the expenses of surveying. This tax was to be paid in money, 
wheat, beef, or pork, at cash price. They also levied an additional tax of 
two shillings lawful money on each right to defray the expense of procuring 
the charter. Just the time when the survey was made, or how many meet- 
ings were held by the proprietors, can not now be ascertained. The proprie- 
tors held a meeting at the house of Asa Edgerton, in Randolph, August 6, 
1788. Major Elijah Paine was moderator, and Deacon David Bates, clerk. 
It was voted to lay out two divisions, each proprietor to have one lot in each 
division. It is possible that no division had been made previous to this time. 
Eventually the township was surveyed into three divisions. The first and 
second, including the five per cent, allowance for highways, contained 105 
acres in each lot, and the third 136 acres. 

The township is situated on the height of land, and forms a part of the 
water-shed of the Winooski and White rivers. The surface is broken and 
uneven, but the soil is strong and fertile. It is mainly an agricultural town, 
and the dairy is the leading industry. Originally it was mainly covered with 
hard wood timber, interspersed with hemlock, spruce, and fir in some loca- 
tions. 

The rocks entering into the geological structure of the town are talcose 
schist and clay slate, with beds of serpcfitine (commercial name, verd antique 
marble) near the village. The clay slate underlies about one-third of the east- 
ern part of the town, while the remaining portion of the town is occupied by 



TOWN OF ROXBURY. 445 



the talcose schist formation. Traces of gold in alluvium are discovered' 
along the principal streams. 

The topography of the township is such that it can not have any large 
streams. The northern part is drained by three branches of Dog river, 
which flow north into and unite in Northfield, while the southern part is 
drained by brooks that flow south and enter the White river. And quite 
singular, two of these at the village are parallel, but flow in opposite direc- 
tions. Years ago the brook running north was turned into the one that runs 
south, and was made to do service, in aiding to turn machinery for Capt. 
Ford, in Randolph. But the mill owners north soon compelled the Captain 
to allow the stream to flow through its natural channel. 

The first settlement was made May i, 1789, by Christopher Huntington 
and his family. Mr. Huntington was a native of Mansfield, Conn., but had 
resided awhile in Norwich, Vt. The way was so rough that he was obliged 
to draw his effects on a hand sled several miles, and on bare ground. Mr. 
Huntington was an elderly man, but presumed to be bold and resolute. He 
was a Universalist preacher, and after others moved into the town he preached 
the first sermon, and held meeting.? in various locations. One who heard 
him preach on several occasions said of him : " He was a pretty likely man, 
but not much of a preacher." Several of the children of Mr. Huntington 
were of mature age when he came to Roxbury, and his sons, Jedediah,. 
Thomas, and Jonathan, were quite prominent in town aff"airs when the town 
was organized. Mr. Huntington removed to Canada about 1804, and the 
others of his family left the town about the same time. One of his sons was 
afterwards a Baptist preacher, and settled in Braintree. The Mr, Hunting- 
ton who recently died in Canada, and who bequeathed $25,000 to the state 
of Vermont, is said to have been one of his sons. His daughter Lydia died 
January 23, 1792, at the age of seventeen, and was the first person who died 
in Roxbury. 

Samuel Richardson, as near as can be ascertained, was the second perma- 
nent settler of Roxbury. He came in the fall of 1790, and built a log house, 
into which he moved his family the ensuing spring. Isaac Lewis, David, 
Robert, and Jonathan Cram, and Benoni Webster and others, were in town 
before its organization. Lydia, daughter of Jedediah Huntington, who was 
born March 14, 1795, was the first child born in Roxbury. The first male 
child born in town was Philip, son of David Cram, March 18, 1795, only four 
days after Miss Lydia's advent into the town. The first marriage ceremony 
performed in town occurred June 27, 1799. Israel Converse, justice of the 
peace, officiated. The contracting parties were Sarah Richardson and Ches- 
ter Batchelder. 

The first town meeting was held March 25, 1796, at the house of Jedediah 
Huntington, in pursuance of an order or " warning " issued by Joseph Crane, 
a justice of the peace, residing in Williamstown, who it seems attended the 
meeting, and kindly piloted the town through its organization. The ofiicers 



446 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



then elected were Joseph Crane, moderator; Thomas Huntington, town 
clerk; Samuel Richardson, Isaac Lewis, and Jedediah Huntington, select- 
men ; David Cram, treasurer; Jonathan Huntington, constable; David Cram 
and Thomas Huntington, hsters ; Samuel Richardson and Christopher Hunt- 
ington, highway surveyors. The sum total of the grand Hst at this time was 
^165, 15s, The town was first represented in the legislature in 1804, by 
Zebediah Butler. 

The first freeman's meeting was held in 1797. " Record of the meeting: 
The freemen of Roxbury, all to a man, met at the house of Jedediah Hunt- 
ington in said town, according to warning, when the freeman's oath was duly 
administered, by the town clerk, to the following men : Christopher Hunt- 
ington, Roswell Adams, Isaac Lewis, David Cram, John Stafford, Benoni 
Webster, Jedediah Huntington, Perus Huntington, Benjamin Hunter, Jr., 
Daniel Corbin, and Chester Batchelder." 

Samuel Richardson and Thomas and Jonathan Huntington had before 
been qualified to vote. The entire number of voters then residing in town 
was fourteen. At a town meeting held in March, 1799, voted, "that from 
April 1 to May 20, it shall not be lawful for sheep or swine to run at large on 
the commons or highways, and if wilfully or negligently allowed to run, the 
owners thereof shall pay double damages." We presume this provision was 
made to protect the sugar camps which were then near the settlers' dweUings, 
as at that time the town had neither a common nor highways. The town 
called a meeting in 1802, " to see if the town would vote to set the small-pox 
in town." The voters, after due deliberation, concluded they did not want 
it, and dissolved the meeting. 

In 1806 the town levied a tax of seven mills on a dollar to purchase a set 
of surveying instruments. Samuel Robertson was chosen surveyor, and was 
voted the use of the instruments for doing the surveying for the town. These 
instruments, a compass and chain, are still the town's property. 

The town petitioned the legislature for a land tax, at their session in Wind- 
sor, in October, 1795, which granted a tax of one cent on each acre in town. 
The tax was probably collected some time in 1796. This was the first tax 
for the town. The first deed found on ihe town records was recorded March 
24, 1796. This conveyance is from Asa Huntington to Daniel Kingsbury, 
dated Brookfield, September 3, 1794. 

In 1880 Roxbury had a population of 938. In 1888 the township had ten 
school districts and a school was maintained in each of them, and were taught 
by eighteen female teachers at an average weekly salary, including board, of 
$4.25. The whole number of scholars who attended school was 149, of 
whom five attended private schools. The entire income for school purposes 
was $1,028.66. The amount paid teachers, including board, was $1,074.60. 
The whole amount paid for all school purposes was $1,209.28. I. H. Fisk 
was superintendent. 

Samuel Richardson built the first saw and grist-mills in town, about a mile 



TOWN OF ROXBURY. 447 



and a half from the village on the road to Warren. Asa Taylor was the first 
merchant. The next was Robertson & Orcut, who also manufactured salts 
from ashes they received in exchange for their goods. Wool-carding was 
commenced as early as 1800, in the eastern part of the town, by Daniel 
Kingsley. In 1820 Samuel Robertson and Leicester Davis manufactured 
wooden bowls and plates. Charles Samson manufactured potato whiskey on 
West hill, near the Wetmore place. Billa Woodard manufactured saddle- 
trees (frames for saddles) successfully several years. Ephraim Morris and 
Nathan Kendall run a tannery a few years, at the foot of East hill. 

The first settled minister was Rev, Ophir Shipman. Hon. Zed S. Stanton 
said in his centennial address, August 22, 1876: "Considerable excitement 
was occasioned at the time the first minister in town was ordained. The 
charter of the town granted to such person a lot of land. In those days 
there were many lay preachers, and one of these, a man named Culver, was 
privately ordained, and laid claim to this lot, together with all the improve- 
ments that had been made upon it. The selectmen of the town objected to 
this ; but Culver would not yield, and then they endeavored to have a preacher 
named Smith, better known as 'Happy John,' ordained. He declined, and 
Ophir Shipman was next appealed to. He consented and was the first regu- 
larly ordained minister in Roxbury. He held the value of the land, without 
improvements. The result of this strife was the destroying of the Close Com- 
munion Baptist church in this place." 

John Stafford kept the first tavern on the " Rood place." John Spaulding 
built the Summit House in 1822, and conducted it for a time. John Staf- 
ford was the first physician. The first mail route was established in 1826, 
and John Spaulding was first postmaster. Guy Edson carried the first mail. 
The advent of the stage coach was in 1830, drawn by four and sometimes six 
horses, which created about as much excitement as did the first train of cars, 
in 1848. 

Roxbury is a post village situated in the northwestern part of the town, 
on a branch of Dog river and the Central Vermont railroad. It contains the 
shops of J. G. Hall Mfg. Co., where watchmakers' tools are made, one steam 
saw-mill, a blacksmith shop, two stores, one hotel, two church edifices, a 
school house, one settled minister, one lawyer, one doctor, and thirty or forty 
dwellings. 

East Roxbury (p. o.) is a small hamlet situated in the extreme south- 
eastern corner of the town. It contains a grocery store, school-house, saw- 
mill, butcher's shop, and about a dozen families. 

E. N. Spalding s steam mills are located on Broad brook, and near the 
track of the C. V. R. R. In 1865 Mr. Spalding built a water-power mill on 
the site of his present mills, and a short time after added steam-power. 
December 5, 1862, this mill was destroyed by fire, and the present mills were 
built by him during that month. A fifty-horse-power steam engine furnishes 
the power, and turns out 1,000,000 feet of lumber yearly. Mr. Spalding 



448 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



employs a force of thirty-five men. In 1877 he added machinery for manu- 
facturing croquet sets, which industry he continued until 1882. His timber 
supplies are obtained from his tract of about 4,000 acres of timberlands 
near his mills. 

A . W. Tewkshiiry &= Son's steam mills are located near the railroad cross- 
ing in the village. Daniel Tarbell built these mills in the sprmg of 1881, run 
them two years, when they passed into the hands of the first named firm, who 
reside in West Randolph. These mills cut out dimension and chair stock 
lumber. The lumber for chair stock is shipped to West Randolph, where 
it is converted into chair stock. The company has a side track to their mills, 
so that the lumber is at once loaded onto cars. The average output is 
J, 000, 000 feet per annum, and requires a force or ten men, with Mr. J. Q. 
Flint, foreman ; C. W. Williams, sawyer ; and Loren J. Wiley, engineer. 

Luke Tarbell's saw-mill is in the easterly part of the town, on the east 
branch of Dog river, which furnishes the power. The mill was built by 
Messrs. I.aban Webster and F. A. Wiley, about i868. This firm was dissolved 
by the death of Mr. Webster in 1880. Mr. Wiley conducted the business 
from that time until August, 1888, when Mr. Tarbell bought the property. 
He has improved it, and built a new dam and conductor. The capacity of 
the mill is now about 1,000,000 feet of dressed lumber per year. Mr. Tar- 
bell employs six men. 

E. P. Biirnham s clapboard, shingle, and grist-viills are located on Broad 
brook, road 40, and about sixty rods from the railroad. John Prince built 
an " up and down " saw-mill here in 1849, which in part he converted into a 
butter tub factory and a custom grist-mill for grinding provender. It is now 
owned by Mr. Burnham, who converted it into its present form. He turns 
out from 600,000 to 1,000,000 feet of clapboards and 600,000 shingles an- 
nually, and also gnnds provender. He employs from four to six men. Wil- 
lis H. Cady is foreman. There is also a blacksmith shop connected with the 
mills. 

Jacob Wardners sazv-viill is located at East Roxbury, and near the east 
line of the town, on the east branch of Dog river, which furnishesi -power 
to run it. It was built by Mr. Wardner's father, and then contained both a 
saw-mill and grist-mill. These buildings run down, and a saw-mill was re- 
built, furnished with a circular saw. Mr. Wardner does custom work. 

Azro J. Boyce engaged in butchering and dealing in meat at East Rox- 
bury in 1865. He has built up a fine trade, and supplies a long list of 
patrons from his cart in the villages of Northfield, Brookfield, and Roxbury. 
He slaughters about $7,000 worth of live stock annually, and does his work 
alone, gathers it in and sells it out. 

There are large beds of serpentine (commercial name, verd antique ?narble) 
near Roxbury village. This was discovered and worked from 1853 until 1857, 
when it was abandoned. The serpentine found here is of superior quahty, 
receives a fine polish, but was found expensive to quarry, and required a great 



TOWN OF ROXBURY. 449 



amount of labor to properly work and polish it. The tables, mantles, and 
monuments made from it were decidedly beautiful. 

The J. G. Hall Mfg. Co. has a manufacturing establishment at Roxbury 
village, where about ten or twelve hands are employed making watchmakers' 
tools. Their specialty is a " staking tool," the invention of J- G. Hall. 

Samuel Richardson, a Revolutionary soldier who served about half of the 
period of that sanguinary war, was born in Stafford, Conn., June 15, 1750; 
His wife, Susanna Pinney, was born in July, 1749. After his marriage he 
settled in Randolph. When the Indians burned Royalton, in 1780, they 
passed through Randolph, but as his house was located in an obscure spot 
the Indians did not see it. Soon after this he removed to Lebanon, N. H., 
where he remained only a short time, and returned to Randolph. In the fall' 
of 1790 he made his pitch on the branch of Dog river in the northwestern: 
part of Roxbury. He cleared a patch of ground, built a log house, and re- 
turned to Randolph for the winter. While the snow was quite deep the en- 
suing spring he came to his cabin, accompanied by his son Uriah, a lad of 
sixteen, for the purpose of making maple sugar. Tradition has it that this 
stripling boy brought a five-pail iron kettle on his back all the way; but his niece 
makes a more credible story by saying her relative was not a Hercules, and 
that he really brought a seven-pail brass kettle. Soon after the sugar making 
business was well begun Mr. Richardson returned to Randolph and left 
Uriah to carry on the sugar making alone. The only door to his house was 
a bed quilt, and he afterwards related that he was accustomed to hear the 
wolves howl around his cabin every night. It is said that this plucky boy 
remained there alone for six weeks. Suffice to say, he was joined by the rest 
of the family as soon as it was possible for them to make their way through 
the forest with their eff"ects. Mr. Richardson soon after moved further up 
the stream and built the first framed house in the town, on the site of the one 
now owned by Julius Kent. This house was afterwards sold to Jonathan 
Burroughs, and moved down near the village. . Mr. Richardson built a saw- 
mill and a grist-mill, on the stream above his house, and another and larger 
house on the road running north from the location of his first framed house, 
where he died in 1822. Mrs. Richardson survived until 1841. Mr. Richard- 
son was one of the board of selectmen from the organization of the town, in 
1796, to 1803, and again in 1807 and 1808. He also served as moderator at 
town meetings nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson were people of the old 
school and very orthodox in religion, and opposed to all innovations. One 
of the reasons that induced him to remove into the forest was the hope to 
better his condition by building his mills, and another, and perhaps the more 
potent one, was that he was opposed to the marriage of any of his children ; 
and as they were nearing manhood and womanhood he hoped to place them 
beyond such "entangling alliances," by hiding them away in the woods. 
Again he strenuously opposed introducing the music of the bass viol into the 
church at Randolph, but was defeated; henc2 he hied him to the forest, to 
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450 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



listen to the music of the maples and hemlocks. His granddaughter men- 
tioned another, which she called one of their " odd notions," which was their 
decided aversion to young men visiting their sweethearts on Sabbath even- 
ings. Mr. Richardson was a member of the Baptist church, and Mrs. 
Richardson was a member of the Congregational church. Notwithstanding 
their " odd notions " they possessed grand and noble traits of character. 

Samuel Richardson, Jr., at the age of twenty-eight, married Sally Ellis, of 
Randolph, who died April 28, i8ig, and left an only daughter, Sally V., who 
was born in August, 18 11, and who married Enos K. Young and settled on 
West hill, road 17. Mr. Young died July 30, t88o. Mrs. Young still sur- 
vives, and resides on the old farm. Her son George resides with her. Mr. 
and Mrs. Young had eight children, six of whom are now living. 

Loren Cram is a son of Philip and Abigail (Heath) Cram, grandson of 
Philip, the first male child born in town, and great-grandson of David Cram, 
who settled in Roxbury before March 25, 1796. David Cram, at the organ- 
ization of the town, at the dale just mentioned, was elected lister and town 
treasurer. Loren Cram, at the age of twenty-six years, married Sarah E. 
Richardson, of Roxbury. In early manhood he was a mason, and followed 
his trade several years. He was also a jobber in clearing land, and had 
several hair-breadth escapes from death by falling trees. With the aid of his 
brother he felled several acres in" the following manner : first they cut the 
trees partly off at the stump, then fell one which struck against its near neigh- 
bor, which fell against the next, and so successively on until nearly all went 
down. Mr. Cram has a fine farm on road 49, where he resides, and both of 
his children are married and live with him. 

Joel Hildreth came from Cornish, N. H., to Roxbury, in the autumn of 
1798, and boarded with a family located near his " pitch," while he built his 
log house on the place he had selected for his future home. Mr. Hildreth 
and his family came on in the ensuing spring, and he resided on this place, 
which he converted into a farm, until his death, in 1844. This farm remained 
in the Hildreth family until a few years ago, when his grandson, Samuel A. 
Hildreth, sold it to George Williams. Mr. Hildreth was a noted hunter, and 
•claimed to have '^ unbuttoned 'many a bear's shirt collar." One evening, 
when he was returning through the forest, with his axe on his shoulder, not 
his trusty and unerring rifle, he dimly discerned the bulky outlines of a bear 
•descending from a tree near at hand. With heroic courage he dealt the bear 
a blow " to kill" with his axe, and fled home. Returning next morning, he 
found, as the result of his prowess of the evening before, that he had killed a 
huge hedgehog. The social element was not an "unknown quantity" with 
the pioneer settlers. While engaged in chopping one morning the clairon 
sound of a rooster's shrill crow came echoing across the wooded valley. It 
was a joyful sound to Mr. Hildreth, unlike that which came to the ears of 
Peter of old. And as Mr. Hildreth is said to have expressed it, " I put." 
He went in search of his new neighbors who owned chanticleers, and found 
them, after a tramp of four or five miles, in Northfield. 



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Benoni Webster, a native of Connecticut, brought his family to Roxbury 
in the spring of 1797, and settled on lot 3, in the northeastern part of the 
town. His first house was built of logs, roofed with bark, and had a floor of 
basswood, split and smoothed with an axe. In 18 to he built a large framed 
house, with rooms two feet higher than those of his neighbors, with doors of 
corresponding height, so that his wife's tall relatives could stand erect and 
walk in without stooping. He planted a large orchard of apple, pear, and 
plum trees — the first in town. In 1804 his entire stock of cattle, a pair of 
oxen and two cows, were bitten by a mad dog, and died. Mr. Webster died 
January 8, 1823, aged sixty years. Mrs. Webster died in 1838, aged sixty- 
six years. 

Charles Webster, oldest son of Benoni and Sally (Metcalf) Webster, was born 
in Lebanon, Conn., June 5. 1790, and was seven years of age when his par- 
ents settled in Roxbury. He obtained his education in school district No. i, 
in Roxbury, and by the light of the fire on the hearth in winter evenings. He 
was large and strong, and the chief aid of his father in clearing the farm and 
making it a comfortable home. He commenced to leach school at an early 
age, and taught fourteen winters. He gained so good a reputation for dis- 
cipline that his services were sought where others had failed. In such a 
school the larger boys had burned his ferule, and made preparation to pitch 
him out, as they had his predecessor. The attempt was soon after made, 
when the school-master promptly wrenched a leg from a bench, with which 
he did such efficient service that he was at once "master of the situation," 
and without further trouble "held the fort" to the close of the term. He 
married, in August, 1823, Eleanor P. Ryder, and settled or. his farm in East 
Roxbury. He was instantly killed by being thrown from his wagon in the 
night, near the Peck farm in Brookfield. 

Robert Cram settled in the eastern part of Roxbury about the beginning 
of this century. He was a farmer and lived to an advanced age. His son 
Martin married Louisa Steele, and remained in Roxbury until 1842, when he 
moved to Berlin and built and run a saw-mill. He reared four daughters, 
of whom Mrs. Alden Rich is the sole survivor. Jonathan Cram came from 
Lynchborough, N. H., and settled in Roxbury about 1800. He had a family 
of twelve children. His son Jonathan, Jr., when fourteen years of age, 
worked on a farm for Hon. Charles Paine, and when the Central Vermont 
railroad was built he was a foreman of construction. He married Nancy D. 
Rand, and they were parents of four sons and two daughters. 

Darius Spalding and his family were among the earliest who settled in 
Roxbury. Mr. Spalding was born in Plainfield, Conn., settled first in Cor- 
nish, N. H., and about 1800 removed to Roxbury with his wife and eight 
children. Later three more children were born to him. One of his daugh- 
ters died at the age of twenty years, and another soon after her marriage. 
All the others lived to old age, and with their parents were closely identified 
with the early history of the town. Mr. Spalding honorably filled nearly all 



452 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



the offices in the gift of his townsmen, and he and all his sons who were then 
old enough went to Plattsburgh in the War of 1812. Several of his sons 
afterwards settled in New York. John M. Spalding, in 1822, opened his 
house for a tavern, and kept it until the railroad was built. Allen, the only 
surviving son in this large family, was a merchant, town clerk, and repre- 
sentative, and held other offices. He is now in his eighty-sixth year, and 
enjoys a "green old age." Two of the daughters attained old age. Han- 
nah married Asa S. Simonds, and lived three-score and ten years. Eliza 
(Mrs. Huntley D. Young) settled in Kirby, where she still resides. 

Samuel Robertson, son of Patrick and Elizabeth Robertson, natives of 
Scotland, was born in New London, Conn., August 18, 1775. In August, 
1801, Mr. Robertson was married to Persis Richardson, of Tolland, Conn., 
and they came to Roxbury in the spring of 1802. Mr. Robertson visited the 
town in 1801. He met some Roxbury men in Keene, N. H., when on his 
way to examine lands in New York, who induced him to go to Roxbury. He 
hired William Gold to work for him one year. Mr. Gold was afterwards well 
known in town as " Deacon Gold." It was late in the sleighing season when 
they began the journey from Connecticut, but Mr. Rrobertson experienced 
no trouble until he reached Roxbury. When so near their home one of their 
horses got down in the snow, and Mr. Gold was obliged to take its place and 
help draw the load. In this condition they were met by the acquaintances 
Mr. Robertson had made in Keene, who, with the hospitality of the early 
pioneers, invited the strangers to their homes. They accepted the kind ofifer 
and stayed with them two weeks, and in that time Mr. Robertson had com- 
pleted a log house on his land. He made sixteen pounds of maple sugar that 
spring, which was their whole supply for that year. The ensuing winter, 1802- 
03, Mr. Robertson taught school in the first framed house in town, built by Mr. 
Richardson. He had sixty-eight pupils, who were packed as close as '" sar- 
dines in a box." Mr. Robertson lived three miles distant, and made the 
journey to and from his school on foot, without any road but what he made 
in his travels. He taught here two or three winters, and during the time 
moved into this house where he lived a few years. Mr. Robertson in early life 
held many offices in town, but was too radical to be a very popular man. 
He was at one time in mercantile business with Samuel Orcott, and Mr. 
Robertson used to sell and drink rum. When the temperance reform com- 
menced, in 1830, he at once adopted total abstinence, and about the same 
time stopped the use of tobacco. There is an anecdote relating to his learn- 
ing to use tobacco. Moses Clafiin, a weak minded man, who lived in Rox- 
bury and was most of the time a rown pauper, sometimes had a home with 
Mr. Robertson. On one of these occasions Moses sat by the fire-place, while 
Mr. Robertson sat opposite, chewing tobacco and spitting into the fire. 
After revolving the matter in his mind, Moses asked, " 'Squire, what did you 
learn to chew tobacker for?" Mr. Robertson replied, "Oh, so I could be 
a gentleman." Moses, with awful gravity, asked, " Wal ye did n't make 



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out, did ye ?" Mr. Robertson possessed a strong mind and was not afraid to 
express his convictions. His house was called the "minister's tavern," where 
they were made welcome and treated to discussion besides, if they happened 
to be stiff Baptists or Calvanists. He was also a great reader, quite a poli- 
tician, and never failed to vote every year after he attained his majority until 
his death. He died September 6, 1872, at the great age of ninety-seven 
years. 

Jacob Wardner came to Roxbury in i8or, built a log house, and next year 
moved his family into it. He was a German, and was born onboard the ves- 
sel in which his parents were emigrating to this country. He used to boast 
that he " was not born on God's earth." 

Moses Woodard came from Tolland, Conn., and settled on East hill, in 
1802. His son Billa was for many years a prominent figure in Eoxbury. He 
gained his notorietry by manufacturing saddle-trees, and for years was the 
only one in the business in all New England. 

Benjamin Samson came to Roxbury in 1810, He was a veteran of the 
Revolution, rang the church bell to call out the minute men, on Lexington 
Green, on the memorable 19th of April, 1775, and participated in the battles 
of Lexington and Bunker Hill. His son, Hon. Charles Samson, accompa- 
nied his father to Roxbury, and bought and settled on the place previously 
occupied by Dr. Spafford, where he had kept the first tavern in town. He 
became identified with the affairs of the town, was closely interested in its 
success, and held many important positions in the town and county. Mr. 
Samson represented Roxbury in the legislature of the state thirteen sessions, 
and by his influence Roxbury was transferred from Orange to Washington 
county in 1820. 

Joel Richardson, a relative of Samuel Richardson, the second settler of 
Roxbury, came to this town with his parents in 1802, at the age of four years. 
He married Susannah Batchelder, and settled in Roxbury. Their son Sam- 
uel A. was born April 11, 1832. In 1863 he was drafted into the United 
States service, entered the army, and served until the close of the war. Mr. 
Richardson was the only drafted man who entered the service from Roxbury. 
He married Emily C. Rich, of Berlin, by whom he had five children, four of 
whom are living. Mrs. Richardson died January tt, 1886. 

George Williams was born in Northfield, November 25, 1807. He mar- 
ried Julia Spear, of Braintree, April 13, 183 1, settled in Roxbury and 
cleared a farm on road 58, and died January 31, 1867. His wife died 
May I, 1876. They had nine children. Their son Salmon was born 
on the homestead where he now lives, April 4, 1840. October 29, 1863, he 
married Lucy A. Dowen, of Saratoga, N. Y. Mr. Williams is an honest and 
capable business man, one of the reliable citizens of his town, and is now 
overseer of the poor. One of his sons resides with him. 

Deacon WiUiam Gold was born in Springfield, Mass., October 30, 1780. 
He came to Roxbury with Samuel Robertson, in the spring of 1802, and af- 



454 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



ter working for him one year settled on one of the highest mountains in the 
town. Any one looking over his location would see that he began under un- 
favorable circumstances. In 1847 Mr. Gold removed to Norihfield. He 
married Anavera Dewey, and they had seven children. Deacon Gold died 
in 1859, and Mrs. Gold in 1856. He was a deacon of the Baptist church. 
At his first location in Roxbury the bears visited his corn field. Mr. Gold 
disputed bruin's right, and on looking into his field one evening he saw a 
large shaggy fellow helping himself The trusty gun was loaded, and bruin 
received its contents, and apparently was nearly dead. Mr. Gold seized an 
axe, and to make a final finish aimed a heavy blow at his head. The bear 
knocked the axe out of his hands by a stroke of his strong paw, and then 
came the tug of war : the bear clasped him in so hearty an embrace that he 
had almost squeezed his life out when his friend, Mr. Paddleford, arrived at 
the scene, and came to his rescue with the axe. " Don't cut the hide," 
gasped the Deacon with the little breath he had left. Notwithstanding, he 
dealt the brute a heavy blow that cut off two of his ribs, and the Deacon was 
saved. The next day the bear was tracked and easily dispatched. Deacon 
Gold always denied trying to save bruin's skin whole, and it is presumed the 
episode was added to make a good story. 

Job Orcott, a carpenter, came from Stafford, Conn., in 1803, and settled 
on " the highlands," where the business for the town was transacted for many 
years. In his declining years he resided with his son, Captain Samuel M. 
Orcott, who was an enterprising and influential citizen of Roxbury. Capt. 
Orcott married Mary Buel, of Lebanon, Conn., who came to her home in the 
wilderness of Roxbury on horseback. At the time of the invasion of our 
country in the War of 1812, he led his company, as their captain, to Pitts- 
burgh. The town meetings were held at his house from 1817 until 1841, a 
period of twenty-five years. He held most of the offices in the gift of his 
townsmen ; was selectman fifteen years and town clerk twenty years. Capt. 
Orcott was injured by falling timber when he was assisting at the raising of 
a building, from which he did not recover. He died in 1835. Captain and 
Mrs. Orcott had seven sons and two daughters. Their son Benjamin F. 
emigrated to Michigan. He enlisted from his home there and served in the 
Mexican war. At its close he returned to Kalamazoo, Mich., and for many 
years filled the office of sheriff. In the late war for the Union he entered 
the service as lieutenant-colonel of the 25th Mich. Regt., and served to the 
close of the war. He was again elected sheriff, and was fatally shot by a 
desperado while on official duty. He died December 12, 1867, aged fifty- 
three years. 

Orin W. Orcott, son of Samuel M., a native of Rcxbury, has resided in 
town since he was born, with the exception of one year spent in Massachu- 
setts. He received a good common school education, and when twenty-five 
years of age he entered the mercantile business. His business abilities were 
appreciated by his large acquaintance. He has been sheriff, deputy sheriff, 



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455 



constable, and collector thirty-three years, and postmaster twenty-eight years. 
At the age of twenty-two he was married to Angeline Spaulding, who died in 
June, 1874, and left no children. Mr. Orcott is now engaged in the sale of 
farming implements, and is an agent for the prosecution of pension claims 
and fire insurance. 

William B, Orcott, son of Samuel M., was born in Roxbury, January 15^ 
1820, and married Catherine Ainsworth, of Northfield, m 1847. Tliey have 
one son who married Ida E. Wells, of West Randolph. Mr. Orcott has always 
lived in his native town, is a successful business man, and has succeeded in 
accumulating a fine property. He owns a large amount of real estate, and is 
also engaged in lumbering and the sale of wood. He is not without political 
honors. He represented Roxbury in the legislature of 1859, '60, '78, '79,, 
'80, '81, was associate judge of Washington County Court two years, town 
treasurer nine years, and selectman several years, and during the late war was 
state agent. Mr. Orcott is honest, fair, and liberal, and enjoys the respect 
and high esteem of a very large acquaintance. 

Asa S. Simonds, born in Canterbury, Conn., moved to Royalton, Vt., with 
his mother and step-father, in 1794, and to Roxbury in 1806, when he was 
but sixteen years old. In 18 15 he married Hannah Spaulding. He has 
been a prominent citizen of Roxbury and filled satisfactorily many town posi- 
tions. He served as town treasurer nearly thirty-five years, and died in 1861. 
His oldest daughter, Hannah, married Asa Perrin, of Royalton, and died in 
i860. His daughter Weltha married Elisha Andrews and settled in North- 
field. Her husband died in early manhood, and she is now the wife of Ira Perrin, 
of Royalton. Azro A., second son, first married Lucy Green, who died in 
1850. He married, second, Margaret Day, and resides on the old home- 
stead. W. I. Simonds married Lucy W. Darling, of BerHn, who died about 
three years later, and left a daughter only two weeks old. He married, sec- 
ond, a sister of his first wife, with whom he has lived more than thirty-five 
years. Mr. Simonds has been an enterprising farmer, and has kept pace 
with the age. His leading mdustry is his diary, and by judicious breeding 
and liberal feeding he is able to produce 300 pounds of choice butter per cow 
annually. Mr. Simonds was the first in the state to build a silo and feed en- 
silage. 

Jedediah Smith married Esther Fuller, and came from Randolph to Rox- 
bury, with his wife and ten children, about 1812, and settled on the farm 
where his aged daughter, Mrs. Lucy Steel, now lives, on road 33. Lucy was 
born in Randolph, Vt., February 11, 1805, and came to Roxbury with her 
parents at the age of seven years. At the age of nineteen she united in mar- 
riage with Phineas Steel, whose father was a soldier and served through the 
whole of the long struggle of the Revolutionary war. Mr. and Mrs. Steel 
resided awhile in Brookfield, but returned to the Smith homestead in 1855. 
They had eleven children. Like other mothers in her day, Mrs. Steel spun 
and wove the cloth to clothe her husband and children. The hides of their 



456 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



beef cattle were taken to the tanners, who converted them into leather which 
was manufactured into shoes by an itinerant shoemaker, who, with his bench 
and kit of tools, went through a neighborhood from house to house for that 
purpose. His labor m this way was termed " whipping the cat." Mr. Steel 
died March 4, 1880. Only four of their large family are now living. Mrs. 
Steel, now aged eighty-four years, is hale and healthy, and is able to do her 
own work and attend to her business interests. One of her sons resides with 
her. 

Ira Roys is the son of Silas and Lois (Graves) Roys, who came from Clare- 
mont, N. H., to Northfield, Vt., when it was a wilderness, and where he 
settled and reared to maturity a family of eleven children, three of whom are 
now living, viz.: Titus in Northfield, aged ninety years ; Henry in Greenfield, 
Mass., aged seventy -eight years ; and Ira, the subject of this sketch, in Rox- 
bury, aged seventy-five years. At the age of twenty-seven he married Caro- 
line, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Richardson) Samson, who came from 
Fitzwilliam, N. H., and settled in Roxbury at an early date. Mr. Roys en- 
listed, in September, 1861, in Co. E, ist Vt. Cavalry, served six months, and 
was discharged by reason of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Roys are parents of seven 
children. Their son Fred VV. is postmaster at Roxbury. 

Hira G. Ellis, son of Charles and Esther (Wiley) Ellis, was born in North- 
field, in April, 1832, and has resided in Roxbury since he was quite a young 
man. He is a farmer, and resides on his fine farm near the village. He is 
one of Roxbury's reliable citizens, and has served his town as constable and 
collector and superintendent of schools. At the age of twenty-eight he mar- 
ried Mary A. Wiley, of Rochester, Vt. Three of their children and an 
adopted son are living, and are school teachers. 

George B. Stanton was the youngest child of Ezekiel and Annie (Berry) 
Stanton, and was born in Barrington, N. H., February 14, 1809, and came 
with his parents to Washington, Vt., to reside, in early childhood. His op- 
portunities for obtaining an early education were exceedingly limited, as he 
never attended school but a few weeks; but he always had a keen interest in 
public affairs, and was a constant reader of current news and the history of 
his own country. He came to Northfield, Vt., before attaining his majority, 
and was for several years in the employ of Gov. Paine, at the then called 
"Factory Village." January 10, 1841, he married Lucretia, daughter of 
Zedekiah and Esther (Holden) Silloway, of Berlin, and soon after went to re- 
side on the farm in Roxbury that was ever after their home. Mrs. Stanton 
is a woman of great energy and force of character, and truly was a helpmate 
to her husband, and together they built up from the then wilderness one of 
the finest farms in town. Mr. Stanton died July 28, 1888. 

David R. Stanton, son of George and Lucretia Stanton, was born in Rox- 
bury, October 24, 1841, and has always resided in town. Mr. Stanton has 
repeatedly held the offices of lister and selectman, and other minor positions. 



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He never married. He was educated at the common schools of his native 
town. 

Zed S. Stanton, son of George and Lucretia Stanton, was born in Rox- 
bury, May i, 1848. After attaining his majority he attended Northfield 
Graded School, where he received an academical education, and taught school 
for a portion of the year, for several years, in various towns in Washington 
county. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Washington county, 
March 15, 1880, and has since practiced his profession in Roxbury, with the 
exception of one year. He has continuously held the various offices in town 
since 1873, and represented Roxbury at the biennial sessions of the General 
Assembly of Vermont for 1884 and 1886. He held the office of assistant 
judge of Washington County Court from 1884 to 1888, inclusive. Mr. 
Stanton was married, May 31, 1880, to Jennie Smith Walbridge, of Roxbury, 
who was born in Northfield, July 7, 1854, and they have one child, Jessie 
Lucretia, born December 23, 1884. 

Alvin L. Brigham was born in Marlboro, Mass. He removed from Fays- 
ton to Roxbury in 1823. He married Flora Baxter, and they were parents 
of eleven children. Ozro, the eldest, fell defending his country in the late 
war. Don, the youngest, also enlisted in the Union army and died soon 
after he was discharged. Two died early. One son and four daughters live 
in Lowell, Mass., and William B. resides in Northfield. Alonzo G. died in 
Northfield. Alvin L. Brigham was prominentia the church, and led the choir 
a long time before instrumental music was introduced into church service. 
He died in 187 1, aged seventy-two years. 

Deacon Samuel Edwards, born in Massachusetts, May 20, 1809, died at 
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eliza Rood, in Bethel, Vt., June 21, 1888. 
He came to Roxbury with his parents, Samuel and Lydia, in 1823, and was 
a resident of the town sixty-five years. At the organization of the Congre- 
gational church of Roxbury Mr. and Mrs. Edwards became members, and 
in that year he was chosen deacon, and held the office to the close of his life. 
He lived a faithful and exemplary Christian, and was ever ready to contribute 
generously for the support of the gospel and for benevolent objects, and left 
a generous bequest to the church, the income to be applied towards its sup- 
port. In 1837 he married Nancy J. Edwards, who died in 1874. Their 
children were Wilbur F., Sarah, and Eliza. Wilbur F. Edwards was born in 
Roxbury, March i, 1839, and has always resided in his native town. At the 
age of twenty one years he married S. Emma Howe, and settled on the home- 
stead. Their only child, a daughter, was born in September, 1864. and died 
April 19, 1888. She pursued her academic studies at Randolph Normal 
School, at Montpelier, and graduated in the Business depart:nent of Green 
Mountain Seminary, at Waterbury Center. She was an apt and thorough 
scholar, a consistent Christian, and possessed most amiable qualities. Mr. and 
Mrs. Edwards have kindly given their nephew, Charles A. Howe, a home with 
them for several years. They are staunch and substantial members of the 



458 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



church and prominent in society. Sarah (deceased) married Rev, Aldin 
Ladd. Eliza (Mrs. Rood) resides in Bethel, and kindly administered to the 
comforts of her aged father the last few months of his life. 

Henry S. Boyce married Mary Wales, December 27, 1827, and settled in 
Roxbury, on road 33, where he cleared land and made a good home for his 
family. He died October 17, 1859, aged fifty- five years, and left his widow 
a good property. Mrs. Boyce still survives and resides on a portion of their 
old farm. Four of her children reside near her in Roxbury. Her daughter, 
Mrs. Jason Freeman, resides in Washington, D. C. One resides in St. Paul, 
Minn., and another in Brookfield. Mrs. Boyce is the daughter of Shubael and 
Polly Wales, who came from Plainfield and settled in Roxbury in 1824. 

Stephen Clark Wiley, son of Jonathan and Phebe (Clark) Wiley, was born 
in Rochester, Vt., January 27, 181 2. His parents came from Rochester to 
Roxbury about 181 7, and here he has lived since that time. December 6, 
1833, he married Lucinda Ford, of Roxbury, who was the mother of four 
children, one of whom died in childhood, and two sons reside in Roxbury. 
Their daughter married Charles Walbridge, deceased. His second wife, 
Betsey J. Merrill, bore him five children, and died in May, 1872. He next 
married Melinda Gove, of Cavendish, Vt. His children all live in town ex- 
cept one son, who is in business in Massachusetts, and two daughters, v/ho 
reside in Warren. 

Azro J. Boyce, son of Henry and Sarah (Wales) Boyce, was born in Rox- 
bury, January 22, 1837. At the age of twenty-four years he married Sophro- 
nia E. Ryder, of Coventry, Vt. They have had born to them three children, 
and all are living. Mr. Boyce is a butcher, and commenced dealing in meats 
in 1863. He has succeeded by industry and fair dealing in building up an 
extensive trade for a country place. He does his own buying and selling, in 
a business that amounts to about $7,000 per year. He served as constable 
seven years and lister three years, and performed the duties of these ofifices 
to the satisfaction of his townsmen. Mrs. Boyce died December 6, 1887. 

Horace A. Thayre, son of Albert and Lydia (Cleveland) Thayre, was born 
in Braintree, Vt., and in 1851 came to Roxbury, and settled on the farm 
where he now lives, on road 36. Mr. Thayre has been twice married, first, 
to Laura A. Howard, of Braintree, who was the mother of two daughters, one 
of whom is deceased. Mrs. Thayre died in September, i860. In 1861 Mr. 
Thayre married Almira E. Ditty, of Roxbury, who bore him one daughter, 
Mrs. Charles H. Flint. Since Mr. Thayre came to Roxbury he has observed 
many changes. On the road from Northfield to West Randolph only " Aunt 
Sally Richardson," aged eighty, remains of the residents there in 1851. He 
says many have come to town and gone. 

Phineas Wiley came to Roxbury with his parents when he was but eight 
years old. The family lived a short time in the first house built m that part 
of the town. He married Polly Ellis and settled in Middlebury. In 1837 he 
returned to Roxbury, where he continued to Uve the remainder of his long 



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life, and died at the age of ninety years. His son Philander was born in 
Middlebury, July 21, 1819, and came Roxbury with his father in 1837. At 
the age of twenty-five years he married Lucy, daughter of John M. and 
Betsey Spalding, of Roxbury. Early in his life he learned the trade of 
builder, which he followed nearly thirty years. When Mr. Wiley came to 
Roxbury there was only a hotel, one store, and a dwelling house where the 
village is now. The ground now occupied by the church was a field sur- 
rounded by a log fence. Mrs. Wiley died December 23, 1S83, and their only 
daughter resides with her father. 

Ebenezer L. Waterman, a native of Connecticut, was born June 5, 1798. 
He emigrated with his parents to Royalton when he was a small boy. In 
1848 he moved to Roxbury and settled where he now lives, on road 2. De- 
cember 28, 1843, he married Polly A. Fuller. Six of their eight children are 
now living. Mr. Waterman has made diligent exertions in business, which 
have been crowned with success. 

Erastus N. Spalding, son of John M. and Betsey G. (McClure) Spalding, 
was born in Roxbury. In his youth he entered the store of the late Judge 
Tilden, at Northfield, where he had a short experience in mercantile busi- 
ness. His active and energetic temperament impelled him to build up a 
business of his own. At the age of eighteen years he is found conducting a 
grocery store and manufacturing potash in his native town. He gathered the 
ashes from the farmers, by driving from house to house with a box of grocer- 
ies, which were bartered for ashes which he converted into potash and sent 
to Boston. In 1845 and 1846 he was a jobber in constructing the Central 
Vermont R. R. At its completion he received the appointment of station 
agent at Roxbury, and filled the position the next fourteen years j and at the 
same time did an extensive lumbering business. In 1865 he built a saw- 
mill on the site of his present steam mills, which he soon changed from water- 
power to steam-power. This was destroyed by fire December 5, 1872, and 
his present extensive mills were erected on the old site, within the same 
month. The output of his mills is r, 000, 000 feet of lumber annually. His 
supplies of timber are taken from his tract of about 4,000 acres of timber- 
lands. Mr. Spalding is a gentleman of great energy and comprehensive bus- 
iness ability. Besides giving his attention to this leading industry of his town 
he has found time to serve as selectman and representative in the legislature. 
At the age of twenty-three years he united in marriage with Miss Amanda A. 
Richardson, of Waitsfield. Their children are Willie S., a mail agent on the 
C. V. R. R., and a daughter, who resides with her parents. One son died 
at the age of eighteen years. 

Dr. Ira H. Fiske, the first homeopathic physician who settled in Roxbury, 
was born June 15, 1850, m Topsham, Vt. His parents, Hiram and Mandana 
(Holden) Fiske, came from Topsham that year, and resided in Northfield, 
Vt., until their deaths. Hiram Fiske was known as an honest, upright man, 
a painter by trade, yet he acquired an excellent education, and taught school 



460 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



for thirty-six consecutive winters in Orange and Washington counties. Man- 
dana (Holden) Fiske was a friend to everybody, rich or poor, and was a sin- 
cere Christian woman, gave much in charity, and never turned a beggar from 
her door hungry. Sickness and distress found in her a ready comforter. The 
epitaph on her tombstone reads: "She never grew weary in welldoing." 
There were five children, viz.: Carrie M., Almira N., Elbridge Gerry, Ira 
Holden, and Edwin P. Carrie died at Woodstock, Vt.; Almira lives at 
Calais ; Elbridge died at Brownsville, Texas, a soldier in the 7th Vt. Vols. 
He inherited his mother's disposition, and his death was occasioned by a long 
march on a terrible hot day, when, in addition to carrying his own knapsack 
and gun, he also carried a sick comrade's gun, and received a sunstroke on 
the way. This brave boy's death was a terrible blow to the family, and the 
shock hastened his father's death. Edwin lives at Morrisville. Ira H., the 
•subject of this sketch, was a cripple in his boyhood, suffering from a fever 
sore occasioned by wading in the river, when overheated ; but notwithstand- 
ing his enfeebled, crippled body, he had inherited an indomitable will, and 
at the age of nine years had learned without a teacher to read, write, and 
cipher, and had commenced the study of philosophy and Latin. During 
a number of years he attended school at the Northfield Academy; though 
very lame he walked the distance, three miles, each day, and in 1868 began 
the study of medicine. In the meantime kis father bought him a rifle, and 
in roaming the woods and mountains, hunting and fishing, he regained health 
and became a stout, athletic young man, and commenced to teach school in 
the winters, and kept up the study of medicine at Woodstock. He began 
the practice of medicine in Hardwick, Vt., in 1871, at twenty-one years 
of age. He married, in 1872, Marion E. Averill, of Roxbury, and in 1875 
moved and settled in that town, where he now resides. They have two 
children, Harold A. and Maud Carol. Dr. Fiske is a member of the Hom- 
eopathic Medical society of Vermont, has been superintendent of schools in 
Roxbury from 1884 to December, 1888, inclusive, and represented Roxbury 
in the session of the legislature of 1888. 

Ai N. Tilden, son of David R. and Mary (Newcomb) Tilden, was born in 
Williamstown, Vt., m January, 1826. He removed to Northfield with his 
parents about 1832, where he lived until 1850. He then went to Roxbury 
and was a clerk for J. S. White. In 1857 he engaged in mercantile business 
for himself, which he has continued to the present time, (December, 1888,) 
and is now a member of the firm of Tilden & Son. In 1852 Mr. Tilden 
united in marriage with Betsey A. Spalding. Their son George A. is of the 
firm of Tilden & Son, and their daughter, Mrs. Ira A. Bradley, resides in 
Auburn, Mass. Mr. Tilden is one of Roxbury's substantial and reliable cit- 
izens. Besides giving his attention to his own business he has taken time to 
aid in the business of his town. He represented Roxbury in the legislature 
in 1876-77, and has served as clerk of the town since 1856, a term of thirty- 
two consecutive years. He is how clerk and treasurer of the town. 



TOWN OF ROXBURY. 46 1 



Sylvanus F. Rich, son of Elias and Betsey (Coburn) Rich, was born in 
Northfield. In September, 1849, he married Abbie E. Cousens. Mr. Rich 
was overseer of a cotton manufactory in VValtham, Mass., about five years. 
In 185 I he went to California, returning in 1854 to Lawrence, Mass., where 
he assisted in starting the ill-fateJ Pemberton mills. In 1859 he settled on 
East hill, in Roxbury, and in 1870 removed to his present home on road 15. 
Mr. Rich is an enterprising farmer and a respected citizen. 

Ashel, son of Phineas and Sarah (Cheney) Flint, was born in Braintree, 
Vt , October 22, 1813. He married Roxana Willey, and after residing in 
several of the surrounding towns finally settled in Roxbury, where he is en- 
gaged in farming, on road 41. Mr. and Mrs. Flint are parents of three sons 
and a daughter (Mrs. Mason C. Shepard), of Northfield. 

Edwin P. Burnham, son of James and Fanny (Hibbard) Burnham, was 
born in Northfield, in September, 1818. At an early age he settled in Rox- 
bury, where he had various occupations and changes until 1869, when he 
engaged in the mercantile business and continued it the ensuing fifteen years. 
He has also dealt in wood and lumber. He has established a reputation for 
honesty and integrity, and has acceptably served his town in many of its 
offices. His first wife, Harriet Edwards, of Roxbury, who was the mother 
of his three daughters and son, died in October, 1870. Mr. Burnham mar- 
ried, second, Mrs. Fanny D. Wakefield, of Stowe, Vt. 

Sidney N. Miller was born in Cambridge, N. Y. His mother died when 
he was an infant. When he was five years old his father gave him to Capt. 
Sewell Blanchard, of Brookfield, where he had a home until he was seven- 
teen. He then learned the trade of wheelwright, and became a very compe- 
tent mechanic. While engaged in the extensive carriage shop of Mr. Hollis 
Collins, at Northfield, he was united in marriage with Miss Lucy Kathan. 
In i860 he removed to Roxbury, bought a saw-mill of Col. J. V. Randall, 
rebuilt it, and added a carriage shop. Here he has steadily continued in 
buisness. Mr. Miller is one of Roxbury 's highly respected citizens. 

In 1823 an enormous panther was killed in Roxbury, the largest ever 
killed in the state previous to the one killed in Barnard in 18S1 or '82. His 
tracks were discovered by Major Allen Spaulding, who was returning home 
very early one morning from a rather prolonged visit to his sweetheart. He 
and his neighbor, Joseph Batchelder, supposed it to be the trail of a bear, 
and together followed it until night. Next day Mr. Spaulding called to his 
aid Enos Young, a somewhat noted bear hunter, familiarly known as " Cap- 
tain Sip." Mr. Spaulding inferred, from the long leaps the brute made, that 
it was not a bear. " Capt. Sip " gruffly replied, " Damn it, it ' s one of them 
old long-legged fellers." They were obliged to give up the chase at night- 
fall. Next day a fresh and larger party took the trail. They heard the 
barking of a dog not far away, and one of their party, Charles Ellis, went ta 
ascertain the cause, and returned with the startling information that the dog 
had treed a fox. The party were armed with guns, and made an attack. 



462 TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 



upon the animal. John McNeal fired his, loaded with shot, and blinded and 
enraged the beast ; and just as he was about to spring upon them, Orin Or- 
cott dispatched him by firing a charge of chain links into his open mouth. 

Among Roxbury's early settlers Samuel Richardson and Capt. Benjamin 
Samson are known to have been veterans of the Revolutionary war, and 
doubtless there were many others. 

Capt. Samuel M. Orcott led his company, containing all the men in Rox- 
bury except Samuel Richardson, who much regretted that he was too aged, 
and Job Orcutt, a lame man, to Plattsburgh, to assist in repelling the inva- 
sion of the British from our northern borders. The company started from 
Roxbury on the morning of September 10, 1814, but did not reach Platts- 
burgh until Monday evening, September 14. As the battle occurred on Sun- 
day the Roxbury men did not arrive in time to participate in the battle. 
They returned to their homes in Roxbury on Friday. 

From Hon. Zed S. Stanton's historical address is taken the following for 
Roxbury in the late war for the Union : — 

" No state in the Union has a better record in connection with the war of 
the Rebellion than Vermont, and no town in the state has a better one than 
Roxbury. With a population of 1,060, Roxbury gave the Union army ninety- 
five brave soldiers, eight of whom reenlisted. Eight more were credited to 
this town as the result of the draft of 1863, and four men were credited 
to us out of that number, who enlisted without being credited to any towns, 
and were afterwards proportionately distributed among the different towns. 
When the war closed Roxbury had a surplus of twenty-three soldiers over 
all calls — a much larger percentage than any other town in the state. Com- 
pany H, 6th Vt. Regiment, under commmd of Capt. D. B. Davenport, was 
recruited in this town, in the fall of 1861. Besides this company there were 
residents of this town in many other regiments. Twenty-six of these died 
in the service of their country." 

The Union Congregational church of Roxbury was organized by Rev. 
Ammi Nichols, in 1838, with twenty-two members. Rev. Aldin Ladd, the 
first pastor, was installed in 1865, and remained until the autumn of 
1879. rhe churcli and society built a house of worship, of wood, in 1839. 
In 1 87 1 their present pleasant and convenient house was built of wood, at 
the expense of $3,600, and will comfortably seat 200 people. The church 
now has thirty-four members, under the pastoral charge of Rev. Henry 
C. Howard. The estimated value of church property, including buildings 
and grounds, is $3,000. Connected with the church is a Sunday-school of 
about sixty members. 



WAITSFIELD lies in the western part of Washington county, in lati- 
tude 44" 11' and longitude 4° 15', and is bounded northerly by 
Moretown, easterly by Northfield, southerly by Warren, and westerly 
by Fayston. It was chartered February 25, 17S2, to Roger Enos, Benjamin 



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Wait, and others, in all numbering seventy, by the legislature of Vermont. 
The charter was signed by his excellency Thomas Chittenden, then governor. 
The township was then supposed to contain 23,030 acres; but by an actual 
survey made in 1788 it was found to contain 23,850 acres. November 7, 
1822, four tiers of lots were annexed to Northfield from the east side, and 
again in 1846 six lots more, an aggregate of 8,310 acres, and diminishing the 
area of Waitsfield to 15,540 acres. The tract setoff to Northfield lies on the 
easterly side of the mountain, and all business matters are more conveniently 
transacted by its inhabitants at Northfield village than at any point in Waits- 
field. 

The first proprietors' meeting was convened June 30, 1788, in Windsor, but 
the record shows no transactions of importance. The next meeting was held 
in Woodstock, June 2, 1789, and eight of the proprietors were present, viz.: 
Zebulon Lee, who represented seventeen shares; Benjamin Wait, five shares; 
Joel Matthews, three ; John Marsh, five; Ezra Jones, three; William Sweetzer, 
three; Anthony Morse, one; and Reuben Skinner, three; making a total of 
forty shares. The remaining thirty shares were sold at auction for taxes, and 
nearly all were bid off by Gen. Wait, at ;£i los. per lot. 

The first permanent settlement in the town was made in 1789, by Gen. 
Wait and his family. At this time the General had no neighbors nearer than 
ten or twelve miles in any direction. In 1790 the legislature granted a peti- 
tion to tax all land in town 2d. per acre, for the purpose of building mills and 
constructing roads and bridges. From the funds thus raised a saw-mill and 
grist-mill were at once commenced and soon finished, by John Heaton, where 
the little village of Irasville now stands. 

The soil of Waitsfield varies, but is generally a strong, deep, rich, and mel- 
low loam. The extensive intervales along Mad river, with the adjoining up- 
lands, are divided into many excellent farms, and the highlands, though 
rough and broken, have a good soil and make excellent farms. The highest 
summit in the range of hills in the eastern part of the town is Bald Mountain. 
From these hills picturesque and unobstructed views of the surrounding country 
and distant peaks are obtained. 

Mad river enters Waitsfield from Warren, flows entirely across the town 
near its western boundary, and parallel with it, and falls into the Winooski in 
Moretown about seven miles below Montpelier. Its tributaries in Waitsfield 
are Mill brook and Shepard's brook from Fayston, and Fay's brook and 
Pine brook from the east. 

There is nothing peculiar in the geology of this town. It is underlaid en- 
tirely with talcost schist. There is a small bed of serpentine near the north- 
eastern corner, and one of steatite near the center of the town. 

The leading industry of the people of Waitsfield is farming, and the staple 
productions are butter, cheese, maple sugar, and live stock. The farmers of 
Waitsfield are justly celebrated as breeders and growers of fine horses and 
cattle, and are not excelled by any town in the county. 



464 TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 



The town was organized March 25, 1794. Moses Heaton was the first 
town clerk. The first freeman's meeting was held it September, 1795. There 
were then but twenty-seven legal voters in the town, and they elected Gen. 
Wait to represent the town in the legislature. The first church (Congrega- 
tional) was organized June 27, 1796. 

Waitsfield had a population in 1880 of 938 souls. This town is organized 
under the town system, and in 1888 supported six schools, which were taught 
eighteen terms by two male and thirteen female teachers, at an average 
weekly salary of $7.08 for males and $7.31 for the females. The whole num- 
ber of scholars in attendance was 218. The entire income for all school pur- 
poses was $2,019.33. The amount paid teachers, including board, was 
$1,536.95. The entire amount expended for all school purposes was $1,946.20, 
with H. N. Bushnell, superintendent. 

Waitsfield (p. o.) village is situated on Mad river, and is so located that 
it is the commercial center for both Waitsfield and the adjoining town of 
Fayston. Its nearest railroad station is at Middlesex, and it has the benefit 
of a daily stage. The village contains about a dozen merchants and dealers 
of all kinds, one hotel, a grist and saw-mill, three church edifices (Congrega- 
tional, Methodi-t, and Universalist), a good school, three physicians, one 
lawyer, one photographer, the usual complement of mechanics, and about 
250 inhabitants. 

Irasville is located at or near the junction of Mill brook with Mad river. 
It is a thrifty hamlet, containing one shingle-mill, one saw-mill, one store, a 
blacksmith shop, and about 125 inhabitants. 

Palmer Bros . grist and saw -mills were purchased by the firm in 1886. 
The gristmill, with three runs of stones, does a large and flourishing busi- 
ness. The saw-mill turns out annually about 270,000 feet of clapboards and 
about 250,000 feet of other kinds of lumber. 

M. L. Richardson s saiu mill, located on Mill brook, manufactures about 
400,000 feet of lumber per year. This mill was built by Ira Richardson. 

Fred Parker s skingle-mill at Irasville was originally built for a wool- 
carding-mill. Mr. Parker purchased the property in 1882. He manufact- 
ures about 1,200,000 shingles per year. 

Elmer O. IVask's saw and shingle ■ mill {?, located in the northern part of 
the town. Mr. Trask has owned the property since 1882. He turns out 
from 600,000 to 800,000 feet of lumber, 300,000 to 500,000 feet of clap- 
boards, and 75,000 to roo,ooo shingles annually. 

James S. NewcomFs carriage shop is located in the village of Waitsfield, 
where he and his son conduct the business of carriagemaking and general 
repairing. 

George W. Olmsteads butter tub shop, established in 1884. is located in 
the village. He turns out about 400 butter tubs per year, and does a general 
repairing business. 



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Gen. Benjamin Wait, the first inhabitant, and after 1789 the owner of more 
than half of the township of Waitsfield, and in honor of whom the town 
received its name, settled here in 1789. The following sketch of him we 
extract from Thompson s Gazetteer of Vermont: — 

"Gen. Wait, the first inhabitant of this town, was born at Sudbury, Mass.,. 
February 13, 1737. He possessed a firm and vigorous constitution, and early 
manifested a disposition and talent for military enterprise. At the age of 
eighteen he entered the service of his country, under the brave Gen. Amherst. 
In 1756 he was taken by the French, carried to Quebec, and from thence 
sent to France as a prisoner. On the coast of France he was retaken by the 
British and carried to England. In the spring of 1757 he returned to America, 
and in 1758 assisted at the capture of Louisburgh. During the two suc- 
ceeding years he aided in the reduction of Canada. After the submission of 
Canada he was sent, by the command at Detroit, to Illinois, to bring in the 
French garrison included in the capitulation. He left Detroit December loth,, 
and returned on the first of March following, having performed this difficult 
service with singular perseverance and success. At twenty-five years of age 
he had been engaged in forty battles and skirmishes; and his clothes were 
several times perforated with musket balls, but he never received a wound. 
In 1767 he removed to Windsor, in this state, and constituted the third family 
in the township. He acted a decided and conspicuous part in favor of Ver- 
mont in the controversy with New York. In 1776 he entered the service of 
the United States as captain, and fought under the banners of Washington 
till the close of the war, during which time he had been raised to the rank of 
colonel. After this he was made a brigadier-general of militia, and was for 
seven years high sheriff of the county of Windsor." 

He is described as a man of over medium height, straight as an arrow, 
stout, and with a very light complexion. And from what knowledge we gain 
we think he had a mind and will of his own. Tradition has it that the com- 
missioners appointed to locate the state capital, finding Waitsfield near the 
geographical center of the state, stuck their stake for that purpose where the 
village now stands ; but Gen. Wait declared, " He would n't have his meadow 
cut up." He resided in Waitsfield thirty-three years, until the time of his 
death, June 28, 1822, aged eighty-five years. 

The following sketch of Jennison Jones, Esq., is by Rev. P. B. Fisk, in 
Hememvay's Gazetteer: — 

"Jennison Jones, Esq., was born in Claremont, N. H., January i, 1777, and 
removed in early life to Waitsfield, where he resided until his death. He 
enjoyed only the common school advantages of those days, but was one of 
those ' self-made men,' for which this country has been noted. As a young 
man he was a very successful teacher. He filled nearly every town office 
with perfect acceptance when in the prime of life, represented the town in 
1827-28, and was especially interested in the history of the town, and ac- 
curate in dates and figures. He married, December 26, 1802, Miss Philany 
Holmes, and reared a large family. He died December 22, 1852, aged sev- 
enty-five years." 

Matthias S. Jones, Esq., was born in Claremont, N. H., April 12, 1778, 
and removed to Waitsfield at an early date. He was one of the more prom- 
inent men of the town, and held many of its offices of trust and responsibility 

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466 TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 



— was justice of the peace more than thirty years, town clerk for half that 
period, and represented the town in the legislature in 1825, '26, and '27. He 
was married twice, first, August 28, 1807, to Betsey Joyslin, of Waitsfield, 
and second, May 26, 1836, to Mary Prentice, of Weathersfield. He died 
June 25, 1851. He reared a numerous family, all by the first marriage. One 
son, L. W. Jones, became a successful merchant of Waitsfield, and was a man 
of decided public spirit. 

Edwin Jones, M. D., was born in Waitsfield, June 3, 1825, studied medi- 
cine with Dr. D. C. Joslin, attended one course of lectures at Woodstock, 
and graduated at Pittsfield, Mass.; practiced a few months at Orange, Vt., 
and at Vershire and Strafford the remainder of his life. October 18, 1852, 
he married Mary A., daugliter of Rev. Elisha Brown, of Montpelier, and died 
precisely two years later, at Strafford. 

Hon. Hiram Jones, another son of Matthias S. Jones, was born June 26, 
1808. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and 
made so good use of the scanty means afforded him for improvement that at 
an unusually early age he was called by his appreciating townsmen to fill 
many important places of public trust. He represented his town in the 
legislature of 1840, '41, and '43, was assistant judge of the County Court 
from 1855 to 1857, and besides he almost continually served as justice of the 
peace. October 6, 1835, he married Laura L., daughter of Hon. Jason Car- 
penter, by whom he had six children, only three of whom are now living, 
viz. : Charles E., Walter A., of Waitsfield, and Hiram E., of Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa. 

Levi Wilder was born in 1772, and came from Shelburne, Mass., to Waits- 
field, in 1792 or 1793, and settled on the farm where his son Orcas C. now 
lives. He was three times married, first to Lavinia Skinner, second to 
Clarissa Skinner, and third to Bernice Bates. He was the father of ten chil- 
dren, three of whom are now living, viz.: Levi C, in Minnesota; Orcas C, 
as before mentioned, on the homestead in Waitsfield; and Ann (Mrs. Har- 
rington), in Moretown. Mr. Wilder died in 1855. He was captain of militia 
and active in the interest of his town. Capt. Orcas C. Wilder was 
born in Waitsfield, in 1828. He served as captain in the war for the Union, 
and participated in the battle of Gettysburg. He has since taken an active 
part in town affairs, served as selectman, and in all has been lister about 
ten years. He married Mary E. Holden, and they had seven children, viz.: 
Alice M. (Mrs. Orville H. Richardson), of Montpelier; Fred F., who resides 
in Minneapolis ; Levi O., Enos E., Allen F., Josie C, and Roy J., who re- 
side with their parents. 

Dea. Moses Fisk, from Shelburne, Mass., came to Waitsfield in 1795, 
and settled in the north part of the town, on the farm where Charles Eddy 
now hves, and where he resided until about 18 10, when he removed to a 
portion of the farm now owned by Dea. E. A. Fisk. He reared a family of 
twelve children, eleven of whom arrived to mature age, and three of them. 



TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 467 



Perrin B., Hawley, and Joel, became noted ministers of the gospel. Dea. 
Fisk died February 5, 1847. His son Amos was born in Waitsfield, in 1806, 
and resided in town most of his life, dying in 18S0. His wife was Joanna 
Barnard, and their children were Fidelia J., who died at the age of twenty- 
two years ; Carrie S. (Mrs. Orrin H. JosHn) ; Rev. Pliny B., who resides in 
Dakota; and Dea. Edward A., who resides on the homestead in Waitsfield. 
He served his country in the late war. 

Jonathan Palmer was a pioneer of Waitsfield. He came from Hill, N. H., 
and settled in the northeastern part of the town at a very early day. He 
reared a family of nine children, none of whom are now living. He died in 
this town. His son Jonathan was born in Waitsfield, in 1804, where he re- 
sided until his death, in 1869. His children are Jonathan H. and Mrs. 
Laura Davis, of Moretown ; Julius I. and John W., of Waitsfield ; and Mrs. 
Emeline Brown, of Warren. Aaron Palmer, another son of Jonathan, and 
his sons Moses, William, and Hiram, all reside in Waitsfield. Moses and 
William are active business men. 

David Bushnell, of Saybrook, Conn., came to Waitsfield about 1797, and 
settled in the eastern part of the town, where he cleared a farm. He died 
in 186 r. Of his eleven children, all of whom lived to rear families, only his 
son Pardon is now living (1888). He was born in 1808, and always resided 
in Waitsfield. He represented his town in the legislature of 1859 and '60, 
and has served his town as selectman and overseer of the poor. In 1835 he 
married Miss Elmira Woodbury, of Baltimore, Vt., and they had born to 
them six children. Those now living are Milo A., in Waitsfield ; Frederick 
O., who served in the late war, in Worcester, Mass.; and George and Oscar, 
who reside in Thompsonville, Conn. 

Jedediah Bushnell was born in 1797, and resided about one mile below the 
village, on Mad river, where he was located in 1830, at the time of the great 
freshet. He afterwards removed to the farm where his son Henry N. now 
lives. He was interested in the affairs of the town and held numerous offices. 
He married, first, Abigail Taylor, and second, Naomi Joslin, and by both 
marriages was the father of nine children, five of whom are no.v living, two, 
Henry N. and Elvira (Mrs. Walter A. Jones), in Waitsfield. Henry N. Bush- 
nell was born in 1838. In August, i860, he enlisted into Co. H, 6th Vt. 
Regt., as a private, and was mustered out of service in July, 1865, with the 
rank of captain. He was in twenty-five engagements, which covered a period 
of about fifty days' fighting, and escaped with but one slight wound, and in 
his whole term of four years' service he was sick less than one week. He 
represented Waitsfield in the legislature of 1872-73, and has served as select- 
man and lister. 

William Waite was born in Waitsfield in 1797 and died there in 1886. 
He held most of the offices in the gift of his townsmen. He married, first, 
Persis Grandy, and second, Laura Carroll. His three children, all by the 



468 TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 



first wife, were Harvey M., William A., and Susan. Harvey M. and William 
are still living, and in Waitsfield. 

Samuel Savage came to Waitsfield from Weathersfield before 1797. He 
was a man of influence in town affairs, and reared a family of eight children. 
Matthew C, son of Samuel, was born in 1808, and died in Waitsfield in 
1880. His wife was Catherine E. Duren, of Middlebury, and they had born 
to them nine children, seven of whom are living, three, Lucius D., Edward M., 
and Alfred W., in Waitsfield. Lucius D. Savage enlisted into the Union 
army May 7, 1861. He was wounded at the battle of Savage Station, was 
taken prisoner June 29, 1862, released from prison July 30, and discharged 
November 29, 1862. Since then he has been prominent in town affairs, has 
served as lister, selectman, and member of the school board six years, was 
census enumerator in 1880, represented Waitsfield in the legislature of 1884, 
and was minor vice department commander, G. A. R., in 1880 and '81. 

Job House, from Abington, Mass., came to Waitsfield about 1798. He 
resided a few years in New York state, but returned to Waitsfield, where he 
spent the remainder of his long life, dying at the advanced age of ninety-four 
years. Three sons and four daughters grew to maturity, four of whom are 
now living, and all reside in Waitsfield, viz : Jason, Nathan D., Edwin, and 
Lucy N. 

Joseph Joslyn, son of Joseph, was born in Massachusetts. He emigrated 
to Waitsfield in 1798, and located on a farm in the wilderness in the eastern 
part of the town, where his youngest son, Alfred, now lives. He cleared a 
few acres, built a log house, and in 1800 married Miss Betsey Chamberlin, of 
Weathersfield, Vt., and brought his bride to the home he had prepared. They 
occupied the log house many years, but eventually built a fine frame house, 
in which he resided until his death, aged nearly ninety years. Mr. Joslyn was 
the eldest of a family of twelve children, and had born to him by three mar- 
riages thirteen children, eight of whom are now living. The four children of 
the first wife are all living, (November, 1887,) the sum of whose ages is 336 
years, viz.: Jennison, who resides in his native town, aged eighty-seven ; 
Luke, of Waterbury, aged eighty-five ; Hiram, of Berlin, Wis., aged eighty- 
three; and Betsey, widow of Thomas Wilder, in Morrisville, Vt., aged eighty- 
one. His second wife, Nancy Spalding, of Plainfield, N. H., was the mother 
of three children, of whom one is living. The third wife, Abigail Taylor 
bore him six children, three of whom are living. Alfred, the youngest, as 
before mentioned, resides on the homestead, and in the house built by his 
father. 

Lyman Fisk, son of Moses, born in Waitsfield in i8or, was a cooper and 
farmer. He resided during his whole life in Waitsfield, dying in 1884. He 
was a deacon of the Congregational church over forty years, was selectman, 
and held other positions of trust and responsibility. He married Mary Pof- 
ford, of Moretown, and they were parents of five children, all now living, viz.: 



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Rev. Perrin B., in Mount Dora, Florida ; and four daughters, Augusta (Mrs. 
H. B. Cross), Mary E., Anna B., and Hattie C, in Montpelier. 

Capt. John Campbell, from New Boston, N. H., came to Waitsfield about 
1802, and settled on road 32, on the farm where John Waterman now lives, 
and where he resided until his death, in 1852. He married Lois Whitney, of 
Morristown, and they had nine children, all deceased. Capt. Campbell was a 
prominent man. He kept a public house many years, and was rough in 
exterior, but possessed good abilities and sound judgment. Col. John Camp- 
bell was also a prominent man in Waitsfield. He, too, kept a public house, 
and was colonel of the militia, and filled acceptably several town offices. He 
died in 1880. 

Huzzial Gleason was born in Langdon, N. H., in 1802, and came to Waits- 
field in 18 1 9, where he resided until 1828. In 1827 he married Miss Emily 
Richardson, of Warren, and located on a farm in the eastern part of that town, 
where he resided the ensuing forty-two years, when, feeling the infirmities of 
approaching old age, he sold his farm and returned to the village of Waits- 
field, where he now resides. Mrs. Gleason died in 1882. Mr. Gleason has 
been a public spirited citizen, and identified with the general welfare of the 
society of which he has so long been a worthy member. He held the office 
of selectman five consecutive years, and for three at another time, was over- 
seer of the poor and justice of the peace, and also a deacon of the Congre- 
gational church of Warren. His three sons are R. J. Gleason, the present 
postmaster and clerk of Waitsfield ; C. J. Gleason, a prominent lawyer and 
business man ; and L. P. Gleason, a prominent merchant and manufacturer, 
of the firm of L. P. Gleason & Co., who reside in Montpelier; and one 
daughter, Emily, who resides with her father. Richardson J. Gleason was 
born in Warren in 1828. He was appointed postmaster July 11, i86i, which 
office he still holds. He has been clerk of the town since 1855, and treasurer 
the past twenty years. He married Mary L. Matthews, of Waitsfield, and 
their children are Herbert C, a leading merchant of Montpelier, of the firm 
of L. P. Gleason & Co., and three daughters, Mary E., Jennie M., and 
Louise R. 

Joseph Joslyn, a native of Leominster, Mass., came to Waitsfield from 
Weathersfield, Vt., about i8og. He reared seven sons and four daughters, 
all of whom lived to raise families of their own, and all at one time resided 
in Waitsfield. He settled in the eastern part of the town, where he died at 
the age of sixty-six years. His son William was the leading physician of 
Waitsfield for several years. He came to this town in March, 1810, where he 
died in 1834, aged fifty-four years. Three of his six children are now living, 
viz.: Stephen P. Joslin, of Waitsfield; Hubbard Joslyn, of Derby Line; and 
Mrs. Harriet Jones, of Barton, Vt. Stephen P. Joslin was born in Newport, 
N. H., in 1808. February 6, 1837, he married Ruth Pitkin, of Montpelier, 
and settled where he now lives, and is one of the most successful farmers of 
the town. Mr. and Mrs. Joslin had born to them two sons and five daugh- 



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ters. Those now living are Oramel S., Orrin H., and Sophia P., in Waits- 
field ; Mrs. Amelia Ward, in Johnson, Vt.; and Mrs. Dora W. Crane, in Mid- 
dlebury, Vt. Cyrus Joslyn, son of Joseph, was born in Weathersfield, Vt.,in 
1796, and was twelve years of age when his father removed to Waitsfield. In 
1824 he married Calista Campbell, and reared nine children to maturity. 
Those now living are Oilman C, in Minnesota; and Roena L., Minerva M., 
Betsey M., David O., and Edward O., in Waitsfield. Cyrus Joslyn was town 
clerk and selectman, and a prominent citizen. He died in 1866. Mrs. Joslyn 
died in 1887, aged over eighty-five years. 

Among the early settlers of Waitsfield was John Barnard, who came from 
Shelburne, Mass., about 179T, and settled on and cleared the farm where his 
grandson, Rufus H., and his great-grandson, Orlo L. Barnard, now live. He 
was one of the first deacons of the Congregational church of Warren. Deacon 
Barnard was blessed with three children, viz.: Rufus, Lydia, and Cynthia. 
Rufus was two years old at the time his father located in Waitsfield. He mar- 
ried Jemima Kellogg, of Brookfield, and settled on the homestead. Five of his 
ten children are living, viz.: Orlo, of Dakota ; Milo, of Geneva Lake, Minn.; 
Lucius, of Galesburg, 111.; Lucinda (Mrs. Burr), of River Falls, Wis.; and 
Rufus H., before mentioned, who resides on the homestead. Rufus H. mar- 
ried Mehitable, daughter of Benjamin Linfield, of Randolph, who bore him 
three children, Orlo L., Mary J. (deceased), and Cynthia (Mrs. Frank A. 
Sawyer), of Clinton, Mass. Orlo L., great-grandson of John the pioneer, 
married Emma Blake, of Northfield, whose children, O. Eugene, Cynthia E., 
Mary V., and Milo W., are the fifth generation sheltered by the " old roof- 
tree." 

Orange Smith, M. D., was born in Brookfield, January 27, 1796. He 
graduated at Randolph Academy, studied medicine with Dr. Daniel Washburn, 
graduated from the Medical department of the University of Vermont, and 
also took a course of lectures at Dartmouth College. He commenced prac- 
tice in Starksboro, but soon removed to Williston, and about a year after 
settled in Waitsfield, where he remained until near the time of his death, in 
1863. He was a skillful physician, and an influential and prominent citizen. 

Henry Dana was an early settler and located in the southwestern part of th5 
town, on the farm where John Ferris now resides. Only two of his numer- 
ous family are now living, viz.: Harvey in Iowa, and Samuel in Waitsfield, 
whose si.x sons, Chester S., Edwin H., Samuel J., Henry F., Stillman F., and 
Wesley E., all served in the war for our Union, returned with an honorable 
discharge, and are still living. 

Joseph Wallis came to this town from Weathersfield, Windsor county, with 
his father, Jonathan, at an early date, and settled in the eastern part of the 
town. He married Mary Church, and reared four sons and one daughter. 
He died in i860, at the age of seventy-seven years. Three of his children are 
living, viz.: Otis in this town ; Chapman in Worcester, Mass.; and Mrs. Maria 
Cushman in Manchester, Conn. Otis was for eight years engaged in railroad 
bridge building, and has served his town as selectman and hster. 



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Hon. Roderick Richardson, Sr., was born in Tolland, Conn., in 1779, and 
in early life removed to Waitsfield. By trade he was a saddler. He was- 
for many years postmaster of the town and the owner of the principal store, 
and was assistant judge of Washington County Court two years. He married 
Anna Davis. Two sons and two daughters were born to him. The young- 
est, Hon. Roderick Richardson, Jr., a man of enterprise and wealth, was for 
many years a leader in the business of Waitsfield. He was born August 7, 
1807, at Hartford, Conn., but obtained all his schooling at the common 
school in Waitsfield, He was representative in 1837, '38, '39, '50, and '51, 
senator from Washington county four years, and assistant judge one year,, 
elected by joint assembly. He was an earnest Episcopalian, having united 
with the church in 1853. 

Hon. Ira Richardson, son of Ira and grandson of Lemuel, was born in 
Waitsfield, October 6, 1816. His father was a native of Massachusetts, and 
an early settler in Waitsfield. Mr. Richardson received his education in the 
common schools of his town, and had as many days at hard labor in his 
youth as he had days at school. Thus equipped for the active duties of life, 
he married Harriet Chapman, of Fayston, who became the mother of six 
children, five of whom grew to maturity, viz.: Calvin C. and Ira E., who re- 
side in Minneapolis, Minn.] Clarence M. and Meriden L., of Waitsfield ; and 
Orville H., of MontpeUer. Mr. Richardson was one of Waitsfield's most 
prominent business men as well as one of her most reliable citizens. He was 
extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber, was a dealer in merchan- 
dise, conducted a tannery, and managed all of his large and complicated 
business successfully. He also took an active part in public affairs, and re- 
ceived, as the testimonials of the high appreciation or his townsmen, the 
prominent position of representative in the state legislature two terms, and 
from the county of Washington the positions of senator and assistant judge 
of its courts. In early life Mr. Richardson cast his political influence with 
the " old line" Whig party, and at the organization of the Republican party 
he marched in its ranks, where he did efficient service. He was an active 
member of the Methodist church, a large and cheerful giver, and was always 
foremost in aid of the charitable associations and societies and every enter- 
prise for the public good. He died in 1877, 

John S. Poland came to Waitsfield from Langdon, N. H., about 1820, and 
settled on the farm where his son Thomas D. now lives. In addition ta 
farming he was engaged in manufacturing lumber. He married, first, Lucy 
Dunsmore, and second, Julianna Stoddard. Six of his twelve children are 
now living. He died about 1848. Thomas D. Poland, before mentioned, 
resides on the paternal farm. He was previously in the lumber business, but 
is now givmg his attention to the cultivation of his farm. Another son, Ben- 
jamin, and a daughter, Susan (Mrs. P. T. Carroll), reside in Warren. On. 
the homestead in Waitsfield the iron works and hoe manufactory of Messrs^ 



472 TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 



Rice & Sellick were built at an early date, but were swept away in the freshet 
of 1830. 

Russell Drew, a native of Connecticut, emigrated to Fayston from Char- 
lotte in 1822. In 1848 he removed to Waitsfield, and located where he now 
lives. He is a farmer. His daughters, Mrs. Julius J. Palmer and Mrs. Jo- 
siah Holden, also reside in town. 

Garinter Hastings was born in Swanzey, N. H. He removed from his 
native town to Charlestown, N. H., and thence to Waitsfield, in 1823, locat- 
ing in Irasville. He subsequently kept a public house about a mile below 
Waitsfield village. He married Hannah Olcott, of Rockingham, and they 
had thirteen children, twelve of whom married and reared families. Those 
now living are Hon. Jonathan H., Yorick C. W., and Mrs. Fannie O. Camp- 
bell, who reside in Waitsfield ; Julius P., of Bedford, Mass.; and Mrs. Maria 
A. Dart, of Clinton, Mass. Hon. Jonathan H. Hastings was born in Waits- 
field in 1824. In 1848 he married Ellen M. Merriam, of Johnson, Vt. 
Their children are Lucy H., wife of J. W. Gregory, a lawyer residing in 
Waitsfield ; Mrs. Abbie M. Joslyn, of Minneapolis, Minn. ; and Lewis E., of 
Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Hastings, on account of his good judgment and 
rare business qualifications, has been closely identified with the interests of 
Waitsfield, and has held nearly every office in the gift of his townsmen, be- 
sides that of deputy sheriff twelve or fourteen years, sheriff of Washington 
county two years, state senator in 1869 and '70, and assistant judge of the 
County Court from 1880 to 1884, inclusive. He represented his town in 
1862 and '63, and has been a director of the Waterbury National bank about 
thirty years. 

Amos Hadley removed from Pomfret, Vt., to Warren, about 1826. He 
resided there only a few years, and then settled in Waitsfield, where he spent 
the remainder of his life. He died January 22, 1887. Only two of his eight 
children are now living, viz.: George in Morrisville, Vt., and Moses E. in 
Waitsfield. 

John Waterman was born in Royalton, Vt., in 1813, and removed to 
Waitsfield about 1826. In his early life he followed the occupation of car- 
penter, joiner, and wheelwright, and has been selectman and lister of his town. 

Thomas Prentis, from Weathersfield, Vt., settled in the eastern part of 
Waitsfield, in 1827, on the farm now owned by Nathan Boyce. Besides giv- 
ing his attention to his farm he found time to take part in town affairs. His 
townsmen called him to fill the office of selectman, and elected him to repre- 
sent them in the legislature m 1832 and '33. Mr. Prentis died in 1877, at 
the advanced age of ninety-two years and six months. Five of his eight 
children who arrived to mature age are now living, viz.: Joseph C, Cheney, 
Roxy (Mrs. Orvis Jones), Susan (Mrs. Lyman Prindle), all of Waitsfield ; 
and Mrs. Lucia Noyes, of Michigan. 

Elijah Berry, of Vershire, settled in Moretown about 1837, where he re- 
sided the ensuing seventeen years. He then removed to Waitsfield, where 



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he spent the remainder of his life. He married Clarissa Holton, of Thet- 
ford, and three of their children now reside in Waitsfield, viz.: George A., 
Leonard C, and Julius E. 

George \V. Olmstead, born in Elmore, Lamoille county, in 1837, is a farmer, 
carpenter, and manufacturer of butter tubs. Mr. Olmstead has held the 
offices of deputy sheriff and collector of town taxes. 

William McAllister was born in Brookfield, Vt., in 1804, and settled in 
Waitsfield in 1837. He conducted wool-carding in the building in Irasville 
now occupied by Fred Parker as a shingle-mill. He also kept a " tavern " 
at Waitsfield village several years. His sons Ziba H., Wesley G., and Will- 
iam W, reside in Waitsfield. 

Dr. James M. Van Deusen was born in Middlebury, Vt., in 1822. He 
graduated from the Castleton Medical College in 1849, and began the prac- 
tice of medicine in Warren in 1850. In 1868 he removed to Waitsfield, 
where he still practices his profession. In 1851 he married Jennette E. Boyce. 
Their children are Ella F. (Mrs. Leslie Reed) and Fred E., both residing in 
Omaha, Neb. 

The number of soldiers in the war for the Union credited to Waitsfield by 
the government is ninety-five. The number of different individuals who 
were in the service is eighty-seven. Ten died of illness, and eight were killed 
in action. Several died after they were discharged, from effects of the 
wounds they received and diseases contracted while in the service. Of the 
eighty-seven who went from Waitsfield, four were captains, two were second 
lieutenants, three sergeants, eleven corporals, fifty privates, seven sharpshoot- 
ers, four cavalrymen, two batterymen, one on the signal corps, one surgeon, 
one hospital steward, one musician, and one served in the navy. Most of these 
belonged to the famous " Vermont Brigade " of the 6th Corps. The town 
paid bounty for nine months' men, $575; for one year's men, $2,700; for 
three years' men, $6,202; for substitutes, $700; subsistence of volunteers, 
$18.10; transportation of soldiers, $38.50; services of selectmen and agents, 
$199-53 ; total, $10,433.13. 

A Congregational society was formed under the old law, in 1794, and a 
committee was appointed to lay out a meeting-house and yard. The site 
chosen is now known as "The Common," near the center of the township, 
and contained nine acres. Five acres of this site was the gift of Ezra Jones, 
Esq., on condition that " if the town should move the center from that place " 
the property would revert to his estate. When, therefore, the meeting-house 
was occupied at the village, and the town meetings were held there, his heirs 
took possession of their property. The remainder, containing four acres, is 
still a common. All the voters in the town, under the old law referred to, 
were members of this society, unless they filed with the town clerk the decla- 
ration "that they did not agree in religious opinion with a majority of the 
society." This law was repealed in 1807. 



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Waitsfield Congregational church was organized June 27, 1796, by a com- 
mittee from the churches in the vicinity, Rev. Ebenezer Kingsbury, of Jericho, 
presiding. The church then had eleven members. The first pastor of this 
church. Rev. WiUiam Sahsbury, was installed in i8or, and the first meeting- 
house was erected in 1807. It was constructed after the pattern of its con- 
temporaries, with the usual box pews, high pulpit towering over the deacons*^ 
seat and supplied with the necessary sounding-board suspended directly over 
the preacher's head, and the spacious gallery, surrounding three sides, — with- 
out paint inside, and destitute of any means of warming for several years. 
The expense of building was met by the sale of the pews, and the committee 
of construction recommended that a certain portion of the money be paid at 
the beginning to meet the expenses for "glass, nails, 2lK\A rum for the raising." 
In 1845 a new church edifice was built, of wood, a little east of the village, 
and in 1874 it was taken down, and the present beautiful and convenient 
edifice in the village was finished in 1875, which has a capacity for seating 
comfortably 250 persons. The estimated value of the church property, in- 
cluding grounds and buildings, is $10,000. The membership is 140, with 
Rev. Elisha S. Fisk, pastor. The Sunday-school numbers 150 scholars. 

The Methodist Episcopal church. — About 1804 the itinerant preachers of 
the Methodist Episcopal denomination occasionally preached in Waitsfield. 
It was sometime this year that Vershire circuit was divided and the new " Barre 
circuit " was formed, which included Barre, Plainfield, Middlesex, Montpelier, 
Northfield, Williamstown, Washington, Berlin, and Orange, and probably More- 
town and Waitsfield. If the towns last named were not then included, they 
were subsequently. About this time (1804) a Methodist class was formed in 
Waitsfield, and the society has since been regularly supplied with ministers, 
at first no oftener than once in from four to six weeks. Among the early 
preachers may be named Wilder Mack, Abel Heath, John Cummings, and 
Nathan Howe. Their first meeting-house was built in 1834. This was 
repaired, painted, and a spire added in 1853. In 1845 the circuit of Barre 
was abolished, and Waitsfield and Warren became a station, and in 1868 
Waitsfield became a separate charge. The present house of worship was 
erected of wood in 1870, at a cost of $4,700. It will comfortably seat an 
audience of 300, and with the grounds and all other church property is worth 
$5,500. The membership is tii, with Rev. George O. Howe, pastor. The 
Sunday-school is especially flourishing. Its officers number seven, teachers 
sixteen, and 150 scholars. The church edifice has recently been repaired, 
and the church is in a prosperous condition. The Young People's Society of 
Christian Endeavor embraces both the Methodist and Congregational young 
people, and is doing good work. 

The Universalist society. — This society was formed December 30, 1830, soon 
after the dismissal of Rev. Mr. Chandler from the pastorate of the Congre- 
gational church, by quite a number of the prominent men of the town who 
entertained liberal doctrinal views. They organized by electing Hon. Rod- 



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475 



erick Richardson, moderator ; Cyron Burdock, clerk ; Roderick Richardson, 
Daniel Thayer, and Matthias Jones, prudential committee. Rev. Mr. Fuller, 
who had held service with them as early as 1826, was their first preacher. 
They held their meetings in school-houses and wherever they could find suit- 
able places. In 1836 this society, with the newly-formed Baptist society, 
united in building a good substantial brick meeting-house in the village. The 
Universalists owned nearly three-fourths of it. The house will comfortably 
seat 250 persons. The present pastor is Rev. Perry Marshall. During the 
pastorate of Rev. C. C. Thornton, who officiated from 1856 to 1862, a Sun- 
day-school and Bible class were organized. 

The Baptist church existed only from its organization, in 1835, until the 
time of the excitement of Millerism, when it was broken up. 

The Protestant Episcopal church was organized by the efforts of Hon. Rod- 
erick Richardson, in 1853, with fifty-two members, and the installation of Rev. 
John E. Johnston as rector. They repaired and occupied the Universalist 
house, which that society was not then using, and continued to hold services 
until 1855. 

T'he Wesley ans organized in 1853, with ten members, and increased to forty- 
four. They have an interesting Sunday-school, maintain their organization^ 
but hold no service. 



WARREN lies in the southwestern corner of the county, in latitude 
44° 6' and longitude 4° it', and is bounded northerly by Waits- 
field and a part of Fayston, easterly by Roxbury, southerly by 
Granville, and westerly by Lincoln. It was chartered by Vermont to Hon. 
John Throop and sixty-seven associates, October 20, 1789, containing 16,660 
acres. November 12, 1824, Warren was enlarged by territory annexed from 
Lincoln. This township is situated between the two ranges of the Green 
Mountains, and at the place where the ranges diverge. 

The surface of the township is uneven and hilly, but not very mountainous. 
The soil is very good and generally quite free from stone, and well adapted 
to dairying and stock raising. 

The rocks underlying this township are of the talcose schist formation. 
There is a bed of steatite near the village, one in the southern part of the 
town, and another of better quality two or three miles northeast from the 
village. There is also a bed oi serpentine in the southern part, and traces of 
gold in alluvium exist along Mad river. 

The town is watered by Mad river and its branches, and by numerous 
springs flowing from the hills and mountains. Mad river, the principal stream, 
rises in Avery's Gore, in Addison county, enters Warren about a mile and a 
half west of the southeast corner of the town, and flows across it in a north- 
erly direction into Waitsfield. In its course across Warren it receives the 



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waters of several tributaries from Roxbury and Lincoln Mountain. These 
mountain streams abound with trout and afford many good mill sites. Profes- 
sor Hager, in his report of the geology of Vermont, says : '• Far up the mount- 
ain, in the eastern part of Warren, are several springs of a singular nature, 
and which we suspect to be medicinal. The water is nearly or quite inodor- 
ous, but from it are deposited large quantities of the oxide of iron and man- 
ganese. This sediment, which strongly resembles umber in appearance, 
forms a crust of considerable depth for quite a distance, and at one of the 
springs there is an accumulation similar in shape to tufaceous crust that forms 
High Rock spring at Saratoga. Cattle resort to this spring for drink, and 
are gradually wearing down the ochery hillock, from the top of which the 
water issues." 

The first settlement was commenced by Samuel Laird and Seth Leavitt, in 
1797. This and the next season, at least, the town must have settled rapidly, 
for we find the first town meeting was held September 20, 1798. The officers 
then elected were Ezra Miller, moderator; Samuel Laird, town clerk; Ruel 
Sherman, Joseph Raymond, and Seth Leavitt, selectmen; Samuel Laird, 
John Sherman, and Joseph Raymond, listers ; Ruel Sherman, collector ; and 
John Woodard, grand juryman. 

At the first freemen's meeting held September 2, 1800, twelve took the 
freeman's oath. The record shows that Isaac Tichnor, for governor, received 
twelve votes, and Paul Brigham, for lieutenant-governor, received thirteen. 
As ballot-box stuffing is not known to have been a " fine art " with our hon- 
est forefathers, we presume that Samuel Laird, who had been appointed justice 
of the peace the year before, had taken the freeman's oath previous to this 
meeting. The town was first represented in the legislature in 1809, by 
Thomas Gerald. The first child born in town was Cynthia, daughter of Ruel 
and Olive Sherman, born October 17, 1797. She married Robert Leach, 
and resided in Randolph at an advanced age. Lucius, son of Seth Leavitt, 
is said to have been the first male child born in town, March 5, 1798. 

The first settled minister in town was Rev. Nathaniel Stearns, a Metho- 
dist. His salary of $100 per annum was paid in grain. It appears that there 
was some strife between the Congregationalists and the Methodists to secure 
the minister's lot. Rev. Mr. Wheelock, Congregationalist, preached occa- 
sionally, and expected to gain the lot by being installed first. The Metho- 
dists thought it quite desirable for their minister ; so precipitated the matter 
by going in the night for Rev. Mr. Stearns, and installed him first. Dr. Fish 
was the first physician, A. C. Huntoon the first lawyer, and Watrous Mather 
the first merchant. The wife of Ruel Sherman was the first person who 
died in town. The first marriage in Warren was that of John Wilcox, of 
Roxbury, and Abigail Steel, of Warren. Samuel Austin run a distillery in 
town in early times when " toddy " was considered a necessity in every family. 
It was then used to keep out cold and to keep out heat. It was necessary 
■zt raisings, bees, quiltings, parties, weddings, neighborly visits, funerals, sheep 



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washing, butchering, and to entertain the minister when he called to inquire 
of the spiritual welfare of his parishioners. 

George Scott was the first brickraaker. William Mathers owned and con- 
ducted the first tannery. Ashbel Miner built the first grist-mill. Israel 
Ward built the first saw-mill, on the site now occupied by E. Cardell's mill. 
Winslow Fish and Levi Persons were the first carpenters, and Daniel Steel 
was the first mason. The pine lumber for the first meeting-house was drawn 
from Brandon, Vt. That part from which the pews were made was drawn 
with an ox-team. The first school-house in Warren is said to have been built 
in 1805, where the school-house now stands in district No. i. We hardly 
think that the date given is correct, as that is seven years after the town was 
organized. Some of the towns maintained schools in private houses before 
the inhabitants felt able to build school-houses. This might have occurred 
in Warren. 

Warren, as we see, eftected its organization as a town the next year after 
the "first settler" entered it, and we see the "new-born" town, with all the 
machinery of a municipal corporation in successful operation, which has con- 
tinued thenceforward by regular annual elections at March meetings. Her 
history after organization is like her sister towns. The pioneers set about 
leveling the forests, erecting farm buildings, school-houses, mills, stores, and 
improving the roads. They were young, brawny, resolute men, who were not 
afraid of the hardships of backwoods life, and they had the strength as well 
as the courage to endure it all. It is true there were instances of the want 
of the common necessaries of life, and in a few instances, before they had 
made much progress in clearing, they were obliged to be contented with the 
light diet of potato and milk and pumpkin. But that was of short duration. 
They soon widened their " clearings," and the virgin soil produced so abun- 
dantly that even with their proverbially large families they knew no want. 
The brooks and the forest also fed them. The streams swarmed with trout, 
the moose and deer bounded over their native hills, " and the bears were as 
plenty as woodchucks." These hardy pioneers were happy in their primitive 
homes. They had their pastimes at the " raisings," which of necessity were 
constantly occurring, the logging bees, corn huskings, and quiltings. There 
were no '' sets " then ; society had but one grade. The social element was 
strong, and at these gatherings the whole town assembled. 

Many years since, Christopher Moore, seventeen years of age, and De 
Estings Billings, about the same age, set a bear trap three miles from the vil- 
lage, and on going to the spot the next day found a two-year-old bear in the 
trap. Thinking it would be nice to take the bear down to the village alive, 
they each cut a good switch, and gave the bear, who was first disposed to 
fight, such a thorough whipping he curled down. They did not release him 
from the trap and so run the risk of losing him, but one took the bear in his 
arms and the other the trap, and together they carried the bear and trap 
about half a mile to the road, where they had a cart in waiting ; but they had 



478 TOWN OF WARREN. 



to lay the bear down several times and repeat the whipping before they got 
to the cart. They got their faces and arms scratched some, but they took 
bruin to the village alive. 

In 1800, when the first census was taken in Warren, the population num- 
bered fifty-eight souls. At the last census, 1880, the population was 951. 
In 1885 the town of Warren adopted the town system of schools. In 1888 
it supported ten schools an aggregate of twenty-eight terms, and have had 
an average of 27.3 weeks in all the schools, which have been taught by seven 
male and thirteen female teachers, at an average weekly salary of $7.32 for 
male and $4.63 for female teachers. The v/hole amount paid to teachers 
was $1,536.95. The number of scholars between the ages of five and twenty 
years who attended these schools the past year is 201. Eight others at- 
tended private school. The entire income for all school purposes was 
$1,751.22, and the whole amount expended for school purposes was $1,714.- 
70. £. W. Slayton was superintendent. 

Warren is an agricultural town; grass is "king," the dairy and stock grow- 
ing are leading branches of industry ; but the manufacture of the different 
kinds of lumber, tubs, etc., receive considerable attention. 

Warren (p. o.) village is situated near the center of the town, on Mad 
river, at its confluence with Bradley and Freeman brooks. These streams 
furnish the village an abundant water-power, which turn the wheels of several 
mills and manufacturing establishments. Besides these this pleasant village 
contains a Union church, a good school-house, one hotel, a half dozen stores 
of all kinds, a telephone office, a full supply of shops, mechanics, and arti- 
sans, and about seventy dwellings. Its nearest railroad station is at Rox- 
bury, seven miles distant. 

East Warren (p. o. ) is a hamlet situated at the four corners in the 
eastern part of the town. This is the oldest village in the town, and where 
its business was first transacted. It contains a Union church and school- 
house, blacksmith shop, and about a dozen dwellings. It is surrounded by 
a fine farming district, and was the first part of the town that was settled. 

Plyna Parker's saw and shingle viillxs located at the lower end of Warren 
village, on Mad river, opposite the grist-mill. It came into Mr. Parker's pos- 
session in 1877. He rebuilt it, put in a circular saw for sawing coarse lumber, 
and machinery for sawing shingles and dressing boards. He manufactures 
about 1,000,000 feet of dressed lumber per year, and a great many shingles. 
Mr. Parker also owns a clapboard-mill near the tub factory, which was built 
by William Cardell for a starch factory. It came into Mr. Parker's hands in 
1884. He converted it into a clapboard-mill. He stocks the two mills him- 
self, draws his lumber over the mountain to Roxbury, and employs ten or 
twelve men and a number of teams. He deals in all kinds of dressed and 
coarse lumber and shingles. 

Bradley Brothers' shingle, bobbin, ajid clapboard-mill is located on Mad 
river, at the extreme south end of the village, on the site of the scythe and 



TOWN OF WARREN. 479 



edge tools manufactory, built about 1845, by Carlos Sargent, which was 
burned. In the spring of 1880 he built a mill for manufacturing shingles 
and bobbins, and run it up to the time of his death, August 28, 1884. Since 
then his two sons have conducted the business, and are now adding clap- 
board machinery and employ seven or eight men. 

F. A. Alien's satv and clapboard-inill is situated on Clay brook, about 
two and a half miles from Warren village. It was built by F. A. Allen in 
1874. Mr. Allen stocks the mill himself, and cuts about 500,000 feet of 
lumber per year. He also leases of E. Cardell the saw-mill in Warren village, 
and gives employment to seven hands, and in the winter months to ten 
more, and five teams. 

H. W. Lyford^s tub factory is located in Warren village, on the east branch 
of Mad river, which affords the power, with steam as an auxiliary. It was a 
sash and door factory when Mr. Lyford bought it. He put in machinery 
for the manufacture of clothes pins and pail handles. Two years a^ter he 
convered it into a tub factory, and is now manufacturing about 30,000 tubs 
per year, and employs three or four men. 

D. C. Geers carriage, casket, and furniture shop was built in 1S62. It is 
situated in the village, and is supplied with power from E. Cardell's mill. 

George Banister s biacksmit/i shop is situated on the west side of Mad 
river, in the village. It was built by William Cardell for a tannery. In 
1884 Mr. Banister bought it and converted it into a blacksmith shop, put in 
a triphammer, and other machinery for the manufacture of steel ox-shoes, 
slide ox-yokes, mill-picks, lumbermen's cant-dogs, stonecutters' tools, bush- 
hammers, axes, and joiners' tools. Mr. Banister employs two or three men. 

Sylvester Banister s grist-mill, located on Mad river, in the village, was 
built by Kimball & Parker. In 1859 Mr. Banister bought it, repaired it, and 
is now running a custom mill. It has three runs of stones. Mr. Banister 
sells flour, feed, meal, and grain. 

Walter A. Baglefs cooper shop is located on Bradley brook, at the lower 
end of Warren village, on road 17 corner 24. It was built by him in 1885. 
He does a small business, making only about 500 or 600 tubs per year. 

A. A. Pearsons' s clapboard-mill, located on Lincoln brook, was built by 
Erastus Butterfield for a clothes-pin factory, who run it for that purpose from 
1878 to 1886, when Mr. Pearsons bought it, built a new dam, rebuilt the 
mill, and put in clipboard machinery. Mr. Pearsons employes three men. 

B. F. Shaws carriage shop is located at the lower end of Warren village. 
It was built by George Hanks about 1872. Mr. Shaw manufactures heavy 
wagons and sleds, and also does sawing and planing for builders. 

Stetson 6^ Sons saw and cider mills are on Mad river, about two and half 
miles from Warren village. They are doing a good business in cus;om saw- 
ing and cider making. 

Asahel Young, born in Athol, N. H., February 28, 1795, came to Warren 
when the town contained but three families. He located in South Hollow, 



480 TOWN OF WARREN. 



on the farm now owned by Elbridge Hanks, where he cleared a plot of 
ground and built a log cabin. He married Fanny Campbell, who died about a 
year after. He next married Precilla Stetson. Mr. Young cleared up his 
farm and made of it a comfortable home. He was a famous hunter, and had 
several encounters with bears. On one occasion he was treed by a she bear 
with cubs, and remained perched in a tree until his shouts were heard by the 
neighbors, who came to his rescue. His children, who grew to maturity, 
were Hiram, son of his first wife, who enlisted in the service of the United 
States in the war for the Union, and died in the hospital ; Louisa E. (Mrs. 
Walter A. Bagley), deceased ; William, who emigrated to Wisconsin, where 
he died; and Emily F., who married, first, Alfred M. Richardson, of Roches- 
ter, Vt. Mr. Richardson enlisted in the Union army, returned home at the 
close of the war an invalid, and died three months after. The only child of 
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, Enoch E., married Myra Sawyer, of Middlesex, 
and is a farmer in Berlin. Mrs. Richardson married, second, Walter A. Bag- 
ley, and now resides in her native town. 

James Allen, second cousin of Ethan Allen, was born in Mansfield, Conn., 
May 28, 1787. He came to Warren from Walpole, N. H., about 1798, 
and settled where John Cardell now lives ; but in a few years he removed to 
the farm which Nathan Thayre now owns. Deacon Allen was the first person 
baptized by emersion in Walpole, and was the first deacon of the Baptist 
church in Warren. When twenty years old he married Achsah Young, 
daughter of a sea captain. She was born in Athol, Mass., June 3, 1788. 
They were blessed with thirteen children. Mr. Allen encountered the hard- 
ships incident to a home in the woods. He resided in Warren about seventy 
years, witnessed the great improvements made in that long time, and helped 
to make them. He died June 8, 1867, aged eighty years. Mrs. Allen sur- 
vived until March 11, 1887, aged nearly ninety-nine years. His daughter has 
the old family Bible, which was printed in 1795. 

Joseph W. Eldridge, son of James Eldridge, of Brooklyn, Conn., who was 
commissioned a first lieutenant by King George HI., in 1775, and served 
under command of Gov. Jonathan Trumbull, came to Waitsfield from Brook- 
lyn, Conn., about 1803, and settled on road 38. In 1804 he married Betsey 
Tyler, of Connecticut, a granddaughter of Israel Putnam, and brought his 
bride all the way to their home in Waitsfield on horseback. They lived to 
clear their farm, and reared a family of three sons and three daughters who 
Hved to adult age. Mr. Eldridge was the first postmaster of Warren, served as 
justice ot the peace twenty-four years, and was town clerk. His only surviving 
child, Edward A., was born in Warren, June 5, i8ig, and married Elutheria 
Nichols, of Warren, in 1848. He now resides in the village of Warren, and 
was engaged in live stock dealing for twenty years, and drove his cattle to mar- 
ket in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Mr. Eldridge is a prominent man in 
Warren, and has served in many of the town offices. He has been success- 
ful in his business, and secured a competency, and is a large land owner. One 



TOWN OF WARREN. 48 1 



of his farms is the first one settled in town. He has also the first woolen 
carpet made in town, and what makes it especially valuable to him is the fact 
that it was made by the hands of his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge had 
born to them five children. One died in infancy; one died in the array; 
another was wounded ; and a son-in-law was shot. The united weight of 
himself and three surviving children is more than 800 pounds. 

William Cardell was born in Southwick, Mass., May 3, 1788. He removed 
to Monroe, N. Y., and was married, September 23, 1810, to Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of John and EHzabeth Peers. He settled in the eastern part of the. 
town in 181 7, but soon sold his land for store goods, in which he was unfor- 
tunate, and lost nearly all his property. He then bought a tract of land in. 
South Hollow, which now comprises several farms. He was a great worker^ 
cleared many acres of land, and made the mountain road to Lincoln for fifty 
cents per rod. While making the road he had a cabin built on runners, int 
which to cook and sleep, and which he moved along as fast as the road was 
completed. He also kept a tavern and toll-gate several years. When he 
came into town he had about $ 1,000, but owing to his misfortune he had only 
about $200 when he bought in South Hollow, and by his unremitting toil 
and economy amassed a large property, and was the wealthiest man in town 
at his death. He finally sold his farm in South Hollow, and moved into the 
village, where he died November 2, 1870, aged eighty-two years. He was 
many years a member of the M. E. church. 

James Cardell, son of William and Elizabeth (Peers) Cardell, was born in 
Warren, November 29, 18 1 8. He received a common school education. At 
the age of twenty-eight years he married Mary M. Bradley. In 1848, in com- 
pany with his brother George W,, he engaged in mercantile business. This 
partnership continued about five years. Mr, Cardell has been a merchant 
since 1840, and the clerk of Warren since his appointment, December 24, 
1863. He represented his town in 1869 and 1870, and has held other town 
offices. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Cardell are Mary A., born March 11, 
1847 ; Elizabeth L., born June 24, 1851, who died November 3, i86r ; Will- 
iam H., born October 24, 1858; and Jennie H., born June i, 1865. 

George W. Cardell, son of William and Elizabeth (Peers) Cardell, was born 
in Warren, February 17, 1823. He received a common school education, 
and in 1848 went into partnership with his brother James in the mercantile 
busmess, which they continued about five years, when George W. bought the 
goods, built a new store, which is now occupied by C. A. Ford, and in con- 
nection with his mercantile business did a considerable business in lumber. 
He also built a mill and manufactured eave- spouts. Mr. Cardell has been an 
active, energetic, and successful business man, and has accumulated a com- 
petency. In 1875 he retired from mercantile business, and is now enjoying 
a quiet life. He resides in his fine house on Main street, which he built 
about the time he left active business. June 20, 1861, he was appointed 
postmaster ; and in 1872 he represented Warren in the legislature, and again 
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482 TOWN OF WARREN. 



in 1874. Mr. Cardell is one of the most prominent men of Warren. De- 
-cember i, 185 1, he married Eleanor Sargent. Their two children died in 
infancy. 

Edwin Cardell, son of William and Elizabeth (Peers) Cardell, was born in 
Warren, January 17, 1834, and in his youth attended the common schools. 
In 1857 he married Elizabeth L. Sargent, of Warren. In 1858 he bought a 
saw-mill in the village, and engaged in the lumber business, which he con- 
tinued until 1886, when he rented his mill to F. A. Allen. Mr. Cardell resides 
on Main street, where he owns a farm of forty acres. At the March meeting 
of 1861 he was elected to the offices of constable and collector, which he has 
held to the present time. In 1855 and 1856 he represented Warren in the 
legislature. Mr. Cardell is one of Warren's thorough business men. 

Carlos Sirgent, son of Benjamin and Orpha (Belknap) Sargent, was born 
in East Randolph, Vt., September 17, 1805. He learned the blacksmiths' 
trade of his father. He married Zeruah Hall about 1829, but resided with 
his father until 1835, when he settled on Main street, in Warren, and began 
custom blacksmithing, and continued the business ten years. He then bought 
the water-power where the barrel factory and Bradley's shingle-mill now 
stand, and with his brother Enos, as partner, manufactured scythes and edge 
tools until his brother left for California, in 1848. He then sold to P. How- 
ard, and was a farmer until 1886, when he sold his farm to Russell Chadwick, 
and resided with him. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent had born to them five daugh- 
ters, and a son who died in infancy. Four reside in Warren, viz.: Mrs. 
George W. Cardell, Mrs. Edwin Cardell, Mrs. Norman Robinson, and Mrs. 
Jefferson Hall. The other, Mrs. S. I. Goodspeed, resides in Kansas. Mrs. 
Sargent died January 12, 1882. Mr. Sargent was contemporary with Henry 
A. Sterling, and witnessed most of the changes that are described by his 
neighbor. 

Richard Sterling, who lived to the great age of ninety-four years and six 
months, came to Warren from South Woodstock about 1824, and located a 
home where George W. Cardell's house now stands. He built a house and 
opened it for a tavern, which was the first opened to the public in this part 
of the town. At this time all of the town business was done at East Warren, 
and had been since the organization of the town in 1798. A tavern was 
built there before Mr. Sterling came into the town. The west part of the 
town was still a wilderness, without a road ; traversed only by a foot-path, 
with marked trees to guide the wayfarer. The first store in the River vil- 
lage was partly built by Cyrus Allen, and was finished about 1839, and con- 
ducted by Isaac Ralph. It stood on the site now occupied by James Car- 
dell's store. Henry A. Sterling, son of Richard, was born in South Wood- 
stock, April 18, 1814, and came to Warren with his father in 1824. About 
1836 he united in marriage with Amy C. Bagley, of Warren. About 1838 
he built the first carriage shop in town, where Mr. Lyford's tub shop now 
stands, and which was burned about ten years later. Mr. Sterling sold the 



TOWN OF WARREN. 483 



site and built where he now lives, on road 13 corner of 18. Here he has since 
<ione a large business in manufacturing carriages and caskets. Mr. Sterling 
has lived to see the forest leveled, and cultivated fields in its stead, roads 
built, and a village spring up, and every building in this part of the town put 
in its place. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling are parents of four daughters, all married 
and scattered round about. Mrs. Sterling died December 31, 1886. Mr. 
Sterling is one of the few of the " old line " left, and is highly respected. 
Seth Sterling, son of Richard, was born in Woodstock, September 8, 1819, 
and was two and a half years old when his parents came to Warren. At the 
age of twenty-two he married Eliza A. Child, of Bethel, Vt., and settled 
in " Grand Hollow," in a small log house. He cleared most of his farm, and 
replaced the log cabin, with a good house of brick, which he made, and has 
iDuilt all his other buildings. He has been a consistent member of the 
Methodist clmrch since their edifice was built. He is the father of two sons 
and three daughters, all of whom are living. 

Reuben B. Miller, son of Jedediah and Hannah (Porter) Miller, whose 
father was a Revolutionary soldier, was born in Warren, on the farm now 
owned by Myron Goodspeed, April 24, 1829. In 1858 he united in mar- 
riage with Mrs. Mary Hanks. To them was born five daughters, all of whom 
live near their father. Mrs. Miller died December 22, 1874. Mr. Miller is 
a farmer, and cleared a large farm on road 27. He is a genial and kind 
neighbor, and is highly "respected. 

J. A. R. Stetson, son of Winslow and Prudence (Ralph) Stetson, was born 
in Warren, January 27, 1821. He has spent all but about twenty years of 
his life in his native town. In 1845 he married Charlotte Jones, of Warren. 
They had no children, but adopted a son, who is a worthy man and is now 
in company with Mr. Stetson. Mr. Stetson cleared the farm where he now 
lives, and built the saw mill and cider-mill that he now owns. He has been 
a leading and influential man in town, and has held responsible positions. 
His father and father-in-law were among the first settlers, and helped to clear 
away the forests and build up the town. 

Walter A. Bagley was born in Hard wick, Vt., September 19, 18 19. In 
February, 1832, he moved to Warren with his father, who settled in the west- 
ern part of the town. He followed the occupation of millwright from about 
1836 until 1884. Since then he has worked at the carpenters' trade. He built 
the grist-mill in Warren, and other mills in this and surrounding towns. In 
1843 he married Louisa Young, of Warren, who bore him eleven children, 
seven of whom are now living. Mrs. Bagley died in May, 1873, ^"^ in 1874 
he married Emily F. Young. In 1863 Mr. Bagley enlisted in Co. H, 2d 
U. S. Sharpshooters, and served until the war closed. His family have all 
grown to maturity and scattered from home. Mr. Bagley has the confidence 
of his neighbors and is highly respected. 

Horace Gleason, from Langdon, N. H., was a farmer, and settled in the 
northern part of Warren, about 1835, where he died, aged fifty-two years. 



484 TOWN OF WARREN. 



He married Achsah W. Richardson, who survived him. Their children are 
James R., Emma C, and Ann C. Emma C. married Jackson J. Pratt, and 
has one daughter, Alice M. 

Allen M. Fuller was born in Brookfield, March 8, 18 18. He resided with 
his parents, Squire and Bethiah (Ames) Fuller, in Brookfield, until 1843, when 
he married Sarah Blanchard, of Braintree, and settled on the farm where he 
now Hves, and which he cleared, where he has a set of good buildings. He 
has also one of the finest apple orchards m this part of the county. Mr. Fuller 
has always been a hard worker, and as a reward for his industry he has a 
good property. He is one of the solid men of the town, and held positions 
of trust and responsibility. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller are parents of five daughters 
and three sons, and all are living. 

Judge Philander Riford, son of Joseph and Keziah (Fitts) Riford, was born 
in Braintree, January i, 1820. His father died when he was a little more 
than four years old. In 1837 he settled in Warren, where he has since re- 
sided with the exception of one year. He obtained a good common school 
education ; and thus prepared, he commenced the active duties of life, and 
may be properly classed with the self-made men. He has been honored with 
many positions of public trust. He was assistant judge of Washington 
County Court four years, and gave his influence to enlarge the court-house 
in 1869. He owns a good farm, well stocked. In his approaching old age 
Mr. Riford does not forget the interests of his town. At the age of twenty- 
eight years he married Jerusha Dickenson, of Warren, and they have had two 
sons and two daughters. 

William Page, son of Enos and Asenath Page, was born in Charlestown, 
N. H., in July, 1796. He lived in Concord, Vt., most of the time after he 
was six years old until he was twenty- four. He then (in 1820) went to Fair- 
field, Vt., where he was married to Lucy Osgood, in November of the same 
year. In 1841 he married his second wife, Phebe Whitney, of Fairfield, who 
died in May, 1849. In 1850 he led to Hymen's altar Olive (Simpson) Kings- 
bury, who died in July, 1884, aged seventy-seven years. He settled in War- 
ren in 1850, where he has since resided. There is now but one older person 
in town. Mr. Page is the father of two children. 

Mrs. Hannah Billings, wife of Rufus Billings, died at the age of eighty 
years. Mr. and Mrs. Billings lived together nearly sixty years, and in the 
community where she died thirty-eight years. She was the mother of four- 
teen children, twelve of whom lived to have families ; nine survived her, and 
seven attended her funeral. She could number sixty-five grandchildren and 
twenty great-grandchildren. 

Rev. Joel B. Whitney, son of Joel and Lucy Whitney, was born in Sheldon, 
Vt., July 17, 1815. He gave unmistakable evidence of his conversion, and 
of the Christian's hope, in early childhood, and very early felt it his duty to 
preach the "Word." He attended school at St. Albans, and on completing 
his education his strong conviction of duty, or "call" to the divine work.. 



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impelled him to enter the ministry. In 1853 he was appointed to the circuit 
that includes Warren, and has served this circuit as minister during three 
terms. The last one was a period of ten years. November 19, 1837, Mr. 
Whitney married Mary Ann Morrow, who died May 20, 1874. He was 
again married, in 1876, to Mrs. Olive P. Leonard, a worthy lady, and 
although he had lost the wife of his youth he did not lack for tender and 
faithful care in his last illness. Mrs. Whitney supplied every want. He died 
October 4, 1886. Mr. Whitney had no children, but was so fond of them 
that he adopted a son who bears his name and received his property. Mrs. 
Whitney resides in the house where her husband died. 

George G. Blake was born in Washington, Vt., March 19, 1823. His 
father, Moses Blake, died when George was but nine years old. He re- 
mained at home and assisted the family until he married Susan Cutler, of 
Hardwick, when he was twenty-six years old. He then went to Chelsea, 
Vt., and engaged in blacksmithing, where he remained three years and un- 
til his health failed. He spent the next nine years driving stage at East 
Randolph, lived in South Strafford, Vt., and North Lawrence, N. Y., and 
about 1864 or '65 settled in Warren, where he has been engaged at his trade 
of blacksmith, and in his busy life has dealt in horses which he has some- 
times marketed in Boston. He has had born to him three children. His 
son is a blacksmith in Warren. One of his daughters is the wife of RoUin 
Bucklin, of Warren, and the other resides with her parents. Mr. Blake has 
passed through many vicissitudes, and held many good positions. 

Edwin W. Slayton, son of George J. and Fanny (Andrews) Slayton, was 
torn in Calais, Vt., October 8, 1843. He acquired a good education in 
Hardwick and Montpelier. At the age of twenty-four years he married 
Clara M. Chamberlin, and in 1868 settled in Warren, and engaged in mer- 
chandising in 1884, in which business he is still engaged. He is now super- 
intendent of schools, town treasurer, and chairman of the school board. 
Mrs. Slayton died in November, 1876, and was the mother of two children. 
Since the death of his wife he married Emma Elliot, of Warren, by whom he 
has one child. 

Hosea Town, son of Thomas M. and Jerusha (Dix) Town, was born in 
Barre, April 6, 1832, on the *' old Town farm," where Judge Town now lives. 
At the age of eighteen years he entered the store of D. W. Keith, as clerk, 
where he remained about eighteen months. He then commenced peddling 
dry goods, and continued the business the ensuing thirteen or fourteen years, 
and in that time resided in Barre, Newton, Mass., Dedham, and in New 
Hampshire. About 1867 he settled in South Fayston, where he worked at 
coopering until 1874, when he moved onto the Nichols farm in East Warren, 
and has resided in Warren since that time. He now has a good farm on 
road 44. About 1856 he married Ann R. Newell, of Dover, Mass., who died 
n Dedham, June 4, 1865, and left four children, three of whom are now 
living. He married his second wife, Eliza Colby, of Fayston, who has borne 
him three children. 



486 TOWN OF WARREN. 



Nathan Thayre, son of Pliney and Susan (Wait) Thayre, was born in Fays- 
ton, March 4, 1839, and about 1861 married Susan Pierce. He enlisted in 
Co. H, 6th Vt. Vols., and served about one year, when he was discharged 
on account of a broken arm. He soon after setted on the farm where James 
Pierce now lives, and about five years after emigrated to La Cole, Canada. 
Seven years later he returned to Warren and settled on the farm where he 
now lives, and has since given his attention to breeding fine horses, and is 
now the owner of fine stock. Mrs. Thayre died March 24, 1877, and left 
three children. His only son resides with him on the farm. He married, 
second, Mrs. Susan (McAllister) Barnard, a lineal descendant of Ethan Al- 
len, and a granddaughter of the brother of Gen. Wait, a Revolutionary sol- 
dier who served seven years in the war for independence, and who was 
one of the first settlers of Waitsfield. Mr. Thayre is a generous, kind neigh- 
bor, and is always ready to reach forth his hand in aid of those in distress. 

The following were soldiers in the War of 181 2 : Thomas Jerrolds, Jesse 
Stewart, Justin Jacobs, Oliver Persons, Samuel Hard, and Gardner Campbell. 
Mr. Jerrolds and Mr. Stewart died in the service. George Dimick served in 
the Mexican war. 

Warren sent to the seat of war as her quota to suppress the late Rebellion 
eighty-seven of her sons as soldiers. Eight joined the Second Regiment, 
four the Third, two the Fifth, twenty-seven the Sixth, three the Seventh, nine 
the Eighth, three the Ninth, three the Tenth, two the Eleventh, one the Sev- 
enteenth ; five served in the First Regiment of Sharpshooters, two in the 
Second Vt. Battery Light Artillery, and one in the Third Battery Light Artil- 
lery. Besides these there were seventeen volunteers for nine months, fourteen 
paid commutations, and two procured substitutes. 

The Warreri River Meeting-House society, composed of the different relig- 
ious denominations of the place, was organized January 19, 1838, for the 
purpose of building a union meeting-house. In 1839 they completed their 
present church edifice. The house is forty by fifty feet on the ground, well 
finished, and is kept in good condition. Rev. E. Scott (M. E.), from Mont- 
pelier, preached the dedication sermon, and Rev. Ira Beard (M. E.) was the 
first resident preacher. The different denominations of the place occupy the 
house alternately, and supply preaching every Sunday. The house will com- 
fortably seat 225 persons. The Union Sunday-school has about 100 mem- 
bers. 

The Warren Meeting- House society was organized for the purpose of building 
a meeting-house at East Warren, by the union of the societies of the Univer- 
salists, Methodists, Congregationalists, and Baptists, under the act of the 
legislature passed October 26, 1798, for the purpose of encouraging the sup- 
port of the preaching of the gospel. The present church edifice was built by 
the society in 1833, and is known as the Union meeting-house. 



TOWN OF WATERBURY. 487- 



WATERBURY lies in the northwestern corner of Washington county, 
in latitude 44° 23' and longitude 4° 17', and is bounded north by 
Stowe, east by Middlesex, south by the Winooski river which sepa- 
rates it from Duxbury and Moretown, and west by Bolton, in Chittenden 
county. The township was chartered by Gov. Benning Wentworth to Joseph 
Abbott and sixty-three associates, June 7, 1763, and was then a tract six 
miles square. The area has since been increased by accessions to its terri- 
tory from Middlesex and Bolton. 

This township contains more moderately uneven and level land then other 
towns in Central Vermont, although it is bordered by mountains and high 
hills on the east, west, and north. These elevations command charming views- 
of the well cultivated farms and the farmers' neat and comfortable homes, 
dotting the landscapes below, and embracing a large portion of the whole 
town. 

The rocks underlying this township are entirely of the talcose schist forma- 
tion. There are also beds of serpentine, steatite, and copper d^nd iron pyrites ^ 
in the central and northern parts, also a narrow belt oi azoic limestone. Traces 
of gold in alluvium are found along Waterbury river and Thatcher's Branch, 

Prof. Hitchcock states that " these outcrops of copper have not been fully 
developed by mining, but that they may become sources of wealth." The 
intervales on the Winooski river are proverbial for their fertility, and rank 
with the best in the state. In all other parts of the town the soil is good, 
and well repays the husbandman for his labor. The original forests on the 
lower lands were composed mainly of hard wood, the sugar maple predomi- 
nating. The mountain regions are covered with spruce. 

The Winooski river flows from the east, along the southern border of the 
town, with a very moderate descent until it reaches Bolton falls, three and a 
half miles below the village. Here the water has forced a channel through 
the rocks, and formed a chasm 100 feet deep and about as wide. On the 
south side the rocks are nearly perpendicular. Many of the rocks are of 
huge dimensions, and have fallen into the chasm in such a way as to form an 
imperfect bridge, which may be crossed by footmen in very low water. On 
account of their great dimensions these rocks have also formed several curious 
caverns. The other streams of much magnitude are Waterbury river and 
Thatcher's Branch, which, with their numerous tributaries and abundant 
springs, furnish an inexhaustible supply of pure water. The Waterbury river 
enters the town from Stowe, flows south through the western part of the town^ 
and empties into the Winooski about a mile west of Waterbury Street. 
Thatcher's Branch also enters Waterbury from Stowe, and flows south through 
the town a little east of the center, and falls into the Winooski at the west 
end of the village. 

Waterbury was chartered in 1763, and many of the proprietors resided in 
Waterbury, Conn., and New Jersey. Waterbury in Vermont received its 



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name from Waterbury, Conn., the home of many of the original proprietors. 
Their first meeting was held in New Milford, Conn., in 1770, and later meet- 
ings were held in Newark, N. J. After the Revolutionary war their meet- 
ings were held in Vermont. 

James Marsh, a native of Canaan, Conn., who had been a soldier in the 
French war, made the first attempt to make a home in Waterbury. He came 
under adverse circumstances, and remained under the cloud the Httle remnant 
of his existence after he settled here. He had sold his land in Canaan and 
gone to Cornwall, where he was drafted soon after into the army in the early 
part of the Revolutionary war. He procured a substitute for his place in the 
army. He raised the money to make this payment of $100 by selling his 
place, and with the residue bought a claim of wild land in Bath, N. H., and 
another in Waterbury, Vt. He then settled on his claim in Bath, where he 
remained two years, when, finding his title bad, he resolved to settle on his 
right in Waterbury. Accordingly, in the spring of 1783, he came to Water- 
bury, selected his claim, which embraced a portion of the site of the village, 
cleared a small plot of land, planted it with corn, and returned to his family 
in Bath. In the fall he returned to Waterbury, harvested his corn and stored 
it in an improvised crib, and left it for his future subsistence. The next 
spring he came with his wife and eight children as far as the old fort in 
Corinth, where he was obliged to leave his wife and the youngest five of their 
children, and continued the journey with the oldest three, Elias, Irene, and 
James. From Corinth they came on snow shoes and drew their household 
goods on a hand sled. They found comfortable quarters in the surveyors' 
cabin. The corn on which Mr. Marsh had placed so much dependence had 
been nearly all consumed by the beasts of the forest, or hunters and Indians. 
In this dilemma Mr. Marsh's only alternative was to resort to fishing and 
hunting. 

About the last of May, after having enlarged his clearing and nearly fin- 
ished planting, he left his children alone in the forest and returned to Corinth 
for the remainder of his family, to be absent an entire week, and leaving them 
an allowance of food barely sufficient for that length of time. These deserted 
children were Elias, a lad of fifteen years, whose remains are unmarked in the 
grave-yard at Waterbury ; Irene, then about twelve years old, who married a 
Mr. Colman, of Jericho, and died there in 1826 ; and James, a small boy 
eight or nine years old, who lived many years in the southern part of Jericho, 
where he died in February, 1865, aged about ninety years. The time passed, 
their scanty allowance was exhausted, but the father did not return ; and the 
stated one week lengthened to three weeks before he arrived at the cabin. 
In the meantime what of the children ! They had subsisted the second week 
on the leeks that grew in abundance on the rich intervale along the river. 
They found at the end of this week that their strictly vegetable diet was not 
especially palatable or conducive to health or strength, and resolved to catch 
fish, and in this attempt the sister fell into the river and barely escaped drown- 



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ing. With starvation thus staring them in the face if they remained longer, 
they made the wise resolution to go to their nearest neighbor, Jesse Mc- 
Fairlain, who resided in Richmond. This journey was not all the way a 
pleasure trip. A huge bear disputed their right to the path, but was finally 
driven up the mountain by their trusty dog that had been left with them. 
Suffice it to say the children reached Mr. McFairlain's in an exhausted con- 
dition, and so nearly starved that it was unsafe for them at first to satisfy 
their craving hunger. Mr. and Mrs. McFairlain kindly administered to their 
necessities. 

Mr. Marsh, when he entered his cabin after the three weeks' absence, found 
it deserted. Surely if he was not an unnatural parent the agony of sorrow 
and remorse then overwhelmed him for his reprehensible conduct in thus 
abandoning these children without food and without protection. No business, 
however important, offers an extenuating excuse. After a survey of the 
premises, without a clue to where his children were, he dispatched a young 
man, who had accompanied him, to Mr. McFairlain's, who returned with the 
children, and before night the family were again united. The diet of the 
family for weeks the ensuing summer was leeks stewed in the milk of their 
only cow, and their food for nearly two years was the flesh of moose, deer, and 
bear. 

In the spring of 1785 Ezra Butler, the second settler of Waterbury, came 
and remained till fall, and then returned. Mr. Marsh and his family spent 
the second winter alone. The third settler was Caleb Munson. March 29^ 
1788, Mr. Marsh went to Richmond to meet him and conduct him to Water- 
bury. Mr. Marsh, who in the afternoon had crossed the river to Mr. Brown - 
son's to cast some pewter spoons, delayed until after dark. The ice on the 
river was breaking up, and he was apprised by Mr. Brownson that it would 
be dangerous then to attempt to cross, and urged him to remain till morning. 
He thought he could return, and provided himself with a long pole and made 
the attempt. The family soon heard his cry of distress and hastened to his 
relief, but he had lost his grasp on the pole and disappeared under the ice, 
and was carried down the river by the strong current. His body was recov- 
ered several days after. 

The town was surveyed by Col. Partridge Thatcher, one of the proprietors, 
in 1782, who came on with surveyors, who built their camp near the inter- 
section of the railroad and brook, which bears his name, " Thatcher's 
Branch." Col. Thatcher died soon after returning to Connecticut, from dis- 
ease induced by his exposures in this expedition. 

Waterbury was organized into a town by the election of town officers, 
March 31, 1790. The first town meeting was held at the house of Richard 
Holden. The first set of town officers were: Richard Holden, moderator; 
Ezra Butler, town clerk ; Richard Holden, Caleb Munson, and Ezra Butler, 
^selectmen ; Cale6 Munson, town treasurer ; Elias Marsh, constable ; Amos 



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Waters, highway surveyor and fence viewer. At this meeting, " Voted, swine 
shall not run at large." 

The first representative of this town was Dr. Daniel Bliss, in 1792. The 
first lawyer who settled in Waterbury was Dan Carpenter. The first per- 
manent and successful merchant was Amasa Pride, in 1802. The first 
school-house was built at a very early day, and stood where the railroad 
crosses Stowe street, — and in this house nearly all the meetings of the village 
were then held. Reuben Wells was the first tanner. His brother-in-law, 
Seth Chandler, was the first blacksmith. The first carpenter was a Mr. War- 
ren. The first grist and saw-mills were erected by John Carpenter, about 
1792. Mr. Mason was the first miller. Polly Butler, eldest daughter of 
Gov. Butler, born October 23, 1788, was the first white child born in town. 
The first male child was Tilman Wright, who died in 1842. The first death 
was that of Tames Marsh. The first school taught in town was a private one 
taught by the diminutive daughters of Reuben Wells, who were sometimes 
mistaken for children by strangers. The first marriage was that of Philip 
Bartlett and Mrs. Marsh, widow of James Marsh, the first settler of Water- 
bury. Daniel Bliss was the first physician. In 1800 the Baptist churcli was 
organized, and Gov. Butler was ordained and chosen pastor. The same year 
the Methodist church was organized by Elder Stebbins, and Thomas Guptil 
was the first class-leader. The Congregational church was organized July 10, 
1801, by Rev. Jedediah Bushnell, a missionary from Connecticut. Dea. 
Asaph Allen was then chosen the first deacon of the church. The first meet- 
ing-house in Waterbury was erected by the society of the Congregational 
church, in 1824. 

At the town meeting held March 11, 1794, "voted to hire a constable." 
" Voted to bid it [the office] off at' vendue, and it was struck ofif to Ebn'r 
Reed at six shillings." For many succeeding years that office was disposed 
of in the same manner, with an increasing demand, until the ambitious aspir- 
ants frequently paid the town a premium, and as high as five dollars for the 
honor of the position and its emoluments. In the early settlement of the 
town it was a custom of the farmers to mark their sheep by mutilating the 
ears, each having a style of his own. We insert the following found among 
many others on record in the town clerk's office : — 

" Ezra Butler's mark, entered on record February 10th, 1795; and is a 
square crop on the left ear. 

"Richard Holden's mark, entered on record February 10, 1795 ; and is the 
right ear cropt ^square. 

" Oliver C. Rood's mark on record Jan. 10, 1805 ; and is a swallow's tail 
in both ears. 

"Isaac Woolson's mark, entered on record July loth, 1805 ; and is a W 
cut out of the right ear. 

'•' Caleb Winship's mark, entered on record January 13th, 1806 ; and is a 
crop of the right ear and a hole through both ears. 

" Dan Carpenter's sheep mark is a crop off the right ear and a hole- 
through the left do. Recorded May 21st, 1812." 



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491 



In 1880 Waterbury had a population of 2,297, and in 1888 the town 
had sixteen common school districts and one graded school district, embrac- 
ing the village. There were schools maintained in all of them, which were 
taught by one male and twenty-four female teachers, at a weekly salary of 
$21.75 for the male and an average of $5.18 for female teachers. The 
whole number of scholars who attended school was 455, of whom fifty-four 
attended private schools. The entire income for all school purposes 
was $4,069.01. The whole amount expended for all school purposes was 
$4,563.87. The graded school was taught by one male and three female 
teachers. There were thirty-six scholars in the High school, nine of whom 
studied French or German ; eight graduated. The school was taught thirty- 
six weeks, and has four grades. A. W. Armstrong is superintendent. 

Waterbury (p. o.) village, the largest one in the town, is located on Wi- 
nooski river and Central Vermont railroad, midway on the southern border 
of the town. The village has a pleasant location, and contains an intelligent 
population of about 1,200 souls. The principal streets are Main, about one 
mile in length, extending parallel with the railroad and river ; Stowe street, 
which is the business street; Union and Winooski streets. The village con- 
tains many fine residences, conspicuous among them being the fine brick 
mansion, with its well kept lawns, fountains, and the greenhouse in the rear, 
the home of C. C. Warren, Esq., one of Waterbury's most energetic business 
men. Dr. Janes has also an elegant residence on fine grounds. Mr. At- 
kins has just completed a beautiful home, and there are others well worthy 
of mention. Among the leading merchants are Messrs. Atkins & Haines,, 
wholesale and retail dealers in groceries, M. M. Knight, C. E. Richardson^ 
J. E. Sheple, J. C. Griggs, M. O. Evans, C. Keene, A. G. Atherton, Mrs, 
J. M. Cameron, millinery, C. E. Wyman, F. B. Taylor, and W. H. Ashley. 
The lawyers are V/illiam P. Dillingham, C. F. Clough, George W. Morse, 
E. F. Palmer, and G. W. Kennedy. The physicians are Dfs. Janes, Hooker, 
Washburne, and Lamb. The churches are the Congregational, Methodist, 
and Roman Catholic. For the instruction of its children the village has pro- 
vided a good graded school. Waterbury National bank, with a capital of 
$100,000, Hon. Paul DiUingham, president, ranks high with other similar in- 
stitutions. The Waterbury Hotel, four stories high, with fine, wide halls, 
high, spacious, and airy rooms, and an elegant and well supplied dining-room, 
is kept open the year round by the genial hosts, B. Barrett & Son. Other ex- 
tensive operators in business are C. C. Warren, tanner ; G. W. Randall and 
W. R. Elliott, lumbermen ; and G. E. Moody, live stock, lumber, etc. The 
Central Vermont railroad, furnished here with a fine passenger depot and con- 
venient freight house,ably managed by the agent, A. J. Brown, provides all that 
is necessary for traveling and conveying freight. The legislature of Vermont, 
at the session in the fall of 1888, appropriated $r 00,000 for the purpose of 
erecting a state asylum for the insane, and appointed commissioners to secure 
a suitable location for the buildings. After making a tour of observatioa 



492 TOWN OF WATERBURY. 



through the state they decided that Waterbury contained all the requisites for 
the institution, and accordingly selected that location. The work of con- 
struction will commence the ensuing spring. 

Waterbury Center is a post village located on an elevated plain of con- 
siderable extent. It occupies the center of a vast amphitheatre surrounded 
by the tallest peaks of the Green Mountains. Mansfield, Camel's Hump, 
and others stand out grim and grand, like giant sentinels jealous of the wel- 
fare of the little hamlet. The picturesque beauty and magnificence of the 
natural scenery here is not surpassed. This beautiful little village is the loca- 
tion of Green Mountain Seminary, a flourishing Freewill Baptist institution, 
with Miss Elizabeth Colley, principal. The village contains two churches 
(Methodist and Free Baptist), two stores, several mechanic shops, and sixty 
or seventy neat and tasty dwellings. The village has no hotel, but W. E. 
Marshall opens his door to the traveler. 

Mill Village and Colbyville are small hamlets on Thatcher's Branch, in 
the suburbs of Newbury village. 

The Waterbury town-poor farm is located on Blush hill. The buildings 
have recently been repaired and made comfortable, and under the faithful 
and efficient care of Mr. and Mrs. Ira W. Humphrey the unfortunate poor of 
Waterbury have a comfortable home. Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey have man- 
aged this institution the past six years. The present number of inmates is 
seven, and they are comfortably clothed and abundantly fed. 

George W. Randall's satv-mill is located in the western part of Waterbury, 
on Waterbury river, which here has a fall of twenty-five feet, affording one of 
the best water powers in the state. The machinery is of the new improved 
kind, and includes a large circular saw, planer, matcher, band-saw, etc. Mr. 
Randall manufactures dimension lumber as a specialty. He also manufact- 
ures shingles, boards, and hard wood lumber, and does dressing and match- 
ing. He turns out about 1,000,000 feet per year, and employs in the forest 
and mills a force of thirty men. 

C. C. Warren s tannery is located at Mill Village, on Thatcher's Branch. 
This is one of the finest establishments of its kind in the state, and is so 
admirably constructed that his ten employees easily do the work usually re- 
quiring a force of fifteen men. He manufactures a superior quality of leather ' 
(mostly harness), which he readily sells. Mr. Warren is also the proprietor 
of a creamery, which manufactures the milk from his dairy of 100 cows. He 
uses the centrifugal process of separating the cream from the milk. 

Edivard T. Seabury s custom grist-7nill\% located in the pleasant little ham- 
let of Mill Village, within the corporation of Waterbury village, about half a 
mile from the postoffice, and on Thatcher's Branch, which affords the motive 
power. The mill is furnished with three runs of stones and other machinery 
to make a handy and convenient establishment. Mr. Seabury does custom 
grinding of all kinds, and also deals largely in corn, corn meal, feed, and flour. 
The mill has a fair capacity, and does a good business. 



TOWN OF WATERBURY. 493; 



Roberts &> Deaviti Bros', sazv-mill is located on Thatcher's Branch, in 
Colbyville. The company was organized February i, 1886, and is engaged 
in manufacturing spruce, hemlock, and hard wood lumber, shingles, and clap- 
boards. They have also a dry-house for kiln drying lumber, and also do plan- 
ing, matching, and dressing to order. The motive power is water, with an 
ample supply throughout the year from the natural current of the brook, and 
a reservoir of about sixteen acres. The mill is equipped with good machin- 
ery, and turns out annually about half a million feet, and gives employment 
to from five to ten men. 

The Cooley Matiufadurmg Co., incorporated in the fall of 1882, William 
Cooley, president and general manager, is located in the village of Water- 
bury. This company does general machine work, manufactures portable 
water tube boilers, iron and brass castings, bridge bolts, all kinds of light 
machinery, and cast-iron chimney caps. This industry gives employment to 
a force of from twelve to sixteen hands, and is run by steam-power. 

Henry Dillingham, successor to A. H. Selleck, has a mill on Thatcher's 
Branch, Mill Village, where he manufactures fork, rake, hoe, and broom 
handles, and ash dowelling used for reed and ratan furniture. He also does 
custom wool-carding. This industry turns out work of superior quality, which 
is in demand by the leading manufacturers in the United States. 

O. L. Ayers, of Waterbury village, has completed a fine shop ofif Main 
street, where he manufactures carriages and sleighs, and does general repair- 
ing in that line. He has a fine carriage paint shop, and also does planing and 
sawing and dresses house finishing lumber. His shop is furnished with a 
steam engine of ten-horse power, and new and improved machinery. 

The Colbyville Manufacturing Co., Edwin A. and George E. Dumas, pro- 
prietors, was organized in April, 1886. The manufactory is located in the 
hamlet of Colbyville, about a mile from the postoffice in Waterbury village. 
They manufacture French's improved octagon butter tubs, the celebrated 
Colby little washer, and do custom scroll sawing, splitting, and planing. This, 
manufactory is furnished with good and efficient machinery for turning out 
work of fine finish and quality. They also manufacture, quite extensively, 
an extension wash bench — a very convenient article for every housekeeper. 

The National Bank of Waterbury. — The Bank of Waterbury was chartered 
December 5, 1853, under state laws, and commenced business April 18, 1854, 
with the following board of directors : Leander Hutchins, Paul Dillingham, 
William W. Wells, Orrin Perkins, and V. W. Waterman. Leander Hutchins 
was president, and Samuel H. Stowell, cashier. It had a paid up capital of 
$80,000. Benjamin H. Dewey succeeded Mr. Stowell as cashier, March 6, 
1856, and served until May i, 1865, when James K. FuUerton was appointed. 
September i, 1865, this bank reorganized under the National Bank act, as 
the Waterbury National bank, with a paid up capital of $100,000, divided 
into 2,500 shares of $40 each, with Leander Hutchins, president, and James 
K. FuUerton, cashier. Mr. Hutchins served as president until January 13^ 



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1874, when he declined further service, and Paul Dillingham was then elected. 
Mr. FuUerton was cashier until April r, 1870, when Curtis Wells was ap- 
pointed. At the present time the capital of the bank is $100,000; surplus 
fund, $30,000. Paul Dillingham is president ; William P. Dillingham, vice- 
president ; and Charles Wells, cashier. The charter was extended in June, 
1885, for twenty years. 

April 27, 1880, a most cruel murder was perpetrated in Waterbury, though 
none concerned in the crime, nor the victim, were residents of this town. It 
was planned in Duxbury, at the home of the criminals, but executed in this 
town. In the arrangements some originality of invention is seen, but it in- 
volved too many details and too much exposure to observation to make it 
easy of concealment. Little Alice Meaker, the victim, was, if we remember 
rightly, a half-sister of Mr. Meaker, an orphan, or half orphan, and a pauper 
in another town, the overseer of which had agreed to pay a certain sum in 
money to Meaker to take Alice to support during her minority. Mrs. 
Meaker disliked or had become tired of the child, and planned to get rid of 
her by a cruel crime. She and her son got a team at Mr. Bates's stable, in 
Waterbury, and a supply of poison of Mr. Carpenter, a druggist here. The 
Meaker mother and son and Alice left Waterbury village between nine and 
ten in the evening, to go some five or six miles up Waterbury river, and on 
the way administered the poison, probably finding compulsion necessary. If 
particulars are here omitted, the reader may imagine how they proceeded 
and some of the incidents of that awful ride. By some means the child came 
to her death, was concealed in a hole in the ground partly filled with water, 
dug probably by road makers, and being ready-made was used by the 
Meakers. The disappearance of the child immediately raised suspicion in 
the neighborhood ; the result was Sheriff Atherton succeeded in drawing out 
from young Meaker the fate of the child, and the disclosure of the place of 
concealment, which was verified by Atherton and Meaker going to the place 
and finding the body, and their taking it to Meaker's house, the young man 
telling his mother he had told the story, to the consternation of the mother. 
The result of their trial for the atrocious deed was the sentence of death for 
both mother and son. The mother was hanged, and the son's death sentence 
was commuted to imprisonment in the state's prison for life. 

Hon. Ezra Butler, son of Asaph, was born in Lancaster, Worcester county, 
Mass., September 24, 1763. About 1780 he was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tionary army. In 1785 he went to Waterbury in the early spring, cleared a 
small piece of land, planted it with corn, and returned to Weathersfield, 
where he married, in June, Tryphena Diggins. On making the discovery 
that the title to his first pitch was not good, he abandoned it, and selected 
another farther down the river, made a clearing, built a log house, and in 
September, 1786, moved into it with his wife and child, and there spent the 
remainder of his hfe, dying July 12, 1838. " He officiated over the Baptist 
church over thirty years. He was a firm man in his opinion, on whatever 



TOWN OF WATERBURY. 



495 



subject he made up his mind was right. He had a hand in many of the 
political movements of the day; was of the Jeffersonian school in politics, 
and remained so as long as that division of parties lasted. He was honored 
by the town in being appointed to many of its important offices. He was 
eleven years a representative in the House of Assembly, and fifteen years a 
member of the Council. In 1803 he was appointed first assistant judge of 
Chittenden County Court, which he held till 1806, when he was elected chief 
judge, and held the same to iSrr, when Waterbury was put into Jefferson 
county, now Washington, when he was again promoted to first judge and 
held that office twelve years, ending December i, 1826. In October, 1826, 
he was chosen governor of the state, and held the office two years. In 1822 
he was a member of the Constitutional Convention ; in 1806 he was a member 
of the Council of Censors, and from 1813 to '15 was a member of Congress, 
making fifty-three years' service in the various offices, besides the town offices 
at home. This, added to his religious duties, might be supposed would keep 
him tolerable busy. He was true and faithful in all the various duties as- 
signed to him." He was dark and sallow, not very straight, but his keen 
black eyes showed that he had a mind and will of his own, and the ability to 
use it. He is represented as being a man of the people, who knew their 
wants by visiting them in their homes. Hence his great popularity both as a 
preacher and politician. 

Thomas Wheeler came over from England about 1640, and settled in Con- 
cord, Mass. He died December 24, 1704. One of his sons, Timothy, was 
born July 24, 1667, and died April 14, 17 18. Timothy also had a son by 
the same name, born March 8, 1696, who died May 7, 1782, leaving a son 
by the name of William, born January 17, 1734 or '35. This William left a 
son William, who was born August 24, 1767, and who settled in Washington 
county in 1795, and here resided until 1821, when he died, leaving a son 
William, who was born September 17, 1791, and died October 9, 1845. 
Among the children of the last named William were Timothy and Joseph, 
who are now living in the village of Waterbury Center. Timothy was born 
December 17, 1820. Joseph was born November 25, 1836. He has a son, 
Steadman C, born March i, 1867. 

Deacon Asaph Allen was born in the fort in Deerfield, Mass., October 25, 
1751. While he was a small boy his father moved with his family to Bernard- 
ston, Mass. At the age of nineteen years Asaph was appointed a deacon of 
the Orthodox Congregational church of Bernardston. In early life he did 
some service in the militia, and at the call of his country in the struggle for 
our independence he served as a soldier, and later in life received a pension 
from the government. In 1773 or '74 he married Persis Sheldon, of Ber- 
nardston, who was born in 1757. In February, 1796, he came to Waterbury 
with his family and settled on the fine farm now owned by G. E. Moody, 
about half a mile east of the village of Waterbury Center, where he spent the 
remainder of his long life. He was a gentleman of the old school, upright 



496 TOWN OF WATERBURV. 



and honest. He died March 19, 1840. His worthy wife survived him until 
February, 1852, aged ninety-four years and ten months. Their children 
were Roxana, born August 16, 1777 ; Zebulon, born in 1779 ; Sophia, born 
cember 10, 1781 ; Eliakim, born February 24, 1785 ; Asaph, born in 1788 ; 
Horace, born August 15, 1792; Charles S.,born February 24, 1795 ; Persis, 
born in Waterbury, July 2, 1797 ; and Seba, born in Waterbury, August 16, 
1801. Roxana married Jared George, in Bernardston, Mass., about 1795, 
and in January, 1796, they removed to Waterbury, where they both resided 
until the close of their lives, leaving four children, viz. : Joshua, Jared, Mi- 
randa, and Horace P. Zebulon Allen married Rachel Moore, about 1798, 
and lived in Stowe, Waterbury, Massena, N. Y., Ogdensburg, N. Y., and 
finally in Rochester, N. Y., where he died. Sophia Allen married David 
Harrington, of Middlesex, Vt., about 1803. Mr. Harrington was a carpen- 
ter, a man of good abilities^ and was high sheriff and judge of probate. He 
removed from Middlesex to Montpelier in 1835, emigrated to Worthington, 
Ohio, in 1842, thence two years later to Iowa, where he died. 

Eliakim Allen married Deborah Godfrey, of Waterbury, May i, 1808, and 
succeeded his father as owner of the old homestead, where he resided until 
about 1846, when he removed to the village of Waterbury Center. Mr. Allen 
was always a farmer, and a man of sterling integrity. He represented Water- 
bury in the state legislature, and held other offices of trust. He was a mem- 
ber of the Methodist church over fifty years. Mrs. Deborah Allen died 
October 19, 1857. January 21, 1858, Mr. Allen married his second wife, 
Achsah Kingsbury, of Stowe, who survives at the great age of eighty-six years. 
The children of Eliakim and Deborah Allen are Climena M., born August 8, 
1809; Harriet R., born November 9, 1812; Aurelia A., born October 12, 
1814; Julia E., born July 2, 1817 ; Pamelia R., born April 23, 1820 ; Alma A., 
born June 28, 1824 ; and Frances P., born July 16, 1832. Climena, daughter 
of Eliakim Allen, was twice married, first to Persons Lyon, who was the 
father of four of her children, none living in Waterbury. Her second hus- 
band was Alexander Fergurson, who died in Burlington. He was the father 
of four of her children. Mrs. Fergurson now resides with her daughter, Mrs. 
H. Walker. Mr. Walker is of the firm of O. J. Walker & Bros., of Burling- 
ton. Harriet R. Alien married Elymas Newcomb, of Waterbury, and was 
the mother of two sons. The eldest, Francis, died at the age of twenty-one 
years. The other, ¥.. Allen Newcomb, resides in Waterbury Center. Julia 
E. Allen married True B. Colby, a farmer, and they were parents of a son 
and two daughters. The son, Lucius, resides in Manchester, N. H. . Mrs. 
Colby died October 27, 1887. Pamelia R. Allen married Lucius Marshall, 
who was a millwright, carpenter, and farmer, Mr. Marshall died in 1870. 
Their children are Willis E., a farmer, who resides in Waterbury Center, who 
married Miss Hattie Smith, of Waitsfield ; and Francis N., who is a merchant 
in Vancouver, Washington Territory. Mrs. Marshall resides with her son 
Willis E. 



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Asaph, son of Deacon Asaph Allen, was twice married. He resided awhile 
in Middlesex, Vt., but subsequently removed to Ohio. He was the father of 
thirteen children. 

Horace Allen married Polly Field, was a farmer, and died in Waterbury 
Center. He had one son, Charles S., who died in the service of the United 
States in the war with Mexico. 

Charles S. Allen married Nancy Hale, and was always a farmer. Both he 
and his wife are now deceased. Their children are Ransom, who married 
Ellen Drew, of Essex, N. Y., and is a business man of Chicago ; Cornelia 
(Mrs. Cornelius Eddy), who resides in Waterbury Center; Romelia (Mrs. 
O. VV. Stearns), whose husband is an enterprising farmer of Waterbury; and 
Persis, wife of C. F. Clough, who is a leading lawyer in Waterbury village. 

Persis Allen, daughter of Deacon Asaph, married Harry Atkins, both 
deceased. They were parents of two children, one of whom, Persis, is now 
living. The latter married Dr. Charles Cleveland, who died on duty as a 
surgeon at Memphis, Tenn., in the late war. 

Aurelia Allen, third daughter of Eliakim, married, first, George Calkins, and 
resided on a farm in Waterbury. She was the mother of two children by her 
first husband, of whom only one, Franklin, is now living, in Pittsburg, Pa. 
She married, second, Charles Hicks, and they had one daughter, Emogene 
(Mrs. Edwin M. Woodworth), whose husband is an enterprising mechanic of 
Waterbury Center. Mrs. Hicks died in 1857. 

Alma A. Allen, daughter of Eliakim, married Storrs Clough, and resided in 
Waterbury. Both are deceased. They left two sons, Lynn B., who resides 
in Vancouver, W. T., and Guy A., who resides in West Randolph, Vt. 

Frances P., youngest daughter of Eliakim Allen, died at the age of five 
years. 

Silas Loomis was born in Torrington, Conn., April 12, 17 71, and emigrated 
to Waterbury, Vt., as early or earlier than 1796. He came to the town to 
locate a home, and spent sometime in selecting a location; and while thus 
engaged he made his home with Gov. Ezra Butler. He purchased a lot of 
land about two miles from Waterbury Center, on Loomis hill, so-named in 
honor of him. He cleared a small place in the dense forest, near where the 
Loomis school-house stands, built a log cabin, covered it with bark, and re- 
turned to Torrington for his wife and two children. He was two weeks on 
the journey to Waterbury with one horse and sled, which conveyed his family 
and household goods. When settled in this wilderness home he exclaimed, 
"Here will I live, here will I die, and here will I be buried !" which was lit- 
erally fulfilled. By constant industry he added to his possessions until he 
owned 400 broad acres. He was small in stature, never weighed 125 pounds, 
very light complexion, large, lustrous, dark hazel eyes, and bright red hair, 
which he never had cut, but wore it in a cue to the close of his life. He 
dressed in homespun wool garments in winter, made by the deft hands of his 
competent wife, and linen in summer. His stockings were long, reaching 
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above the knee, and over all he wore a long frock. He was scrupulously- 
neat, and his farm, barns, sheds, and tools were kept in perfect order. He 
was opposed to buying, and maintained that farmers should raise their own 
provisions and clothing. All he had to do, he did well. He despised fraud, 
deception, and dishonesty, and if a man cheated him once he never had an 
opportunity to do it again. He had a mind of his own, and never endorsed 
an opinion because some one else had. At the call of his county in the War 
of 1812 he hastened to its defense. He acquired some knowledge of astron- 
omy ; knew the names and revolution of all the planets, and when they were 
in conjunction. This he learned, as he said, while at work by moonlight 
when clearing his land. For many years he was familiarly called Governor 
Loomis. In his last illness he talked cheerfully of his near decease, and com- 
plimentedj his physicians for their honesty in apprising him of it ; and re- 
marked that death had no terrors. He died March 2, 1853, aged eighty-two 
years. 

Caleb Sanford VVrisley, son of Caleb and Dorcas (Dickinson) Wrisley, was 
born in Greenfield, Mass., October 8, 1799. The Wrisley family came of 
EngHsh descent, the subject of this sketch being of the third generation from 
England. His father emigrated to Waterbury in 1800, settled on a farm on 
the east road,^where he resided until his death, at the age of seventy-four 
years. He was the father of six sons and three daughters. When about 
nineteen years of age he found his father's farm incumbered with debt, and 
resolved to earn means to discharge these debts and give his father a sub- 
stantial home. To accomplish this worthy object he returned to his native 
town (Greenfield) and labored for seven successive years for the farmers, going 
and returning on foot, and carrying provisions for the journey; only using 
money enough to pay for his lodging. He finally had the satisfaction of re- 
ceiving a deed in full. Mr. Wrisley then purchased a farm adjoining his 
father, married Sarah Carpenter Richardso;i, daughter of Frederick and 
Betsey (Orms) Richardson, also of English descent. Mr. Orms, father of Mrs. 
Richardson, was killed in the war for independence. Mr. Wrisley was a man 
of the old school style, honest to the letter, and whose integrity was never 
doubted or questioned. He was a reliable citizen, a generous and obliging 
neighbor, and an attendant of the Free Baptist church, which he helped sup- 
port. He died September 29, 1S80, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. 
Mrs. Wrisley died February 22, 1848. Their children were one son and three 
daughters, viz. : EUen^B., who married John Herrick, a farmer of Hyde Park, 
both deceased ; Alvin S., who married Miss Emeline M. Clark, and is now a 
practicing dentist in Waterbury Center; Harriet F. (Mrs. R. G. Gilbert), 
whose husband is a dentist, and resides in Morrisville, Vt.; and Louisa B., 
the wife of J. K. Darling, a farmer in Morristown. 

Amasa Pride, a native of Newington, Conn., came from Brookfield, Vt., 
to Waterbury, in 1802. He was the first successful merchant of the town. 
Tim. Yeomans and a Mr. Farnsworth had opened small stores, but had done 



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very little business. Mr, Pride had but little capital, but by his energy and 
integrity he grew up with the town, and became a leading man in wealth and 
influence. The trade of Mr. Pride and the farnfiers (and nearly all the in- 
habitants were then farmers) was a barter trade. In clearing the lands the 
settlers converted their ashes into black salts, which they exchanged with Mr. 
Pride for his goods. Mr. Pride found a cash market in Montreal for this 
commodity, and in that city obtained his fine goods, none being then found 
in Boston. He also purchased the surplus cattle in exchange for goods, and 
drove them in herds, or "droves," to Boston. In those early days the 
farmers and their wives, sons, and daughters were clad in "homespun." 
Every family had its spinning-wheels and looms, and every village its wool- 
carding machines and cloth-dressing-mills. Mr. Pride was, as soon as his 
circumstances permitted, one of the foremost in every enterprise to advance 
the educational and religious interests of VVaterbury. Although Waterbury 
had three organized churches as early as 1800, up to 1824 they had no 
meeting-house. The meetings were held in school-houses, private houses, and 
barns. One day in the spring of 1823 Judge Dan Carpenter and Mr. Pride 
met, and their conversation turned upon the necessity of a meeting-house.. 
The fact that the town had none they considered a reproach, and they resolved 
it should be so no longer, though neither of them was then a member of 
anv church. That day they laid the matter before their neighbor Roswell 
Wells, and found him ready with a hearty response, and before night the 
matter of building a meeting-house was settled by these three men, who re- 
solved to build it if need be at their own expense. The house was completed 
and dedicated the ensuing year, and is still owned and occupied by the so- 
ciety of the Congregational church. Asa merchant and farmer Mr. Pride 
was assiduous, enterprising, honest, and industrious, and fairly successful. 
As a citizen, neighbor, and friend he was warm and genial, kind and gener- 
ous to the poor, and never oppressive to one of his many debtors. He died 
in August, 1872, aged eighty-six years, having outHved nearly all his early as- 
sociates. His widow and a daughter are the only ones of his family who 
survive. 

Richard Kneeland was born in VVestford, Mass., April i, 1778. He mar- 
ried Miss Catherine Knights, of Claremont, N. H. In the spring of 1803 he 
settled in Waterbury village and engaged in the occupation of house joiner. 
Several structures now standing in the village are specimens of his skill. In 
18 13 he removed to the farm now owned by John Parker, and finally died at 
the home of his son William in February, 1868. Mr. Kneeland was justice 
of the peace a long time, and presided as trial justice, and officiated at a 
great number of weddings. Mr. and Mrs. Kneeland were parents of nine 
children, all of whom lived to adult age, viz.- Ortensia, who died at the age of 
fifty-one years ; Willard H., who died at the age of ninety-one years ; Martha, 
who married Ralph Parker, and died at the age of forty years ; William, who 
married Dorothy Jackman, of Thetford, Vt., settled on the farm with his 



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father, where he remained until the farm was sold, in 1853, and now resides 
on a farm in the near neighborhood of the old homestead ; they have an 
only son, born in 1852, who resides with his parents ; Mary A., who married 
Baxter Whitney, and died October 14, 1887, aged seventy-three years ; Cath- 
erine M., who died at the age of twenty-one years; Henry, who married 
Maria Sherman, was a tanner, and resides in Waitsfield ; Lucius, who died 
in Florida at the age of thirty years ; and AdaHne, who married William M. 
Wade, and resides in the little hamlet of Colbyville. 

Dan Carpenter, son of Simeon and Anna Burton Carpenter, was born in 
Norwich, Vt., November 21, 1776, where he lived and was educated. He 
studied law and was admitted to the bar of Windsor county in the spring of 
1804. During the summer of that year he came into what is now Washing- 
ton county and settled in Waterbury. At that time Waterbury and several 
other towns now in Washington county were in Chittenden county ; and there 
was no lawyer nearer than Williston. Mr. Carpenter's choice of location was 
a fortunate one for him, for there had been for several years a growing desire 
that a reliable lawyer should settle in that vicinity. He opened his office for 
business October i, 1S04. He was a sound lawyer, a man of most excellent 
practical judgment, and he proved almost at once that he was a safe advisor. 
Having fixed upon Waterbury as his future home he at once became identi- 
fied with all its interests, and was soon a leading man in all its affairs. When 
Mr. Carpenter began business in Waterbury justices had no jurisdiction in 
cases involving more than $13. This threw a heavy business into the 
County Court, and his income was large for quite a number of years. He 
had no competitor in town until 1817, when Henry F. Janes also settled in 
Waterbury. Mr. Carpenter was a gentleman of fine personal appearance, 
nearly six feet high, slim, straight as an arrow, and lithe and graceful in every 
movement. In manner he was respectful, courteous, and kind to every one. 
He rapidly gained favor, and strong attachments grew up between him and a 
great proportion of his townsmen. He was a conscientious man, very kind 
to the poor, and forbearing to all his debtors. The evidence of the estima- 
tion he gained in town, county, and state are the following facts : In his town 
he was chosen town clerk in 1808, and held the office by successive elections 
(save one) till 1829, when he decHned to hold that office longer. He was 
first selectman during most of those years. In 181 7 he was representative in 
the General Assembly, and with the exception of 18 18 represented the town till 
1827, when, in the fall of that year, he was chosen first assistant judge of 
Washington County Court, and held that office by successive elections for 
eight years, when he decHned further service. In 1824 he was one of the 
state electors of President and Vice-President, and by his associates was 
deputed to carry and deliver the electoral votes of the state in the city of 
Washington. From April, 1823, he had Paul Dillingham, Jr., as junior law 
partner. The firm was Carpenter & Dillingham, which continued until he 
became judge, when the business was given to Mr. Dillingham. From 1820 



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he had a mercantile interest in Waterbury, in company with Charles R. 
Cleaves. In February, 1824, he purchased Mr. Cleaves's interest in this bus- 
iness, with all his real estate, and his son, William Carpenter, became his 
partner. In the summer of 1834 he built the brick store where his grandson, 
W. E. Carpenter, now lives and conducts a mercantile business. 

January 27, 1805, he married Betsey, daughter of Elisha and Margaret 
(Murdock) Partridge, of Norwich. She was born January 23, 1783. They 
commenced housekeeping in the spring following, in a one-storied house, 
convenient for a small family, and in the year 18 15 he built and finished the 
two-story house where his grandson, Frank Carpenter, now lives. Mr. and 
Mrs. Carpenter had eight children, four of whom died in infancy, and four lived 
to maturity, viz.: William, born October 25, 1805, who died March 17, 1881; 
Sarah P., born in May, 1807; Eliza, born December 11, 1810; and JuHa, 
born December 3, 18 12. Julia, the wife of Hon. Paul Dillingham, is now 
the sole survivor. Sarah P. (Carpenter) Dillingham died September 20, 1831. 
Judge Carpenter died December 2, 1852. His memory is still cherished by 
many now living. His wife survived him many years, and died November 
5, 1875, at the great age of ninety-two years. 

William and Mary E. (Partridge) Carpenter were parents of eight children, 
two of whom died in infancy. The others are Sarah Louisa, born October 
28, 1832, who married Erastus Spicer, December 24, 1864, and died Feb- 
ruary 17, 1887 ; George Henry, born September 25, 1835, ^^'^^ married Helen 
Wallace, of Aurora, N. Y., January 23, 1866, and now resides m Griswold- 
ville, Mass.; Mary Partridge, born October 7, 1838, who married M. O. 
Evans, a merchant of Waterbury, May i, i860, and died November 15, 1872 ; 
JuHa Eliza, born June 10, 1842, who married, November 12, 1867, George W. 
Wheeler, of Burlington, Kan., where she now resides with her husband, who 
is a farmer; Franklin, born June 19, 1845, who married Ellen Eliza Shurtleff, 
September 22, 1868, and resides at the homestead of his grandfather; and 
William E., before mentioned, who married Sarah Moody, June 4, 1872. 

Jehn Stearns, son of Asaph and Kesiah (Palmer) Stearns, was born in 
Conway, Mass., January 23, 1783. He married Tabitha Warren, of his 
native town, hved in Conway about three years after his marriage, and then 
emigrated to Waterbury, in February, 1807, and settled on a farm on Loomis 
hill in the eastern part of the town. The farm of 106 acres contained a log 
house so poorly constructed that the foxes ran through openings between the 
logs. There was only fifteen or twenty acres of cleared land. He was young 
and industrious, and at once set to work with a good will and soon erected 
a comfortable frame house and other buildings, cleared up his farm, and placed 
himself and family in comfortable circumstances. As his finances increased 
he added to his farm from time to time until it contained 300 acres. He 
was not an office seeker, but by the votes of his townsmen he reluctantly 
held the positions of selectman and lister several years. He was a reliable, 
honest, and trusted citizen, and a kind and obliging neighbor. He died on 



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the farm where he settled, January 3, 1863, at the advanced age of eighty 
years. Mrs. Stearns survived until April ir, 1863. They were parents of 
nine children, viz.: Diantha, born November 30, 1804, who died July 31, 
1843; John, Jr.. born August 15, 1806, who married Abigail Tobey, of Con- 
way, Mass., was a farmer, and resided in Waterbury until his death, February 
26, 1855; Cynthia, born September 17, 1808, unmarried, resides with her 
brother O. W., in Waterbury; Palmer, born July 25, 1810, went to Illinois 
in 1883, married Polly Reynolds, and settled permanently in Rock Island, 111., 
where he now resides; Elizabeth, born May 13, 18 12, who married Leonard 
L. Morse, of Waterbury, and removed with her husband to Illinois in 1833, 
where she died in December, 1842 ; George W., born April 26, 1815, mar- 
ried Mary Marshall, in 1841, and settled in Waterbury, where he was a farmer; 
Samuel F., born August 12, 1817 ; Keziah, born June 29, 1820, who mar- 
ried Caleb Simmons, in June, 1842, and settled in Waterbury, where she died 
March 17, 1851 ; and Orren Warren, born August 23, 1828. 

Samuel F. Stearns married, first, Julia C. Murray, March 16, 1843, who 
died March 25, 1879, and second, Lutheria Barnes. February 24, 1880. Mr. 
Stearns has always been a farmer, and has the confidence of his townsmen. 
He has served as selectman and lister for several terms, and gave to the du- 
ties of these positions the same care and attention that he did to his own busi- 
ness. 

Orren Warren Stearns married Romelia Allen, March 17, 1851. Mr. 
Stearns was educated in the common schools of his district, with one term 
at the High school of Waterbury Center. Like other farmers' boys he had 
schooling in winter and discipline in industry at hard labor on his father's 
farm, a season of about nine months, from spring to winter. Mr. Stearns 
settled on the homestead and administered to the comforts of his aged parents 
in their declining years, ably assisted by his sister Cynthia. The homestead 
is now owned by Orren W. and Cynthia. Mr. Stearns has not been much in 
public positions, choosing rather to give his attention to his farm, but has 
served as lister. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Stearns are I^izzie D., born 
October 14, 1852, wife of Richard N. Demerit, proprietor of a bakery and 
confectionery establishment at Plattsburgh, N. Y., with a residence at Water- 
bury Center, Vt. ; Winnie A., born November 24, 1857, who died November 
Ti, 1868; and Carrie C, born January 24, 1862, wife of Lem A. Lyon, officer 
of the Reform school with temporary residence in Vergennes, Vt., and per- 
manent residence at Waterbury Center. 

Daniel Smith, Jr., was born in Waterborough, Me., about 1780. In 1802 
he married Polly Straw. In 1812 he set out on foot for Vermont, and settled 
near Waterbury Center. Here his wife joined him with their five children, in 
1814. This journey was made with an ox-team. The families of Mr. and 
Mrs. Smith represented wealth and influence in Maine, and were descend- 
ants of the earliest settlers. Whether it was ambition or adventure that in- 
fluenced Mr. Smith to settle here, is not known ; but it is certain that he 



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never rose to distinction. He worked several years in the saw-mill of 
S. Jones, and labored in other places, until he was nearly disabled by a stroke 
of shaking palsy. His son Thomas bought for him a home on Alder brook, and 
afterwards assisted in his support to the close of his life. Mr. Smith died in 
1854 and his wife in 1853. Rebecca, the oldest of their children, remained in 
Maine with her friends. Valentine married Lizzie Bridges in 1827. In 1865 
he emigrated to Illinois, where he died in 1870. In 1828 Sarah married 
Israel Straw and emigrated to Ohio. Ruth married Hiram Parcher, resided 
in Waterbury and Duxbury, and died at the latter place in 1880. One of 
her seven children was a soldier in Co. B, loth Vt. Regt., in the late war. 
Mary died at her father's home, in 1828, aged twenty years, and another died 
in infancy. Thomas, before mentioned, twin brother of Valentine, married 
Laura Knight, and spent his whole life in Waterbury, dying in 1880. His 
wife died in 1874, and later he married her sister Abigail, who had always 
lived in the family, and who yet survives. Thomas Smith possessed an un- 
blemished character, was fearless, generous to a fault, and physically very 
strong. His feats of endurance are almost incredible. He went from his 
home to Stowe, six miles distant, and split 525 hemlock rails for Samuel 
Hart, and returned home the same day. On another occasion he cut the 
timber and split 400 rails in one day for Erastus Parker. In 1849 his son 
Emory fell twenty feet and eight inches from a tree, and struck with the full 
•force of the fall on the bridge of his nose, across the edge of a cauldron kettle, 
and nearly severed the top of his head. Mr. Smith then went on foot three 
miles for a doctor, and returned in forty-four minutes. On account of his 
great strength his aid was sought for at raisings and bees, and he was heavily 
taxed in consequence. Mr. Smith devoted his life to the care of his chil- 
dren, and to the aged members of his and his wife's families. He was the 
father of twelve children, all by his first wife. Five died in infancy, and one 
at the age of ten years. His third son went West at the age of twenty-two 
years, and three years later was murdered in Wisconsin, by his employer Hub- 
bard, to avoid paying him his wages. Hubbard soon after left the place and 
was shot from a boat in Kansas. The remaining four sons and one daughter 
are living, and all are married and well settled in life. 

The fourth son, Horschel F. Smith, married Elizabeth M. Young, in 1858, 
and settled, with his father's family, on the place where he was born, and 
which is now, as it always has been, the roof-tree for all, and has always been 
the home of from four to five generations at once. The present occupant 
has not only kept up the place, but he has greatly improved it. Horschel 
F. Smith has had a very busy life. He and his brother William C. were 
soldiers of Co. I, ist Vt. Regt., and were with the regiment from the time it 
went out until its discharge. At Gettysburg he carried a wounded prisoner 
from the field on his back, and single handed took two stalwart prisoners into 
•camp. He is a practical surveyor, and in the last twenty-eight years has 
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of Vermont. He has also erected a large number of buildings, and repaired 
many. Mr. Smith is the originator of the " Polaris" potato, which is a fine 
new variety, and is becoming very popular. He has served as clerk of his 
church and his school district a number of years, and has been the superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school fifteen years. He is the father of six children. 

Patrick Bryan, the first Catholic in Waterbury, was a tailor. He came 
from London to Quebec, and from there directly to Waterbury about 1814 
or '15. His family were six sons and two daughters. The father and mother 
and one or two, if not all, of the children, who have died in Waterbury, were 
buried in Burlington. Mr. Bryan did not remain at the village long. He 
soon purchased and moved to a farm near the Center. Many years ago his 
house was a resort for Irishmen, and Catholic meetings were held there. 

Solomon Newcomb was born in Shelburne, Mass., August 2, 1780. Sep- 
tember 24, 1803, he married Sarah Pulman, who was born August 10, 1782. 
Mr. Newcomb was a farmer and joiner. He settled in Waterbury, Vt., in 
1816, where he died December 9, 1845. Mrs. Newcomb died December 21, 
1841. Their children were Elymas S., born February 4, 1805; Sarah T., 
born September 13, 1806; Wealthy W., born November 28, 1808; and 
Irenaeus P., born April 23, 1814. Elymas Newcomb married Harriet R. 
Allen, September 16, 1832. He died September 5, i86g. His widow still 
survives him. Judge Newcomb was a prominent citizen of his town and 
county, and a solid pillar of his church. 

George W. Randall was born on Kicker Mountain, September 18, 1825. His 
father, Oliver C, and grandfather, William Randall, were the pioneer settlers 
there about 1820. His father died in 1830. About a year later his mother, 
who was the daughter of Moses Coffin, removed to Stowe, and soon after 
married George Akely. Mr. Randall passed his early boyhood with his 
aunt, Mrs. Davis, whose wants he now takes pleasure in supplying. At 
the age of sixteen years Mr. Randall chose the trade of blacksmith, and 
became an apprentice in Waterbury, and boarded in the family of R. C. Smith, 
Esq., where he remained three years. In prosecuting his trade later he was 
injured by a horse, and was obliged to abandon it. This injury probably 
changed the current of his life. While with Esquire Smith he observed that 
it was necessary to obtain a fair education in order to gain a standing in good 
society and success in life. He had access to the common school, and later 
finished an academic course at Bakersfield Academy. The three succeeding 
winters he taught a district school. Since that time he has experienced an 
eventful and busy life. At the breaking out of the " gold fever," in 1849, he 
abandoned the profession of law, which he had commenced in the office of 
Hon. Paul Dillingham, and went to California, over the Isthmus of Panama ; 
run the gauntlet of cholera, reached San Francisco, paid fifty cents for the 
privilege of sleeping on a pile of shavings, went into the mines, remainin 
fourteen months, and returned to Waterbury, after an absence of seventeen 
months and eight days, with an accumulation of $5,000. Two years later,. 



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in January, 1853, he again started for California, contracted yellow fever, was 
the only one of a company of thirty who survived the attack, and in conse- 
quence of it had poor health and returned home without financial success. 
Since that time he has been engaged in dealing in real estate, farming, and 
lumbering. He now cultivates about 700 or 800 acres, and owns of timber- 
land 3,000 acres. His mills cut about 1,000,000 feet of lumber annually, 
and he gives employment to a force of fifty men. Mr. Randall has found 
time to give his attention to the interests of his town, and although he first 
cast his lot with the Democrats he had the courage to follow his convictions, 
and at the organization of the Republican party he joined its ranks. He has 
been auditor, hster, and selectman, and in 1872 represented his town in the 
state legislature, and again in 1882, when he was instrumental in obtaining 
the charter for the incorporation of Waterbury village. 

Thomas Eddy, born in Middlebury, Mass., married Elizabeth Putnam, a 
relative of Gen. Putnam. Mr. Eddy served three years in the Revolu- 
tionary war, was crippled, and received a pension. In 182 1 he came to 
Waterbury with his son William, with whom he lived until his death, in 
1840. William Eddy, just mentioned, ultimately settled on the fine farm on 
Thatcher's Branch, where his son Harvey now resides. Mr. Eddy was a 
prominent man and held most of the town offices. Nancy Eddy, daughter 
of Thomas and Elizabeth (Putnam) Eddy, was born March 31, 1797. She 
married Elinas Humphrey, February 24, 1820. Mr. Humphrey was born 
May 18, 1799. They settled in Waterbury before 1824, as their oldest son 
was born there in that year. Mr. Humphrey was a farmer and joiner, and 
one of the finest workmen in the state. He was a man of good abilities, 
very well informed, and a self-made man. Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey reared 
nine children, viz.: William, Horace W., Juliet, George S., Morton, He- 
man E., Ann Maria, Charles O., and Mason W. Horace W., born Febru- 
ary 8, 1824, married Ruth W, Knight, of Pelham, N. H. In 1861 he 
enlisted from Pelham in the Union army, went to the front, and remained 
in the service the ensuing four years, participating in the battles of Cedar 
Creek, Winchester, and Fisher Hill, and was discharged at the close of the 
war without a scar, but broken in health. He now resides in his native 
town (Waterbury). Charles O. Humphrey, born October 24, 1838, married 
Eliza Grover, and is a farmer in Waterbury. He has a good academic edu- 
cation, and in early life taught district schools. He served as a soldier in 
the Union army in the late war. Mason W. Humphrey, born June 27, 1841, 
also received an academic education, and taught district schools. He also 
enlisted in the Union service, as a private, was promoted to the rank of 
lieutenant, and was killed in battle June 3, 1864. 

The Clough family in America, as near as can be ascertained, are of Eng- 
lish origin. One branch very early settled in Guilford, N. H., and intermar- 
ried with the Chase family. Simon Clough, after serving through the Revo- 
lutionary war, removed to Barnston, Canada, where he remained the residue 



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of his life. His brother Joseph located at Three Rivers, and their brother 
Aaron came from Guilford, N. H., to Stowe, Vt., and settled as a farmer, 
and died there, aged about eighty years. Aaron Clough was born in Sea- 
broke, N. H., January 21, 1763. He married Elizabeth Clark, October 17, 
1781, and their ten children were Elizabeth, born July 29, 1782 ; Patience, 
born December 29, 1785; Abigail, born November 9, 1789; Marcy, born 
January 2, 1792; Aaron, Jr., born March 23, 1795; Moses, born April 23, 
1798; Thaddeus, born October 9, 1801 ; Eli, born June 9, 1803 ; Solomon, 
born April 9, 1808; and Relief, born August 18, 1809. His son Thaddeus 
married Clarissa Morse, of Waterbury, and after a few years' residence in 
Stowe made a final and permanent settlement in Waterbury, where he was 
a successful farmer, and gained the confidence of his townsmen, who honored 
him with the offices within their gift. He was selectman twelve successive 
years, and representative in the state legislature in 1836, 1847, and 1848. 
He died November 28, 1883, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. His 
wife died September 30, 1876, aged eighty-four years. 

Columbus F., son of Thaddeus and Clarissa (Morse) Clough, born in Stowe, 
June 28, 1833, spent his time, like other farmers' boys, in hard labor and at- 
tending the common school of his district, and later attended the academies 
of Morrisville and Bakersfield, where he fitted for college at the early age of 
seventeen years. By the advice of Hon. Paul Dillingham he gave up his 
intention of taking a college course, and entered the law office of Mr. Dilling- 
ham, and was prepared to practice at twenty years of age, but was obliged to 
wait until the session of the court and his age would allow of his admission to 
the bar. During the four and a half years which he spent under the tutelage 
of Gov. Dillingham he was required to assist in the trial of his cases in 
justices' courts, and did his entire work of that kind the last year. Mr. Clough 
was admitted to the bar of Vermont, March 11, 1856. About this time he 
was encumbered with business matters, in the closing out of which he was 
detained in Waterbury, and prevented from going West, where he had offers 
of unusually fine business connections. The business before referred to, 
and some practice in his profession, occupied his time for five or six years. 
January 26, 1861, he removed to Waitsfield, where he soon built up an ex- 
tensive and successful practice, in Washington, Windsor, Orange, Chittenden, 
and Eamoille counties. He remained in Waitsfield until October 17, 1867, 
when he returned to Waterbury. He has been connected in partnership with 
Hon. Hiram Carleton, judge of probate, now residmg in Montpelier, and also 
with Edwin F. Palmer, Esq., of Waterbury. July 29, 1861, Mr. Clough united 
in marriage with Persis L., daughter of Charles S. and Nancy Allen, of Water- 
bury. He is independent in politics, but has decided convictions on the 
-question of finance and other national questions. He is a member of the 
Congregational church. 



TOWN OF WATERBURY, 507 



S. Raymond Huse, son of Eben B. Huse, was born in Brookfield, Vt., in 
1828, and came to Waterbury with his step-father, Ziba Smith, in 1832. His 
father died when he was but six months old. Mr. Huse spent his time, like 
other farmers' boys, at work in summer and at school in winter, and finished 
his education at Bakersfield Academy, under the able instruction of Prof. 
Spaulding, A. M., LL. D. At the age of twenty-one years he bought the 
fine and productive farm where he now lives. He has devoted his energies in 
its constant improvement, and with marked and satisfactory results. Mr. 
Huse is not a politician, but is a Republican, and has been persuaded by his 
townsmen to serve them as selectman, auditor, and lister, which positions he 
gave the same attention that he does to his individual affairs. Mr. Huse 
ranks with. our most intelligent farmers, is an extensive reader, and has 
accumulated a fine library. He married Augusta S. Miles, of Acton, Mass. 
Their children are George R., an engineer in Troy, N. Y.; Louis N., a farmer 
with his father ; and Joseph S., yet in school. 

Dr. Henry Janes, son of Henry F. and Fanny (Butler) Janes, was born 
in Waterbury, January 24, 1832. The following sketch was condensed by 
Hon. Edwin F. Palmer from biographies of the members of the " Rocky 
Mountain Medical association," published at Washington, D. C, in 1877: — 

The Doctor received his education at Morrisville and at St. Johnsbury 
academies. His medical studies were commenced in 1852, at Waterbury, 
under Dr. J. B. Woodard. He attended his first course of medical lectures 
at Woodstock College, in 1852, and two courses subsequently at the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, where he graduated in 1855, ^^^ 
was appointed assistant and afterwards house physician in Bellevue hospital, 
New York city. In 1856 he went into practice at Chelsea, Mass., and in 
1857 returned to Waterbury, where he soon acquired a good professional bus- 
iness. In 1 861 he entered the army as surgeon of the 3d Vt. Regt., in 1863 
was commissioned surgeon of the U. S. army, and in 1865 was breveted 
heutenant. The greater part of his military service was spent in hospital 
duty. In the fall of 1862 he was in charge of a hospital at Burkettsville ; in 
1863, in the winter, at Frederick, Md.; in the spring in the hospitals of the 
6th Army Corps, and in the summer and fall in the army hospitals in and 
about Gettysburg, and at the Letterman general hospital, in which were 
about 2,000 severely wounded from the Gettysburg battlefield. In the winter 
and spring of 1864 he was in South Street general hospital, at Philadelphia, 
and in the summer of the same year was in charge of a hospital steamer. 
From the fall of 1864 till the close of the war he was in charge of Sloan gen- 
eral hospital, at Montpelier. He left the army in 1866, and spent a portion 
of that year in New York, making a special study of injuries to the bones 
and brain. In 1867 he returned to Waterbury, where he has since been 
actively engaged in practice, with the exception of a portion of 1874, when he 
was traveling in Europe. His practice is large in the treatment of nervous 
diseases, surgery, and in consultations with neighboring physicians. In 1869 



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and '70 he published, in the "Transactions of Vermont Medical society," a 
paper on the treatment of gun-shot fractures, especially of the femur ; in 
187 1, '72, and '73 papers on some of the incidents following amputations; in 
1874 amputations at the knee-joint; in 1877 a paper on spinal hemiplegia. 
At the 9th International Congress held at Washington, D. C, Dr. Janes read 
two papers, one on non-fatal penetrating gun-shot wounds of the abdomen, 
treated without laparotomy, and the other, gun-shot fractures of the femur, 
giving the results of treatment of 427 cases, and also 263 cases treated con- 
servatively — a larger number than has been treated by any other living per- 
son. In 1880 Dr. Janes was elected by the unanimous vote of the legislature 
a trustee of the University of Vermont, and he is also one of the medical 
committee of the Mary Fletcher hospital, at Burlington. 

Joseph Moody married Avis Chesley, and settled in Vershire, Vt., where 
he was a farmer and an extensive dealer in live stock and real estate. In 
January, 1835, he came to Waterbury and continued his farming and buying 
and selling, until his shattered health, at the age of sixty-six years, compelled 
him to retire from active life. He died in Waterbury, April 15, 1857, at the 
age of seventy-seven years. Mrs. Moody died September 7, 1848, aged 
sixty-six years. Nathaniel Moody, son of Joseph and Avis (Chesley) Moody, 
was born in Vershire, Vt., June 18, 1806. He was inured to hard labor on 
his father's farm, received a little "schooling " in his district, and at the age 
of twenty-one years he struck out for himself and was a farm laborer to the 
age of twenty- six years. March 26, 1832, he united in marriage with Miss 
Huldah Chandler, of Strafford, Vt., and settled on a farm in his native town. 
He at once engaged in farming and dealing in cattle which he drove to 
Boston market. His earliest trips to Boston were performed on foot both 
ways. In March, 1837, Mr. Moody came to Waterbury, where he continued 
a farmer and increased his trade in live stock, dealing with the farmers of 
Washington and adjacent counties. In 1852 he removed to the pleasant 
village of Waterbury, where he now resides (1888), at the advanced age of 
more than four-score years. Mr. Moody has yet a vigorous mind, transacts 
all his own financial affairs, and is giving his attention to the business 
interests of the Waterbury National bank, of which he has been one of its 
able directors for fifteen or twenty years. Mrs. Moody died March 14, 1879. 
September 7, 1880, Mr. Moody married Miss Martha J. Joslyn, his present 
wife. Mr. Moody is a staunch citizen, and a member and pillar of the Meth- 
odist church. George W. Moody, son of Joseph and Avis, was born Septem- 
ber 20, 1822, and came to Waterbury in 1835. December 7, 1843, at the 
age of twenty-one years, he married Miss Lucia, daughter of Capt. William 
and Jane (Smith) Eddy. Mr. Moody, like his father and brothers, has been 
a farmer and speculator. The children of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Moody are 
G. Eugene, born January 6, 1845; Edwin B., born August 18, 1846; 
L. Euphrasia, born November 8, 1848; Sarah E., born September i, 1850; 
Emma C, born October 11, 1852 ; Calvin B., born October 26, 1855; and 



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Nettie E., born February 23, i860. G. Eugene Moody married Alma Huse, 
March 8, 1866. He is one of the large proprietors of cultivated real estate, 
and a bold speculator in all kinds of property. He holds the positions of 
representative and selectman. 

Dexter May, a pioneer of Berlin, settled at a very early date, before 1804, 
on the VVinooski river, on the first farm below Montpelier Junction. He was 
the father of twelve children, and died on the farm at the advanced age of 
eighty-five years. His son Silas, born opx the homestead, July 13, 1804, was 
educated in the common schools, was an extensive reader, and accumulated 
quite a library, and by his course of reading and habits of close observation 
acquired a fund of practical knowledge. September i, 1833, he married 
Betsey Farrar, of Moretown, and settled at once on a farm in Montpelier, on 
the Middlesex road, about half a mile west of the State House. In May, 
1836, he removed to VVaterbury and settled on the Stoweroad, one mile north 
of the Center village, where he resided until his death, July 21, 1859. He 
was a man of influence and highly respected. In politics he was an " old line 
Whig," and held the offices of selectman and justice of the peace. He was 
an active member of the Methodist church, and a liberal contributor to all its 
interests. Mrs. May survived her husband until 1873, aged seventy-one years. 
Their children were Oscar W.; Sarah, who died in infancy; Josephine, who 
married George N. Greely, and resides in this town on a farm on Gregg hill ; 
and S. Aurora, who married Orlow VV. Bickford, and resides in Kansas. 
Oscar W. May, born July 22, 1834, spent his time, like other farmers' boys, 
at work a portion of the year, but received a good practical education at the 
district schools. When about eighteen years of age he commenced teaching 
in the common schools, which he continued with fine success for six successive 
winters. January 11, 1863, he married Emma A. Atkins, of Waterbury, and 
bought of the heirs of the estate the homestead, which he still owns. He is 
a Republican, and has been in office constantly the last twenty-five years. 
He was a selectman during the war for the Union, and served in that capacity 
about five years, lister sixteen years, and constable the last eleven consecu- 
tive years. 

Thomas Montgomery was born in Duxbury. His father emigrated from 
Scotland to America, and settled in Duxbury at a very early date in the his- 
tory of that town. Thomas, before mentioned, married Lucy Blanchardand 
settled in his native town, where he always resided. He was a mason and 
farmer, and reared a large family, dying at the age of about eighty- six years. 
His son John, born in Duxbury, November ig, 1794, married Thyphena 
Towle, and settled on the homestead. In 1836 he removed to Waterbury 
and first settled on a farm on Perry hill. About 1873 he removed to a fine 
farm at the mouth of Cotton brook, on Waterbury river, where he died May 
7, 1887, aged over ninety-two years. Mr. Montgomery was a Democrat, and 
held several offices of trust. He possessed a very retentive memory, which 
remained unimpaired until the close of his long life. He was highly respected 



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as a citizen and neighbor, and on account of his excellent judgment was 
sought as a juryman in the trial of important cases at law. His children 
were Lucy (Mrs. Samuel Lewis), John E., George R., who married Sylvia 
Farr, and resides on a farm in Waterbury, Mary A. (Mrs. Dr. Huse), Eliza 
(Mrs. Silas Perry), deceased, and Charles C, who married Carrie Lewis, is a 
farmer, and at present resides on the estate of his father. 

William Wells, born in Waterbury, December 14, 1837, entered the service 
as a private soldier in Co. C, ist Regt. Vt. Cav., in 1861, was promoted to 
first lieutenant, captain, major, colonel, brevet brigadier-general, brigadier- 
general, and brevet major-general of volunteers, and was mustered out of 
service January 16, 1866. He represented Waterbury in the legislature 
in 1865 and 1866; was adjutant and inspector-general of Vermont from 
October i, 1866, to May i, 1872, when he was appointed collector of cus- 
toms for the District of Vermont, which position he held until after Grover 
Cleveland was inaugurated President, in 1885. He is a member of the firm 
of Wells, Richardson & Co., wholesale druggists of Burlington. 

David C. Sheple was born in Massachusetts, December 25, 1789, and in 
1814 came to Calais, Vt. He married Phebe R. Bancroft, who was born in 
Petersham, Mass., April 19, 1789. Four children were born to them — three 
sons and one daughter. In 1828 they moved to Waterbury, having purchased 
a large farm known as the Gen. Peck farm, on which he remained until his 
death. He was in the mercantile business in Waterbury several years with 
A. S. Richardson, the firm being Richardson & Sheple. Mr. Sheple died 
October 8, 1864, and Mrs. Sheple January 16, 1862. 

Curtis N. Arms was born in Duxbury, December 31, 182 r. In 1837, at 
the age of sixteen, he came to Waterbury and engaged as a clerk in the em- 
ploy of D. & W. Carpenter. In 1846 he formed a partnership with J. G. 
Stimson, which continued six years. He commenced business alone in 1852, 
and continued until impaired health made it necessary to rest in 1865. He 
sold to, and was succeeded by, Wyman & Smith. About 1864 he commenced 
wholesale business, and retired from the firm of Arms cS: Haines in May, 1887, 
after an active business career of fifty years. He was town treasurer twelve 
years before and during the war period, is now a director of Waterbury Na- 
tional bank, and treasurer of Winooski Valley Agricultural society. Although 
he has never entered the political field for promotion, he has often been called 
by his fellow townsmen to positions of responsibility and trust, and has dis- 
charged these duties with fidelity and good judgment. 

Gideon Ricker and his son Gideon came to Waterbury from Waterborough, 
Me., in the spring of 1839, and settled on Ricker Mountain, so-named in 
honor of Joseph Ricker, a brother of Gideon, Sr., who was the first perma- 
nent settler of the neighborhood. Gideon Ricker continued to reside on the 
place where he settled until his death, April 11, 1862, at the age of eighty- 
eight years. He and his son were active and energetic business men, and 



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successfully prosecuted lumbering and farming. About ten years before the 
death of the senior the property was transferred to the younger, who still 
owns it. He married Miss Mary Lord, of Maine, who died on the place in 
December, 1886, aged sixty-nine years. Their children, who attained mature 
age, are Mark, Jane (Mrs. Albert Town), who resides in the neighborhood of 
her old liome, Simon, Eliza, Levi, Ashley, and Jackson. 

Dr. Thomas B. Downer, an early, if not the earliest, physician of Stowe, 
came to Waterbury Center about 1840, and at once commenced the practice 
of his profession, which he continued with more than ordinary success to the 
time of his death. The Doctor had a will of his own, which was a potent 
cause of his leaving Stowe. At the formation of Lamoille county he de- 
clared he would pay no tax to the new organization ; hence his removal. He 
was medium in stature, inclining to corpulency. His voice was deep and 
heavy ; his manners brusque and almost repulsive. His figure bestride 
the '• old mare " was daily seen on the country roads, and approach was 
heralded by his peculiar te-he I which concluded his command to move 
along. He always had a word of greeting for every one he met, and under 
the rough exterior possessed a kind and ready sympathy. He was emphati- 
cally everybody's doctor. He attended, with and without compensation, 
rich and poor alike. He died in 185 1, and was buried in Stowe. His 
daughter Clarissa married Lyman Smith, who died suddenly, aged about 
forty years. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were parents of three children who ar- 
rived at adult age, viz.: John Downer, Clarissa, and George Edward, who 
was of a happy disposition, an athlete, and a general favorite. He entered 
the Union army when only eighteen years old and served three years in Co. 
D, 2d Vt. Regt., without a scratch, until at the battle of the Wilderness, 
where he was shot through the left lung, and was at once discharged, but 
lived an invalid until his death, in 1885. His widow and son reside in Stowe. 
John D. Smith married Mary Jane, daughter of Riverius Camp, the pioneer 
merchant of Stowe, and came to Waterbury Center about the time that his 
grandfather. Dr. Downer, came. He was a merchant a few years, and was 
elected town clerk in 1851, and held the office continually till his death, in 
1873. H^ ^^^ ^^so justice of the peace and lister, and represented Water- 
bury in the legislature in 1856 and '57- He was a practical land surveyor, 
and did general conveyancing ; advised the people in matters of law, and set- 
tled a large number of estates. He was a very extensive reader, possessed a 
large library, and was so well informed that his advice was sought on all 
questions. He died without an enemy, April 7, 1873. In religion Mr. 
Smith was a Universalist, and believed in the ultimate salvation of all man- 
kind. In politics he commenced an "old line Whig," and entered the Re- 
publican ranks at its formation, and did good service for his party. Mrs. 
Smith still survives, and resides with her son Frank N. Frank N. Smith 
succeeded his father as town clerk, which position he has held to the present 



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time. He is also engaged in conveyancing, settling estates, etc. He is a 
reader and retains his father's library, and has the same Uberal sentiments in 
religion and politics. 

William Moody, son of Joseph Moody, was born in Vershire, Vt., in 1808. 
He had only a common school education, and spent his boyhood on his 
father's farm at hard labor, with the usual " three months' schooling " in winter. 
In early manhood he married Juha Oilman, of his native town, settled on a 
farm, which he purchased mainly on credit, in the town of Strafford, where he 
resided until 1846, when he removed to Waterbury, and owned and cultivated 
several farms, and speculated in live stock and real estate. About ten years 
later he removed to Waterbury village, and there spent the remainder of his 
life. He owned and conducted the Washington House two or three years, 
until it was destroyed by fire. This hotel was on the site of the present 
Waterbury House. Mr. Moody was an old line Democrat, and remained 
loyal to that party until the seceding states attempted to dissolve the Union. 
He then gave his influence and votes, up to the time of his death, to the Re- 
publican party. In religion he affiliated with the Methodist church, and con- 
tributed generously to its material interests. Mr. Moody was always the 
spirited citizen, aiding in all the enterprises to advance the real improvement 
of the society in which he moved ; and by a life of integrity he had the con- 
fidence and esteem of his large circle of acquaintances. He died September 
5, 1865. Mrs. Moody survived her husband until December, 1870. Mr. 
and Mrs. Moody reared four daughters and one son, viz.: Malvina E. (Mrs. 
George D. Robinson), who resides in Stowe ; Susan G. (Mrs. N. K. Brown), 
who resides in Burlington ; Julia J. (Mrs. S. C. Town), who resides in Water- 
bury ; Frances E., widow of Asa C. Atherton, who also resides in Waterbury ; 
and Justin W., who married Miss Hattie F. Brown, of Montpelier. At six- 
teen years of age he was assistant postmaster and clerk in the book and 
stationery store of N. K. Brown. This position he retained until he was 
twenty-one years of age, and had sole charge of the office the last three years. 
He then received the appointment of postmaster, bought the store, and con- 
tinued postmaster until 1865, when he resigned. He is now giving his atten- 
tion to the improvement of a fine farm. He resides on Union street, in 
Waterbury village. 

William Deal, who was born in Phillipsburgh, P. Q., settled permanently 
in Waterbury village in 1851. He married Asentha, daughter of Chester 
Marshall, of Duxbury. Mr. Deal is the leading architect and builder of the 
town. He has given this occupation his attention the last thirty-eight years. 
His skill and great energy bring to him the largest jobs. There are many 
buildings in the village that he has either built or repaired. The most not- 
able are M. M. Knight's residence and store, C. C. Warren's residence and 
tannery, the block containing the stores of M. O. Evans, J. Burleigh, and 
F. B. Taylor, the Waterbury Hotel, and the new bank block. 



TOWN OF WATERBURY. 513 



Dr. Horace Fales was born in Sharon, Vt., February i6, 1823, and spent 
most of the time there and in adjoining towns until 1843. He then attended 
the Kimball Union Academy, at Meriden, N. H., where he received his 
academic education perparatory to the study of the medical profession. In 
1845 he entered the office of his uncle, Dr. Reuben Spalding, in Brattleboro, 
Vt., where he commenced the study of medicine, and graduated at the Wood- 
stock Medical College in June, 1848, a self-educated physician, having sus- 
tained himself without aid by his own industry in the practice of dentistry. 
He soon after located in VVaterbury, where he practiced both medicine and 
dentistry until the winter of 1849, when he left for the purpose of finding a 
more favorable location. In March, 1850, he removed to Middlesex, Vt., 
where he continued in successful practice six years. In 1856 he returned to 
Waterbury, where he had a large and lucrative practice to the time of his 
death, September 15, 1882. In the thirty-six years of Dr. Fales's practice 
in Waterbury and surrounding towns he fairly won a leading rank in his cho- 
sen profession. He was possessed of keen insight in the nature of disease, 
and his cool judgment made him a safe counselor. " Few doctors ever ap- 
proached the sick room whose manner and words were better adapted to 
inspire courage in the invalid." As a citizen Dr. Fales was public spirited, 
and ever ready to aid every enterprise for the advancement of the society of 
his town. In May, 1851, he married Henrietta A., daughter of David G. 
Sheple, of Waterbury, an amiable woman of fine abilities, who survives her 
husband and resides in Waterbury village. 

Charles C. Robinson, son of Noah and Calista (Russell) Robinson, was 
born in Stowe, November 21, 1833. Mr. Robinson, after leaving the com- 
mon school, received an academic education at the academy of Bakersfield. 
February 18, 1864, he married Mary Jane Prescott, of Waterbury. They 
settled on a fine farm near Waterbury Center, where they now reside. Mr. 
Robinson is a Democrat, and although his party is only a weak minority in 
Waterbury he is so much appreciated and respected by his townsmen that 
they have elected him for many years to the offices of selectman, overseer of 
the poor, and auditor. He has also been the standard bearer of his party for 
the position of representative in the state legislature, and received much 
more than his party vote. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have four children, viz.: 
Harvey P., Carrie E., Ethel C, and Charles C, all of whom reside with 
their parents. 

George C. Washburne, son of Gamaliel and Caroline C. (Stevens) Wash- 
burne, was born in Montpelier, November 21, 1845. He resided with his 
parents in his native village until he was fourteen years of age, and spent his 
time in attendance at the public school, where he laid the foundation for his 
substantial education. After spending some time in Boston, with his brother, 
attending the Quincy School, he went to Philadelphia, Pa., and entered a 
drug store, with the intention of mastering the trade, and making it his future 
business. Next year, at an early age, he responded to his country's call and 
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TOWN OF WATERBURY. 



entered the Union army, in Co. A., 184th Regt. Pa. Vols., where he served 
until Lee's surrender, in 1865. His service was in the hospitals. He then 
decided on the profession of medicine, and immediately after his discharge 
from the army entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he was gradu- 
ated in 1867, after two years' study. In the same season he located in Hard- 
wick, Vt., where he practiced with success until 1870. He then removed to 
Waterbury, where he now resides and has built up a large and successful 
practice. Dr. VVashburne is a member of the Episcopal church of Montpe- 
Her ; but as there is no church of that order m Waterbury he attends the Con- 
gregational church of his village and aids in its support. In March, 1868, 
Dr. Washburne united in marriage with Mrs. Charlotte L. Delano, daughter 
of Edwin and Charlotte Lyman, of Montreal, P. Q. They have a son, 
GamaUel, and two daughters, CaroUne and Katherine M. In the years 1877, 
'78, and '79 Dr. VVashburne held the important position of superintendent of 
schools of Waterbury, and performed its duties with fidelity. 

Rev. Leonard Tenney, son of Benjamin and Betsey (Taylor) Tenney, was 
born in Groton, N. H., August 5, 1814. In October, 1831, he united with the 
Congregational church of his native town, and in March, 1 833, he began to pre- 
pare for college, under the instruction of Rev. Henry Wood, of Haverhill, N. H. 
A year later he entered Kimball Union Academy, and remained there till he 
entered Dartmouth College, in 1836. During his academic and college 
course he devoted a portion of his time to teaching singing and public schools. 
After he had finished his college course he taught a year and a half in Lyme 
and Hebron, N. H. In the spring of 1842 he began the study of theology 
at Andover Theological Seminary, and finished the course in the spring ot' 
1844. September following he commenced to preach in Jaffrey, N. H., as 
the colleague of Rev. Laban Ainsworth, where he remained until August, 
1857. While in Jaffrey he served two years as commissioner of education for 
Cheshire county. He removed to Thetford, Vt., in 1857, and was pastor of 
the church of that place until the close of the year 1867. He represented 
Thetford in the legislature of 1866 and again in 1867. January i, 1868, he 
accepted the pastorate of the church in Barre, and remained in charge of that 
church until May, 1881, when, on account of illness, he resigned his position. 
Later he was in charge of the Vermont Bible society nearly three years, when 
he purchased a house in Waterbury, where he now resides. For more than 
twenty-five years he has been superintendent of schools. He married Mal- 
vina Baker, of Lebanon, N. H., and their union is blessed with a daughter 
and three sons. 

Emory G. Hooker, M. D., son of Liberty H. and Almira E. (Blake) 
Hooker, was born in Cabot. Vt., February 19, 1839. He remained with his- 
parents until he was twenty years of age, engaged in labor on the farm and 
in the saw-mills of his father, and attending the district school and the acad- 
emy at Barre, where, under the tutelage of Prof Jacob Spaulding, he com- 
pleted his academic studies. He then decided to enter the medical profes- 



TOWN OF WATERBURY. 515 



sion,and commenced a course of study in the office of Drs. Clark and Rublee^ 
of Montpelier, where he continued for about three years, but in the time he 
was West about a year and a half, teaching, and attending a course of medi- 
cal lectures at Ann Arbor, Mich. In the winter of i 864 and '65 he was six 
months in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, where: 
he graduated. He then located in Waitsfield, Vt., where he remained in suc- 
cessful practice the ensuing sixteen years. In 1881 he came to Waterbury,. 
where he immediately had a large professional business, which he continues 
to the present writing (1888). December 28, 1865, he married Kate L, 
Kneeland, of Waterbury, and they have one daughter, Jessie M. 

Dr. Ebenezer J. Foster, son of Leonard R. Foster, whose grandfather, Isaac 
Foster, was a pioneer of Moretown, as was also his maternal grandfather^. 
Ebenezer Johnson, was born in Moretown, January 15, 1847. When about 
fifteen years of age he enlisted in Co. B, loth Vt. Regt., as a drummer, and! 
remained continually with his regiment until it was mustered out of service at 
the close of the war, in July, 1865. Dr. Foster was a general favorite with 
his regiment, and was given the pet name of " The Little Drummer Boy of 
the Tenth." Soon after his return home, in 1865, he decided on the profes- 
sion of medicine and continued his education, as preparatory to its accom- 
plishment, and in 1867 entered the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadel- 
phia, where he graduated. Next he took an extra course in the Philadelphia 
School of Anatomy and Surgery, and later an extra course in the New York 
Homeopathic College. Dr. Foster is also a thorough music scholar, and ex- 
cels in its execution. He has given his attention to the fine arts, and has 
produced paintings of genuine merit. He practiced his profession in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., with very fair success about two years, when he went West, and 
had fine success in Wisconsin, but eventually settled in Minneapolis, where 
he built up an extensive and lucrative practice, which he left about five years 
ago and returned to Waterbury, his native county, to perform the filial duty 
of administering to the comforts of his aged father, who is over four-score 
years of age. He now has an extensive practice in Waterbury and adjacent 
towns. 

Will F. Minard, son of R. W. Minard, was born in Hinesburgh, Vt., May 
13, 1867. He was educated at Hinesburgh and Bristol academies, read 
medicine at Burlington with Dr. G. E. E. Sparhawk about four years, entered 
the Hahnemann Medical College, where he graduated in 1887, at the head 
of his class. He returned to Burlington and practiced with Dr. Sparhawk 
about one year and six months, and November 16, 1888, settled in Water- 
bury, where he is in the practice of his profession with every prospect of 
building up a successful business. September 20, 1886, Dr. Minard married 
Mrs. Clarissa C. Smith, of Waterbury Center. 

The Revolutionary soldiers who settled in Waterbury and died there were 
Capt. Thomas Jones, Aaron Wilder, Gov. Ezra Butler, Zachariah Bassett, 
Moses Nelson, David Town, John Hudson, D. Sloan, Benjamin Conant, 



5l6 TOWN OF WATERBURY. 



Paul Dillingham, Asaph Allen, Isaac Marshall, Thomas Eddy, Alphas Shel- 
<ion, Joseph Hubbard, Stephen Jones, Asa Poland, and George Kennan. 

More than forty of the sons of Waterbury went out in the War of 1812. 

All through the dark days of the war for the Union, Waterbury patriotically 
responded to the repeated calls for men until she had sent to the seat of war 
211 of her sons. Of this number are the gallant Gen. William Wells, Gen. 
William W. Henry, and the lamented Major Edwin Dillingham, who was killed 
at Winchester, September 19, 1864. Seventeen were killed, or died of 
wounds received in battle ; eighteen died of diseases ; and one committed 
suicide. Of those who returned at the expiration of their term of service, or 
at the close of the war, many brought germs of disease that caused their early 
death, and others were crippled and maimed for life. 

The First Methodist Episcopal church in Waterbury was organized at 
Waterbury Center, by Elder Stebbins, it is said in 1800, with Thomas Gup- 
til, class-leader, and fourteen other members. Their present and first church 
edifice was built of brick in 1833, ^"^"^ ^'^1 comfortably seat an audience of 
250 persons, which, with the grounds and all other church property, is valued 
at $4,000. The present number of members is eighty, and Rev. Harvey 
Webster is their pastor. The Sunday-school has fourteen officers and teach- 
ers, and eighty-two scholars. 

The Methodist Episcopal church of Waterbury village is located on Stowe 
street, and was organized in 1836. Their first and present house of worship 
was erected of brick in 1841, and will comfortably seat 250 people. The 
■church and site is valued at $3,000, and the parsonage at $2,500. It has at 
the present time 189 members, and Rev. W. R. Davenport is their pastor. 
The Sunday-school has sixteen officers and teachers and 175 scholars. In 
1799 the celebrated and eccentric Lorenzo Dow was appointed to " Essex 
•circuit," which embraced Waterbury within its limits. So far as we know 
this was the first Methodist preaching in town. Through Mr. Dow's efforts 
a class was formed at Waterbury Center. The class soon grew into a regu- 
lar church organization. In 1836 a great revival occurred, and the church 
at Waterbury village was formed. This is now one of the leading churches 
of the denomination in the state, and has been served by several of the most 
•eminent pastors in the conference. Great revivals occurred under the pas- 
torates of Revs. H. W. Worthen and W. Underwood ; the winter of 1888-89 
also saw a goodly number converted. The venerable ex-Governor Paul Dil- 
lingham has been one of the pillars of the church from its organization, and 
to him and wife its prosperity has been largely due. The present governor 
of the state, Hon. W. P. Dillingham, is also an honored office bearer in the 
church, and is a tower of strength to the cause. The society contemplates 
building an elegant brick edifice in the near future, and already has several 
thousand dollars at interest for the purpose. Fifteen hundred dollars of this 
sum was generously contributed by Nathaniel Moody. Large numbers of 
people converted at the altars of this church have gone to swell the working 



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force of Other Methodist churches ; some also to other denominations; and 
the Rev. Calvin B. Moody has joined the ranks of the Congregational minis- 
try, and is settled at Osage, lov/a. 

The First Congregational church of Waterbury was organized July lo,. 
1801, by the Rev. Jedediah Bushnell, a missionary from Connecticut, and the 
following persons constituted its membership : Asaph Allen, Hugh Blair, 
Moses Bates, Amos Slate, Thomas Kennan, Mary Austin, Ruth Rich, Samuel 
Slate, David Austin, Edward Bates, David Town, Esther Slate, Zebulon Allen, 
John Blair, Lydia Town, and Bathshaba Slate. Rev. Jonathan Hovey was- 
ordained and installed the first pastor, September i, 1803, and he was dis- 
missed December 31, 1807. The church was without a pastor the ensuing 
eighteen years, but regular meetings were held and sermons were read. In 
1824 a meeting-house was erected by the citizens, and is now the house of 
worship of this church. The whole number of members of this church since 
its organization is about 400. The present membership is 107, and their 
pastor is Rev. Charles M. Sheldon. The Sunday-school has an average at- 
tendance of sixty scholars and eleven teachers. A Bible class is conducted 
by the pastor, and J. C. Griggs is superintendent. 

Waterbury River Free Baptist church is located on Waterbury river, about 
two miles west of Waterbury Center. It was organized August 5, 1840, by 
Rev. Ira Gray, with eighteen members. Rev. Ira Gray was their first pastor. 
The society erected their first house of worship, of wood, in 1845, which is 
still doing good service, and has a seating capacity for 280 persons. The 
value of all church property, including grounds and buildings, is estimated at 
$2,500. The present number of members is seventy-nine. Rev. F. H. 
Butler is their pastor. The society has a Sunday-school of fifty members. 
The church is free from debt, and owns a parsonage and a legacy of several 
hundred dollars. At one time this church had a Sunday-school of over 200, 
and a library of 600 volumes. Several hundred members of the church and 
Sundav-school have gone to other places, first and last, including several 
ministers, the church at the " Center," and a former branch up the river. 

The Waterbury Center Freewill Baptist church was organized January 24, 
187 1, by a council appointed by the Huntington quarterly meeting of the 
Freewill Baptists, with twenty-four members. Rev. D. H. Adams was their 
first pastor. Their church edifice was built of wood at a cost of $3,000, and 
has seats for an audience of 300. The present membership is fifty-one, and 
Rev. E. B. Fuller statedly supplies the pulpit. The Sunday-school has sixty- 
five members. This church was organized soon after Green Mountain Semi- 
nary was opened, and the church held their meetings for public worship irv 
the seminary hall, until they changed to the church edifice where they now 
worship. This house was owned at that time by the C. Baptists, but was not 
occupied, and needed repairs. A majority of its pew owners, including some 
Freewill Baptists, and others, made the needed repairs, and since that time 
the Freewill Baptist church has occupied the house. 



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The Roman Catholic church in Waterbiiry. — This mission, before it became 
a parish with a residing pastor, was attended occasionally, first by Father 
O'Callaghan, from Burlington, then successively by Rev. J. Daly, Rev. Father 
Drolet, the Reverend Oblate Fathers, from Burlington, Rev. Z. Druon, and 
Rev, Joseph Duglue, the last two clergymen living then at Montpeher. It 
was in 1857 that the old church, dedicated to St. Vincent Ferrier, was built 
on the hill on the east side of the railroad, at a little distance from the depot. 
It was enlarged about ten years afterwards by Father Duglue. Rev. John 
Gallagan was appointed to take charge of the congregation. He soon pur- 
chased a residence in Winooski, and that same year, 1869, bought the ad- 
joining lot where stands the Adventist meeting-house, which is now enlarged 
and converted into a church. In 1882 the church of Waterbury was dedi- 
cated to Almighty God under the vocable of St. Andrew the Apostle. 
Waterbury is now attended regularly on every other Sunday by Rev. Father 
Brelivet. 



WOODBURY lies in the northeastern corner of the county, in latitude 
44° 26' and longitude 4" 35', and is bounded northerly by Hardwick 
in Caledonia county, easterly by Cabol, southerly by Calais, and west- 
erly by Elmore in Lamoille county. It was chartered August r6, 1781, by 
the legislature of Vermont, to Col. Ebenezer Wood, William Lyman, Esq., 
and sixty associates. The first action of the original proprietors was to divide 
the township into three sections^ and these sections were, ultimately divided 
into 224 lots, each lot containing 100 acres 

As a township its territory is decidedly rough and mountainous. A mount- 
ain range extends entirely across the western part, and at its base on the 
western slope are many fertile farms, the most productive in the township. 
The balance of arable land is mainly in the southern half of the town, while 
a large portion containing the mountain region is unfit for cultivation. From 
the fact that the water flows towards every point of the compass, from Wood- 
bury, and that none flows into it, there can be no large streams in this town- 
ship, yet it is well watered by numerous streams and twenty-three natural 
ponds — the greatest number of any town in Vermont. 

Woodbury, with its rough, rocky hills and mountains, commanding views 
of varied scenery, sparkling rills and brooks, and shimmering lakelets, offers 
rare inducement to the tourist and a quiet retreat to the citizen of the city 
during the heated season. 

The rocks that form the geological structure of this town are calciferous 
mica schist, which occupies about two-thirds of the town in the eastern part, 
and next a broad belt of clay slate and talcose schist in the western part. 
There is a belt of excellent granite that extends through the calciferous mica 
schist in the southeastern part. 



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519 



In 1880 Woodbury had a population of 856. In 1888 it had ten school 
districts and as many common schools, attended by 195 scholars, and fifteen 
attended private schools. The common schools were taught by five male and 
fifteen female teachers, at an average weekly salary of $6.35 for the former 
and $4.21 for the latter. The entire income for school purposes was 
$1,246.11, and the amount expended for all school purposes was $1,539.43. 
R. F. Drenan was superintendent. 

The first settlement in Woodbury was made, as near as can now be ascer- 
tained, in 1795 or '96, by Gideon Sabin, who located in the eastern part of 
the town, near where P. Lyford and Mr. Rideout now live. Mr. Sabin was 
followed in the same year by Joseph Carr, and soon after by William West. 

Judge F. C. Putnam gives the following list of the first twelve settlers : 
Gideon Sabin, Joseph Carr, William West, Benjamin Ainsworth, John Bettis, 
Ephraim Ainsworth. Thomas Ainsworth, Ezekiel Ball, Daniel Rugg, Ferdi- 
nand Perry, Daniel Smith, and Samuel Mackres. 

The first town meeting on record was held March 4, 1806. Samuel 
Mackres was the moderator ; William West, town clerk and treasurer ; Sam- 
uel Mackres, Joshua Kenaston, and Smith Ainsworth, selectmen ; Ben- 
jamin Ainsworth, constable ; David Rugg, Joshua Kenaston, and Smith 
Ainsworth, listers. 

The first child born in town was Polly Sabin, and the first male child was 
Timothy Thomas. The next was Peter Sabin, The first death was an infant 
child of Gideon Sabin. The first adult who died in town was the wife of 
Ezekiel Ball. The first marriage was that of John Thomas and Ruamy 
Ainsworth. The ceremony was performed by William West. The first school 
was taught in 1808, by Sally White. Anthony Burgess built a saw-mill in 
1806 on the outlet of Dog pond. In 18 18 Phineas Dow built a grist-mill 
near the center of the town. The town was first represented in the state 
legislature by Elisha Benjamin, in 181 2. 

In accordance with a petition of the inhabitants of Woodbury the legisla- 
ture changed the name of Woodbury to Monroe, November 6, 1838, and 
again to Woodbury about four years after. 

This is the manner in which the town dealt out justice to one quality of 
petty larceny. We copy from the town records_^: — 

" Caledonia Co., ss. } 
"Woodbury, Oct. 5th, 1809. \ 
"The respondent, David Carr, son of Joseph and Mary Carr, now in court, 
pleads guilty to the indictment: It is, therefore, ordered and adjudged that 
he be taken forthwith to a suitable place, and there be tied up and receive 
ten stripes on his naked back, and pay cost of prosecution ; and that he be 
recorded in the town records a thief. And it was done on the same day and 
date above mentioned. 

" Attest, Wm. West, Town Clerk." 

Gideon Sabin, the first settler of Woodbury, is represented as a preacher, 
hunter, and farmer, and possessing ability in each of his callings. Hunting 



520 TOWN OF WOODBURY. 



seemed his delight, and he was seldom seen off his farm without his trusty- 
gun and faithful hounds. At the time he settled in Woodbury all about the 
numerous ponds and streams was an abundance of game, — deer, bears, 
beaver, otter, and sable. The Indian, Capt. Joe, from Newbury, was often 
hunting on these favorite grounds. One son and several grandchildren of this 
pioneer are among the inhabitants of the town. Frederick Ainsworth was 
one of the first settlers of Woodbury. He settled on the farm where his 
grandson, Allen Ainsworth, now lives, and cleared up the farm. Mr. Ains- 
worth had been preceded by a few other settlers. 

Woodbury (p. o.) is a hamlet situated a little south of the geographical 
center of the town, on Kingsbury Branch. It contains the town house, a 
hotel, one store, and about a dozen houses. 

South Woodbury, about two miles south of Woodbury, on Kingsbury 
Branch, has a postoffice, store, Congregational church, a grist-mill, saw-mill, 
carriage shop, blacksmith shop, and about twenty dweUings, several of which 
are open for summer boarders. 

The production of granite, of which Woodbury has an inexhaustible quan- 
tity, is now in its infancy, and only awaits a railroad to become an immense 
industry. 

The Woodbury Granite Co. was organized and commenced business in the 
fall of 1878. The members of the firm are L. W. Voodry and H. W. Town. 
This enterprise is under the supervision of Mr. Voodry. Their quarry is 
located about one and a half miles east of Woodbury Center, and one mile 
from the proposed railroad from Marshfield to Hardwick. Their purchase 
covers an area of twenty-five acres, and all solid granite, which is a choice 
quality of gray color, especially adapted for monumental work and building 
purposes. The granite contains no black knots or iron. The formation is 
peculiarly and especially favorable to moving enormous sized blocks. The 
largest ever known to have been quarried was taken out here, and was 275 
feet long by fifteen feet square. Two hundred feet in length of this mam- 
moth mass was moved a distance of forty feet by a single blast, after it was 
split from the quarry. The company is doing a wholesale business with 
manufacturers, and is sending its products to parties in this and adjacent 
states, and largely to the far West. The quality of the granite, and the cer- 
tainty of obtaining any size and form required, insures this enterprise to- 
become one of the great industries of Washington county. 

The J. Ainsivorth quarry, opened about 1876, is now operated by the St. 
Johnsbury Granite Co. The quality is good and easily worked, and takes a 
good polish. 

Samuel Daniels' s grist-mill is located in the hamlet of South Woodbury, 
is run by power-water, and contains four runs of stones. He does custom 
grinding, and grinds corn and feed for market. The mill has a capacity of 
300 bushels per day. 



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Ball 6^ Daniels's sawmill, located at South Woodbury, runs by water- 
power, and does custom work. 

H. P. Rideoicfs steam sarv-fnills are situated in the eastern part of the 
town, on road 32. Mr. Rideout manufactures hard and soft wood lumber,^ 
chair stock, spruce and fir shingles, and finishes and deals in furniture. 

A. A. Clark's circular board-mill is located on Dog Pond brook, road 23, 
where he saws lumber for customers and for the trade. 

Nichols Fond smu-?nill, situated in the northeastern corner of Wood- 
bury, on the outlet of Nichols pond, Heman H. Carr, proprietor, manufact- 
ures hard wood, spruce, hemlock, and dimension lumber, and also dresses 
lumber. It has East Long pond for a reservoir, and produces 1,000,000 
feet annually. 

A. H. Nichols's saia-mill, on West Long Pond brook, road 17, has a cir- 
cular saw and a planer. The water-power is good, with ahead of twenty-one 
feet, and cuts out annually from 300,000 to 500,000 feet of lumber. 

Elisha Benjamin was one of Woodbury's earliest pioneers. He came from 
Marshfield, Vt., and settled on the center lot of the town, in a log cabin, 
where he cleared his woodland farm of 100 acres. He was a man of influ- 
ence and integrity ; was the first representative of Woodbury, and held other 
town offices. His son Abner, born September 27, 1 790, married Sally Whiten, 
who was born January 9, 1790, and settled on a portion of the homestead 
where he resided to the close of his life. May 29, 1858. Mrs. Benjamin died 
April 3. 1848. Their children who attained mature age were Betsey, born 
July 8, 18 1 4, married Daniel Hill, and resides with her husband in Marsh- 
field. Samuel W., born March 7, 18 r6, married Maria Foster, is a farmer 
in Woodbury, and has held most of the offices in the gift of his townsmen. 
Phineas S., born July 31, 1818, married Esther Bundy, settled in Wolcott, 
was a thorough business man, and in the prosecution of his extensive busi- 
ness as merchant and dealer in country produce he was much of the time 
*' on the road," but found time to serve his town and represented Wolcott 
several terms in the state legislature. He died March 29, 1881. Sally, 
born July i, 1820, married Ephraim Ainsworth, and died January 8, 1877. 
Joseph, born January 28, 1826, married Harriet K. Foster, of Calais, and 
settled on the homestead, with his parents, and provided for their comfort in 
their declining years. He has also served his town as selectman and lister 
five years, auditor, grand juror, and represented Woodbury in the legislature 
in 1884. Cornelia M., born July 16, 1826, married Mark Bartlett, of Plain- 
field, and died January 25, i860. Elsie, born September 2, 1827, married 
Peter Wheeler, a farmer in Marshfield. Thomas W., born August 25, 1829,. 
married Maria Kenaston, of Woodbury, and removed to Hardwick, where he 
died in November, 1884. 

Ezekiel Ball, at the age of sixteen years, came to America from England 
with his father. He was born in 1774. They settled in Boylston, Mass.,. 
where he married and removed to Vermont. About 1800 he came to Wood- 



52 2 TOWN OF WOODBURY. 



bury, and his was the sixth family in the town. He settled on the farm where 
Mark P. Goodell now resides, where he died June 12, 1836, His oldest son, 
Calvin Ball, born in Boylston, Mass., May 19, 1795, was five years old when 
the family came to Woodbury. He married Nancy Lakeman, of Peacham, 
and settled in the woods where his daughter Augusta and her husband, War- 
ren Goodell, now live. At the time he commenced clearing his farm the 
woods were yet infested with bears, and these beasts made sad havoc with 
their sheep and corn fields. At one time, when the bears were unusually de- 
structive, Mr. Ball loaded his gun, placed is near the path, with a string tied 
to the lock and stretched to the opposite side of the path and secured. When 
bruin came next time he ran against the string, which discharged the gun 
and killed the bear. Mr. Ball died on this farm October 28, 1865. Mrs. 
Ball died February 10, 1866. Their children are Eliza Ann (Mrs. Newell 
Mason) and Augusta E. (Mrs. Warren B. Goodell). 

John Goodell, of English descent, was born October i, 1777. He came to 
Vermont, and was married to Miss Sally Woodcock, of Marshfield, October 
17, 1803, and settled first in Calais. As near as can be ascertained he set- 
tled on East hill, in Woodbury, in April, 1806. He moved his household 
goods from Marshfield on a hand sled, over the snow crust, and occupied a 
log cabin shingled with bark. The first night he lodged in this wilderness 
home the winds were high, and he was not able to sleep, fearing that the trees 
would fall on his cabin and crush it. His first work in the morning (Sunday) 
was to fell the trees in reach of the house and insure his safety. He died 
July 23, 1864, aged eighty-seven years. Mrs. Goodell died August i, 1847, 
aged sixty-two years. They were parents of six sons and two daughters. 
Reuben C. Goodell, son of John, is a carpenter. He was born in Woodbury, 
April 22, 181 1, and has been twice married. January 3, 1843, he married 
Louisa Bailey, the mother of all his children, who died in Lyndon, Vt., No- 
vember 10, 1859. December 29, 1859, he married his present wife. Miss 
Amanda Bowen. Charles C. Goodell, son of John, was born September 11, 
1820. He married Miss Cynthia Cristy, and settled on the farm where he 
now lives. In early fife he was a millwright and carpenter. Mark P. Goodell, 
son of Reuben C, was born January 29, 1844, received an academic educa- 
tion, and is a farmer. February 25, 1868, he married Amelia Ball, and set- 
tled on the homestead of his wife's father, where they now reside. Mr. 
Goodell represented Woodbury in 1878, and is now serving as first select- 
man. His brother, Warren B. Goodell, born August 5, 1846, is also a farmer, 
and has an academic education. December 25, 1867, he united in marriage 
with Augusta E., daughter of Calvin Ball, and settled on the homestead of 
his wife's father, where they now reside. Mr. Goodell has been honored with 
the ofiices of trustee of the surplus fund, constable, collector, and selectman, 

Gideon Buniham, son of Gideon and Joanna (Skinner) Burnham, married 
Susannah Stevens, and came to Woodbury from Dummerston, Vt., in 1809 
or 1810, and with his brothers-in-law, Nehemiah and Nathan Jackson, settled 



TOWN OF WOODBURY. 523 



on the farm of 450 acres where his son Gideon now resides. They were the 
-first who settled on the west side of the mountain, whence he removed a few 
yesiTS later to a farm near the center of the town. He died at the home of 
his daughter, Mrs. David Powers, aged seventy years. His son Gideon, be- 
fore mentioned, is an enterprising farmer, and is conducting a butter dairy of 
over forty cows, the largest in Woodbury. 

James Wheeler, born in Rhode Island, November 6, 1785, married Han- 
nah Andrews, and came to Woodbury about 1806. He brought his wife, 
one child, and their household goods on one load drawn by a pair of three- 
year-old steers from Plainfield, N. H., and settled in a log house on East hill. 
He was captain of militia, and died in Woodbury, aged seventy-three years. 
His son Benjamin resided in Woodbury, where he was born February 11, 
1812, until about 1853. He now resides at Kent's Corners, in Calais, on 
the farm where Abijah Wheelock first settled, April 13, 1789. Benjamin 
Wheeler married Luthera C. Cristy, of Woodbury, December 28, 1839. 

Aaron Powers married Mary Waters, came from New Hampshire to Wood- 
bury in 18 1 2, and settled in the wilderness on the farm where his son David 
now lives. This farm also contained the farm of Henry Whiten adjoining. 
Here he resided the remainder of his long life, and died aged eighty-eight 
years. Mrs. Powers died at the age of sixty-seven years. Twelve of their 
fourteen children Hved to adult age, and only three are now living, viz.: 
Jonathan, who first settled in Elmore and now resides in Sheffield ; Nancy 
(Mrs. Henry Udall), who resides in Elmore; and David, before mentioned, 
who married Lydia Burnham, settled on the homestead where he was born, 
and where he now resides. In 1863 he entered the Union army and served 
to the close of the war. He was discharged an invalid, and has never re- 
gained his health. 

Daniel Lawson and his wife, Ruth U. (Norcross), with their family, came 
into the woods of Woodbury from Barre in the spring of 1S18, and settled 
on 300 acres of wild land which included the farm where his son Daniel and 
grandson, George B. Lawson, now live. This was their home to the close of 
their lives. Daniel, their son, born in Barre, September 16, 181 6, has resided 
on the homestead since he came here in his childhood, in 18 18, and has 
carried on the double occupation of farmer and blacksmith. Norman C. 
Lawson, son of Daniel and Ruth Lawson, was born July 5, 1839. He re- 
<:eived a common school education, and early learned the art of stonecutting 
August 2, 1 86 1, he enlisted in Co. H, 2d Regt. Vt. Vols.; went immedi- 
ately to the front; was engaged in fifteen battles and skirmishes, and received 
a gun-shot wound in the seven days' fight under Gen, McClellan, before Rich- 
mond ; was again shot in his left foot at the battle of Chancellorsville; was 
a prisoner five weeks in Libby and Belle Isle prisons ; and was eventually 
discharged from the First Invalid Corps, September 2, 1864, at the close of 
his term of enlistment. He now receives a pension. 

Peter Lyford, who served in the War of 1812, was born in Sanbornton, 



524 TOWN OF WOODBURY. 



N. H., December 20, 1774, and came to Cabot with his parents at a very 
early date. He married Lois Blanchard, of Cabot, and first settled on a farm 
in that town. About 1815 he removed to Woodbury and settled in the woods 
on the farm on Sabin pond, where Gideon Sabin now lives. He built a log 
house and framed barn, cleared the farm, sold it, and then bought another on 
East hill. He died at the home of his son Martin, December 10, i86r, aged 
eighty-seven years, Mrs. Lyford, born March 19, 1791, survived her husband 
until March 27, 1880, aged eighty-nine years. She also died at the home of 
her son Martin. Mrs. Lyford was large in stature and very strong, and as 
energetic and brave as she was physically able. She came on horseback from 
Concord, N. H., v/ith her parents, at the early age of fourteen years. She 
was a noted spinner and weaver, and manufactured the cloth to clothe the 
family. Her hair was unusually luxuriant and heavy, and grew rapidly, and 
from its "combings" she manufactured several clothes-lines, the aggregate 
length of all of which was more than 1,000 feet. She offered to spin a rope 
of the same material with which to hang the arch traitor Jeff. Davis. Mr. 
and Mrs. Lyford reared ten children to mature age, viz.: Dorcas, born April 
17, 1811, married Alvah Elmer, is a widow, and resides in Cabot; Mahet- 
able R., born March 23, 18 13, married Kendrick Trow, is a widow, and re- 
sides in Marshfield ; Aura, born May 21, 1815, died February 10, 1835; 
Sarah B., born July 26, 1820, married Daniel Lawson, and resides in Wood- 
bury; Calvin, born January 4, 1823, is a farmer in Hardwick ; Peter R., 
born August 29, 1825, who is a farmer in Woodbury, married Lovinia Sprague, 
whose mother, Polly (Sabin) Sprague, was the first child born in Woodbury. 
Their children are Ella E. (Mrs. H. C. Eaton), who resides in West Boylston, 
Mass.; Alice M. (Mrs. R. H. Martin), of Manchester, N. H., who has a 
daughter Mabel E.; and Sherman H., who resides with his parents. George 
W. Lyford, born July 9, 1829, married Mary A. Sprague, sister of Mrs. Peter 
R. Lyford. He is a farmer and resides in Cabot. Martin, born March 27, 
1832, married, first, Mary A. Voodry, and second, Mrs. Ellen (Gallup) Dan- 
ford, and is a farmer of Woodbury. Monroe Lyford was born February 22, 
1835. He entered in the service of his country in Co. C, ist Vt. Cavalry, 
served three years, was in the battles of Cedar Mountain, second Bull Run, 
Antietam, and Culpepper, where he received a severe wound in his left 
shoulder, September 13, 1863. He was in the hospital, off duty until the 
ensuing March, when he returned to his company and participated in the 
battle of the Wilderness. He was discharged November 19, 1864, at the ex- 
piration of his term of enlistment. November 18, 1865, he married Lucretia 
Laird, and is now a farmer in his native town, and servmg as selectman.. 

Capt. David Lyford was born in Cabot, January 10, 1796. About 1830 
he came to Woodbury and engaged in farming. At the organization of a 
company of Light Infantry he was chosen captain, hence his title. His 
grandfather, Thomas Lyford, a lieutenant in the Revolutionary war, emigrated 
to Cabot from Gilmanton, N. H., and was one of the first of the pioneers. 
He built the first grist-mill and saw-mill in Cabot. 



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Capt. John Christy, of Enghsh descent, came to Woodbury about 1820. 
He was born in St. Stephen's, New Brunswick, whence he emigrated to New 
Boston, N. H., where he married Miss Lucy Colwell, about 181 2. He went 
to Portsmouth about that time with a volunteer company, as their orderly 
■sergeant, and served three months. After the close of that war he emigrated 
to Vermont and located first in Marshfield, and from there to Woodbury, and 
•settled in a log cabin on what is now known as a part of the Elias Heath 
farm. He soon after built a framed house, said to be the first one erected in 
Woodbury. His lot contained a fine water-power, on Kingsbury Branch, in 
the hamlet of South Woodbury, which he gave to Capt. Joel Celley and his 
heirs as long as they would maintain a saw-mill for the benefit of the public. 
He became captain of the militia, and died January 23, 1866, aged seventy- 
seven years. 

Dr. Robert W. Lance, son of John D. Lance, late of Cabot, was born May 
28, 1848. Dr. Lance received his medical education at the Homeopathic 
College in New York, and at Hahnemann College, Chicago, III., from which 
he graduated in 1879. In 1875 he commenced the practice of his profession 
in South Woodbury, where he now resides, and where he has built up an ex- 
tensive and lucrative practice, not only in Woodbury, but in adjacent towns. 
February 17, 1886, he united in marriage with Miss Myrtie M. Ball. 

Luke Daniels, born in Danville, Vt., April 20, 1802, married Maria Ken- 
niston, of Woodbury, January 5, 1824. At the time of his marriage he was 
residing in Woodbury. About 1840 he settled on the farm now owned by 
his son Samuel. At this time there was a " chopping " on the place of twenty- 
seven acres, and the remainder was woodland. Mr. Daniels lived to convert 
it into a good farm, where he resided until his death, June 14, 1871. Mrs. 
Daniels survived until February 27, 1874. Mr, Daniels was an industrious, 
honest, and reliable citizen. His son Samuel, born November 3, 1830, at 
the age of twenty-one years assumed the debts against the farm, and sup- 
ported his parents to the close of their lives. On the anniversary of his thir- 
tieth birthday he united in marriage with Miss Ada A. Drew, of Barton, and 
remained on the homestead, which he still owns, until the fall of 1882, when 
he removed to South Woodbury, where he is engaged in his grist-mill, and 
the manufacture and sale of lumber with E. E. Ball. Mr. Daniels prefers a 
<^uiet life, and gives his attention to his varied business, although he has served 
his town as lister. Mr. and Mrs. Daniels are parents of eight children. 

Amos Holt was born in Salem, Mass., October 31, 1783, and came to 
Montpelier from Croydon, N. H., in 1802. Mr. Holt was a millwright and 
carpenter, and did an extensive business in Montpelier and surrounding 
towns. January i, 1805, he married Hopy Howland, of Calais, daughter of 
Abraham Howland, a pioneer. Mr. Holt died February 13, 1853, and Mrs. 
Holt in December, 1881. Their children were Amos, born September 4, 
1806; Hopy, born June 23, 1808 ; Mary, born June 10, 1810; TriphenaB,, 
born January 10, 1814; Emelia E., born September 27, 1816; Samuel H., 



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bom July 6, 181 9; Nancy L., born March 9, 1822; Abraham H., born June 
20, 1824 ; and David C, born February 16, 1827. Abraham Howland Holt 
received a common 'school education. He married Martha L. Townsend, of 
Berlin, April 19, 1847. He had been foreman of a lumber company in 
Northern New York and of a gentleman's farm in Massachusetts, and had 
other locations before 1862. He then entered the Union army from More- 
town, and was in the service of his country about three years. He was 
wounded at Cold Harbor, and again, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, 
and was discharged from the hospital at Montpelier, May 13, 1865. He now 
receives a pension for disabilities. In 1865 he bought the homestead of Mrs. 
Holt's father in Berlin, where he resided until 187 i, and was there honored 
with the offices of overseer of the poor, constable, and collector, and repre- 
sentative in 1770-7 T. In 1874 he came to Woodbury, has held the office of 
lister nine years, and is now serving the third year as overseer of the poor. 
He is proprietor of Lake View House and farm, a beautiful location in the 
vicinity of Sabin and Nelson ponds. His house is a celebrated summer resort. 

Allen W. Nelson was born in Hardwick, August 3, 1826. In 1848, when 
twenty-two years of age, he formed a partnership in mercantile business with 
Hon. A. E. Jeudevine, at Woodbury, under the firm name of Jeudevine, 
Nelson & Co., Mr. Nelson removing to Woodbury and assuming the manage- 
ment. The firm contmued until the fall of 185 1, when Mr. Nelson bought 
the interests of his partners, and conducted the business until 1879. ^'"• 
Nelson has been an active and influential citizen of Woodbury, and has 
served as town clerk and treasurer a period of twenty-four years. The town 
records show skillful and good work during the long period of his clerkship. 
He was also a lister for many years, and represented Woodbury in the legis- 
lature in 1863, and again in 1864. He is now giving his attention to farm- 
ing. 

Caleb Putnam was born in Sutton, Mass., February 28, 1779, and in his 
early childhood his parents removed to Croydon, N. H. In the early part of 
1799 he married Susanna Hayward, of Croydon, who was born in Bridge- 
water, Mass., June i, 1781. They resided in Croydon until January, 1803, 
when, in company with Simeon Dwinell, with their families and effects, they 
emigrated to Marshfield, Vt., where they arrived February 2, and settled in a 
log house which they had previously built. Here he and Mr. Dwinell, in 
company, began clearing a farm ; but the partnership was not of long dura- 
tion. Mr. Putnam settled on another farm, was industrious, and to support 
his family turned his hand to several occupations. He was a blacksmith and 
made nails at his forge for his neighbors, hewed timber, and built barns. The 
last part of the year of 1816 he settled in Moscow (East Calais), and for three 
years gave his whole time to blacksmithing. He then bought a farm, to give 
employment to his growing family, and to better support them. In 1831 he 
removed to Woodbury, where he was farmer, blacksmith, and manufacturer 
of potash. He died on the farm where his son, Hon. Fernando C. Putnam, 



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now lives, October 25, 1865, aged nearly eighty-seven years. Mrs. Putnam 
survived until June 17, 1875, aged ninety-four years. They were parents of 
thirteen children, eight of whom arrived at mature age, viz.: Susan, born in 
Croydon, N. H., June i, 1800, married Otis Smith, is a widow, and resides 
with her daughter, Mrs. William Zottman, in Burlington. Caleb S., born 
January 9, 1802, married, February 19, 1826, Elvira Wheelock, was a farmer 
awhile, then the newspaper carrier from Montpslier, by way of Hardwick, 
Barton, and intervening towns, to Derby Line, until the government estab- 
lished a mail line over the same route, when he obtained the first contract for 
carrying the mail. He drove a stage awhile, and eventually, on the com- 
pletion of the railroad from White River Junction to Concord, N. H., was. 
station agent at East Canaan, until his death, January 16, 1873. Ziba, born 
November 29, 1804, married Harriet Pearce, of Calais, was a farmer in 
Calais and Woodbury until 1844, when he removed to a farm in Colchester, 
where he died June 21, 1848. 

Hiram Putnam was born in Marshfield in 1814. In 1839 he married 
Laura, daughter of Jabez Town, of Woodbury, and was a farmer and black- 
smith. In 1864 he settled on the farm where he now lives, in the eastern 
part of Woodbury. October 15, 1847, Mrs. Putnam died, and left a daughter 
who married Hiram Wells, a merchant in Cabot. April 19, 1848, Mr. Put- 
nam married Lydia A. Haskell, who is the mother of his daughters Etta M. 
(Mrs. Orvis W. Conner), of Cabot, and Hattie B. (Mrs. Wesley Gray), of 
Plainfield. Mr. Putnam is an enterprising and well-to-do farmer, has served 
his town as selectman thirteen years, was chairman of the board through the 
war, has been lister fourteen years, and represented Woodbury in the legisla- 
ture in 1857 and 1858. He has settled a large number of estates. 

Fernando C. Putnam, born in Marshfield, May 19, 1816, received his edu- 
cation at the common schools and a few terms at a select school. He taught 
district schools ten consecutive winters with but one exception. December 
8, 1842, he married Laura A., daughter of Luther Ball, of Woodbury, and 
settled on the farm with his father where he now resides. He was assistant 
judge of Washington County Court in 1867-68, served as selectman from 
1849 to 1852, inclusive, and state agent in connection with overseer of the 
poor to provide for destitute soldiers' families in the time of the late war, and 
has served as justice of the peace since 1852. Mrs, Putnam died February 
15, 1888, and had the misfortune to be Wind the last six years of her life. 
Their children are William R., who married Emeroy M. Currier, of Calais,, 
and is a well-to-do farmer in Cabot ; and Sarah J., who married S. O. Burn- 
ham, and resides with her husband on the homestead. 

Orson Putnam, who was born in Calais, September 16, 1818, is a blacksmith. 
He ran a prosperous business in Woodbury until 1869, when he went to 
farming in Calais, and was a farmer until 1882, and is now at the old trade 
in North Calais. He represented Woodbury in the legislature of 1859-60, 
was selectman in Calais in 1877, '78, and '79, and justice of the peace six 



528 TOWN OF WOODBURY. 



years. November 22, 1842, he married Emerancy Pearce, and they have one 
■daughter, Mrs. Edwin Burnham, of Calais. 

Laura A. Putnam, born in Calais, March 30, 1821, married Jason W. Town, 
an inventor, and a manufacturer of boot-trees and lasts, but now a farmer in 
South Woodbury. 

Mary A. Putman was born in Calais, June 2, 1823. In 1842 she married 
Gilbert A. Carver, of Woodbury, who is a successful farmer in Calais. Their 
only surviving son, Dr. Herbert S. Carver, is a physician in Marshfield. 

Thomas McKnight came from Douglass, Mass., to Montpelier, with Col. 
Jacob Davis, in 1782. He was employed by Col. Davis awhile, and next 
engaged in butchering with Capt. Brown. He then settled on the farm known 
as the Cutler place, about a mile north of the village of Montpelier. About 
1820 he moved to Calais, where he resided until his death, in 1836. In early 
life he married Silence, daughter of Stephen Cutler. Their children were 
Polly, John, Sally, Amasa, Thomas, and Leonard. Amasa McKnight, born 
in Montpelier, in 1803, married Recta Kendall, in 1825, and settled on a 
farm in Calais where Harvey Lilley now lives. He owned several farms in 
Calais, but eventually removed to Woodbury with his son Nathaniel C, in 
1862, where he died in 187 1, aged sixty-eight years. Mrs. McKnight was 
<lrowned with four others of a pleasure party in Wheelock pond, June 15, 1873, 
at the age of seventy-one years. Their children are Samuel, born January 3, 
1828; Nathaniel C, born September 25, 1830; Esther, born June 11, 1832 ; 
Mary A., born March 6, 1835; Matilda A., born September 21, 1837; and 
Carroll A., born March i, 1840. All are now living (1888). Nathaniel C. 
McKnight married Sarah A. Fair, January 24, 1852, and settled in Calais, 
and followed the occupation of carpenter and joiner until he removed to 
Woodbury, in 1862. Mr. McKnight has held the office of justice of the 
peace several years, and represented Woodbury in the legislature of 1869, '70, 
and '71. Their children are Orpha (Mrs. Warren Ainsworth), of Calais, and 
Ida J., who resides with her parents. Carroll A. McKnight, son of Amasa, 
had a common school education, and was early taught industrious habits. In 
1863 he enlisted in the Union army, and was discharged in 1864 (at the ex- 
piration of his term of enlistment) from the hospital where he was receiving 
treatment for a gun-shot wound received at the battle of Cold Harbor. He 
was permanently injured by this wound and now receives a pension. January 
I, 1867, he united in marriage with Miss Hannah Osgood, and settled in the 
village of Woodbury, where he now resides. He is a carpenter and builder 
and farmer. He has the confidence of his townsmen, is now serving his fourth 
year as justice of the peace, and was representative in the legislature of 1880. 

Ira Cameron, son of Daniel, of Scotch descent, was born in Berlin, Vt., 
December 25, 1807. He married Rebecca Pierce, was a farmer in Dux- 
bury about twenty years, in Middlesex ten years, and on the farm now owned 
by his son, S. K. Cameron, in West Woodbury, seven years. Since then he 
has had no settled residence, and now lives with his daughter Sarah (Mrs. 



TOWN OF WOODBURY. ^2g 



E. P. Darling) in Elmore. Mrs. Cameron died at the home of S. K. Cam- 
eron, June 8, 187 I. Five of their patriotic sons served their country in the 
Union army. Their children were Clesson, a farmer, who married, first, 
Clara C. Dugar, of Worcester, and second, her sister Emily. He enlisted in 
the Union army from Elmore, where he then resided. He received a gun- 
shot wound, and died on the battlefield of Winchester. Ira C. Cameroa 
married Cordelia Leonard, of Middlesex, entered the service of the Union 
in 1862, and served to the close of the war. He is now a farmer in Berlin. 
Sylvester Cameron married Helen Warren, of Middlesex, enlisted in 1862, 
and served to the close of the war. He is now engaged in granite work ia 
Barre. 

S. Kimball Cameron, born in Duxbury, September 7, 1837, married Laura 
A. McKnight, of Calais, December 29, 1874. He brought his bride to his 
home in West Woodbury, where he had settled in 1863, and where he has 
since resided. He is an enterprising and thrifty farmer, and owns a fine 
farm. Previous to his settlement in Woodbury he had been three years in 
railroad business in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1874 Mr. Cameron represented 
Woodbury in the legislature, and again at the extra session in the winter of 
1875, called for the purpose of locating the State Reform School. He has 
served his town as selectman four years, and lister about as many. Lovinia 
was drowned at the age of eleven years, by falling into the river through the 
railroad bridge at Montpelier Junction. Asaph P. Cameron entered the army 
in 186 1, and served to the close of the war. He lost his health in the ser- 
vice of our country, and is now a pensioner, residing in the village of Wor- 
cester. He married the widow of his deceased brother, Clesson, in 1865. 
Jason C. Cameron was also a Union soldier, enlisted in 1864, and served to 
the close of the war in 1865. He married Sarah Hardy, of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
where he now resides, and is superintendent of the Brooklyn City Railroad 
Company. Sarah M. married E. P. Darling. Her husband is a farmer in 
Elmore. Alvin M. Cameron married Lizzie Patterson, of Woodbury, and is 
a farmer in Calais. 

Holden Wilber, of Bridgewater, Mass., was one of the early pioneers of 
Calais. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and a citizen of Woodbury at the 
time of his death. His son Reuben married Mary Bruce, and settled in a 
log cabin on East hill, Woodbury, where his son. Orange A. Wilber, now 
lives. Mr. Wilber died at tb.e home of his son Reuben, Jr., in Calais, in 1874, 
at the advanced age of ninety years. 

Ryland F. Drenan, son of James and Clarissa (Bill) Drenan, was born 
August 17, 1847. He received a good practical education, and February u, 
1875, united in marriage with Miss Dora M., daughter of A. W. Nelson. In 
1884 he became a prominent resident of Woodbury. He is a farmer and 
proprietor of Woodbury Center Hotel. Mr. Drenan has been honored in 
Woodbury with the office of superintendent of schools the past two years, is 

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TOWN OF WORCESTER. 



now constable and collector (1888), and represented Woodbury in the legis- 
lature of 1886. 

Oilman Bill, son of Cyrus Bill, born in Woodbury, April 10, 1822, mar- 
ried Rosannah Ainsworth, January i, 1849, and settled where he now lives, 
i\ear the village of Woodbury. His father died when Mr. Bill was only five 
years old, and when he went to housekeeping soon after his marriage he 
took his mother to his home and provided for her comfort the remainder of 
her life. Mr. Bill has been a farmer his whole life, except about seven years 
before his marriage, when he was a sailor. 

Three veterans of the Revolutionary war settled in Woodbury, and were 
comfortable in their declining years by receiving a pension from the govern- 
ment they fought to establish. 

In the late war Woodbury claims, and is justly entitled to, an excellent and 
honorable war record. One hundred and forty-four of her patriotic sons 
^nhsted and went into the army — a number that more than filled her quota, 
who came forward without being stimulated by public meetmgs, or the offer 
of excessive bounties. No town in the state, with a population as small, sent 
more men to the war than Woodbury. 

The Congregational church, located at South Woodbury, was organized 
November 30, 1875, with thirty-two members, by Rev. R. B. Wright, the first 
pastor, assisted by the Home Missionary society. In 1876 the society erected 
its present beautiful church edifice, of wood, at the expense of $3,000. The 
church now has a membership of forty, with Rev. F. B. Rockwood, pastor. 
The estimated value of the church property, including buildings and grounds, 
is $4,500. The Sunday-school numbers twenty-five scholars, and O. W. 
Foster is the superintendent. 

The Methodist Episcopal church of lVoodl?nry wa.^ organized in April, 1879, 
by Rev. W. D. Malcolm, presiding elder of St. Johnsbury district, assisted by 
Rev. Z. B. Wheeler. The church then had seventeen members. Rev. Z. B. 
Wheeler was the first pastor. This society has no church edifice, but 
holds regular service every Sunday in the town hall at Woodbury Center. 
The church now has twenty-eight members, and Rev. Z. B. Wheeler is their 
pastor. The Sunday-school is held immediately after the service, and has an 
average attendance of thirty-five scholars. Rev. Z. B. Wheeler is superin- 
tendent. 



WORCESTER lies in the northern part of the county, in latitude 44° 
24' and longitude 4° 25' and is bounded north by Elmore, in Lamoille 
county, east by Calais, south by Middlesex, and west by Stowe, in 
Lamoille county. It was chartered by Gov. Benning Wentworth, of New 
Hampshire, to Joshua Mason and sixty-four others, with seventy-one rights 
or shares, June 8, 1763, by the name of Worster. The name has only been 



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altered by the improvement in spelling and pronunciation in modern times. 
The township is regular in form, six miles square, and contains 23,040 acres. 

The town has an uneven surface, and nearly all of the western half is too 
mountainous for cultivation. This is in " The Hogsback " range, which com- 
mences abruptly near the southwestern corner of Middlesex and extends 
along the line between Middlesex, and a little east of the line between Wor- 
cester and Stowe, and ends near Elmore pond. In Worcester there are four 
considerable peaks in this range, the most conspicuous of which is Mt. Hun- 
ger. This mountain is in the western corner of the town, and partly in Mid- 
dlesex. The only road to its summit in the clouds, 3,648 feet above the 
level of the sea, is in Middlesex. Its summit is rocky and barren of trees and 
vegetation, and affords uninterrupted views that are hardly surpassed by Ver- 
mont's best. The town is watered by the North Branch of the VVinooski 
river, and numerous brooks, several of which are sufficient to turn mills. The 
largest bears the religious name of "Minister's brook," from the fact that it 
discharges its waters into the North Branch through the lot granted to the 
first settled minister. The North Branch, which is a mill stream, rises in 
Elmore, flows nearly south through the easterly part of the town, and joins 
the Winooski in the village of Montpelier. The other streams are all tribu- 
taries of the North Branch. The town contains but one natural pond, situ- 
ated on Eagle Ledge road, which covers an area of about eight acres. 

The geological structure of this township is entirely of the talcose mica 
schist formation, with a narrow belt of clay slate extending across the westerly 
corner. Gold has been discovered along the streams, and in the largest 
quantities on Minister's brook. 

The first settlement was made in 1797, by John Ridlan and George Mar- 
tin, twenty-four years after its charter was granted. These pioneers came 
from Kennebec, Me., and settled on the one-acre lot at the center of 
the town, on Hampshire hill. They remained to clear ten or twelve acres, 
and it is saiil they soon left town. This is probably a mistake, as John Rid- 
lan is recognized in transfers of lands on the Branch in 1802 and 1805, and 
in Demiiig's Vermont Officer we find that he was a member of the Constitu- 
tional (Convention from Worcester in i8r4. The census reports show that 
the town was not settled rapidly at first. In 1800 the population was twenty- 
five ; in i8io, forty-one, an increase of only sixteen in ten years; and forty- 
four in 1820. The next decade the population increased nearly ten times, 
and numbered 443. The town was organized March 3, 1803. John Young, 
son of Duncan Young, was the first town clerk. The others elected at the 
first town meeting are unknown. When the town was nearly deserted, about 
18 1 6, the records were deposited at Burlington for safe keeping, and were 
accidentally burned, and during the period of about five years the town had 
no municipal offices. The early settlers came to Worcester without much 
means, if any, and hoped to make comfortable homes of these cheap wood- 
lands ; but before they had been able to make extensive clearings the cold sea- 



532 TOWN OF WORCESTER. 



sons from i8i2toi8i6 came on, their crops were cut off by frost, and all were 
discouraged. In 1816 there were frosts every month, and as they said it was 
cold enough " to freeze their steers' horns off," they fled to escape the famine 
that they foresaw. In 18 18 Amasi Brown and his family were the only in- 
habitants left in town. Perhaps Mr. Brown possessed more means than his 
unfortunate neighbors, and was enabled to see the way to keep the wolf of 
hunger from the door. At all events he remained with his wife, four sons, 
and seven daughters. It is facetiously said of him that " he threw his family 
on the town for support" at this time. He certainly was shrewd enough to 
take advantage of the situation, and occupy all the deserted clearings, in- 
creased his dairy by hiring cows, and his income by a corresponding increase 
in the sale of butter and pork. His sons were Milton, Araasa, Jr., Cyrus, 
and Martin C Milton was the first constable under the second organization 
of the town, justice of the peace sixteen years, town representative seven 
years, a councilor in 1835, and superintendent of the Vermont state's prison 
four years. In 1850 he removed to Montpelier, and was admitted to the 
Washington county bar, and died July 3, 1852. Cyrus and Martin C. settled 
in Worcester, and Amasa studied theology and became a Baptist clergyman. 
In 18 18, the seasons having become fruitful, the population again increased, 
and in 1820 the town contained forty-four souls. 

March 14, 182 1, the town was reorganized by the election of a full quota 
of town officers. The town meeting convened at the house of Amasa Brown, 
and elected Allen Vail, moderator : Amasa Brown, town clerk ; Allen Vail,^ 
Amasa Brown, and Job Hill, selectmen ; Allen Vail, Amasa Brown, and 
Jesse Flink, listers ; Milton Brown, first constable and collector of taxes ; 
Job Hill, grand juror; Jesse Flink, highway surveyor ; Abraham V. Smith, 
William Arbuckle, Jesse Flink, fence viewers ; and Amasa Brown, pound- 
keeper. " Voted that Mr. Brown's barn be considered as the pound. "^ 
They voted a tax of eight mills on the dollar, on the list, to defray town 
expenses, formed the town into one school district, taxed the town one 
cent on the dollar of the list to support schools' the ensuing year, and to 
have a highway tax assessed on the list to be made th6 year ensuing, and 
that nine hours be considered as a day's work. 

In the winter of 182 i and 1822 Job Hill taught the first winter school un- 
der the organization thus effected, in an old log house, and the next was 
taught by Betsey Cutler. The first school-house was built of logs in 1822 or 
'23. The town was first represented in the legislature by James Green, 
in 1808, and after the second organization it was first represented by Allen 
Vail, in 1822. 

The first road through the town extended from the Middlesex Center road 
over Hampshire hill to Elmore. The first settlement made in Worcester 
was on this road, and as late as 181 2 there was no other road through. A 
road had been marked and cut from Montpelier along the Branch, which 
entered the southern part of the town, and in 1823 this road was extended 



TOWN OF WORCESTER. 



533 



up the Branch through the town and made passable. This is the first road 
recorded in town. 

The first manufactories were the necessary saw-mills, and the first articles 
of commerce from the town were lumber, shingles, and potatoes, and it was 
said that these articles with the Worcester people were "legal tender." The 
town prodnced very good pine ; and to possess it some of those residing in 
town, and not very scrupulous, visited non-residents, who owned the town- 
ship, largely, and for a nominal sum bought all the pine trees that had fallen 
down. To keep the supply good, and to make a profitable business, it is 
said some felled such trees as were desirable and converted them into lum- 
ber, with those that had been prostrated by the winds. 

Edwin Blood, from Bolton, Mass., came to Worcester and bought land in 
1828. He went into the woods away from any road (probably soon after) 
and built a hat factory and boarding-house, and commenced the manufacture 
of hats, and employed from seventy-five to one hundred men. He died 
about 1831, and the hat business was soon after discontinued. 

Tanning was quite an industry from 1849 to 1861. Ebenezer Frizzell 
came from Berlin and built a tannery, which had several owners. The last, 
who owned it for a number of years, were Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Frye. 
They employed several hands until the tannery was burned, in i86r. The 
knitting business, inaugurated by Mrs. Artemas Richardson, and continued 
by Mrs. Frances E. Celley, for the firm of H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York, 
kept the fingers of women and children busy, and brought them an income 
of several thousand dollars per year. 

The inhabitants procured their mail at Montpelier until a postoftice was 
established in Worcester in 1828. Amos Rice, appomted January. 5, 1828, 
was the first postmaster, and John, son of Amos Rice, was the first mail car- 
rier. Like the other towns of Vermont the clear, sparkling mountain brooks 
abounded in trout, and the moose, deer, and bears inhabited the valleys, 
hills, and mountains ; and any sort of an angler in the space of half an hour 
could capture enough of the speckled beauties for a family's breakfast ; to 
the present time the disciples of Izaak Walton resort to these mountain-born 
streams. A large beaver settlement once occupied the meadow now covered 
by Moses P. Wheeler's mill pond. 

At the last census, in 1880, Worcester had a population of 802, and in 
1888 the town had nine school districts and maintained schools in all of them. 
The number of scholars between the ages of five and twenty years who at- 
tended these schools the past year was 178, and five others attended private 
schools. The number of male teachers employed was three, and the number 
of female teachers thirteen, at an average weekly salary of $5.93 for males 
and $4.69 for females. The entire income for all school purposes was 
$1,334,18, and the whole amount paid out was $1,151.82. Rev. P. H. Car- 
penter was superintendent. 

Worcester village is situated on North Branch, in the southeasterly part 
of the town. It is a post village and has a daily mail. Its nearest railroad 



534 TOWN OF WORCESTER. 



station is at Montpelier, eight miles distant. The village contains two churches, 
a store, one hotel, a school-house, lumber and grist-mills, a number of shops 
and mechanics, and about forty dwellings. 

C. M. Ladd'ssaiv, plani)ig^, and grisi tnills are located on the North Branch 
of the Winooski river, in the village of Worcester, about nine miles from 
Montpelier. There has been a saw-mill on this site over forty years. The 
first one was built by A. Rood. About 1866 William Barnes, Jr., bought 
the property, and while the mill was undergoing repairs it was swept away by 
a freshet. Mr. Barnes soon built on the site a good circular saw-mill and a 
custom grist-mill. In 1873 these mills came into the possession of Mr. Ladd, 
who is now doing an extensive business, and turns out of manufactured 
lumber about 800,000 feet annually. He also does custom grinding, and 
deals in flour and groceries. Mr. Ladd gives employment to six men, and in 
the busy season to many more. 

A. H. Carnp's saiv-miil is located on North Branch, about four miles from 
Worcester postoffice. Mr. Camp built his mill in 1873. He stocks it mainly 
himself, turns out about 150,000 feet of lumber yearly, and employs two men 
constantly. 

George H. Sto?ie's saw-mill is located on North Branch, about one mile 
north of Worcester village. This is an old mill site, on which has been a 
mill more than forty years. Mr. Stone gives employment on the average to 
about five men, and manufactures about 500,000 feet of lumber annually. 

J. L. Stone's steam saiv-mill is located on Minister's brook, about two 
miles west of Worcester village. It is run by a forty-horse-power steam en- 
gine, and turns out annually about 1,000,000 feet of lumber, with the pros- 
pect of making the output 1,500,000 feet. Mr Stone employs an average of 
twenty men. 

C. C. Putnam 6^ Son's saiv-mill is on North Branch, about two miles 
north of Worcester village. This is the site of the Brigham & Vail mill, 
built about fifty years ago. In 1871 it came into the possession of the 
present owners, who rebuilt it, and put in new and improved machinery. 
They stock the mill from their timberlands in the vicinity, and employ an 
average of seven men. The mill cuts out 1,000,000 feet of lumber annually. 
C. E. Harris is foreman. The firm resides in Middlesex. 

C. L. 6^ E. M. Morse' s lumber and shingle-mill is located on the North 
Branch, about four miles north of Worcester postoffice. The mill is run by 
water-power, with steam as auxiliary. This firm produces about 100,000 feet 
of lumber and about 500,000 shingles annually, and employs an average of 
four men. 

M. P. Wheeler s sa7v-mill is located on " Eagle Ledge " road, about two 
miles northerly from Worcester postoffice, and was built in i860. Mr. 
Wheeler does custom sawing, and also stocks his mill by buying logs. All 
of his lumber is planed and matched at his mill. He turns out of manu- 
factured lumber about 300,000 or 400,000 feet annually, and employs a force 
of six men. 



TOWN OF WORCESTER. 535" 



L. D. Russelfs steam saw-mill was built by Henry Montague, in 1886. 
Mr. Russell became the owner about a year after the mill was completed. 
He is sawing and dressing lumber for O. C. Clogston, of Montpelier, who 
owns 900 acres of timberland on the mountain. Mr. Russell turns out 
annually from 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 feet, and gives constant employment to 
an average of twenty men. 

Dea. Samuel Andrews, born in New Hampshire about 1797, married Jane 
Blanchard in 18 18, and resided in New Boston, N. H., till he came here. He 
first lived on the brook between A. P. Slayton's mill and William P. Moore's 
present residence, about three years, when he bought Rufus Reed's place 
near the village, and engaged in blacksmithing in town, but for the last 
twenty years of his life labored, when able, on his small farm. He was post- 
master and town clerk several years, and also justice of the peace. He was 
conscientious in all his dealings ; firm in what he believed to be right ; constant 
in all his duties both to the public and the church, of which he was a mem- 
ber from 1832 to his death, October 8, 1878, at the age of eighty-one years. 
He and his wife lived together upwards of sixty years. 

Oliver Watson, born in 1786, came to Worcester from Montpelier. He 
was a joiner by trade, and an extra good workman. He married Esther^ 
oldest daughter of Amasa Brown, May 29, 18 r 7. This is the first recorded 
marriage in town. Their oldest son represented the town and was assistant 
judge of the County Court two years. He died in 1870, aged eighty-four 
years. His widow went to live with her son, Judge E. C. Watson, of Hart- 
ford, N. H., and died there. 

Ebenezer S. Kellogg came from Brookfield, Vt., in the spring of 1822, and 
bought the place of Amos Merriam, on Hampshire hill, now occupied by Mr. 
Lawrence. He sold it and bought on Minister's brook, where he cleared up 
a farm and reared a large family of children, some of whom are yet living in 
town. About 1S59 he sold his second farm and removed to the village, and 
kept a hotel for awhile. He lived in Worcester until 1868, when he went to 
Hanover, N. H., to live with his youngest son, where he died in 1872. Mrs. 
Roxana Reed Kellogg, his widow, still resides there with her son. 

Artemas Richardson and wife, Eliza S., came from Leominster, Mass., and 
made a settlement on Hampshire hill, on the Farris Leonard farm, in 1821 . 
Mr. Richardson came the year before and located his land, and chopped a 
few acres, returning to Massachusetts to spend the winter. He was born in 
February, 1790 ; was a combmaker by trade, and worked at that business many 
years. When quite young he was chosen captain in the militia, and was 
ever known in this town as Captain Richardson. He was one of the first 
Abolitionists in the community, and never swerved for office ; thus he was 
not so often on the winning side in political matters as some of his neighbors. 
of the dominant parties, but lived to see his principles adopted by the nation. 
He was a genial companion, "and loved to tell a good story, although it was 
not always of his own triumph. Mrs. Richardson carried on the knitting and 
crocheting business several years, making a large amount of work for the 



536 TOWN OF WORCESTER. 



women and children in this and the neighboring towns. She has been one of 
the most active and consistent members of the church. She and Mrs. Kellogg 
are the only survivors of the original members. Mr. Richardson died in Wor- 
cester in 1865, aged seventy-five years. Mrs. Richardson lives with her chil- 
dren in Brooklyn. 

Amos and Martha Rice came from Dover about 1833, He purchased 
some land, which he cleared, and by the hard labor of many years made it 
one of the best farms in town. Mr. Rice was town clerk, justice of the peace, 
and the first postmaster. He died in Worcester, October 20, 1854, aged 
seventy-five years. Mrs. Rice died August 12, 1865, aged eighty-seven years. 

Allan Vail, born on Long Island, N. Y., married Betsey Tuthill, came from 
Pomfret, Vt., to Worcester, in 1820, settled on a farm and built a saw-mill 
on North Branch, where C. C. Putnam & Son's mill now stands, and car- 
ried on both his farm and mill. He died in i860, aged eighty-two years. 
He was a very prominent citizen, represented Worcester in the legislature, 
and held most of the offices in the gift of his townsmen. He reared a fam- 
ily of eight children. His son, Allen Lee Vail, was born in Pomfret, August 
I, i8ii,and came to Worcester with his parents in 1820. He married 
Wealthy Cilley, in 1837, who was born in Tunbridge, March 9, 1814. He 
succeeded his father on the homestead, where he resided fourteen years after, 
then settled in Worcester village, where he now resides, and followed the 
occupation of carpenter and builder. He is one of Worcester's most honored 
and trusted citizens; has represented the town two sessions in the stale legis- 
lature, served as constable and collector twenty-five years, and as selectman 
and overseer of the poor. Mr. and Mrs. Vail have had born to them five 
children, of whom four grew to mature age, viz.: Agnes Gertrude (Mrs. 
Elijah Whitney), deceased; Martha Ann, who married George W. Dunham, 
a blacksmith, and resides in Worcester village ; Henry D., who married 
Abbie Templeton, and is engaged in merchandising in his native village ; 
and W. Eldridge, a clerk, who married Iran C. Bancroft, of Calais, Vt., and 
resides in Montpelier. 

Charles Dugar, born in France, came to Nova Scotia with his father's 
family, and when about twelve years of age to Charlton, Mass. Gload, son 
of Charles, born in Charlton, in 1775, married Sarah Dunton, of Sturbridge, 
Mass., and removed to Calais, Vt., in June, 1809. He was a farmer, and the 
father of eleven children. Abner, son of Gload, was born September 19, 
1805, and by an accident became totally blind at the age of five years. His 
father was poor, and in early life he was thrown upon his own resources. His 
native intelligence, energy, and courage, to some extent, has compensated for 
his loss of sight. In his boyhood he attended school and made fair progress 
by hearing the other scholars recite ; engaged in all the sports and labors of 
boyhood, and took long tramps in the woods in fishing and trapping. He be- 
gan business for himself by peddling from house to house, and when about 
twenty-one he invested the little capitil he had accumulated in a farm, partly 
in Worcester and partly in Calais, and since that time has been a farmer with 



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more than ordinary success. About the time he settled on his farm he mar- 
ried Hannah Jacobs, of East Montpelier, who bore him five children. Mrs. 
Dugar died August 9, 1866, and in December, 1868, he married Mrs. Irena 
Gusha, who bore him one child. She died in September, 1874. Mr. Dugar 
has reared his six children, and has given them as good advantages as are 
enjoyed by the average farmer's family. He has performed all kinds of farm 
labor, chopping, logging, and clearing land, and made better progress work- 
ing in the dark than many with good eyes. He was also quite skillfull at 
cooper work and making shingles. He is a good judge of cattle, and has 
done quite a business in buying and matching steers, and breaking them to 
work. It is said that by some unaccountable sense, or the extreme and acute 
sense of feeling, he is able to distinguish colors and the spots on cattle. 
While he was clearing his farm he made quite a business of burning charcoal, 
and one winter, with a pair of two-year-old steers, drew 900 bushels of coal 
nine miles to Montpelier. This blind man, who has never seen his children 
or their mothers, is now kindly cared for by his son, A. B. Dugar, who, with 
his family, now resides with hmi. Mr. Dugar is a wonderful man. 

E. B. Harris, son of Daniel and Abiah (Burnham) Harris, was born in 
Calais, October 27, 1828. He is the seventh of a family of twelve children, 
only three of whom are living. When he was three years old his parents 
moved onto the farm in Worcester, where he now lives. January 3, 1858, he 
married Almira S. Kellogg. Mr. Harris has been a man of influence, has 
filled offices of trust, and has accumulated a competency to carry him through 
his approaching old age. 

Isaac E. Wheeler, son of Mason and Sarah (Ellis) Wheeler, was born in 
Calais, October 8, 1825. He resided in Worcester, Mass., from the time he 
was eighteen years old until 1856. He then settled on the farm where he now 
lives, in Worcester. November 25, 1852, he married Charlotte Hutchinson, 
of St. Johnsbury, and they have three sons. Mr. Wheeler is one of a family 
of eleven children, only one of whom is Uving. He has held offices of trust, 
and is a worthy citizen. He has been fortunate in business, and is in good 
circumstances. 

Henry S. Johnson, son of Franklin and Permelia (Brown) Johnson, was 
born on the farm where he now lives, July 22, 1831. His father came from 
Leominster, Mass., when there were only five or six families in Worcester, 
and settled in the wilderness where his son Henry S. and grandson Arthur 
now live. He reared a family of six children. His wife died in January, 
1834, and in November, 1835, he married Olive Brown, a sister of his first 
wife. Mr. Johnson died December 8, 1868. His wife, who still survives, re- 
sides on the homestead with Henry S., and is eighty-two years old. Henry 
S. Johnson has resided on the homestead since his birth, September 29, 1855. 
He married Melissa E. Sumner, of Corinth, Vt., and six children have been 
born to them. In 1868 he had the misfortune to lose an eye. This did not 
unfit him for business or labor ; but the great misfortune of his life occurred 
in 1885, when he lost the sight of the other eye. Before he was blind he 



53^ TOWN OF WORCESTER. 



filled the offices of selectman and lister. His son Arthur is a good farmer, 
and resides with his father and manages the farm. 

Adin Miles, son of Thaddeus and Lydia (Goldthwait) Miles, was born in 
Croydon, N. H., February 14, 1808. His father settled in Middlesex, in 1810, 
where Adin resided until 183 1. Mr. Miles has resided on the farm where 
he now lives the past thirty-eight years. He has been a good neighbor, an 
upright, reliable citizen, and has taken his share of the burdens of the town. 
He has been thrice married, first to Phebe Townsend, of Williamstown, who 
bore him two children ; second to Fanny Henry, of Middlesex, who bore him 
four children ; and third to Mrs. Eliza K. Warren. Mrs. Miles was born in 
West Randolph, Vt., October 14, 1820. She was the daughter of Stephen 
and Lydia (King) Herrick, and like her present husband has been thrice 
married, first, in 1839, to Chester Pierce, by whom she had one child ; second 
to Samuel Warren, by whom she had nine children ; and third to her pres- 
ent husband. 

Abel Whitney came from Brookfield, Vt., to Worcester, about 1832, and 
settled near the line of Middlesex. He died in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1870 or 
'71. His sons Elijah and George M. reside in Middlesex, Himan T. in 
Montpelier, and Abel D., Henry H., and Sidney E. in Kansas. His daugh- 
ters, Mrs. Ann Putnam and Mrs. Caroline Pike, reside in Worcester. 

Lyman B. Hinkson, son of William and Sarah Bonett, (who was born 
April 6, 1782, and is now 107 years old,) was born in Bolton, Vt., July 4, 
181 7, and is one of a family of eleven children, who all lived to adult age. 
March 14, 1841, he married Mary Jane Silley. of New Andover, N. H., and 
settled in Worcester. Four of their six children are living. His son Calvin 
C. was killed in the late war. Mr. Hinkson also enlisted and served nine 
months in Co. H, 13th Vt. Regt. He boasts that he voted for Gen. William 
Henry Harrison in 1840 and for Gen. Benjamin Harrison in 1888. 

Leonard Hamblet, son of Jonathan and Esther (Snow) Hamblet, was 
born in Lebanon, Conn., October 27, 1802. His parents moved to Richford, 
Vt., when he was a small boy. About 1823, when he was of legal age, he 
made his pitch in the forest of Worcester, where he now resides. He com- 
menced by clearing a plot of ground and erecting a log house. At this time 
there were but twelve or thirteen families in the whole town. Six or seven 
families resided on the road to Montpelier, and about as many on the 
road to Elmore. Beyond these, on the Elmore road, was a nine-mile 
stretch of solid forest. Mr. Hamblet has witnessed about all the im- 
provements that have been made in his town. December 4, 1832, he mar- 
ried Lucy Culver. Their children were Lorenzo N., born August 8, 1833, 
who died October i, 1833; Eunice P., born July 28, 1838, who died Feb- 
ruary 5, 1846; Martin L., born August 20, 1841; and Lucy A., born 
October 26, 1849, who died June 20, 1852. His wife died May 29, 1861, 
aged fifty-five years. A year later he married Thankful Keith, who died 
November 27, 1886. He has bequeathed his property to his only surviving 
child, Martin L., a lawyer in Lowell, Mass. Mr. Hamblet has now retired 



TOWN OF WORCESTER. 539 



from labor, but has been very industrious and a hard worker. He has per- 
formed the part of a good citizen in Worcester almost three-score and ten 
years, and is highly respected by his large circle of acquaintances. 

Thomas Hutchinson, with his father and brothers, came from Norwich, and 
settled near the mouth of Minister's brook, where he continued to reside until 
1867, when he removed to the place where his son, L. M. Hutchinson, now 
lives. Mr. Hutchinson, by industry and economy, made for himself and 
family a good home. July 2, 1835, he married Almira Sumner, and together 
they traveled life's pathway forty-one years. Mr. Hutchinson was a man of 
great energy and perseverance in carrying out his plans, and as his views of 
town matters did not always coincide with others, there would sometimes 
come a struggle, which did not always tend to promote friendly feeling. He 
bore his share of public burdens, performed all his duties faithfully, and was 
representative two years. Mr. Hutchinson died October 4, 1876, aged sixty- 
four years, and his wife September 30, 1877, aged sixty years. 

Dea. Charles C. Closson was born in Thetford, Vt., October 15, 1799. 
When a young man he went to Northfield and cleared a farm, and acquired 
a considerable property. In March, 1848, he moved to Worcester, onto 
the Closson farm, lived there until 1867, and was one of the largest paying 
members of the church for many years. He was one of a family of thirteen 
children, twelve of whom lived to have families of their own, and all but one 
were members of Congregational churches, that one being a deacon of a 
Baptist church. He died March 10, 1872, aged seventy-two years. 

William Utton was born in Barney, England, about 1816. He married 
Caroline Barnes, of his native country, in 1836, and at once emigrated to 
America and settled in Worcester, where he still resides. Mr. Utton is a re- 
spected citizen, a good farmer, has been a successful horse trainer, and has 
fitted many fine horses for market. Utton Brothers, of Morrisville, horse 
trainers, are his sons. 

William P. Moore, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Glines) Moore, was born in 
Canterbury, N. H., May 11, 1810. He went to Lowell, Mass., in 183 1, was 
employed in a cotton-mill, and became an overseer. About 1837 he married 
Hannah M. Downer, of Thetford, Vt, and settled in Mansfield, now a part 
of Stowe, Vt., where he cleared a farm and built a set of buildings, in which 
he resided about seven years. He subsequently lived in Stowe and Elmore^ 
and eventually settled in Worcester, where he now resides. He held town 
offices in Mansfield and Worcester. Two of his six children died in infancy, 
a son died in the service of his country in the late war, his son, G. P. Moore, 
and his daughter, Mrs. Ellen E., widow of A. A. Gould, reside with him, 
and Mrs. Ella M., whose husband, F. P. Morse, was accidentally killed in 
September, 1888, resides in Worcester. 

Warren Ellis, son of Ira and Sally (Coller) Ellis, was born in Calais, April 
12,1840. When he was about twenty-two years of age he married Lucina 
Goodell, of his native town. Their children are Mrs. Chauncey Gould, of 



54° TOWN OF WORCESTER. 



East Montpelier, and Mrs. E. M. Coughlin, of Maine. In the war for the 
Union Mr. Ellis enlisted in Co. E, 17th Vt. Vols., and served to the close of 
the war. He then returned to his family and farm in Worcester, where he 
has since lived, and has given his attention to farming. 

Albert Wheelock, son of Abiah and Sophronia (Gove) VVheelock, was 
born in East Montpelier, March 20, 1836. When he was about three 
years old his parents moved to the farm where he now lives, in Wor- 
cester. In the late war he was drafted into Co. H, 6th Vt. Regt., and 
served until the war closed, when he returned to his home. December 
7, 1873, he married Ann C. Hoyt, of Montpelier, and settled on the 
homestead, which he helped with the others of the family to clear and make 
a home. His father died March 8, 1877, aged sixty-eight years. His mother 
still survives at the age of seventy-eight years, and resides at the old home 
with him. Mr. Ellis is one of the reliable citizens of Worcester. 

Aaron Kemp, as near as can now be ascertained, was born in Fitchburgh, 
Mass., in 1779. His father emigrated from Birmingham, England. Aaron 
married Dolly Allen and settled in Acworth, N. H., where he lived until af- 
ter the birth of all of his twelve children ; then, with a company of colon- 
ists, he emigrated to Hampshire hill, in the town of Worcester, and settled 
on an unimproved farm. His son Phineas A. was born in Acworth, N. H., 
December 18, 1815, and settled on Hampshire hill in 1840, October 13, 
1840, he married Betsey Blanchard, and they were blessed with five children, 
three of whom are living, viz.: Dr. Dean G. Kemp, a practicing physician, 
and Harlan Kemp, attorney at law, of the firm of Senter & Kemp, both re- 
siding in Montpelier; and their daughter, Lanette A. (Mrs. L. A. Flint), of 
Middlesex. Mr. Kemp is a prominent citizen of Worcester, and has been 
honored by his townsmen with the most important offices in their gift, the 
duties of which he has faithfully discharged. He represented his town in the 
legislature in 1853, and again in 1869 and 1870. 

Dr. Chauncey N. Hunt, son of Chauncey and Linda Hunt, was born in 
Worcester, April 17, 1851. Dr. Hunt spent his boyhood on his father's 
farm, and had the customary three months in the common school in winter, 
and sufficient exercise at hard labor the remaining nine months of each year. 
He received his academic education at the Methodist Seminary at Mont- 
pelier, and his professional education at Dartmouth College and the Univer- 
sity of Vermont, where he graduated in 1875. He immediately commenced 
the practice of his profession in his native town, where he continues at the 
present time (1888). As an evidence of the Doctor's skill and popularity 
he has built up an extensive practice, which extends over his own town, and 
into several adjacent towns. September 28, 1875, he married Jennie F. 
Emery, of Worcester, who was an efficient teacher, and is now his able help- 
mate. They have two daughters and a son, viz.: Bernice Maud, Chauncey 
Earl, and Claribel. Dr. Hunt has held several offices of trust, and repre- 
sented Worcester in the legislature in 1880. 



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James M. Gould, son of James and Clarissa (Culver) Gould, was born in 
East Montpelier, September 14, 1823. His parents had born to them nine 
children who lived to mature age, and one who died in childhood. In May, 
1851, he married Phebe Jones, cf East Montpelier, and in 1853 settled on 
the farm where he now lives, in Worcester. His failing health and approach- 
ing old age has compelled him to sell his farm. Mr. Gould is honest and 
upright, and has served his town as selectman some years. 

Mark P. Ladd married Harriet B. Hildreth, of Richmond, Vt.,and settled, 
in Worcester. He was a prominent man in Worcester, and was highly re- 
spected by all who knew him. He died August 9, 1867. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ladd were parents of six children, four of whom are now living. Their 
son, C. M. Ladd, acquired a business education in the common schools of 
Worcester. He vvas born in town, in March, 1848, and at the age of twenty- 
one years married Ella S. Bruce. They have a daughter, Millie E , born 
June 4, 1872, and a son, Mark P., born April 22, 1878. Mr. Ladd is the 
proprietor of a saw-mill and grist-mill, is an extensive manufacturer and dealer 
in lumber, and also deals in grain, flour, feed, and groceries. He is inter- 
ested in the welfare of his town and in the society of his village. He has 
served in some of the town offices. 

Charles C. Abbott was born in Thetford, Vt., July 27, 183 r, and died in 
Worcester, February 18, 1881. He was a son of Daniel and Hannah Clos- 
son Abbott. He came to Worcester with his father's family in 1848. In 
1852 he married Maria E. Ladd, who, with seven children, survives him. 
He held many offices in town ; was postmaster the last twenty years of his 
life, town clerk fifteen years, and a member of the Congregational- church 
twenty-five years. He was charitable to all, and adopted the system of giv- 
ing the tenth of his small income for the support of the gospel, and for be- 
nevolent purposes. 

Selden Willey, son of Hubbard and Lucy (Mead) Willey, was born in 
Middlesex, Vt., August 14, 1825, and is one of thirteen children, all of whom, 
lived to mature age. He spent the years of his minority, like other farmers' 
bovs, in attendance at the common school and at work on the farm. At the 
age of seventeen years he had the misfortune to fall upon a pitchfork. The 
tines penetrated his side, and from this injury he has never fully recovered. 
When he was thirty-five years of age he married M. Sophia Wiggins, of Mid- 
dlesex, daughter of Rufus and Rosella (Lewis) Wiggins. He vvas a mason 
about sixteen years of his early life, which he gave u[) in consequence of his. 
infirmity, and since then he has been a farmer, and fairly successful. Mr. 
Willey is highly respected, and is a worthy citizen uf VVorcester. 

M. P. Wheeler, son of Artemas and Sarah Wheeler, was born in Weathers- 
field, Vt., April 17, 1S31. About 1854 he came to Montpelier and engaged 
in the lumber business, which he still continues. In i860 he settled in Wor- 
cester, and built his present fine mills. In 1879 he married Mrs. Maria C,,. 
widow of Augustus Morse, of Calais. Mr. Wheeler is an energetic business. 



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man, and in addition to giving his attention to his own affairs has served his 
town in several important positions. He has been chairman of the board of 
selectmen several years, held that office in war time, and aided in recruiting 
to fill the quota of his town. 

Ira Holmes, son of Stephen and Lucy (Carr) Holmes, born in Milton, Vt., 
July 1 8, 1836, moved to Woodbury with his father when he was a small boy. 
He resided there and in Montpelier until 1861, when he responded to the call 
of his country, enlisted in Co. E, 8th Vt. Regt., went to the front, and was 
taken prisoner September 4, 1862. After he rejoined his company he re- 
ceived a gun-shot wound, and was finally discharged in June, 1864. About 
1866 he settled in Worcester, where he has since been engaged in farming. 
He married Medora Gallup, of Barnston, Conn., and they are parents of an 
only daughter. Mr. Holmes is a reliable citizen and a good neighbor. 

A. J. Stone, son of Erastus and Lucy (Burr) Stone, was born in Cornish, 
N. H., October 13, 1845, and came to Worcester about 1864. He married 
Mary Hardy and settled where he now lives. Their union has been blessed 
with three children. Mr. Stone enlisted in Co. H, 6th Vt. Vols., served the 
term of enlistment, and reealisted in Co. H, 13th Vt. Vols., served another 
term, and then returned to his family in Worcester. He is a very prominent 
man in his town, and takes an active interest in all its affairs. He is one of 
the board of selectmen, a notary public, and represented Worcester in the 
session of the legislature of 1888. 

Joseph Town, son of Elisha and Nancy (Lawson) Town, was born in Mont- 
pelier, October 26, t8i6. He resided with his father until he was twenty- 
one years old, then learned the trade of wheelwright, of his brother Daniel, 
and followed it as a business fifteen years. He then followed farming in East 
Montpelier and Montpelier until about 1868, when he moved from Mont- 
pelier to the farm in Worcester where he now resides. At the age of thirty- 
two years he married Mary Ann Cummings, of East Montpelier. Their union 
has been blessed with four children, viz.: Martha A., born March 9, 1851 ; 
Clara E., born July io_. 1853; Elisha L., born October 7, 1855, who died 
April 23, 1885; and Laura A., born February 24, 1863. Martha A. is the 
wife of ]. P. Flint, of Middlesex. Clara E. is the wife of George E. Fenn. 
They reside on the farm with her father and Laura, who is unmarried. Mr. 
Town has been an industrious hard worker, and has earned for himself a high 
reputation for honesty, integrity, and fair dealing. 

None of the settlers of Worcester, as far as can be ascertained, participated 
in the Revolutionary war, and none went from the town to the War of 181 2 ; 
but several who served in it afterward settled in Worcester. Samuel Kelley, 
Samuel Andrews, Matthias Folsom, Joel H. Templeton, and Jasper Stoddard 
are known to have been of the number, and there may have been others. 

In the war for the Union Worcester furnished eighty-six men, who went 
to the front and did service in the suppression of the Rebellion. Five were 



TOWN OF WORCESTER. 543 



killed in battle or died of wounds received in action, six died of diseases, two 
who were drafted paid commutation, and two deserted. 

The First Cotigregational church of Worcester is located in Worcester vil- 
lage. It was organized February 29, 1824. by Rev. James Hobart, of Berlin, 
and consisted of twelve members at its organization. From this time Rev. 
Mr. Hobart and Rev. Chester Wright preached occasionally, as also did Rev. 
George Freeman, Rev. Mr. Stewart, Rev. Mr. Thompson, and Rev. Mr. 
Wheelock, until November 13, 1839, when their first pastor, Rev. John Fos- 
ter, was installed. They erected their first house of worship, of wood, in 
1846, which they now occupy. It has a seating capacity for 200 persons, 
and is valued, with the grounds and all other church property, at $1,500. The 
church now has forty-eight members, and Rev. Philo H. Carpenter is their 
pastor. The Sunday-school has sixty members, and an average attendance 
of thirty-two. 

The Methodist Episcopal church. — The first Methodist Episcopal church 
society was organized in 1848, with the corporate name of " Methodist Epis- 
copal society," with a constitution and by-laws. Their first house of worship 
was erected, of wood, about one mile north of Worcester Corner. The or- 
ganizers of this society were A. M. Kelley, Orismon Hancock, Amos Rice, 
Leonard Hamblet, Daniel A. Frost, John Clark, David Hancock, Alexan- 
der Dingwall, ist, Alexander Dingwall, 2d, Abel Whitney, Aaron Kemp, 
John Brigham, Milton Brown, David L. Frost, William Cooper, Ferris Leon- 
ard, and Dennis Child. The first preacher's name found on record is Rev. 
Harvey Gurnsey, who preached in 1846 and '47, before the formal organiza- 
tion of the society. The first preacher a^ter the organization was Rev. Sum- 
ner Tarbell. The present house of worship was erected of wood in the sum- 
mer of 1887, at VVorcester Corner. The church has comfortable seats for 
250 persons. The value of all church property, including buildings and 
grounds, is $3,500. The present membership is ninety-six, and Rev. David 
C. Fletcher is their pastor. He is^ a native of Rochester, Vt., a graduate of 
Vermont Methodist Seminary, and in the third year on this charge. The 
Sunday-school was organized January 8, 1888, and has an average attend- 
ance of forty. 



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PART SECOND. 



Business Directory 



-OF- 



Washington County, Vt: 

1889. 



COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY 

HAMILTON CHILD, 

AUTHOR OF WAYNE, ONl'ARIO, SENECA, CAYUflA, TOMPKINS, ONONDAGA, MADI- 
SON, CORTLAND, CHEMUNG, SCHUYLER, STEUBEN, ORLEANS, HERKIMER, 
CHENANGO, NIAGARA, ON'EIDA, MONROE, GENESEE, SARATOGA, MONTGOM- 
ERY AND FULTON, ALBANY AND SCHENECTADY, RENSSELAER, WASH- 
INCiTON, WYOMING. LEWIS, COLUMBIA, SULLIVAN, SCHOHARIE, 
OTSEGO, ULSTER, CHAUTAUQUA, ST. LAWRENCE, BROOME AND 
IIOGA, CATTARA(;US, ALLEGANY, AND OTHER COUNTY DI- 
RECTORIES IN NEW YORK STATE, AND ERIE AND CRAW- 
FORD COUNTIES, THE BRADFORD OIL DISTRICT IN 
PENNSYLVANIA, BENNINCn'ON, RUTLAND, ADDI- 
SON, CHITTENDEN, FRANKLIN AND GRAND 
ISLE, L\MOI LI. LAND ORLEANS,WINDSOR, 
WINDHAM, CALEDONIA AND ESSEX, 
AND ORANGE COUNTIES IN 
VERMONT, BERKSHIRE 
COUNTY, MASS., AND 
CH ESHIRE AND 
(;RAFT0N COUN- 
TIES, N. H 



PERMANENT OFFICE. - - - SYRACUSE. N. Y. 

ESTABLISHED 1866. 



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consequences ; and if it were possible that he should always act rightly, yet when such num- 
bers are to judge of his conduct, the bad will censure and obstruct him by malevolence, and 
the good sometimes by mistake." — Samuel Johnson. 



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BUSINESS DIRECTORY 




Directory is arraiij;ed as follows : — 

I — Name of individual or firm. 

2 — Postoffice address in parenthesis if different from the name of the town. 

3— The figures following the letter r indicate the number of the road on which the party resides, and will 
be found by reference to the map in the back part of this work. Where no road number is given the party 
is supposed to reside in the village. 

4 — Business or occupation. 

5 — A star(*) placed before a name indicates an advertiser in this work. 

6 — Figures placed alter the occupation of a farmer indicate the number of acres owned or leased. 

7— Names in CAPIT.'VLS are those who have kindly given their patronage to the work, and without 
whose aid its publication would have been impossible. 

H^" For additional names, changes and corrections, see Errata. 

ABnuEViATlONs. — Ab,, above; ave., avenue; bds., lioards; bet., between; cor., corner; E., east; emp., 
employee; fac. op., factory operative; h., hous»; manuf., manufacturer; Mfg., manufacturing; N., north; 
n., near, opp. opposite; prop , proprietor; reg., registered as applied to livestock; regt., regiment; S., south; 
supt., superintendent; W., west. 

The word street is iniDlied. 



BARRE. 



(Po.stoflice address is Barre, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 



Abbott B. Franklin, r 74, quarr)'man. 

Abbott Joseph, (S. Barre) r 56, quarryman. 

Abbott Mary V. Mrs., (S. Birre) r 56, housekeeper for Joseph. 

Abbott William S., stonecutter, h 53 S. Main. 

ADAMS ALBERT C, granite polisher, h 134 S. Main. 

Adams Alexander, stonecutter, h Plain. 

Adams James, polisher, h Burnham's Meadow road. 

AHERN JAMES, manuf. of quarry and stonecutters' tools, foot of Granite, 

h N. .Main. 
Ainsworth Walter R., tool sharpener, h 7 Highland ave. 



TOWN OF BARRE. 



Albin James H., stonecutter, h ii Eastern ave. 

Aldrich Freelove R., resident, h ii8 N. Main. 

ALDRICH LEONARD F., pres. National Bank of Barre, trustee Goddard 

seminary, 26 grade cows, 15 head young cattle, farm 217, h 118 N. 

Main. 
Aldrich Mary L., resident, h 118 N. Main. 
Alexander Peter, stonecutter, h Kinney. 

Allen Amory, ofif r 77, 10 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 70. 
Allen Charles R., r ^7,, 17 grade ci)w=, 22 head other cattle, 400 sugar trees^ 

farmer 140. 
Allen George E., ofif r 77. farmer with Amory. 
Allen S. N., grocer. Depot square. 
Ance John, stonecutter, bds. 144 N. Main. 
Anderson Alexander, stonecutter, h 12 Park. 
Anderson James, stonecutter, h Cottage. 
Annis Henry E., stonecutter, h South. 

ARBUCKLE HOWARD B., (S. Barre) carpenter and painter, owns 2 tene- 
ment houses. 
AVERILL AMBROSE B., owns, builds and rents houses, owns farm land 

300, pasture and woodland 60, in Orange, Orange Co., timberland no, 

in Barre village lots 10, h 8 Park. 
AVERILL ARTHUR C, accountant, owns, builds and rents village resi- 
dences and tenements, h 10 Park. 
AVERILL CADY O., carriage and sign painter, paper hanger and calci- 

miner. Bridge, bds. 30 N. Main. 
Averill Harley L., dealer in nekvspapers, periodicals, base ball goods, etc , 24 

Main, h 12 High. 
AVERILL CHARLES W., (successor to J. G. Mudgett) dealer in fresh 

pickerel and dry fish, farmer, 46 N. Main, h 4 North. 
AVERILL JOHN VV., r 2, 25 full blood and grade Jersey cows, 13 head 

young cattle, 5 horses, 15 head swine, 800 sugar trees, fartner 127, and 

66 on r 6, served in Co. E, 8th Vt. Vols. 
AVERILL LINLY A., carpenter, builds and rents houses, h 15 S. Main. 
Averill Louis K , r 17, 9 cows. 800 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
AVERILL LUTHER M., wholesale and retail dealer in groceries, flour, corn 

meal, feed, salt, nails, lime, cement, seeds, plaster, glass, paints, oils, 

varnishes, etc.. agent for Bradley's superphosphates, 28, 30 and 32 N. 

Main, h i 2 High. 
Averiil Roxana Mrs., resident, h j \ Washington. 
AveriU O William, painter, 93 S Main, bds. 21 do. 
Avery John W., carpenter, h 47 Brooklyn. 
Avery William V., mason, h 23 Silver. 
Ayer Charles F., emp. in fork shop, h 185 N. Main. 
Ayer Virgil E., carpenter and builder, h 5 Aver. 
Ayers Sarah P. Mrs., resident, aged 78, h Bridge. 
Bacon Frank E., (S. Barre) quarryman, bds. with John VV. 
Bacon John W., (S. Barre) farmer. 
Badger Wells M., laborer, h 53 S. Main. 
BAILEY HORATIO N., r 28^, 11 cows, 7 head young stock, 700 sugar 

trees, farmer 157. 
BAILEY JOSHUA M, r 29, 21 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 145 :, 

farm has been in the Bailey family over 80 years. 
Bainbridge James A., stonecutter, h Silver. 



TOWN OF BARRE. 



Bainbridge Mary Mrs., resident, h Silver. 

Baird Thomas E., stonecutter, rooms at H. A. Duffy's. 

Balch Allen E., r 45, granite cutter, h and lot. 

Balch Ossian E., (E. Barre) granite polisher, h and lot. 

Baldwin Alger J., r 46, carpenter and farmer 30. 

Baldwin Frank H., (S. Barre) foreman on quarry. 

Baldwin HoUis, blacksmith, bus. Granite House. 

BALL CHARLES W., carpenter, h Hill. 

Ball Dell Mrs., resident, h Middle. 

BALL EDWARD W., stonecutter, h Summer. 

Ball Frances M. Mrs., resides vvith J. Newton Wilson. 

Ball George F., carpenter, bds. with Charles W. 

Bancroft Caroline E., r 62, farm 160. 

Bancroft Frank C, r 44, school teacher, and farmer with Perrin. 

BANCROFT HARRISON, r 56, horse breeder, 8 cows, 600 sugar trees, 

farmer 100, owns h and lot on r 74. 
Bancroft Mary Mrs., resident, aged 90, h 30 S. Main. 
Bancroft Perrin, r 44, 10 cows, 75 sheep, 12 head young cattle, 700 sugar 

trees, farmer 145. 
Bancroft William, (S. Barre) farmer 43. 
Baratta Elwin, stonecutter^ bds 144 N. Main. 
BARBER CHARLES N., off r 12, veterinary surgeon, 14 cows, 11 head 

other cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer 95, in Plainfield pasture land 40, and 

in E. Montpelier woodland 25. 
Barber Cyrus W., off r 12, retired farmer, lives with Charles N. 
BARCLAY WILLIAM, (Littlejohn & Barclay) h Hooker Meadow. 
Barnes Jennie K., (S. Barre) bds. with J. W. Burnes. 
Barnes Sylvester H., granite polisher, h 7 Highland ave. 
Barney I^ouis, r 74, blacksmith and tool sharpener. 
Barney Walter E.. att'y at law, 50 N. Main, h do. 
BARRE ENTERPRISE, THE, W. F. Scott, editor and prop., 6 Central 

place. 
BARRE GRANITE WORKS, H. A. Duffy and W. S. George, props., 

manufs. of and dealers in all kinds of rough and dressed granite, monu- 
mental, statuary and building work, for wholesale trade. 
BARRE IRON WORKS, Smith, Whitcomb & Cook, props., manufs. 

North American swivel plow, Barre turbine water-wheel, and mill 

machinery, repairers, props, grist and saw-mill, N. Main. 
Barre Novelty Co., E. P. Kendall, pres.; Clark Holden, sec'y and treas.; 

manufs. of patent tools. Granite. 
Barre Opera House, town of Barre, prop.; W. A. Perry, manager. Opera House 

block, cor. Main and Bridge. 
Barre Spring House, r 63, Lucius W. Spaulding, prop. 
Barre Steam Laundry, 7 and 9 Central place. 
Barron Sarah Mrs., widow of Fred H., dealer in fancy goods, notions and 

toys, Averill block, bds. at Jerry Hutchinson's. 
Barroughs George M., laborer, h 18 High. 
Bartlett James D., 12 cows, owns farm in Washington, Orange Co., h 6 

Branch. 
Bassett Betsey S. Mrs., r 28, resides with George W., aged 84. 
BASSETT CALVIN, r 41, 12 grade Jersey cows, 10 head young cattle, 25 

sheep, 300 sugar trees, farmer 150, served in Co. 1), 15th Vt., and Co. 

E., 98th N. Y. Vols. 



TOWN OF BARRE. 



BASSETT CHARLES H., owns and runs two teams from quarries, served 
in Co. E, nth Vt. Vols., h 99 Washington. 

BASSETT GEORGE W., r 28, notary pubUc, prop, cider-mill, 8 cows, 400 
sugar trees, farmer 50. 

Bassett Mary P., resident, h 146 N. Main. 

BATCHELDER ADDISON E., real estate and lumber dealer, builds and 
rents houses, h 163 N. Main. 

BATCHELDER AMBROSE J., teamster from quarries, h 143 N. Main. 

Batchelder Chester, r 13. peddler, leases h of Orvis B. 

BATCHELDER DENNISON, r 13, 16 cows, 60 sheep, 700 sugar trees, 
farmer 212, and in Plainfield pasture land 35, aged 70. 

BATCHELDER ELLEN F., (Mrs. J. H.) (J. H. Batchelder & Co.) h 
Maple ave. 

Batchelder Hiram T., carpenter, h 82 Washington. 

Batchelder Ida O., resides with Ambrose J. 

BATCHELDER J. H. & CO., (Mrs. Ellen F. and J. H. B., and W. L. Staf- 
ford) props. Barre steam polishinLi; works at Barre and S. Barre. 

Batchelder Julius C, carpenter and builder, h Kinney. 

Batchelder Laura Miss, resides with Orvis B. 

BATCHELDER O. B. & J. M., contractors, masons, building movers, bridge 
builders, and jobbers in stone work. 

BATCHELDER ORVIS B., r 14, (O. B. & J. M. Batchelder) farmer 45, 
owns on r 13 farm 35, and in Plainfield wood and pasture land 65. 

Batchelder Philip, farmer for George W. Lawson. 

Batchelder William, r 13, farmer with Dennison. 

BATES ALLEN, r 60 cor. 57, 12 head cattle, farmer 32, on r 72 pasture 
land 35, in Brookfield, Orange Co., farm 70, and in Williamstown 300 
sugar trees and 25 acres land. 

Bates Chapink, r 46, carpenter and farmer 16. 

Bates Ella J., (Mrs. W. F.; dress and cloakmaker, rooms Park House. 

Bates Irving W., r 7 2, 8 cows, i ,000 sugar trees, farmer, leases of Alfred Brown- 
ing 143- 

Bates Lucy A., off r 46, widow of Davis, 15 head stock, 400 sugar trees, 

farm 1 15. 
Bates Randolph, r 61, laborer. 
BATES WILBUR F., barber, bds. Park House. 
Bouldry Nathan, granite worker, h Pleasant. 
Beal Benjamin R., (S. Barre) postmaster. [Died Nov., 1888.] 
BEAL CARRIE B., (S. Barre) teacher. 

Beal Chauncy W., retired carpenter, aged 72, h 232 N. Main. 
Beal Millie L., (S. Barre) student at Goddard seminary. 
Beaulier Auguste, stonecutter, h 204 N. Main. 
BECKLEY FRED D., r i cor. 2, 18 cows, 12 head other cattle, 700 sugar 

trees, farmer 200. 
BECKLEY GEORGE I., r to, 12 cov/s, 16 head other cattle, 400 sugar 

trees, farmer 105, and off r i pasture land 15, served in Co. A, 8th Vt. 

Vols. 
BECKLEY JOHN L., r 6, 1 7 grade Jersey cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 125. 
Beckley Lovila D., widow of Luther, resides with Fred D. 
Beckley Mary M. Mrs., resides with A. C. Downing. 
Beckwith John P., r 26, resides with C. R. Norris. 
Beeman Leonard L., pastor M. E. church. 
Belville William, off r 47, quarryman. 



TOWN OF BARRE. 



Bemis Silas B., chief of police, constable, and shoe manuf. with W. F. Morse^ 
h 238 N. Main. 

Benedict Carlos N., blacksmith, h 13 S. Main. 

Benjamin Charles K., granite polisher, h 29 Silver. 

Benjamin David T., carpenter and builder, 30 N. Main. 

Benjamin Emma J., teacher of painting, bds. 29 Silver. 

Benjamin Florence M., clerk, bds. 30 N. Main. 

Benware Theophelus, stonecutter, h Granite. 

Berry Marcellus J., r 52, laborer, h and lot. 

Bertrand Thomas, stonecutter, h Cottage place. 

Bickford Daniel G., carpenter and real estate owner, h 8 and 10 Prospect. 

Bigelow Amanda Mrs., resident, h 17 S. Main. 

BIGELOW AMOS E., physician and surgeon, 15 S. Main, h do. 

Bigelow Clayton B., granite polisher, bds. Washington. 

Bigelow George W., mechanic, h Washington. 

BIGELOW GLENN H., deUvery clerk for W. H. Miles & Co., bds. Washing- 
ton. 

Bigelow Sarah Mrs., resident, h 112 S. Main. 

Bigelow WiUiam A., laborer, bds. 79 Washington. 

Bird Alexander, stonecutter, h Washington. 

Bisbee Daniel R., law student with Edward W., bds. 71 Main. 

BISBEFl EDWARD W., state's attorney, lawyer and general insurance agent, 
bds. with J. B. Chamberlin, 71 Mam. 

BISHOP GEORGE H., laborer, served 4 years in Co. G, 52d 111. Regt., h 
90 Washington. 

Bisnett Louis A., upholsterer and undertaker, h 3 Academy. 

Bissett James, stonecutter, bds. 13 Brooklyn. 

Bisson James H., stonecutter, h Middle. 

BLAIR DAVID E.. (Blair & Currier) bds. Park House. 

BLAIR & CURRIER, (David E. B. and Richard S. C.) dealers in dry and 
fancy goods, silks, satins, ladies' cloaks, wraps and small wares, 6 N. 
Main, Opera House block. 

Blaisdell Justin H., r 46, mechanic and painter. 

BLANCHARD ADELBERT C, prop, meat and vegetable market, 50 N. 
Main, h High cor. Summer. 

BLANCHARD GEARY W., ice and wood dealer, h 62 S. Main. 

BLANCHARD HIRAM, (S. Barre) carriagemaker here for 38 years. 

BLANCHARD KIMBALL, prop. Park House, farm 100 with stock, pas- 
ture and woodland 30, 16 N. Main. 

Blanchard Martin V., granite polisher, h Hill. 

BLANCHARD OLIVER E., (S. Barre) r 56, apiarist 47 colonies, 10 cows, 
350 sugar trees, farmer 70. 

Blanchard William F., (E. Barre) r 65, tool sharpener. 

Blodgett Henry P., teamster, h off Ayer. 

Blodgett Herbert W., treas. Granite Savings Bank and Trust Co., bds. with 
W. A. Perry. 

Blondin Seymour, stonecutter, h N. Main. 

Bolster Levi |., general merchant, Depot square, h N. Main. 

BOND CALVIN T., r 61, 12 head stock, farmer 85, served in Co. D, 15th 
Vt. Vols. 

Bond J. M. Mrs., dealer in millinery and fancy goods, 48 N. Main, rooms 3 
S. Main. 

Bond Louise A., r 61, lives with Calvin T. 



TOWN OF HARRE. 



Bond Nathaniel, foreman of quarry, rooms 3 S. Main. 
Boodey Natt H., granite cutter, bds. S. Main. 
Boomliower Dick VV., blacksmith, bds. Granite House. 

Bosworth Charlotte A., resident, h Central. 

Bosworlh George R.. clerk for J. G. Nichols & Son, bds. 125 N. Main. 
BOSWORTH "MARY L , teacher, resides with Mrs. Charlotte A., Central. 

BOUTWELL CLARK, r 14 cor. 12, farmer 7, served in Co. I, 13th Vt. Vols. 

Boutwell Eli G., r 14 cor. 12, upholsterer, farmer with Clark. 

Boutwell Ira C, r 25, teamster and farmer, h and 2 acres. 

Bovee Frank, granite polisher, h 112 S. Main. 

BOWMAN WILLIAM P., r 17, 55 head cattle, 6 horses, 30 head swine, 600 
sugar trees, farmer, leases of Israel Wood 250. 

Boyce George P., dealer in ready-made clothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes and 
gents' furnishings, 54 N. Main, h i Academy. 

BOYCE OSMAN B., (Boyce & Boyce) h Elm. 

BOYCE WILLIAM A., (Boyce & Boyce) bds. Park House. 

BOYCE & BOYCE, (William A. and Osman B.) attorneys and counselors at 
law, notaries public, negotiators of mortgages, and real estate and insur- 
ance agents, French block. Main. 

Boyle Tohn A., clerk for Marvin & Wilson, bds. Park House. 

Brackett Oscar F., r 6, granite cutter. 

Bradford Elvira, r 44 cor. 38, resides with Alfred S. Parkhurst. 

Bardford Thankful Mrs., r 45, resides with C. Maynard Winch. 

BRADFORD WILBUR F., architect, contractor and builder, h 2 Park. 

BRADFORD WILLIAM A., 14 horses, draws granite from quarries to the 
village, h 88 S. Main cor. Ayer. 

BRALEY ARMINIA CALEF, widow of Dr. N. W., resident, h 162 N. 
Main. 

Braley Bether W., vice-pres. National Bank of Barre, trustee Goddard sem- 
inary, and physician and surgeon, 171 N. Main, h do. 

Braley Fred N., student at Goddard seminary, resides 162 N. Main. 

Brassaw Louis, teamster, h 36 Brook. 

Brassaw Nelson, quarry teamster, h Thwingville. 

Bratta Edgar, stonecutter, bds. Brooklyn. 

Breno Louis, r 22, laborer. 

Bresaw Fred, granite polisher, h Plain. 

BRIGGS ELBERT C, blacksmith and general repairer. Bridge, h Prospect. 

BRIGGS JASON C, dentist, 11 Bridge, h do. 

Britain Lucy Mrs., resident, aged 81, 7 Summer. 

Brown Elizabeth Mrs., resident, h Maple ave. 

Brown James G., granite cutter, bds. Granite House. 

Brown John, stonecutter, h Irish town. 

Brown Patrick, stonecutter, h Addison place. 

BROWN PORTUS L., tool sharpener, served in Co. G, 9th Vt. Vols., 2| 
years, h 28 S. Main. 

Brown William, stonecutter, h 14 Park. 

Browning Alfred, r 72, farm 143, aged 80; lives on farm settled by his 
father in 1793. 

Browning Emily Miss, (Washington, Orange Co.) resides with Sherman 
Chamberlin, aged 77. 

Bruce Alexander E., vice-pres. Vermont Granite Co., and foreman of stone 
yards, h Brooklyn. 



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BRUCE WILLIAM, director Vermont Granite Co., and general supt. of 
works, h 13 Prospect. [Removed to N. Adams, Mass.] 

BUCHAN ALEXANDER, (McDonald & Buchan) bds. with John Mc- 
Donald, Church. 

Buchanan William H., granite lumper, h 42 Maple ave. 

Bugbee Clinton L., carpenter, h 52 Washington. 

Bugbee Elbert A., stonecutter, h off Brook. 

Bugbee Leonard, resides with D. B. Minard. 

Bugbee Walter, mechanic, h i Webster. 

Bunell Joseph, stonecutter, h Thwingville. 

Burgess Augustus D., tool sharpener, h Clark. 

Burke Frank H., stonecutter, h 8 Ayer. 

Burke James W., granite polisher, h Granite. 

Burnham Herbert F., painter and paper hanger, bds. 40 High. 

BURNHAM MARCUS N., dealer in wood, coal, hay, straw, carriages and 
and sleighs, prop. Burnham's express, office at Curtis & Keith's livery 
stable, h 84 Washington. 

Burnham Mary N. Mrs., prop, boarding-house, 59 S. Main. 

Burnham William N., stonecutter, h and 20 acres Prospect. 

Burroughs George W., clerk for L. M. Averill, h 36 Elm. 

BUSH HENRY K.. sec'y Vermont Granite Co. 

Bushee Joseph, r 74, quarryman. 

Butler Michael, laborer, h 19 Brooklyn. 

Byard Charles A., stonecutter, h 47 Washington. 

Bylovv Benjamin A., freight agent C. V. R. R., h Summer. 

Cadger James, stonecutter, h Bridge. 

Cady Gay I., prop, carriage and repair shop. Bridge, h Brooklyn. 

Cady Leon C, carpenter and wheelwright, Bridge. 

CALLAGHAN JOHN T., laborer, bds. N. Main. 

Cameron Sylvester, teamster, h 82 Washington. 

CAMP CLAYTON F.. physician and surgeon, Washington, h do. 

CAMP D. AZRO, r 58, selectman, prop, stock horse "Colonel Knox," 
horse breeder, 35 cows, farmer 290, in Orange, Orange Co., pasture 
land 75, and owns several building lots in Barre village. 

Camp Herbert O., carpenter, h 3 Highland ave. 

Camp Orissa Mrs., resident, h 3 Highland ave. 

CAMP PHILO G., (Perry & Camp) bailiff, owns farm in Orange, Orange 
Co , 400, h 47 Washington. 

Campbell Enoch, (E. Barre) laborer, bds. with F. P. Games. 

Campbell John, r 59, stonecutter. 

Cantillion Thomas, stonecutter, h Kirk. 

Canway John, finisher, emp William Moorcroft, h 137 S. Main. 

Canwav M. Jennie, dressmaker, bds. 137 S. Main. 

CARLETON CAROLINE Mrs , h and 2 acres Hill. 

CARLETON D. Sc E, r 16, 30 grade Jersey cows, 20 head young cattle, 
100 sheep, 10 horses, 15 head swine. 800 sugar trees, farmers 27c, and 
in Marshfield pasture and woodland 100. 

CARLETON DAVID, r 16, (D. & E. Carleton). 

CARLETON EDWIN, r 16 n 17, (D. & E. Carleton) farmer, dealer in 
agricultural implements and fertilizers. 

Games Frank P., (E. Barre) granite cutter. 

Games James M., (E Barre) r 69, quarryman, h and lot. 

Carnes Lydia J. Mrs., (E. Barre) postoffice clerk. 



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Games Nathaniel, (E. Barre) postmaster, bds. with William M. 

CARNES ORA C, (E. Barre) r 69, quarryman, bds. with James M. 

Carnes Rodney, (E. Barre) r 69, 6 head stock, 200 apple trees, farmer 50. 

Games Samuel }., (E, Barre) r 69, mechanic, bds. with James M. 

GA.RNES WILLIAM M., (E. Barre) (Games & Kane). 

CARNES & KANE, (E. Barre) (William M. C. and Patrick T. K.) granite 

polishing, manufs. of and dealers in all kinds of Barre granite, monu- 
mental, cemetery and statuary work. 
Garpenter Gharles D., harnessmaker, 4 Gentral place, h 13 Maple. 
GARPENTER WILLIAM A., stonecutter, rooms 51 S. Main. 
Carr Gharles P., teamster, h 96 Washington. 
Garr Glarence G., clerk, h 103 N. Main. 
Garr Levi, h g Prospect. 

Garr N. Nelson, granite polisher, h Washington. 
Garroll Thomas, stonecutter, h Addison place. 
Garswell Samuel, polisher, h Hill. 

GARTER W. HENRY, clerk in furniture store, h Bridge. 
Gasey John, granite cutter, h Burnham's Meadow road. 
Gashen James, granite polisher, h 41 S. Main. 
Gass Frank M., tool sharpener, h 20 Bridge. 
GASSIE GEORGE, (Eraser & Gassie) h^High. 
Gave Frank F., teller National Bank of Barre. 

Gave Thomas H., book and job printer, 59 N. Main, h 8 Eastern ave. 
Gave Thomas H., Jr., printer, bds. 8 Eastern ave. 
Gaven James, stonecutter, bds. 13 Brooklyn. 
GAY HUE JESSE, prop, hair dressing room, N. Main cor. Depot square,. 

served in 3d Vt. Vol. Bat. Lt. Art., h N. Main. 
GENTRAL HOUSE, Fred L. Hayden, prop., N. Main. 
GHAMBERLIN JOSEPH B., dealer in groceries, flour, crockery, glassware, 

etc., 1 1 1 N. Main, h 7 i do. 
Chamberlin Nathaniel, resident, h Washington cor. Elm. 
Ghamberlin Orland Miss, resident, aged 72, 38. Main. 
GHAMBERLIN SHERMAN, (Washington, Orange Go.) r 72, 10 head 

stock, 50 apple trees, 100 sugar trees, farmer 140. 
Ghandler Albert W., stonecutter, h 3 Brooklyn. 
Ghandler Henry L.. tinsmith, h 5 Brooklyn. 
GHANDLER PERLEY, manager telephone exchange, watchmaker and 

jeweler, dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, plated ware, spectacles, fancy 

goods, stationery, etc., 73 N. Main, h 69 S. Main. 
Ghandler Samuel, h Park. 

Ghapman Gharles E., stonecutter, bds. Granite. 
Gharland Henry, teamster, h 34 Summer. 
GHASE FRED E., stationary engineer, h Summer. 
Ghase George H., granite polisher, bds. 59 S. Main. 
GHx\SE OLIN W., photographer, 32 Main, bds. with George H. 
Ghaussey Ernest, barber. 
Gheeney Eugene H., laborer, h Hill. 
Gheever Isabel Mrs., resident, h 43 High. 
Gheever Lewis A., carpenter, h 43 High. 
Gheney Gharles G., r 55, 12 cows, 800 sugar trees, poultry grower^ farmer 

100. 
Gheney Eugene H., (S. Barre) laborer. 
Gheney Harlan I., (E. Barre) prop, granite quarry, bds. with Lucius I. 



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CHENEY LUCIUS I., (E. Barre) r 71 cor. 69, 12 head cattle, 300 sugar 

trees, owns granite quarry and i tenement house, farmer 100. 
Cheney William B.,r 61, quarryman and farmer 30. 
Childs Samuel, farm in Orange, Orange Co., 100, h 34 S. Main. 
Christie John, stonecutter, h 23 S. Main. 
Christie William, stonecutter, h Irish town. 

CHUBB STEADMAN C, h Washington cor. Park. [Removed to Wash- 
ington, D. C] 
Cilley Ellis David, mechanic, h 6 Elmore. 
CILLEY FREEMAN W., mechanic, h 89 S. Main. 
CLAFLIN AUGUSTUS, (S. Barre) farmer. 
Claflin George E., off r 47, teamster for J. W. Leonard. 
CLAPP WILLIAM J., r 15 opp. 16. 25 grade Jersey cows, 10 head young 

cattle, 60 swine, 4 horses, 300 sugar trees, farmer 140. 
Clarey John, stonecutter, h Granite. 
Clark Alvin W., painter, h Hill. 
Clark Charles C, stonecutter, h Thwingville. 
Clark Daniel H., dealer in fruits, confectionery, books, papers, fancy goods, 

and novelties, 58 N. Main, h 13 Hill. 
Clark George, delivery clerk for L. M. Averill, h off Washington. 
Clark George F., carpenter, 57 S. Main. 
Clark James, laborer, bds. Burnham's Meadow road. 
Clark Jennie B., r 14. widow of S. C, resides with O. B. Batchelder. 
Clark John L., stonecutter, h 24 Brook. 
Clark Maggie Miss, weaver, h 113 S. Main. 
CLARK REUBEN L., dealer in groceries, flour, grain, feed, doors, sash and 

blinds, paints, oils, glass and lumber, 41 N. Main, h 29 Prospect. 
CLARK WILLIAM, prop, of Fair View greenhouse, vegetable farmer, 

bedding and house plants, cut flower designs a specialty, served in Co. 

B, loth Vt. Vols., Prospect cor. Clark. 
Clark William A., granite polisher, h 53 S. Main. 
Clay Orrin E., stonecutter, h 9 Church. 
Cleary Dennis, stonecutter, h 33 High. 
Clough Carlos L., laborer, h Washington. 

Clough William H., r 24 n 25, teamster, jobber and farmer 10. 
Cluness Alexander, stonecutter, h Irish town. 
COBURN ALEXANDER, (EmsHe cSi Coburn) h 82 Washington. 
Coburn Willie F., r 45, teamster. 
Coflin James B., iron molder, h 33 Silver. 
Cogswell Alfred V. B., r 74, prop, boarding-house. 
COLBY BENJAMIN F., house painter and jobber, h 16 Park. 
Colby Harry T., painter, bds. 16 Park. 

COLBY HERBERT J , prop. Star restaurant, 127 Main, h 125 do. 
Colby Orlando W., laborer, bds. Elm. 
COLBY W. F. & CO., undertakers, dealers in furniture, bedding, draperies, 

window curtains, fixtures and upholsteries, 10 Opera House block, h 13 

S. Main. 
COLBY WARNER F., (W. F. Colby & Co.) bds. 13 S. Main. 
Cole William, stonecutter, h N. Main. 
COLLINS JOHN S., retired granite dealer, h Hill ; the first man to open a 

granite cutting shop m Barre ; served 3 years in Co. E, 2d U. S. Regt. 

S. S. 
CONANT JOHN, farmer 2, h 114 S. Main, owns h and lot 112 do. 



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Condon John A., tool sharpener, h 5 Clark. 

Conlon John F., blacksmith, h Addison place. 

Connan John, (Milne & Connan) h Eastern ave. 

Connelljohn W., station agent C. V. R. R., manager Western Union telegraph 
office, and agent American Express Co., h 13 High. 

Connell Robert, stonecutter, h Hill. 

Connell Thomas C, stonecutter, bds. Maple. 

Connon Alexander, stonecutter, h 35 High. 

Connor Thomas, blacksmith, S. Main, h 79 do. 

Connors David T., stonecutter, h Addison. 

Conway John, woolen finisher, h 137 S. Main. 

COOK BENJAMIN B., (Smith, Whitcomb & Cook) h 37 Silver. 

Cook Frank, stonecutter, h 35 Silver. 

Cook Fred A., (Walker & Cook) h N. Main. 

Cook George, (S. Barre) quarryman. 

Cook Joseph, stonecutter, h 43 Maple ave. 

Cook Quinton, harnessmaker, h 163 N. Main. 

Cordiner Alexander W., granite worker, h Washington. 

CORDINER JAMES, manuf. of and dealer in Barre granite monumental 
and cemetery work, for wholesale and retail trade, h Washington. 

Cordiner Robert P., granite worker, h Washington. 

Corlis Nathan, carpenter, h 37 High. 

Corliss Alvah E., r 70, blacksmith, h and lot. 

Coskie John P., stonecutter, h 59 Washington. 

Cowet Frank, painter for W. J. Bray, h Brooklyn. 

Cowieson David, stonecutter, bds. 45 S. Main. 

Cox George W., r 64, farmer 50. 

Cox Sarah Mrs., r 64, resides with George W.,aged 92. 

Creber Harry, stonecutter, h Summer. 

CROCKETT GEORGE W., painter and glazier, h Brook. 

Cromwell Robert, (S. Barre) laborer and prop, boarding-house. 

Cross Melbhro W., stonecutter, bds. 11 E. Park. 

Croteau Rodolphe, stonecutter, h N. Main. 

Crowley Thomas, stonecutter, bds. 144 N. Main. 

Cruden William, stonecutter, bds. Brooklyn, 

Cruickshank Alexander, stonecutter, h 31 Brooklyn. 

Cruickshank Henry F., r 74, stationary engineer. 

Cruickshank John, stonecutter, h 22 Prospect. 

CURRIER CHARLES L., carpenter and builder, 6 head Jersey stock, reg., 
farmer 20. 

Currier Charles S., student Dartmouth college, home with Charles L. 

Currier Laura E., resides with Charles L. 

CURRIER RICHARD S., (Blair & Currier) h East. 

Curtis Alman, clerk, h 8 Elm. 

CURTIS VICTOR W., (Curtis & Keith) clerk for Frank McWhorter & Co., 
h High. 

CURTIS WILLIAM E., r 49 cor. 33, 18 cows, farmer, leases of H. S. Mar- 
tin 100. 

CURTIS & KEITH, (Victor W. C. and Burt M. K.) props, livery, boarding, 
feed and sale stable, Depot square. 

Cushing Edward, stonecutter, h 33 Granite. 

Cutler Adeline C., (S. Barre) resident. 

CUTLER CASSIUS H., contractor and builder, h 44 Maple ave. 



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Cutler Clarence E., (Davis & Cutler) h Hill. 

Cutler Eli, carriage painter, h 51 S. Main. 

Cutler Ella A. Mrs., r 74, h and lot. 

CUTLER FAYETTE T., foreman for Wetmore & Morse Granite Co., h 

185 N. Main. 
Cutler George W., r 57, farmer with Phineas Thompson, owns in Orauge, 

Orange Co., timberland lou. 
Cutler Ora S., brickmaker, h 171 N. Main. 
Cutts Allen E,, r 35, carpenter and joiner, h and lot. 
Cutts Samuel, r 22, 11 cows, 700 sugar trees, farmer 93. 
Dady Ellen M., housekeeper. 81 VVashington. 
Daley Ai G., teamster, h 44 Maple ave. 
Daley George C, carpenter and millwright, h Plain. 
Dalley Ida, emp. Mrs. J. C. Packard, loi N. Main. 
DANFORTH FRANK F., granite worker, bds. with Dr. C. F. Camp. 
Danforth Fred A., tool sharpener, h g Academy. 
DANFORTH WILLIAM H., granite worker, h 187 N. Main. 
Daniell Thomas T.. polisher, h 13 Prospect. 
Daniels Orville I., carpenter, h N. Main. 
Darrah James C., stonecutter, h 41 S. Main. 
Davenport Charles H., woolen finisher, h 132 S. Main. 
Davis Henry H., (S. Barre) laborer. 
Davis Oscar F., (Davis & Cutler) h 20 Summer. 
Davis Samuel A., r 45, quarryman. 

Davis & Cutler, (Oscar F. D. ind Clarence E. C.) granite manufs., Summer.. 
Dawson David, blacksmith, h oft" Academy. 
Dawson David, Jr., tool sharpener, bds. with David, Sr. 
DAY ALVIN C, draws granite from quarries to Barre village, h Thwingville, 

N. Main. 
DAY WILLIAM P., book-keeper and draughtsman for Wetmore & Morse 

Granite Co., h 2 Eastern ave. 
DEAN ALBERT M., h 17 Park. [Removed to Haverhill, Mass.] 
Denning Robert J., stonecutter, bds. Granite House. 

DENNY GEORGE B. B, (Denny & Kimball, clothiers, of Northfield) mer- 
chant tailor, home in Northfield, bds. Hotel Barre. [Removed to Mont- 

pelier.] 
Densmore Dennison, real estate owner, h Granite. 
Dewel Charles, stonecutter, bds. 143 N. Main. 
Diack Robert, granite worker, h 3 Academy. 
Dickey William, stonecutter, h Granite. 
Dickinson Allen E., railroad man, h 13 Webster. 
Dickinson Amos O., clerk for L. M. Averill, h off Washington. 
DICKINSON HIRAM F., (Dickinson & Stafford) h Summer cor. High. 
DICKINSON & STAFFORD, (Hiram F. D and Albert M. S. ) painters,. 

paper hangers, glaziers and jobbers. Central place. 
DILLON JOHN B., stonecutter, h 23 Prospect. 
DINGLE A. J., (Alex. Grant & Co.) sculptur, bds. Hotel Barre. 
Dinsmore Lyman J., r 61, quarryman. 
Dix Gilbert L., r 3, 21 grade Jersey cows, 6 head young cattle, 350 sugar 

trees, farmer 225. 
DIX JOHN L., r i, 18 cows, 700 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
DIX M. WILLARD, r 3, farmer with G. L. Dix. 
Dobie Alexander, stonecutter, h 43 Elm. 



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DODGE ALBERT F., carpenter, served in Co. B, 12th Vt. Inf., h 21 Silver. 
Dodge Frank E., student in University of Vermont, class of '89, home 21 

Silver. 
Donald William, stonecutter, h 19 Park. 
Doten Cassius M., manuf. of and dealer in Barre granite monuments and 

cemetery work, rough and finished, for the wholesale and retail trade, 79 

S. Main, h do. 
Douglass Lewis J., tool sharpener, h Summer cor. Pleasant. 
Downing Albert B., r 62, 8 cows, 40 sheep, 500 sugar trees, farmer, leases of 

Mrs. C. E. Bancroft 160. 
Downing Almon C, job teamster, h Prospect. 
Downing Catherine Mrs., resident, h 58 S. Main. 
Downing Mary E., domestic, 163 N. Main. 
Dowse Susan Mrs., resident, h 09 Washington. 
Doyle Michael W., laborer, h Depot square. 
Drew Ezekiel, steward Goddard seminary, residence do. 
Drown George W., carpenter, h 5 i S. Main. 
Drury Charles W., r 59 n 60, laborer, h and lot. 
Drury Eli H., (S. Barre) quarryman. 
Drury Julia .\. Mrs., resident, aged 82, h Bridge. 
Duclos Dolphus, carpenter, rooms at D. Densmore's, Granite. 
Duddy Patrick, stonecutter, bds. 144 N. Main. 
Dudley Almira Mrs., (S. Barre) resides with Andrew J. 
Dudley Andrew J., (S. Barre) carpenter and finisher in fork factory. 
Dudley David, laborer, h Brook. 

Duffy Francis A., clerk for Duffy & George, bds. at Hugh A's. 
DUFFY HUGH A., (Duffy & George) served as lieut. in Co. G, 14th 

N. Y. Vols., h Cottage ave. 
Duffy Thomas J-., tool sharpener for Duffy & George, bds. with Hugh A. 
DUFFY & GEORGE, (Hugh A. D. and W. Scott G.) props. Barre granite 

works. 
Dunbar Charles, stonecutter, h 28 S. Main. 
Dunbar William, stonecutter, h 5 Highland ave. 
Duncan James, stonecutter, h 46 Washington. 
DUNHAM BENJAMIN F., (Dunham '& Gordon) owns in Worcester farm 

200, h 17 Pleasant, served on Gen. Kearney's staff as aid-de-camp, in 

the late war. 
DUNHAM & GORDON, (Benjamin F. D. and John W. G.) manufs. of 

and dealers in all kinds of rough and dressed granite monumental and 

statuary work. 
Durfee George L., granite boxer, h 27 Silver. 
Durfee Lucina S. Mrs., resident, h 27 Silver. 
Durfey George W., tinsmith, h Plain. 
Durkee Emma Mrs., resident, h 133 S. Main. 
Durkee George, granite polisher, bds. 144 N. Main. 
Durkee Giles B., dealer in stoves, tinware, tin and sheet iron repair shop, 62 

N. Main, h do. 
Durkee Otis C , (S, Barre) resident, aged 87. 
Durkee William R., tinsmith, h 7 Clark ave. 

Durrell Charles F., off r 72, 10 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 103. 
Earle George C, job teamster, h 11 Church. 
Earle Lucy H., telephone operator, bds. 95 N. Main. 
Earle William, r 74. quarryman. 



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Eastman Elijah M., laborer, h 92 Washington. 

EASTMAN MERRILL, r 61 n 70^ 15 head cattle, 600 sugar trees, teamster 

and farmer 100. 
Eastman William H., (Eastman &: Whitney) bds. Central House. 
Eastman «Sr Whitney, (William H. E. and Byron W. W.) grocers, 121 N. 

Main. 
Edson Welthea M., r 34, resident. 

EDWARDS GEORGE W., granite worker, h N. Main. 
EUenwood Charles T., (S. Barre) stonecutter. 
Ellis Hiram, (S. Barre) resident. 
Ellis William, shoemaker, bds. N. Main. 
EMERSON BROTHERS, (Walter M. and Frank A.) dealers in music, 

musical instruments, fancy goods and stationery, N. Main. 
EMERSON FRANK A., (Emerson Brothers) h Granite block, N. Main. 
Emerson Fred, (E. Barre) r 64, quarryman. 
Emerson Thomas L., r 10, laborer, h and i^ acres. 
EMERSON WALTER M., (Emerson Brothers) blacksmith, h Elm. 
Emond John B., shoemaker, h 81 S. Main. 
Emony Marcia, widow of Daniel, h 50 Washington. 
Emslie William, (Emslie & Coburn) h Granite. 
EMSLIE & COBURN, (William E. and Alexander C.) rnanufs. of and 

dealers in Barre granite monumental and cemetery work, for wholesale 

and retail trade. 
Enright Thomas, tool sharpener, h 9 Webster, 
Estabrook C. Johnson, (S. Barre) granite polisher. 
Ewen James, stonecutter, h Irish town. 
Farnsworth Charles C, r 74, foreman in quarries. 
Farnsworth Lewis, granite polisher, bds. Granite House. 
Farrell Lewis, resides with Dr. Henry E. Packer, 1 1 High. 
Farron William, lumper, h 46 Maple ave. 
FARWELL WILLIAM, r 11, 25 grade Jersey cows, 10 head young cattle, 

7 horses, 700 sugar trees, farmer 245. 
Felix William H., r 74, quarryman, h and lot. 
FIELD ANDREW E , director Granite Savings Bank and Trust Co., village 

bailiff, physician and surgeon, h 9 High. 
Field Clinton N., teller for Granite Savings Bank and Trust Co., bds. with 

Dr. Field. 
FIFIELD HORACE, justice of the peace, general agent for all kinds of 

mowing machines, horse rakes and hay tedders, in Washington and 

Orange counties, dealer in maple sugar, h 8 S. Main. 
Fisher Catherine P. Mrs., resides with A. G. LaPoint. 
Fisher Fred C. clerk for R. L. Clark, h 29 Prospect. 
FITTS HOMER, (Morrison & Fitts) h 85 S. Main. 
Flanders William M., engineer, h Granite. 
Fletcher James T., blacksmith, h Hill. 
Fhnt John W., clerk C. V. R. R., h 36 Elm. 
Floyd Addison J., r 37, tool sharpener. 
Foley Daniel M., (E. Barre) stonecutter. 
FORBES FRANK, tool sharpener, h Hill cor. Washington. 
Forrest Danta, laborer, h 42 Brook. 

FORSYTH STEPHEN H., (Forsyth & Ingram) h Washington. 
FORSYTH & INGRAM, (Stephen H. F. and James I.) manufs. of and 

dealers in all kinds of granite monumental and statuary work, western 

office 13 1 3 Washington ave., St. Louis, Mo. 



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Fort William J., tool sharpener, h 41 Summer. 
Foster Clark A., stonecutter, h Burnham's Meadow road. 
Foster Henry M., (S. Barre) painter, h and 2 acres. 
Foster Lucy A., (S. Barre) (Mrs. H. M.) dressmaker. 

Fraser Daniel A., foreman in James Gaizeley's quarry and prop, boarding- 
house. 
Fraser James, (Fraser & Cassie) h 42 High. 
Fraser Peter B., stonecutter, h Hill. 
Fraser Robert, stonecutter, h 14 Park. 
FRASER & CASSIE, (James F. and George C.) manufs. of and dealers in 

Barre granite monumental and cemetery work, for wholesale and retail 

trade. 
Freeman Alden T., r 21, farmer with P. P. Larabee. 
Freeman Clark A., mechanic, h 58 S. Main. 
FREEMAN MARTIN V. B,r 20, 11 cows, 13 head other stock, 500 sugar 

trees, farmer 100. 
Freeman Otis W., off r 18, 400 sugar trees, farmer 66. 
French Albert, barber, Jackman block, h 81 Washington. 
French Alson, laborer, bds. 81 Washington. 
French Burton F., (E, Barre) granite tool sharpener. 
French C. A. Mrs. & Co., (Mrs. F. W. Jackson) milliners, Stillman Wood 

block, 49 N. Main. 
French D. Agnes Miss, resident, h Washington cor. Elm. 
FRENCH EDWIN C.,manuf. of and dealer in Barre granite monumental and 

cemetery work, for wholesale and retail trade, S. Main, h Washington. 
FRENCH EPHRAIM E, retired lawyer, h 83 N. Main, aged 74. [Deceased.] 
French George W., prop. Granite House, 43 S. Main. 
French Hannah, resident, aged 91, h Church. 
French Micah, resident, aged 84, h 51 Washington. 
French Nehemiah, laborer, bds. 54 S. Main. 
French Randall, painter, bda. Irish town. 
Frenier Henry, saloon, Granite, h Brooklyn. 
Fruzzetti Peter B., stonecutter, h Burnham's Meadow road. 
Fuller Ellen J., resident, 5 Prospect. 
FULLER ENOS T., iron molder, h 64 S. Main. 
Fuller Hannah H. Mrs, resident, aged 95, h Prospect. 
Gage Charles H., stonecutter, h 9 Hill. 
Gale Harriet A. Mrs., resident, h Washington park. 
GALE HENRY P. Mrs., resident, h 7 Summer. 
Gale Herbert L., physician and surgeon, loi N. Main. 
Gale Ira L., on r 56 farm 136 and woodland 50, h 84 Washington. 
GALE JOHN W., r 25, farmer with Josiah, owns pasture and woodland 35. 
Gale Josiah, r 25, 15 cows, 12 head young cattle, 15 head swine, 1,000 sugar 

trees, farmer 142, in Marshfield pasture and woodland 62, and in Mont- 

pelier farm 1 18. 
GALE LEWIS, r 56, 20 grade Jersey cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 200,. 

aged 70. 
Gale Lyman, retired cabinetmaker, aged 80, h 5 S. Main. 
Gale William R., r 42, 15 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, farmer 116. 
Gallagher Richard, contractor, h Hill. 
GAMBLE ANDREW H., manuf. of and dealer in Barre granite monuments 

and cemetery work, for wholesale trade, h S. Main. [Deceased.] 
Gamble John H., stonecutter, bds. off Ayer. 



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Gamble Malcom R., granite polisher, h 17 Aver 

Gamsby Rufus A., laborer, h Washington 

Garvey Michael, stonecutter, h Summer. 

rtJI-^ SCOTT L, lumber sawyer and mechanic, h Washington 

Gauthier Joseph tool sharpener, h Burnham's Meadow road^ 

Gay Joseph, blacksmith for E. C. Briggs, bds. 22 Bridge 

Gay Nelson, granite polisher, bds. 744 N Main " 

Gearwar Frank A., (E. Barre) blacksmith 

George Arthur C., r 46, laborer and farmer 

George Frank A., stonecutter, 8 Summer 

George Frank W., laborer, h Hill 

°^°'^'l^n,^-h Ha' ''■■ "'"'"^'= '"^ '''^" "l'^'" '" f-" P^duc, 30 and 

George Jennie M. Mrs., resident, h 37 Hi^h 

George W Scott, (Duffy & George) h Middle. 

George Will L., stonecutter, h Maple 

George & Kent, (W L G. and George S. K.) manufs. of and dealers m 

granite monumental and cemetery work, Seminary 
Gerrard James, stonecutter, bds. 13 Brooklyn. 

^IT ^^"'>' ^ ' (^- ^^'■'■^) blacksmith. 

Gibbons Thomas J., stonecutter, h 13 Webster 

Gibertson John, stonecutter, h Thwingville 

Gilmott Israel, r 15, laborer. 

Gladding Edmund C., lumper, h Washington. 

r 'TnniS''li'A?,."-' ^'"SS*'*' ^^7 N. Main, h Elm. " 

ri^H ? ^^V " ' '^''^ f°^ ^'^'S' P- Boyce, bds. with W A Perry 

^T Tr.':^^^^'"^ ^- ^°°' sharpener, h Summer. ^• 

CMa^wJ^"^^^ ^ ^- ^"P^- '''''' lights, h Summer. 
G idden William D., granite boxer, h 13 Hill 

rm nrplro";; "^^A"^- °f ^<^"fectionery, 10 Elm and 49 N. Main 

'"'^"bdf.'c^entrarrul^^ "' '^"^^^^ ^^ ^etmore l\rorse Granite Co., 

Goldsbury Fred E., farmer with John A 

^''3oo^l^grtre^e^,^f^rm^er' .^^o '' '-'' ^^^ -'' ^ '^^ -^^ -"^- 

""'p^^p'^f"m^l/?o^t^ i^n-'B-r:^I^'4r^^ "' '^ '' ^^"" ^^^^^^ ^^' 
GOLDSBURY WILLIAM A., granite worker, h 26 High 
uoneo Louis, stonecutter, h Granite. ' 

Gonyon Lewis M., mechanic, h Washington 

GOSS GEORGE M., with G. H. Guernsey, at' Montpelier. 
Lrraham Joseph, stonecutter, h Hill 

^^r^^S^Mam^^'^^^ ^•' """''''''' ^^^P^"^^^-"^ builder, owns job team, 

Granger Frank, granite cutter, h Bridge 

Granger Isaac, resides with Charles B., 54 S Main 

C RA^Jn^R^f^VTMr'^c o^ • ^'"""^' P'-^P' ^3 S. Main. 

VVn\ ^^^^^^^S BANK AND TRUST CO., John Trow, pres.: H. O 
\/or^hen, vice-pres.; H. W. Blodgett, treas.; Granite block Main. 



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GRANT ALEX., (Alex. Grant & Co.) bds. with Mason T. Page. 

GRANT ALEX. & CO., (A. J. Dingle) sculptors and designers, shop opp, 

Marr & Gordon's. 
Grant Horace W., off r 46, laborer, leases h of Miss Lucy Bates. 
Grant James, stonecutter, h Branch. 
Gray Lewis J., (S. Barre) granite polisher. 
Green Thaddeus A., granite worker, h Maple cor. Summer. 
Greene Laura L. Mrs., (Mrs. W. F. Shepard & Co.) widow of John, rooms 

at store. 
Gregg Richard, stonecutter, h 23 Prospect. 
Gregwair George L. F., laborer, resides with Nancy A. 
Gregwair Lizzie, dressmaker, bds. with Nancy A. 
Gregwair Nancy A., resident, h 75 Washington cor. Hill. 
Gregwair Orne E.. carpenter, bds. with Nancy A. 
Greig George, stonecutter, h Church. 
Greig James, stonecutter, h Academy. 
Grenier Joseph A., tailor for D. M. Barnes. 
Grierson William, stonecutter, h off Academy. 

Griffith Burt H., express driver for Curtis & Keith, bds. Star restaurant. 
Griswold Luther E., carpenter, h Brooklyn. 
Grosvenor Edgar, carpenter, h 34 S. Main. 
Gurley Sarah Mrs., tailoress, h Elm. 
Hackett Augustus, farm laborer, h 225 N. Main. 
Hackett George C, iron jnolder, bds. 225 N. Main. 
HALEY JAMES S., vice-pres. and foreman National Granite Co., bds. 

Park House. 
Hall Carlos W., buys and ships live stock to Watertown, Mass., and other 

markets, owns farm 50, and ^^ of a tenement house on r 34. 
Hall Cyrus W., laborer, h Hill. 
Hall Ira B., (S. Barre) laborer. 
Hall John S., stonecutter. 
Hall Liberty F., polisher, h 132 S. Main. 
Hanley John, railroad min, bds. Granite House. 
Harper Margaret Mrs., resident, h Brooklyn. 

Harriman Sarah S. Mrs., widow of Harvey J., resident, h 121 S. Main. 
Harrington .Albert B , carpenter, h 8 Maple. 
HARRINGTON ASA, prop, meat and vegetable market, and dealer in shelf 

groceries, 4 Granite, h 10 do. 
Harrington Nathan, (S. Barre) clerk, served 3 years in Co. D, 2d Vt. Vols. 
Harroun Clayton P., horseshoer, h off Maple ave. 
Harroun Isaac C, blacksmith, h 28 Maple ave. 
HATCH HIAL O., master mechanic, and owns in Williamstown, Orange Co., 

farm 157, h 17 S. Main. 
Hatch Moses M., tool sharpener, h 13 Park. 
Haviland William H., granite polisher, h 14 Hooker. 
Hawes Asa, carpenter, h Silver. 
Hawes Charles M., coal dealer, h 26 Maple ave. 
Hawes William E., carpenter, h Silver. 
Hawse Benjamin B., architect and builder, h Summer. 
HAYDEN FRED L , prop. Central House, and livery, boarding, feed and 

sale stable, N. Main. 
Hadden James C, stonecutter, h Addison place. 
Heath Charles W., (S. Barre) painter and glazier. 



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Henry Arthur, stonecutter, h Burnham's Meadow road. 
HERLIHY MICHAEL C, (Herlihy & Williams) h Currier park. 
HERLIHY «& WILLIAMS, (Michael C. H. and Thomas W.) manufs. of 

and dealers in Barre granite monumental, cemetery and building work, 

for wholesale and retail trade. 
Heron Peter, stonecutter, bds. 144 N. Main. 
Hewett Lucy Mrs., r 45, resident, h and lot. 
Higgins John P., stonecutter, h 24 Bridge. 

Hill Ernest E., lumber dealer and real estate owner, h 11 Elmore. 
Hill George A., carpenter, h 6 Hill. 
Hill Lewis, stonecutter, h Ayer. 
Hill Napoleon J., stonecutter. 

Hillery Laura M. Mrs., r 55, resides with Charles G. Cheney. 
Hoar Richard A., r 70 cor. 6i, owns a dark granite quarry, bds. with Lewis 

Keith. 
HOBBS CHARLES E., (Hobbs & McDonald) mechanic, h 18 Pleasant. 
HOBBS & McDonald, (Charles E. H. and James McD.) granite tool 

manufs. and dealers, foot of Granite. 
Hockenberry Harry, horse trainer and driver, h 120 S. Main. 
HOG AN JAMES A., r 48, teamster for H. C. Leonard. 
Hogan Thomas, r 61, quarryman 
HOLDEN CLARK, postmaster, and treas. Stafford & Holden Mfg. Co., h 

10 S. Main. 
HOLDEN ELI, off r 77, 16 grade Jersey cows, 600 sugar trees, farmer 120, 

served in Co. F, ist Vt. Vols., and ist Vt. Cav., as sergeant and lieut., 

4 years, prisoner in Libby and other rebel prisons i8 months. 
HOLDEN GEORGE W., r 74, wood sawyer, works in quarry with team, 

owns farm 100, and in Williamstown, Orange Co., 130. 
Holmes Alexander M., stonecutter, h 209 N. Main. 
Holmes Benjamin A., blacksmith and farmer, h Elm. 
Holmes Elias H., butcher for Henry Smith, h 8 Summer. 
Holmes George B.,r 45, granite cutter. 
Holmes James, stonecutter, h Bridge. 
Holt Alonzo Mrs., resident, h 79 S. Main. 
Holt Calvin, r 75, farmer 6. 

HOOKER LOREN H., carpenter and builder, h 25 Prospect. 
HOOKER WILLIAM D., justice of the peace, wholesale and retail produce 

dealer, farmer 60, in Plainfield pasture and woodland 200, National Bank 

block, 49 N. Main, h 22 Prospect, Hooker hill. [Died May 18, 1888; 

estate represented by his son George E.j 
Hopkins Frank H., (Smith & Hopkins) h 98 Washington. 
HOPKINS RALPH E., prop, of biUiard parlor, 55 N. Main,h 48 Washing- 
ton. 
Houghton Center L., laborer, h 8 Elmore. 
Houghton Lester E., polisher, h off S. Main. 
Housten George, carpenter, h Burnham's Meadow road. 
Howard Florence M., teacher, resides with William. 
Howard William, farmer 25, h 103 Washington. 
Howe Frank A., clerk for L. M. Avenll, h N. Main. 
Howe Nancy G. Mrs., resident, h N. Main. 
Howe Ursula Mrs., housekeeper for Dr. A. E. Bigelow. 
Howes Orvis J., street commissioner and constable, h and i^ acres 188 N. 

Main. 



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Howland Charles A., granite worker, h 215 N. Main. 

Rowland Edward, stonecutter, h Irish town. 

Howland Frank G., cashier National Bank of Barre, rooms Granite block, N. 
Main. 

Hoyt Clarinda, resident, bds. 4 Hill. 

Hubbard Abner P., carpenter and builder, h Summer, 

HUBBARD EDGAR E., (Hubbard & Wheeler) barber, h Prospect. 

Hubbard Walter P., (S. Barre) r 59, carpenter, h and lot. 

HUBBARD & WHEELER, (Edgar E. H. and George D. W.) barbers, 78- 
N. Main. 

Hughes John J., granite polisher, h 41 Summer. 

Hunt Henry E. Mrs., prop, boarding-house, 17 Honker ave. 

Hunter Sylvia J. Mrs., prop, boarding-house, 198 N. Main. 

Huntington Austin B., teamster, h N. Main. 

Huntington William L., sexton Barre cemetery, h 88 Washington. 

Huse David R., carpenter, h 7 Webster. 

HUSE SAMUEL B , granite worker, h 48 Hill. 

Hutcheon John, manager Barre office, book-keeper and draughtsman for 
Jones Brothers, bds. 31 Elm. 

Hutchinson Charles, r 35, granite polisher, h and lot. 

Hutchinson Fannie N., dressmaker and dealer in fancy goods, 14 Elm. 

Hutchinson Frank A., tool sharpener, h Maple ave. 

Hutchinson Harry O., laborer, bds. 20 Hill. 

HUTCHINSON JERRY J., r 44, 18 grade Jersey cows, 25 sheep, 600 sugar 
trees, farmer 140, served in Co. I, 13th Vt. Vols. 

HUTCHINSON JERRY, Jr., r 44, farmer. 

HUTCHINSON JERRY M., architect, contractor and builder, estimates,, 
designs and specifications furnished on application, h E. Park cor. 
Academy. 

Hutchinson Lewis J., laborer, bds. with Charles. 

HUTCHINSON MAJOR S., (E. Barre) r 67, 18 cows, 8 head other stock,. 
10 swine. 1,700 sugar trees, farmer 215. 

Hutchinson Nancy Mrs., (E. Barre) r 67, resides with M. S. 

Imlah William, stonecutter, bds. 35 High. 

Inglis George, stonecutter, h 23 Prospect. 

INGRAM JAMES, (Forsyth & Ingram) bds. with S. H. Forsyth„ 

Ingram John, stonecutter, h ^^ Brooklyn. 

Isham Louis H., stonecutter, h 11 E. Park. 

JACKMAN A. M., deputy sheriff, prop. Jackman block and several tene- 
ments, h .-,7 N. Main. 

Jackman John M. Mrs., resident, h N. Main. 

Jackson Arad, farmer 90, aged 72. 

JACKSON BYRON B., granite cutter, h Middle. 

JACKSON CRAWFORD H., prop, livery, board and feed stable, farmer 4,. 
h 199 N. Main. 

JACKSON FRANK W., book-keeper for Stafford & Holden Mfg. Co., h- 
Merchant. 

Jackson Oilman I., commission merchant, 42 N. Main. 

JACKSON J. HENRY, A. M., M. D., sec'y Montpeher board of U. S. ex- 
amining surgeons, professor of physiology Medical department of the 
University of Vermont, Burlington, physician and surgeon, 19 S. Main,, 
h do. 

Jamison David T., retired farmer, h Granite. 



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Jamison James, Stonecutter, bds. 144 N. Main. 

Jamison John, ("3. Barre) granite polisher. 

Janerau Oscar, (S. Barre) r 56, laborer. 

Jareny Matthew A., stonecutter, h 12 Prospect. 

Jerry Armena, r 36, home with George. 

Jerry Eugene J., r 36, farmer with George. 

Jerry George, r 36, 18 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 132. 

Johnson Edward E., r 39, laborer, h and r acre. 

Johnson George W., (E. Barre) r 69, quarryman. 

Johnson Henry G., (E. Barre) r 69, quarryman. 

Johnson William, stonecutter, h 46 High. 

Jondro Alexander E., laborer, h 13 Prospect. 

Jondro Charles A., laborer, bds. 13 Prospect. 

JONES BROTHERS, (M. W. and S. VV.) props, granite quarry, manufs. of 

and dealers in all kinds of rough and finished granite monumental and 

statuary work, for wholesale trade, Boston office 53 and 55 Kilby. 
Jones Charles P., stonecutter, h 5 N. Pearl. 
Jones Fred W., resident, h Washington. 
Jones Horace H., carpenter, h 71 Washington. 
JONES JOHN H., r 36, breeder of and dealer in Lambert and Hamble- 

tonian horses, 12 head, 15 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Jones Mary E. Mrs., resides with Horace H. 
Jones Merrill, r 46, laborer. 
Jones Susan J. Mrs., dealer in millinery and fancy goods, 74 N. Main, h 2 

Eastern ave. 
Jones William Coburn, prop. Barre bakery, r Central place, h Elm. 
Kane Patrick T., (E. Barre) (Carries & Kane). 
Keeler Adelia Miss, nurse, bds. Summer. 
Keith Almon. farmer with Natiianiel. h 16 Hooker. 
KEITH BERT M., (Curtis & Keith) prop. Keith's city express, bds. Star 

restaurant. 
Keith Clara B., teacher, bds. with A. B. Averill, Park. 
KEITH ERASTUS, r 37, 6 cows. 170 Merino sheep, 5 horses, 500 sugar 

trees, farmer 90, and wood and pasture land 90. 
Keith Levi W., laborer, h 3 Webster. 
KEITH LEWIS, r 70 cor. 6r, ist selectman, 12 cows, 12 head other stock, 

600 sugar trees, farmer 148, and in Orange, Orange Co., wood and 

pasture land 100. 
Keith Nathaniel W., farmer, 16 Hooker. 

KEITH SUSAN S., widow of Leonard, bds. with W. E. Whitcomb. 
KELLEY JOHN H., r 32, breeder of and dealer in full blood Jersey cattle, 

reg ) 30 cows, 600 sugar trees, lumberman, farmer 180, and owns in 

Orange, Orange Co., timberland 100. 
Kellogg Edwin E., (S. Barre) granite polisher. 
Kelly William, carpenter, h Burnham's Meadow road. 
Kelman William, stonecutter, h 1 1 Academy. 
Kemp Fred A., polisher, h 4 Highland ave. 
Kendall Elton P., granite worker, h 23 S. Main. 
Kenefick Michael, stonecutter, h 16 Academy. 

KENERSON CHARLES H., granite worker and letterer, h Cottage place. 
Kenerson Frank P., granite worker, h N. Main. 
Kenerson Truman, resident, h Cottage place. 
•Kenerson William T., granite worker, h N. Main. 



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Kent George S., (George & Kent) h on r 26. 

KETCHUM CHARLES A., 10 cows, 6 horses, 50 sheep, 300 sugar trees, 

farmer 87, and pasture land 50. 
Ketchum Elmer N., (Wheeler & Ketchum) bds. Church cor. Averill. 
Ketchum Henry C, r 6 cor. 5, farmer and mechanic. 

KETCHUM JUSTUS, r 24, resides on the Loren Ketchum estate, aged 90. 
KETCHUM JUSTUS, Jr., r 24, 16 cows, 7 head young stock, loo sheep, 

600 sugar trees, farmer on Loren's estate 145. 
Ketchum Justus N., retired farmer, h Church cor. Averill. 
Ketchum Martha, r 24, widow of Loren, resides on her husband's estate. 
Kezer Charles G., (E. Barre) r 64, stonecutter. 
Kidder Edwin VV., house painter and grainer, h 60 S. Main. 
Kimball Betsey Mrs., resides with Fred M. Mann. 
Kimball Sumner, manuf. of and dealer in Barre granite monumental, statuary 

and building work, h too Elm St., Montpelier. 
KING FRED, dealer in jewelry, watches, silverware, etc., 130 N. Main cor. 

Depot, h 48 Washington. 
KING HENRY, (S. Barre) granite polisher. 
KINNEY LIBERTY T., prop, saw-mill in Marshfield, farm in Orange, 

Orange Co., 400, and in Barre village 6 tenements, h Kinney. 
Kinney William M., (S. Barre) r 56, quarryman, h and 3^^ acres. 
KIRKLAND DAVID A., mason and carpenter, h 6 Kirk. 
Knapp Fred, tool sharpener, h 52 Washington. 
Krulinger Joseph, stonecutter, h 44 Brook. 
Kynock Robert, stonecutter, h 11 Park. 

LaBounty Fred, r 50, 21 head cattle, 350 sugar trees, farmer, leases of Kim- 
ball Blanchard 128, owns h and lot on r 56. 
Lacans Henry, stonecutter, h Cottage place. 
Ladd Frank P., r 53, farmer with John P. 
Ladd Fred E., r 53, farmer with John P. 

LADD JOHN P., r 53, 10 cows, 85 sheep, 400 sugar trees, farmer 130. 
Ladd Philinda Mrs., resides with John P., aged 83. 
Laing Charles W., stonecutter, h Cottage. 
Lalime George, r 46, blacksmith for H. C. Leonard. 
Lamphere S. Maria Mrs., resident, h 30 S. Main. 
LAMSON GEORGE, (Wells, Lamson & Co.) bds. High. 
Landry William, r 61, quarryman, h and lot. 

LANE ALFRED W., (S. Barre) architect and builder, h and 3 acres Main. 
LANE WILLIAM A., (Lane & Moore) mechanic, bds. at S. Barre. 
LANE & MOORE, (William A. L. and Allen D. M.) props, steam planing- 

mill, dealers in pine lumber, sheathing and moldings of all kinds, general 

job work a specialty. 
Lang George W., sign and ornamental painter, h 42 N. Main. 
Lapage Charles, hamessmaker for Charles Carpenter, h 36 Brook. 
LaPOINT a. GEORGE, clerk, h Elm. 
LARABEE PARACLEETE P., r 21, 10 pure blood and grade Jersey cows, 

1,000 sugar trees, farmer 150, on r 20 pasture land 40, and in Orange, 

Orange Co., timberland 40. 
LATHAM NELSON T., stonecutter, h 149 N. Main. 
Lathrop Nancy M. Mrs., resident, h 29 Elm. 
Lawlis Samuel J., r 61, quarryman, h and lot. 
LAWRENCE GEORGE I., (Lawrence & Woodbury) bds. Park House. 



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Lawrence J. Augustus, r 32, 12 head cattle, 250 sugar trees, farmer 71, and 
owns in Orange, Orange Co., timberland 10. 

Lawrence Solon, teamster, 8 Summer. 

Lawrence Warren N, teamster, h Summer. 

LAWRENCE WILLIE M., r 59 n 60, quarryman, works for H. N. Park- 
hurst. 

Lawrence & Woodbury, (George I. L. and Fred L. W.) props, livery, board- 
ing, feed and sale stable, rear of Park House, N. Main. [Partnership 
dissolved.] 

LAWSON GEORGE W., r 12, prop. Evergreen Square stock farm, dairy- 
man, 4^ Jersey cows, reg., 15 head young cattle, 500 sugar trees, 13 
horses, farmer 125, and in E. Montpelier carries on for Nathaniel 125. 

Lawson Nathaniel, retired farmer, owns in E. Montpelier farm 125, lives with 
George W. 

Lawson Olive A , resides with George W. 

Lawson Rhoda, housekeeper for James Thwing. 

LeBarrow Arthur W., spinner, h 133 S. Main. 

Lebourveau Alfred E., stonecutter, h 26^ High. 

Legier William, spinner, h 66 S. Main. 

Leighton Frank, stonecutter, bds. i Maple. 

Leonard Chauncy C, r 47, resides with Joseph W., aged 75. 

Leonard Fred A., r 48, teamster for Herbert C. 

LEONARD HERBERT C, owns 55 horses and draws granite from quarries 
to Barre village, employs 10 men, farm 75. 

LEONARD JOSEPH W., r 47, breeder of pure blood Devon cattle, 10 head, 
Plymouth Rock fowls and White Pekin ducks, prop. Percheron stock 
horse "Highland Gray," 1,000 sugar trees, 15 horses, draws granite from 
quarries to Barre village. 

Leslie John, stonecutter, bds. Summer. 

Leslie William, stonecutter, h Summer. 

Levie James, stonecutter, h 5 Highland ave. 

Lewis Othello W., draughtsman, h 5 Webster. 

Lillie John, stonecutter, h off Academy. 

Lindsay Johr>, (S. Barre) resident, aged 80. 

LINDSAY VERNE E., granite worker and letterer, bds. 17 E. Park. 

Lintont William, stonecutter, bds. 144 N. Main. 

LITTLEJOHN WILLIAM S, (Littlejohn & Barclay) bds. Granite. 

LITTLEJOHN & BARCLAY, (WilUam S. L. and William B.) manufs. of 
and dealers in granite monumental, cemetery and building work, for 
wholesale and retail trade. 

Lockling Dennis E., r 26^, lumper for Marr & Gordon. 

Lohr Anton M., business manager for Charles Lohr & Co. 

Lohr Charles & Co., manufs. of and dealers in dark Barre granite monumen- 
tal, cemetery and carved work, western office Eighth ave. cor. Mitchell 
St., Milwaukee, Wis. 

Long Alfred, stone mason. 

Lucia Moses, laborer, h Hill. 

Lunt John E., painter and paper hanger, h Bridge. 

Luther William, foreman weaver in Moorcroft's factory, h 112 S. Main. 

Lyford Mary V., resident, h 22 Brook. 

Macauley Jessie Miss, weaver, h 113 S. Main. 

Macchi Zaccariah, stonecutter, h Burnham's Meadow road. 

Machia Charles, laborer, h 10 Camp. 



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Mackie George C, foreman for Jones Bros., h 44 Washington. 
MAGOON GEORGE C, bds. Granite House. 

MAGOON HARVEY E., (E. Barre)r6i, 300 sugar trees, farmer 50, aged 72. 
Magoon John W., (E. Barre) r 61, owns dark granite quarry, bds. with 

Harvey E. 
Mann Abel, (Mann Brothers) bds. with George W. 
Mann Brothers, (George W. and Abel) manufs. of and dealers in Barre granite 

monumental, cemetery and building work, for wholesale and retail trade. 
MANN FRED M., stonecutter, h Park cor. Eastern ave. 
Mann George W., (Mann Brothers) h Granite. 
Mann Lucia Mrs., resides with George W. 
Manson John, stonecutter, h Main cor. Bridge. 
Marciaso Onorato, statue cutter and granite worker, h 31 High. 
Marden Channing, lumper, h Maple. 
Mariani Frank, stonecutter, h 5 Clark ave. 
Marr Charles, (Marr & Gordon) h N. Main. 
Marr Thomas, stonecutter, h Brooklyn. 
MARR & GORDON, (Charles M. and Alexander G.) props, granite quarry, 

manufs. of and dealers in all kinds of granite monumental and statuary 

work, rough and finished, wholesale and retail, shops foot of Granite. 
Marrion Ann Mrs., prop, boarding-house, 8 Pearl. 
MARRION PETER P., cigar manuf. and dealer, Miles block, N. Main, bds. 

8 Pearl. 
Marrion Peter P., h 34 Summer. 
Marrion Philip H., (E. Barre) stonecutter, h and lot. 
Marrion Thomas H., stonecutter, h oft" Academy. 
Marsh Jedediah B., r 63, dealer in hulled corn and hominy. 
Marsh Willie A., florist with William Clark. 
Marshall Alexander, stonecutter, bds. 35 High. 
Martin C. Burton, accountant, owns with J. R. Langdon granite quarry, treas. 

National Granite Co., bds. i S. Main. 
Martin Edward, r 57, 6 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 65, hauls granite from 

quarries to Barre village. 
Martin Fred, (S. Barre) dealer in flour, groceries, boots and shoes, tobacco, 

cigars, and small wares. 
Martin George H., r 49, sash and blindmaker. 
MARTIN HIRAM S., r ;^;^ cor. 49, wood dealer, 20 cows, farmer 120, h i 

S. Main. 
Martin Joseph, r 55, farmer 55, veteran of the late Rebellion. 
MARTIN OLIVER W., stonecutter, h 26^ High. 
Martin Thomas, carpenter, h 113 S. Main. 

Martin William O., jeweler with Perley Chandler, bds. 69 S. Main. 
MARVIN HORACE G., (Marvin & Wilson) rooms Courier park. 
MARVIN & WILSON, (Horace G. M., and Charles E. W., of Montpelier) 

dealers in boots, shoes and rubbers, Averill block, Main. 
Mathieson Alexander, granite polisher, h Prospect. 
Mathieson James, stonecutter, h Prospect. 
Maxfield Heman A., carpenter, h 26 S. Main. 
Maxim Andrew J., resident, h 76 S. Main. 
Maxwell Robert G., granite lumper, h Hill 
Mayo Antoine, r 61, quarryman. 
Mavo Joseph, r 61, quarryman, h and lot. 
McAuley Allen J., stonecutter, bds. Central. 



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McAuley John, r 74, quarryman. 

McBain William, granite worker, h 23 S. Main. 

McCondtah Kenneth, stonecutter, h Addison place. 

McCrillis Levi D., teamster, h 6 Maple. 

McDonald Henry, off r 74, quarryman. 

McDonald James, (Hobbs & McDonald) mechanic. 

McDonald James E., meat cutter, emp. Pitkin & Skinner, bds. 13 Brooklyn. 

McDonald JOHN, (McDonald & Buchan) h 13 Church. 

McDonald John J., stonecutter, h 4 Pearl. 

McDonald VVillia n, stonecutter, h Addison place. 

McDonald & buchan, John McD. and Alexander B.) manufs. of 

and dealers in Barre granite, carved work and drapery a specialty. 
McDonough Martin, stonecutter, h 22 Prospect. 
McFARLAND GEORGE E., r 48, prop. Barre ice route, and market 

gardener and farmer, leases of C. \V. Hall 50. 
McFee Arthur, stonecutter, h 71 Washington. 
McGettrick Patrick, laborer, h 8 Hill. 
McGinn Patrick J., stonecutter, h 8 Elmore. 
McGlynn John, stonecutter, bds. 144 N. Main. 
McKay Andrew, stonecutter, h 19 Park. 
McKay James, stonecutter, h Silver. 
McKeowia William, stonecutter, h Cottage place. 
McKinzie James, stonecutter, h 22 Prospect. 
McKinzie John R., emp. C. H. Moore & Co. 
McLard John A., stonecutter, h 10 Elmore. 
McLaughlin JOHN, r 19, 15 grade jersey cows, poultry grower, 1,200 

sugar trees, farmer 130, served in rst Vt. Cav. 
McLEAN GEORGE B., (WiUiams & McLean) h Burnham's Meadow road. 
McLEAN JOHN, foreman in J. H. Batchelder & Go's polishing works, h 26 

Granite. 
McLean Malcom, stonecutter, bds. Maple. 

McLEOD DONALD, manuf of and dealer in all kinds of granite monu- 
mental, cemetery and building work, for wholesale and retail trade, h 26 

Granite. 
McLeod John A., stonecutter, h 10 Elmore. 
McLOUD MORTLLO G., off r 1 1, 10 cows, 600 sugar trees, 200 fruit trees, 

farmer 75, enlisted as private in Co. G, 4th Vt. Vols., was promoted to 

2d lieut., and served 4 years. 
McLoud Norman O., stonecutter, h 44 High. 
McMillan Charles W., stonecutter, h 21 Academy. 
McMillan peter Rev., pastor Barre Cong, church, h Eastern ave. 
McQueeney Timothy, prop, saloon, 64 N. Main, h Thwingville. 
McWHORTER FRANK, (Frank McWhorter & Co.) h 38 N. Main. 
McWHORTER FRANK & CO., (Azro D. Morse) dealers in ready-made 

clothing, gents' furnishing goods, boots and shoes, 40 N. Main. 
MEARS FRED VV., r 16, 30 cows, 20 head young stock, 13 horses, 60 sheep, 

25 swine, 600 sugar trees, farmer, leases of his father, William, 150. 
Mears Orlana M., domestic 98 N. Main. 
MEARS WILLIAM, r 16, 10 head stock, 600 sugar trees, farmer, leases to 

his son Fred W. farm 150. 
Melcher Charles W., stonecutter, h High n cor. Summer. 
Mercer John, stonecutter, h South. 
Merchant Robert, stonecutter, h 58 S. Main. 



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Merrill P>ank E., clerk for L. M. Averill, h 60 S. Main. 

Michael Robert B., stonecutter, h i Ayer. 

Miers William, barber, h 7 Academy. 

MILES D. M. & CO., ( McMahon, of Burlington) props. Barre Globe 

department store, dealers m ready-made clothing, hats, caps, boots and 

shoes, gents' furnishings, trunks, bags, crockery, wall paper, plated and 

glassware, N. Main. 
MILES DAVID M., (D. M. Miles & Co.) (W. H. Miles & Co.) h Summer 

cor. Pleasant. 
Miles Edmond, stonecutter, h ;^^ Brooklyn. 
Miles Thomas E., (S. Barre) laborer. 
Miles W. H. & Co., (David M. Miles) dealers in groceries, crockery and 

paper hangings. Miles block. Main. 
Miles William H., (W. H. Miles & Co.) h Gospel village. 
MILLS HENRY Z., dealer in dry goods, groceries, ready-made clothing, 

crockery, glassware, lamps, gents' furnishing goods, boots and shoes, 36 

N. Main. 
Mills Timothy H., tool sharpener, h off Washington. 
MILNE ALEXANDER, (Milne & Connan) h 11 Academy. 
MILNE GEORGE, stonecutter, h 11 Park. 
MILNE GEORGE B., (Milne & Wyllie). 
Milne James K., stonecutter, h off Academy. 
Milne John, stonecutter, bds. Brooklyn. 
Milne John, stonecutter, h 15 Academy. 
Milne William, stonecutter, h Washington. 
MILNE & CONNAN, (Alexander M. and John C.) manufs. and dealers in 

Barre granite monumental, cemetery and building work, for wholesale 

and retail trade. 
MILNE & WYLLIE, (G. B. M. and W. S. W.) manufs. and dealers in all 

kinds of monumental and cemetery work, wholesale and retail. 
MINARD CHARLES B., blacksmith, horseshoer, and jobber, Burnham's 

Meadow road, h 46 Washington. 
MINARD DAVID B., foreman in fork factory, served in Co. G, 9th Vt. 

Vols., 3 years, h E. Park. 
Minard Frank G., blacksmith with C. B., bds. 46 Washington. 
Moorcroft Charles C, weaver for William, h 105 S. Main. 
Moorcroft John, wool sorter, h 119 S. Main. 
Moorcroft John W., foreman for William, h 120 S. Main. 
Moorcroft Margaret, housekeeper for John. 
MOORCROFT WILLIAM, prop. Moorcroft's woolen-mill, S. Main, h 

if8 do 
MOORE ALLEN D., (Lane & Moore) mechanic, h Central. 
Moore C. H. & Co., manufs. of and dealers in dark Barre granite, monu- 
mental, cemetery and carved work, office 14 State St., Boston. 
Moore Ransom D., (E. Barre) stonecutter. 
Moorehouse Alexander, stonecutter, h Irish town. 
Morehouse Alfred H., stonecutter, h Granite. 
Morehouse Lawson R., (S. Barre) carpenter. 
Morgan Robert, blacksmith, h off N. Main. 
Morris George, blacksmith, h Granite. 
MORRISON JOHN G., (Morrison & Fitts) (G. J. Towne & Co.) h in 

Cambridge, Mass., bds. 71 N. Main. 



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MORRISON MILES, r 29 cor. 31, 11 cor.s, 300 sheep, 600 sugar trees, 

farmer 200, and pasture land 40. 
MORRISON & FITTS, (John G. M. and Homer F.) dealers in dry and 

fancy goods, small wares, trimmings, curtains, carpets, oil cloths, ladies', 

children's and misses' shoes, Stillman Wood block, 51 N. Main. 
Morse Azro D., (Frank McWhorter & Co.) representative, granite dealer, h 

166 N. Main. 
MORSE JAMES, carriagemaker, S. Main, h 61 do. 
Morse xN'athan H., resident, aged 70, h r i 7 N. Main. 
Morse Walter F., prop, one-price boot and shoe store, 45 N. Main, h 2 N. 

Park. 
MORSE WILLIAM H., pres. National Granite Co., and general supt. of 

the works, h 12 Bridge. 
Mortimer Alexander, stonecutter, bds. 28 Granite. 
Mortimer John, stonecutter, bds. 13 Brooklyn. 

MORTIMER WILLIAM P., foreman for Charles Lohr & Co., h 28 Granite. 
Morton Alexander, stonecutter, h 25 Granite. 
Morton David, stonecutter, bds. 25 Granite. 
Moses William B., wood dealer, bds. with L. T. Kinney. 
MOWER DAVID W., owns and rents houses, h 9 S. Main. 
MOWER DENISON S,, r 51, retired farmer, h and lot. 
MOWER EZRA T., r 51, 18 cows, 1.000 sugar trees, farmer 200. 
Mudgett Fred B., stonecutter and letterer, h 15 Park. 
Mudgett Joseph G., (Mudgett & Co.) h Park. 

Mudgett & Co., (Joseph G. M. and Waverly J. Town) fish dealers, 46 Main. 
Munro Robert, stonecutter, h 12 Park. 
Murchie John W., carpenter, bds. Brooklyn. 
Murphy Joseph, foreman in Wetmore & Morse Granite Go's yards, h N. 

Main. 
Murphv Michael J., stonecutter, h Thwingville. 
MURPHY PATRICK J., (Murphy & McDonald) prop, billiard parlor, 

dealer in cigars, tobacco, etc., 105 N. Main, bds. 132 do. 
MURPHY TIMOTHY J., (Quinlen & Murphy) rooms 42 N. Main: 
MURPHY & Mcdonald, (Patrick J. M. and J. J. McD.) manufs. and 

dealers in all kinds of general granite work, monuments, headstones, 

statuary, building work, etc. 
MURRAY ALEXANDER, foreman granite polishing works, h off Ayer. 
Murray Michael, tool sharpener, h 89 Washington. 
Murray William, polisher, h Bridge. 
Murry John, stonecutter, h Hooker hill. 
Nason John, tool sharpener, h Plain. 
NATIONAL BANK OF BARRE, L. F. Aldrich, pres.; Dr. B. W. Braley, 

vice-pres.; Frank G. Howland, cashier; F. F. Cave, teller. 
NATIONAL GRANITE CO., WiUiam Morse, pres.; James S. Haley, vice- 
pres.; C. B. Martin, treas.; W. A. Strong, clerk ; manufs. and dealers in 

all kinds of Barre granite, monumental, statuary and carved work. 
NEDDO GEORGE, r 19^, farmer with John. 
NEDDO JOHN, r 19^^, 23 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, farmer 165, served 

in Co. F, 16th N.^Y. Cav. 
NEDDO WILLIAM, r 19^, farmer with John. 
Needham Daniel, (S. Barre) cooper, aged 70. 
Nelson Luther, r 20, 15 cows, 600 sugar trees, farmer, leases of Lucius 

Thurston 150. 



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Nelson Newell, drives Montpelier and Barre express team, h 12 Bridge. 

Newcomb Sumner I., teamster for H. C. Leonard, h 133 S. Main. 

Newell Residor R., (S. Barre) laborer. 

Newman Albert P., laborer, h 13 Prospect. 

Nichols Frank H., r 53, 14 cows, 10 head young cattle, 500 sugar trees, 

farmer, leases of Robert Nichols, of Perry, Iowa, 130. 
NICHOLS FRANK W., (J. G. Nichols & Son) bds. 125 N, Main. 
NICHOLS GEORGE B., physician and surgeon, head of Church, h do. 
Nichols Hannah Mrs., housekeeper for Frank H. 
NICHOLS J. G. & SON, (Frank W.) jewelers, dealers in silver and plated 

ware, watches, clocks, cutlery, eyeglasses and all kinds of sporting 

goods, 123 N. Main. 
NICHOLS JOHN G., (J. G. Nichols & Son) h 125 N. Main. 
NICHOLS JOHN W., r 55, 20 cows, 700 sugar trees, prop, of milk route 

in Barre village, farmer 150. 
Nichols Paulina A., resident, h 13 Hill. 
Nichols Thomas B., r 71 cor. 61, 18 head stock, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 

130. 
Nixon Henry L., stonecutter, h Addison place. 
Noonan John, bds. Addison place. 
Norris Charles R., r 26, 5 head cattle, farmer go. 
Norris S LaRoy, resident, h S. Main. 
NORTON EDGAR, manuf. of and dealer in Barre granite monumental and 

cemetery work, for wholesale and retail trade, h 54 Brook. 
Noyes Lewis C, r 46, farmer 10. 
Nute James R., carpenter, h 31 Maple ave. 
NYE ARTHUR W., granite worker, h 20 Hill. 
Nye Emily A. Mrs., r 51, resides with Ezra T. Mower. 
Nye Henry C, bds. Ayer cor. S. Main. 
Nye Sarah Mrs., resident, h and lot 35 Prospect. 
NYE WARREN C, r 68, overseer of the poor, 10 cows, 12 head cattle, 500 

sugar trees, farmer 177. 
Nye William W., r 70, manuf. of and dealer in Barre granite monumental 

work, h and 15 acres. 
O'BRIEN FRED, (S. Barre) foreman in J. H. Batcheider & Go's polishing- 

mill. 
O'Gorman Frank, laborer. 

O'Gorman Frank Mrs., prop, laundry, off N. Main. 
OLDS EZEKIEL P., r 56, 12 cows, breeder of Chester white swine, 350 

sugar trees, farmer 75, owns stone-shed occupied by James Smith, h and 

lot on r 56 cor. 77, and ^ of tenement house N. Main cor. Cottage. 
O'Neil Henry, stonecutter, h off Bridge. 
Orcutt Jacob, r 23, 15 cows, 20 head young cattle, 1,200 sugar trees, farmer 

153- 
Ordway Charles, stonecutter, h 18 Maple. 
O'Rourke John, stonecutter, h Burnham. 
Oswald James, stonecutter, h 39 Elm. 
Owen E. Maguire, r 75, farmer for James Gaizeley. 
Packard Adolphus, farmer, h loi N. Main. 
PACKARD J. C. Mrs , real estate owner, h loi N. Main. 
PACKER HENRY E., homeo. physician and surgeon, 11 High, h do. 
Packer Lucinda B. Mrs., resides with Dr. Henry E., 11 High. 
PAGE FRANK P., granite polisher, h Burnham's Meadow road. 



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Page J. O. Mrs., dressmaker, 76 N. Main. 
Page J. Orvis, harnessmaker, h 76 N. Main. 

PAGE JOSEPH P, veterinary surgeon and blacksmith for Smith, Whit- 
comb & Cook, h 39 Silver. 
Page Lon H., clerk, bds. Star restaurant. 
Page Mason T., clerk, h Washington. 
PAGE NAT D., r 25, breeder of and dealer in horses, 15 head, 60 head 

cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 225. 
Page Sarah H., resident, aged 76, h 75 Washington. 
Page Will S., resides over Star restaurant, N. Main. 
Paine Albert, r 7c, 15 cows, 16 head young stock, 500 sugar trees, farmer 

about 230. 
Paine John, resident, h 98 N. Main. 
Paine Nathan R., r 22, carpenter and farmer 5. 
Paine Sydney C, r 22, farmer. 
Paine Warren, r 70, resident, aged 85, 
Pariezo Peter (S. Barre) quarryman. 

PARK JOHN, chief of "Clan Gordon," granite worker, h Addison place. 
Parker Elizabeth Mrs., (S. Barre) resident, aged 85. 
Parker Judson T., stonecutter, h 23 Kill. 
Parker Taylor O., street commissioner, h i Ayer. 
PARKER WALLACE G., retired granite dealer, owns 55 acres of land 

suitable for home lots, builds and rents houses, and dealer in real estate, 

h N. Main cor. Seminary. 
PARKHURST ALFRED S., r 44 cor. 38, 10 cows, 150 sheep, 1,000 sugar 

trees, farmer 159, in Orange, Orange Co., pasture land 40, served in Co. 

B, loth Vt. Vols., i^ years, and in U. S. Navy r year. 
Parkhurst Arthur E., laborer, h 50 Brook. 
PARKHURST HORATIO N., quarryman, owns dark granite quarry, 15 

acres, h Meadow. 
Parmenter Fred E , stonecutter, h Academy. 
Paterson Catherine, resident, h 10 Prospect. 
Paterson Murdock, stonecutter, h 10 Prospect. 
PATTERSON AI, (S. Barre) carpenter. 

Patterson Elizabeth A. Mrs., resident, real estate owner, h Brooklyn. 
Patterson Harriet T., widow of R. E., resident, h Washington. 
Patterson Harry C , farmer on the R. E. Patterson estate, h 100 Washington. 
Patterson John D., carpenter, h off Summer. 
Patterson Merrill, r 58, carpenter and farmer. 

Patterson Phineas C, (S. Barre) retired carpenter and builder, aged 80. 
PAYNE J. WARREN, r 23, breeder of full blood and grade Devon cattle, 

reg., 10 cows, 50 sheep, 300 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Peabody William E., r 73, 8 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 106, resident, h 

off Washington. 
Peak George, off r 22, 7 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer, leases of S. & C. 

Martin, of Williamstown, Orange Co. 
Parsons .Mmon A., clerk for L. M. Averill, 30 N. Main. 
PECK AUSTIN, r 28, 20 cows, 600 sugar trees, farmer 200, aged 71. 
Peck Leslie F., painter and paper hanger, h 315 Elm. 
PECK MARTHA F., r 28, resides with Austin. 
PECK OTIS A., r 28, farmer with Austin. 
Peck Zebitha, r 28, housekeeper for Austin. 
Penniman Ann E., housekeeper for Frederick. 



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Penniman Frederick, retired farmer, owns pasture land 75, aged 78, h 65 S. 

Main. 
Perkins Sarah A. Mrs., resident, aged 70, h Washington. 
Perley Heber S., carpenter, h 12 Elm. 
Perrin Charles E.,r 30, farmer with Clark D. 
Perrin Clark D., r3o, 12 cows, 8 head other stock, 300 sugar trees, farmer 

100. 
Perrin Cornelius, r 23, 16 cows, 24 head young cattle, 350 sugar trees, farmer 

on the Penniman farm 105, and owns farm 20 on r 10. 
PERRIN FRED E., r34, 9 cows, 8 head young stock, 600 sugar trees, 

farmer 70. 
PERRIN GEORGE W.,'r 10, 7 cows, farmer 30. 
Perrin Roswell L., r 30, farm laborer. 
Perrin William, off r 72, resides with C. F. Durrell. 
PERRY JAMES M., (Perry & Camp) chairman board of village bailiff's, h 

23 Elm. 
Perry Sylvester E , laborer, h Brooklyn. 

PERRY WILLIAM A., town treas. and clerk, rear of postofiice, h Wash- 
ington. 
PERRY & CAMP, (James M. P. and Philo G. C.) dealers in dry goods, 

groceries, crockery, glassware, lamps, trunks, boots and shoes, carpets, 

wall paper and curtam fixtures, 61 N. Main. 
Persons Charles D., r 11, 10 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 115. 
Perus Napoleon, barber. Granite, h do. 
Peters Alexander, stonecutter, h 36 High. 
Pettengill Lewis, (E. Barre) r 69, farmer 70, aged 70. 
Phelps Brothers, (Nelson D. and Henry A.) dealers in hardware, stoves, 

ranges, tinware, lamps, lead and iron pipe fittings, and plumbers, 69 N. 

Main. 
Phelps Byron W., granite polisher, h 71 S. Main. 
Phelps Christopher C, r 38, 10 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, farmer 115, and 

on r 66 pasture land 50, aged 84. 
Phelps Henry A., (Phelps Brothers) h cor. Washington and Park. 
PHELPS J. WALTER, r 46, prop, saw and planing-mill, does custom work, 

owns in Orange, Orange Co , timberland 85. 
Phelps Nelson D., (Phelps Brothers) h Elm. 
Phelps Tilpha B. D. Mrs., resident, h Washington. 
Phillips Nelson L., dealer in musical instruments, h 76 N. Main. 
Phillips William E., photographer, and finisher in fork factory, bds. 76 N. 

Main. 
Philip George R., stonecutter. 
Pierce Harry B., (S. Barre) resident, aged 71. 
Pierce Levi L., painter and granite polisher, h Central place. 
Pike Daniel P., r 70, painter and farmer, lives with Albert Paine. 
Plunkett John E., granite polisher, h Thwingville. 
Poole Edward C, mechanic in fork factory, h Hill. 
Poor Julius L. , off r 47, 10 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer on farm 

owned by Mrs. Mabel A. Smith, of Montpelier, 100. 
Poor Wallace E., off" r 47, farmer with Julius L. 
Porter George H., (S. Barre) granite polisher. 
Pratt Henry H., off r g, 30 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 220. 
Prescott Alden E., farm laborer, h 18 High. 
Pressly John, stonecutter, h Brooklyn. 



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PRIOR PHILIP S., miller for Smith, Whitcomb & Cook, owns 3 dwellings, 

h 226 N. Main. 
QUIGLEY GEORGE F., granite cutter, h 62 S. Main. 
Quillinan Edward W., stone mason, h 10 Camp. 
QUI MB Y HENRY J., prop, livery, feed, boarding and sale stable, opp. 

C. V. passenger station, bds. Central House. 
Quimby William D., manager livery stable for Henry J., bds. Central House. 
Quinlen Thomas, granite worker, bds. Park House. 
QUINLEN WILLIAM C, (Quinlen & Murphy) h 42 N. Main. 
QUINLEN & MURPHY, (William C. Q. and Timothy J. M.) manufs. of 

and dealers in Barre granite monuments, statuary and cemetery work, 

wholesale and retail, S. Main. 
Quinn William, stonecutter, h Bridge. 
Raymo George S., polisher, h Hill. 
Reaside Robert H., stonecutter, h off Ayer. 
Reaside William, laborer, h 17 Ayer. 
Recor Henry H., laborer, h Brooklyn. 
Recor Isaac, (S. Barre) granite polisher. 
Recor William J., laborer, h Washington ave. 
REED ALBERT C, r 38, 9 cows^ 115 sheep, 5 horses, breeder of and 

dealer in poultry, 350 sugar trees, farmer 140. 
Reed Charles Q., r 36, 7 cows, 50 fruit trees, farmer 40. 
REED ORAMEL H., dentist, over National Bank of Barre, h 27 Elm. 
Reid William D., M. D., alio, physician, 18 S. Main, h do. 
Reynolds George J., (George J. Reynolds & Co.) h S. Main. 
Reynolds George J. & Co., (George VV. Tilden) dealers in hardware, stoves, 

tinware, iron, steel, wooden and glassware, paints and oils, 68, 70 and 

72 N. Nain. 
Rhoads J. Frank, pastor Universalist church, bds. i S. Main. 
Rice Eli T., tailor, 80 N. Main. 

RICH ALBERT C, letterer and stonecutter, h 46 High. 
Rich Clarence L., r 70, blacksmith and tool sharpener. 
Richardson Achsah Mrs., resident, aged 90, h 9 S. Main. 
Richardson George, r 7, 10 grade Jersey cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 80. 
Richardson Samuel, resident, aged 82, h and 2 acres 53 Washington. 
RICHARDSON WARREN F., 25 Durham cows, 800 sugar trees, farmer 

90, prop, of milk route, leases of Samuel farm 95 on r 7, served in Co. 

D, 15th Vt. Vols., h Camp cor. Hill. 
Ricker Fred B., (S. Barre) r 56, blacksmith. 
Riley Martin, carpenter, h Bridge. 

Robarge Lewis F., clerk for D. M. Miles & Co., bds. Central House. 
Roberts Ned J., printer, bds. 10 Eastern ave. 
Robertson Alexander S , stonecutter, h Bridge. 
Robie Charles C, clerk, h 51 Washington. 

Robie Reuben, r 37, 10 head cattle, 100 sheep, 300 sugar trees, farmer 190. 
Robillard Adolphe, granite worker, h Granite. 
Robinson Aurora S., dressmaker, bds. 64 S. Main. 
Robinson Benjamin F., r 46, laborer. 
Robinson Erwin C, r 46, stonecutter. 
ROBINSON GEORGE W., stonecutter, h 8 Hill. 
ROBINSON JUSTUS S., (S. Barre) r 49, manuf. of doors, sash and blinds, 

house finisher, dealer in hard and soft wood lumber, shop off r 48. 



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ROLLINS J. EDWARD, r 66, 5 head stock, 300 sugar trees, farmer 75, 

served in Co. A, 15th Vt. Vols. 
Rooney Frank X., clerk for W. H. Miles & Co., bds. Central House. 
Ross Alexander, granite polisher, bds. 45 S. Main. 
Rouelle Charles H., granite polisher, h S. Main. 

RUGG HERBERT A., licensed auctioneer and prop. Hotel Birre, Wash- 
ington. 
Rumrill Charles B., tool grinder, h Prospect. 
Ruxton George, stonecutter, h 100 Washington. 
Rydberg Charles J. A., stonecutter, h Burnham's Meadow road. 
Salter David N., (S. Barre) broommaker and farmer 3. 
Samson Edwin L., stonecutter, h 7 Clark ave. 

Sanborn William D., farmer, leases of Mrs. Laura Hillery 6. h 127 S. Main. 
Sargent Fred L., r 63, carpenter. 
Saultes William, granite polisher, h Middle. 
Saunders Samuel, stonecutter, h 9 Church. 

Scott Fred M., upholsterer for O. C. Sheplee, bds. r86 N. Main. 
Scott Lizzie Mrs., prop, boarding-house, 45 S. Main. 
SCOTT LUCIUS W., contractor and builder, owns 5 acres of land at S. 

Barre, h 186 N. Main. 
Scott William, stonecutter, h N. Main. 
SCOTT WILLIAM F., prop., editor and publisher of The Barre Enterprise, 

h 12 Elm. 
Shattuck Leonard W., clerk at the Park House. 
Shaw John H., stonecutter, h 32 High. 

SHEPARD, A. CLARK, r 76, 6 cows, breeder of horses and Chester white 
swine, 400 fruit trees, owns 3 tenement houses, farmer 55, in Williams- 
town, Orange Co., pasture and woodland 47. 
Shepard Harriet, r 76, widow of Simeon, resides with her son A. Clark, aged 74. 
Shepard Ida S., (.Mrs. W. F.) (Mrs. W. F. Shepard & Co.) h at Mill Stone 

hill, rooms at store. 
Shepard W. F. Mrs. & Co., (Ida S. S. and Mrs. Laura L. Greene) milliners, 

Averill block, Main. 
SHEPARD WILBUR, r 74^, prop, boarding-house and livery stable, owns 

stock horse " Western Boy" and farm 130 on r 76. 
SHEPLEE OLIVER C, dealer in furniture, oil cloths, wall paper, curtains, 
picture frames, paints and oils, undertaker and upholsterer, 107 N. ' 
Main, h 149 do. 
SHERBURNE FRED W., prop. Sherburne's photograph gallery, over 

National Bank of Barre, h 31 Elm. 
SHERBURNE HERMAN K , book-keeper and salesman for L. M. Averill, 

h 36 Elm. 
Shores George, (S. Birre) laborer, h Main. 
Shurtleff Otis D., dealer in boots and shoes, 57 N. Main, h do. 
Simons Charles, prop, boarding-house. Pleasant cor. Summer. 
Simons Orrin, mechanic, h Highland ave. 
Simpson James C. stonecutter, h t^t, High. 
Simpson Josiah, granite polisher, h off S. Main. 
Slayton Alonzo C, auctioneer, h 1 1 S. Main. 

SLAYTON FRED A , prop, livery, feed and sale stable, S. Main, h 13 do. 
SLAYTON HERBERT J., (S. Barre) prop, hvery, feed and exchange stable. 
Smalley Philena D., widow of Julius, h 172 N. Main. 
Smith Arthur J., laborer, bds. Elm. 



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SMITH CHARLES A., druggist, dealer in school and miscellaneous books, 

fancy goods, etc., 44 N. Main, h 4 Eastern ave. 
Smith Charles E., r 46, granite worker. 

Smith D. Webster, r 39, 75 sheep, 400 sugar trees, farmer 132. 
Smith Dana, laborer, h Irish town. 
Smith David, r 39 opp. 41, 10 cows, 2,000 sugar trees, farmer 115; farm has 

been in the Smith family over 100 years. 
Smith Donald, (E. L. Smith '& Co.) (H. J. Smith & Co.) foreman of quarry, 

bds. with Wilbur Shepard. 
SMITH E. L. & CO., (John E. Smith and Donald Smith) manufs. of and 

dealers in Barre granite, monumental, cemetery and statuary work, rough 

and finished, for wholesale and retail trade. 
SMITH EDWIN F.. (Smith & Hopkins) h 14 Maple. 
SMITH EMORY L', (E. L. Smith & Co.) served in Co. G, 6th Vt. Vols., 3 

years, h 14 Maple. 
Smith Fidelia B., widow of Arad T., h 154 N. Main. 
SMITH GEORGE W., (S. Barre) farmer 10, off r 11 pasture land 40, 

served in Co. G, 8th Vt. Vols. 
SMITH H. J. & CO., (Donald Smith) props, meat market, 63 N. Main. 
SMITH HENRY J., (H. J. Smith & Co.) h cor. Granite and Main. 
SMITH HENRY L., r 60 n 59, prop, meat market and boarding-house, 

10 head stock, farmer, leases of J. R. Langdon, of Montpelier. 
Smith James J., (S. Barre) r 56, manuf. of and dealer in granite monumental 

work. 
SMITH JAMES M., (Smith, Whitcomb & Cook) farmer 75. 
Smith Jefferson, r 46|-, resident, aged 77, h and 2 acres. 
SMITH JOHN E., manuf. of and dealer in Barre granite, monumental, 

cemetery and building work, h Park. 
SMITH JOHN E., (E. L. Smith & Co.) foreman of cutting works, h Cur- 
rier park. 
SMITH LUCINA E. Mrs., resident, h 35 Elm. 
Smith Oscar, r 71 cor. 69, quarryman, h and 2 acres. 
Smith Walter A., r 47, teamster, and farmer 70. 

SMITH, WHITCOMB & COOK, (James M. S., William E. W. and Benja- 
min B. C.) props. Barre iron works. 
Smith William, r 44. resident, h and lot. 
SMITH & HOPKINS, (Edwin F. S. and Frank H. H.) manufs. of and 

dealers in Barre granite, monumental, cemetery and building work, for 

wholesale and retail trade. 
Snow Frank, stonecutter, h 15 Silver. 
Snow Frank S., stonecutter, h 13 Silver. 
Snow Margaret A. Mrs., resides with J. A. Whitcomb. 
Snow Theodore S., granite worker, h 79 VVashington. 
Somerville John A., laborer, bds. 125 S. Main. 

So-nerville Will J., carpenter and steel poHsher in fork factory, h 125 S. Main. 
Soules Wilder H., laborer, h Irish town. 
Sowles Dodge W., r 5, 300 sugar trees, farmer 45. 
SOWLES HORACE W., r 10, resides with John J. 
Sowles John J., r to, molder, 10 cows, 800 sugar trees, farmer 70. 
Spauldir.g Lucius W., r 63, prop. Barre Spring House. 
SPEAR WILBERT M., (S. Barre) r 56, carpenter. 
Spence John, stonecutter, bds. 13 Brooklyn. 
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Sprague John V., att'y and counselor at law, insurance agent, negotiator of 

mortgages and loans, h Bridge. 
Springer William B., r 34, granite polisher. 
St. Clair John, (S. Barre) quarryman. 
St. John Nicholas, teamster, h N. Main. 
Stacy Joseph, r 61, quarryman. 
Stafford Albert M., rooms High. 
STAFFORD FRED W., (Staffords & Batchelder) foreman of column cutting 

works, h 9 Prospect. 
STAFFORD WILLIAM L., (Staffords & Batchelder) h Maple ave. 
STAFFORDS & BATCHELDER, (W. L. S., F. W. S. and E. F. B.) props. 

granite column cutting works. 
STAFFORD & HOLDEN MFG. CO., O. J. Howes, pres.; B. W. Braley, 

treas.; Clark Holden, sec'y, manufs. of and dealers in all kinds of manure 

and hay forks, garden rakes and hoes, 31 S. Main. 
STAR RESTAURANT, H. J. Colby, prop., confectionery, cigars, tobacco 

and shelf groceries, opp. passenger station, N. Main. 
Starr John K., bds. 8 Ayer. 

STEVENS CHARLES F., prop, billiard hall, 59 N. Main, h 2 Highland ave. 
Stevens Elizabeth, resides with J. C. Simpson. 

STEVENS ELVIRA B., (Mrs. Charles F.) dressmaker, h 2 Highland ave. 
Stevens Lillian C, (Misses Stevens) 30 N. Main. 
Stevens Misses, (Nella E. and Lillian C.) dressmakers, 30 N. Main. 
Stevens Nella E., (Misses Stevens) 30 N. Main. 
Stevenson James, stonecutter, h 47 Brooklyn. 
STEWART STEPHEN G., granite polisher, served 3 years in Co. B, loth 

Vt. Vols., h 156 N. Main. 
Stowe Martha Mrs., resident, h 34 S. Mam. 
Stowe Theodore, tool sharpener, h N. Main. 
STOWE W. L., granite worker, 186 N. Main- 
Straw Charles, painter, rooms 51 S. Main. 
Strong AUce I., resident, h Summer. 
Strong Wayland A., tool sharpener, h Summer. 
Stuart George H., granite worker, h 20 Hill. 
Suitor Robert S., stonecutter, h Washington. 
Sulham Frank L., granite polisher, h 21 Ayer. 
SuUivan Daniel, stonecutter, bds. Maple. 
Sullivan Eugene, stonecutter, h 41 Summer. 
Sullivan John E., manuf. of and dealer in Barre granite monumental and 

cemetery work, for wholesale and retail trade, h 3 Church. 
SUTHERLAND ALFRED C, granite worker, bds. 13 Branch. 
Sutherland Catherine Mrs., prop, boarding-house, 13 Branch. 
Sutherland Florence M.. bds. with Mrs. Catherine, 13 Branch. 
SUTHERLAND GOODWIN, granite polisher, bds. 13 Branch. 
Sutherland Peter, stonecutter, h 3 Brooklyn. 
SUTHERLAND WALTER E., granite worker, bds. 13 Branch. 
Sweeney Daniel E., stonecutter, h 12 Prospect. 
Swift Erdix T., r 61, quarryman. 
Symonds Thomas, engineer, h ;^^ Brooklyn. 
Taber John, lumper, h off S. Main. 
Taft Elbridge A., laborer, h Thwing. 
Taft Elmer D., r 2^, ice dealer, 10 cows, 5 head young stock, 300 sugar trees, 

farmer in. 



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Taft John N., ofif r i8, 400 sugar trees, farmer 400. 

TAFT JOSEPH M., clerk, h 117 N. Main. 

Taft Lyman A., chair seater, janitor M. E. church, h 88 Washington. 

Taplin Ann S., (Mrs. M. J.) prop, boarding-house, 144 N. Main. 

TapUn Mansfield J., miller, owns farm and grist-mill in Corinth, Orange Co., 

h 144 N. Main. 
Taplin Mary M., resides 144 N. Main. 
Taylor Jacob B., r 29, 600 sugar trees, farmer 57. 
Tebo Charles, (S. Barre) quarryman. 

Telephone Exchange, Perley Chandler, manager, 73 N. Main. 
TEMPLETON C^HARLES, vice-pres. Ausable Granite Co., Keeseville, 

N. Y., director National Bank of Barre, ex-commissioner of Goddard 
seminary, owner of and dealer in real estate, h 160 N. Main. 
Templeton Fred O., r 21, 20 cows, 10 head other stock, 1,500 sugar trees, 

farmer, leases of Orange Fifield, of MontpeUer, 340. 
Templeton Jennie L., resident, 160 N. Main. 
Templeton Mary E., resident, 160 N. Main. 
Templeton Norman A., r 21, farmer with Fred O. 
Thayer Edwin H., laborer, h 10 Prospect. 
Thayer Hiram, tool sharpener, bds. 10 Prospect. 
Thom J. Claik, stonecutter, h 15 Academy. 

THOMPSON DIANA S., widow of O. H., resident, h rear Central House. 
THOMPSON PERSIS A., teacher of English branches in Goddard seminary, 

residence do. 
Thompson Phineas, r 57, 8 cows, farmer go, aged 79. 
Thompson Samuel, (S. Barre) r 54, farmer 9. 
Thurston Albert R., millwright, h 35 Silver. 
Thurston Almond R., mechanic, h 35 Silver. 
Thurston Lucius H., r 20, 15 cows, 700 sugar trees, farmer 150, leases h on 

Brook St., served in Co. D, 15th Vt. Vols. 
THURSTON Wn.SON, r 19, 10 cows, 10 head other stock, 800 sugar trees, 

farmer 100. 
THWING ALBERT VV., driver of village express and job team, h 232 N. 

Main. 
THWING CLINTON E., granite worker, bds. 41 Silver. 
THWING HEBER J., granite worker, h High. 
Thwing James, cooper, aged 72, h 41 Silver. 
Tierny Michael J., painter, h 41 Summer. 
Tierny Patrick, stonecutter, h South. 
TILDEN BLANCH J., resident, 273 N. Main. 
TILDEN DENNIS, owns with Webber 35 acres of land and other real estate, 

h 117 S. Main. 
Tilden Ella C, resides with her father, Webber, 117 S. Main. 
TILDEN GEORGE W., (George J. Reynolds & Co. ) secy and trustee 

Goddard seminary, h 164 N. Main. 
TILDEN MARIAH C, widow of Judge Harvey, farm 22, pasturage 20, 

and lot in village, h 273 N. Main. 
TILDEN WEBBER, owns with Dennis 35 acres of land and other real 

estate, aged 84, h 1 1 7 S. Main. [Died Aug. 2, 1888.] 
Tilestoii Charles K., granite worker and letterer, h 171 N. Main. 
Town Hattie S. Miss, teacher, bds. 59 S. Main. 
TOWN JUDE, off r 31, breeder of Chester white swine, 18 grade Jersey 

cows, 65 sheep, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 160, and in Berlin timber and 

pasture land 85. 



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TOWN WAVERLY J., (Mudgett & Co.) h Church. 

TOWNE G. J. & CO., (John G. Morrison) dealers in groceries, crockery, 

flour, etc., 8 N. Main. 
TOWNE GEORGE J., (G. J. Towne & Co.) bds, 30 N. Main. 
Towne Merton L., clerk, bds. 30 N. Main. 
TOWNE OEL M., r 261 retired mason, h and lot, served in Co. B, loth Vt. 

Vols., 3 years, aged 73. 
TRACY ELMER L., prop, village e.xpress, bds with Eugene O. 
Tracy Eugene O., baggage master C. V. R. R., h Summer. 
Troup George, stonecutter, h Granite. 
Troup John, stonecutter, h Bridge. 
Trow Almaria Mrs., resides with John. 
TROW DEXTER, r 36, 8 head cattle, 60 sheep, 1,500 sugar trees, farmer 

100. 
TROW EDGAR M., r 24, 12 cows, 200 sugar trees, farmer 65. 
Trow John, r 45 cor. 23, pres. Granite Savings Bank and Trust Co., breeder 

of Hambletonian horses, and dealer in western horses, 8 cows, 40 head 

cattle, 600 sugar trees, farmer 246, and in Plainfield 250. 
Turner Benjamin B., stonecutter, h 13 Silver. 
Underwood Robert C, laborer, bds. 13 Prospect. 
Upton Henry, (S. Barre) farmer 15, aged 71. 
Varney Charles C, cabinetmaker, h 187 N. Main. 
VAUGHN RANSOM B., director National Granite Co. and tool sharpener^ 

h 12 Hooker. 
Veale Uriah, stonecutter, h 215 N. Main. 
VERMONT GRANITE COMPANY, S. C. White, pres.; A. E. Bruce, vice- 

pres.; H. K. Bush, sec'y; manufs. of all kinds of rough, dressed and 

polished granite monumental and statuary work, wholesale and retail, 

opp. C. V. R. R. passenger station. 
VINCENT JOSIE E. Mrs., prop, boarding-house, Summer. 
Wales Aaron K., (S. Barre) r 56, retired fatm.er, h and 2 acres, aged 75. 
Wales George A., r 32, 15 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 145. 
Wales Irving O., granite worker, bds. 14 Maple. 
Walker George, stonecutter, h N. Main. 
Walker John, stonecutter, h N. Main. 
Walker John N , express and job teamster, h 1 1 Webster. 
Walker Otis F., wheelwright, h 13 Ayer. 
Wallace [ohn S., stonecutter, h 13 Brooklyn. 
Walsh William, blacksmith, horseshoer and jobber, 202 N. Main, h 19 

Brook. 
WARD JAMES M., r 54, 20 full blood and grade Jersey cows, 12 head 

young cattle, 400 sugar trees, breeder of Chester white swine and bronze 

turkeys, farmer 150, and in Montpelier 18. 
Ward Joseph H., railroad contractor, bds. 20 Bridge. 
Wark Joseph, stonecutter, h 19 Brooklyn. 
Warley John, stonecutter, h 195 N. Main. 
Warley Sarah, prop, boarding-house, 215 N. Main. 
WARLEY WILLIAM M., manuf. of and dealer in statuary and all kinds of 

Barre granite monuments and cemetery work, wholesale and retail, h, 

Summer. 
Warner John, (S. Barre) farmer 34. 
Warrander George D., stonecutter, h Granite. 
Warren W. Walter, laborer, h 54 S. Main. 



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Washburn Leroy, painter, emp. O. W. Averill. 

Waterman B. Frank, off r 71, 13 cows. 300 sugar trees, farmer 160. 

Waterman Charles, r 46, aged 78, resides with L. C. Noyes. 

Waterman Charlie VV. , farmer with George W. 

Waternian Diadama Mrs., (S. Barre) r 77, owns h and 10 acres. 

Waterman George W., r 69, 6 cows, 12 Cotswold sheep, farmer 100. 

Waterman Sarah Mrs., (S. Barre) r 77, resident. 

Waterman Oscar N., r 72, 13 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 200. 

Waterman Sarah Mrs., resident, aged 70, h 61 S. Main. 

Waters Clark, r 49 cor. ^;^, laborer, aged 74. 

WATERS FREDERICK, carpenter, h 80 S. Main. 

Waters Nettie E., housekeeper for Clark. 

Watson Levi W., prop. Barre steam laundry, 7 and 9 Central place, h 8 do. 

Watson Loring, r 28, 6 cows, farmer 40, and owns 75 acres on r 30. 

Watson Nettie C, professional nurse, bds. 3 Highland ave. 

Webster Asenath Mrs., resides with A. D. Moore, Central. 

Webster Hamilton, quarryman, owns and rents houses, h 5 S. Main. 

Welch David T., stonecutter, Granite. 

WELLS BURT H., tool sharpener for Wells, Lamson & Co., h 30 High. 

Wells Joseph, laborer, h 50 Brook. 

WELLS, LAMSON & CO., (Sydney O. W. and George L.) manufs. of 

monuments, statuary and vases, for the wholesale and retail trade, office 

Depot square. 
WELLS SYDNEY O., (Wells, Lamson & Co.) h 34 High. 
West Ebenezer, farmer, aged 71, h 223 N. Main. 
West Katie E., clerk in pos'.office, bds. 10 S. Main. 
West Mary ]., teacher, bds. 223 N. Main. 
WETMORE & MORSE GRANITE CO., THE, H. H. Wetmore, pres.; 

A. E. Weeks, sec'y, quarry, manufs. and dealers in dark and light Barre 

granite monumental and statuary work, foot of Middle, main office 722 

Opera House building, Chicago, 111. 
Wheatley William K., clerk for J. B. Chamberlin, h 18 Prospect. 
Wheaton Charles, r 45 cor. 64, 9 cows, 200 sugar trees, farmer 94. 
WHEATON CLARENCE A., h 4 Ayer. 
WHEATON E. & SON, r 39, (George E. C.) 15 cows, to head young cattle, 

10 horses, 2,000 sugar trees, farmers 200, woodland 36, on r 42 pasture 

land 50, in Orange, Orange Co., wood and pasture land 100. 
Wheaton Eliza Mrs., resides with Pliny O., owns h and lot Church. 
Wheaton Emma E., r 52, resides with her father, John. 
WHE.ArON ERASTUS, r 39, (E. Wheaton & Son) farmer. 
WHEATON GEORGE E. C, r 39, (E. Wheaton cS.- Son) farmer. 
WHE.\TON JOHN, r 52, 30 full blood and grade Jersey cows, 15 head 

young cattle, breeder of pure blood Yorkshire swine, 55 head, 2,000 

sugar trees, farmer 315. 
WHEATON PLINY O., r 45, manuf. of and dealer in granite building and 

cemetery work, 8 cows, 50 sheep, 600 sugar trees, farmer 170, and 

pasture land in Orange, Orange Co., 135. 
Wheeler .Abraham M., Methodist clergyman, h 17 E. Park. 
WHEELER ADELINE, r 6r, resident, aged 72. 
Wheeler Cnarles L., dentist with J. C. Briggs, h xi Branch. 
WHEELER ELWYN M., (Wheeler & Ketchum) bds. E. Park. 
Wheeler George D., (Hubbard <k Wheeler) h 55 S. Main. 
Wheeler Georj;e E., stonecutter, bds. 17 Branch. 



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WHEELER GEORGE S., (George S. & Henry P. Wheeler) r 61, farmer. 
WHEELER GEORGE S. & HENRY P., r 61, 15 head cattle, 8 horses, 

500 sugar trees, farmers 130, props, granite quarry. 
Wheeler Harry M., teamster, h off Ayer. 

WHEELER HENRY P., (George S. & Henry P. Wheeler) r 61, farmer. 
Wheeler Mary Ann, r 61, resides with William B. Cheney, aged 77. 
Wheeler Silvia Miss, domestic 29 Silver. 
Wheeler & Ketchum, (Elwyn M. W. and E. N. K.) dealers in groceries, flour, 

etc., Stillman Wood block, 47 N. Main. 
WHEELOCK ALBERT A., telegraph operator at railroad station. ■ 
Wheelock Anette G. Mrs., resident, 95 N. Main. 
Wheelock Carrie M., principal Kindergarten school, 95 N. Main. 
WHEELOCK D. BROOKS, r 50, land surveyor. 12 grade Jersey cows, 200 

sugar trees, farmer 80. 
WHITCOMB FRIEND N., (L. W. Whitcomb & Son) engineer, h N. Main. 
Whitcomb Harry W., foreman fur L. W. Whitcomb & Son. 
WHITCOMB JAMES A., pattermaker for Smith, Whitcomb & Cook, h 172 

N. Main. 
WHITCOMB L. W. & SON, (Friend N.) granite polishers. 
WHITCOMB LYMAN W., (L. W. Whitcomb & Son) millwright and farmer 

18, h Thwingville, N. Main cor. Brook. 
WHITCOMB wIlLIAM A., real estate owner, bds. 78 Washington. 
WHITCOMB WILLIAM E., (Smith, Whitcomb & Cook) h 78 Washington. 
White David E., r 7, farmer for W. F. Richardson. 
White George F., (Vermont Granite Co.) bds. 143 N. Main; residence in 

Rutland, Vt. 
White Lovina Mrs., resident, aged 80, h 33 Silver. 
White Stillman C, (Vermont Granite Co.) bds. 143 N. Main. 
Whitehead Andrew, stonecutter, h 43 Elm. 
Whiting Curtis B., mason, h Burnham's Meadow road. 
Whitney Byron W., (Eastman & Whitney) h 17 Park. 
Whitney Cyrus, (E. Barre) r 66. farmer, h and 3 acres. 
Whittier Nat, accountant, h 3 E. Park. 
Wiley Albert B., painter and paper hanger, bds. Bridge. 
Wilfore Theodore, r 77 cor. 76, 10 cows, 600 sugar trees, farmer, leases of 

Mrs. J. H. Woodburv, of Berlin. 
WILKINSON EDWIN A., manuf. of and dealer in all kinds of Barre granite 

monumental and cemetery work, for wholesale and retail trade, S. Main, 

h do. 
Willard C. Fred, mechanic, h 53 Washington. 

WILLARD EBENEZER F., r 3, 18 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 140. 
Willard George C, r 3, farmer with E. F. 
WILLEY BENJAMIN P., mechanic and farmer, served in Co. D, 2d Vt. 

Vols., 3 years, h 138 S. Main. 
Willey Eugene V., r 74, manager of J. B. Chandler's branch store. 
WILLEY LAFAYETTE F., r 26, 12 cows, 6 head young cattle, 400 sugar 

trees, farmer, leases of Mrs. Philena Davis, of Lebanon, N. H., about 100. 
WILLEY LEONARD E., carpenter, h i Highland ave. 
Willey Lucy Mrs., resides with Benjamin P., 138 S. Main. 
WILLIAMS THOMAS, (Herlihy & Williams) (Williams & McLean) b 

Granite. 
Williams & McLean, (Thomas W. and George B. McL.) granite polishers. 
Willis Byron S., tool sharpener, h 96 Washington. 



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39 



Willis Edward W., tool sharpener, h Hill. 

Willis Lucelia Mrs., nurse, bds. with Nathan Carr. 

WILLSON THOMAS, r 70 cor. 6r, resides with Lewis Keith, aged 78. 

AVilson J. Newton, r 61, 12 cows, 50 sheep, 400 sugar trees, farmer 250. 

Wilson James, stonecutter, bds. 42 High. 

Wilson John, stonecutter, h Brooklyn. 

WILSON MIRANDA, widow of Nathaniel, h 81 S. Mam. 

Wilson William H., granite worker, h 56 Granite. 

WINCH C. MAYNARD, r 45, breeder of Hambletonian and Lambert 

horses, selectman, 5 cows, farmer 50, and on r 69 wood and pasture 

land 90. 
Wishart Thomas, stonecutter, h 9 Washington. 
Witham George H., r 76, 10 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer, leases of Wilbur 

Shepard 130. 
Wolcott Charles, (E. Barre) r 64, farmer. 
Wolcott Elias H., (E. Barre) r 65, breeder of sheep, 2,000 sugar trees,, 

farmer 100. 
Wood Albert P., r 28, foreman polisher for L. W. Whitcomb & Son. 
Wood Benjamin O.. r 28, 8 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 50. aged 70. 
Wood Duane L., r 31, 20 head stock, farmer with Luther P. 
Wood Elijah B., retired farmer, bds. Main cor. Middle. 
Wood Ezekiel H., r 28^, resides with H. N. Bailey, aged 81. 
WOOD ISRAEL, r 17, 9 cows, 45 head other cattle, 30 Chester white and 

Poland swine, 600 sugar trees, farmer 150, and in Marshfield pasture 

land 100. 
Wood Jerry, granite polisher, h Brook. 
Wood Lucy Mrs,, resident, aged 102, 4 Hill. 

Wood Luther P., r 31, 10 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 107, aged 70. 
Wood Sarah M., widow of Stillman, resident, h 51 Washington. 
Wood Sophia M., housekeeper for Mrs. Lucy, 4 Hill. 
Woodbury Fred L., (Lawrence «& Woodbury) bds. Park House. 
Woodward Harvey P., granite polisher, bds. 134 S. Main. 
Woodward Horace F., r 61, quarryman and prop, boarding-house, h and lot. 
Woodward Justm P., r 74, prop, boarding-house. 
Woodward Mary A. Mrs., (S. Barre) housekeeper for Henry Upton. 
Worthen Harvey L., teamster for L. T. Kinney, bds. Kinney. 
WORTHEN HIRAM O., vice-pres. Granite Savings Bank and Trust Co., 

physician and surgeon, 87 N. Main, h do. 
Worthen Ida E. Mrs., resident, h 92 Washington. 
WORTHEN LINUS L., r 43, 15 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 225. 
Wright William E., granite worker, h Thwingville. 
Wyllie George, stonecutter, Irish town. 
WYLLIE WILLIAM S., (Milne & Wyllie) h Currier park. 
Y. M. C. A. Reading Room, Alex. Buchan, pres.j Charles A. Smith, sec'y;, 

T. C. Schutt, general sec'y; Stillman Wood block, N. Main. 
York John E. , architect and builder, h 55 S. Main. 
Young Alexander, stonecutter, bds. 13 Brooklyn. 
Young Andrew, tool sharpener, bds. 66 S. Main. 
YOUNG CHARLES, Sr, stone boxer, bds. 45 S. Main. 
YOUNG CHARLES, Jr., manuf. and dealer in Barre granite monumentall 

and cemetery work, for wholesale trade, S. Main, bds. 45 do. 
Youngson Alexander, stonecutter, h 6 Hill. 



40 TOWN OF BERLIN. 



BERLIN. 



(For explanations, etc., see page 3, part second.) 
(Postoffice address is Berlin, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Ainsworth Charles C, (Montpelier) emp. J. G. Scribner, h 39 Berlin st. 

AINSWORTH DANIEL Dr., (Montpelier) r 14, distiller of oils and medi- 
cal extracts. 

Alexander Amasa W., (Montpelier) r 10, carpenter, contractor and builder, 
8 cows, farmer 75. 

Alexander Charles W., (Montpelier) painter, served in Co. A, ist Vt. Cav., 
4 years, h 57 Berlin st. 

Alexander Fanny E. Mrs., h and lot 57 Berlin st. 

Alexander George W., (Montpelier) r 10, joiner, emp. of his father, Amasa W. 

ALEXANDER HARRISON, (Montpelier) r 10, 1,500 sugar trees, 18 cows, 
breeder of full blood Chester white swine, farmer 240, pasture and wood- 
land in Moretown 180. 

Amidon Marshall, laborer, h and i acre. 

Andrews Asa G , r 17, farmer, leases of Mrs. Cynthia Stickney 18. 

ANDREWS EDMUND E.,r 54, prop. Fair Mount nursery, dealer in the 
choicest and hardiest varieties of fruit trees, small fruits, etc., Wolf 
River apple trees and Fay currant bushes, specialties, 800 sugar trees, 
breeder of high grade Jersey cattle, 18 cows, farmer 300. 

Andrews Edwin, r 54, 300 sugar trees, i3 grade Jersey cows, farmer 162. 

Andrews Lydia A. Mrs., off r 30, resident. 

Andrews Merrill W., r 48, 400 sugar trees, 6 cows, farmer 65. 

Andrews William, (Montpelier) painter, 17 Berlin st. 

Andrews William L., r 54, 250 sugar trees, 12 cows and farmer. 

Arbuckle Walter W., (VV. Berlin) sugar orchard and farmer, leases on shares 
of Martin Campbell. 

Austin Harriet, (W. Berlin) rig, widow of Edwin, resident. 

Austin Maria L. Miss, (W. Berlin) rig, dressmaker. 

Ayers Charles M., (Northfield) r 45, prop, wood sawing machine, farmer 42. 

AYERS HIRAM B., (W. Berhn)r 31, 500 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmerSs. 

Ayers John, (W. Berlin) r 31, retired farmer, aged 92, resides with his son 
Hiram B. 

Ba'.chelor Louise, widow of Eben, bds. with her daughter, Mrs. Fanny E. 
Alexander, 57 Berlin st. 

Bailey Andrew C., r 30, mail carrier from Berlin to Montpelier, h and lot. 

Bailey Charles P., (W. Berlin) r 45, stonecutter, h and i acre. 

Bailey Levi W., (Montpelier) r 16, 600 sugar trees, 10 cows, breeder of fine 
horses, farmer, leases of his father, Socrates, 140. 

Bailey Milton E., r 39, manages for C. E. Perrin, of Montpelier, farm 200. 

Bailey Nettie H. Mrs , r 48, teacher, daughter of H. C. Havward. 

BAILEY OZIAS B., r 28, justice of the peace, 300 sugar trees, 11 cows, 
farmer 195. 

Bailey Richard, (Montpelier) off r 14, 600 sugar trees. 18 cows, farmer 160. 

Bancroft Aaron, (Montpelier) agent for white bronze monumental work and 
statuary, h 27 Berlin st. 



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Bancroft Leonard, r 48, carpenter, contractor and builder, farmer 20. 
Barker Ludlow O., (W. Berlin) r 45, stockholder and foreman Berlin Gran- 
ite Co. 
Barney Frank, r 30, blacksmith. 

Barrows Alfred J., (Montpelier) painter, h Northfield st. 
Beach Theodore, (Montpelier) cabmaker and gardener, owns h and lot, h 32 

Prospect. 
Beach Theodore J., (Montpelier) r 14, granite cutter and tool sharpener. 
Bean Dudley M., (Gouldsville) r 53, farmer 25. 
Bean John, (Gouldsville) r 35, 150 sugar trees, farmer 50. 
Belknap John Q. A., r 56, 350 sugar trees, farmer 85. 
BENJAMIN IRA A., (Montpelier) r 28, 300 sugar trees, 13 cows, farmer 

125. 
Benjamin John E., (Montpelier) off r 24, 16 grade Jersey cows, farmer 130. 
Benjamin Myrtie S. Miss, (Montpelier) off r 24, daughter of John E., teacher. 
BENJAMIN S. WEBSTER, (Montpelier) r 24, ist selectman, 500 sugar 

trees, breeder of high grade Jersey cattle, 18 cows, farmer 150, served 

in Co. C, 13th Vt. Vols. 
Berthelot Joseph, (Montpelier) laborer, h Langdon ave. 
Bingham (Ilarlos S., (Montpelier) r 16, 6 cows, and manages farm 100. 
Bingham Sarah J. Mrs., (Montpelier) r r6, 6 cows, farm 100. 
Black Byron L., farm laborer. 

Black Lorenzo, r 37, 300 sugar trees, 70 sheep, farmer 100. 
Black Volney L., r 37, 300 sugar trees, 70 sheep, farmer, owns with his 

father 100. 
Blair George, (Montpelier) foreman Argus and Patriot, h 63 Berlin st. 
Blanchard Sarah, (Montpelier) r 3, widow of Arad, resident. 
Blay Laura M. Mrs., (Barre) r 14, prop, of laundry, and grower of small 

fruit. 
Bliss Elmer E , (Montpelier) butcher, emp. F. B. Miller, h 28 Berlin st. 
Bloss E. Holbrook, r 30, 5 high grade Jersey cows, farmer 35. 
BOLES DAVID, (Montpelier) r 26, 500 sugar trees, 15 cows, 75 sheep, 

farmer 240. 
BOSWORTH GARDNER S., r 48, 400 sugar trees, breeder of Morgan and 

Hambletonian horses, 10 high grade Jersey cows, farmer, leases of Levi 

Strong 75. 
Boutwell Marcus, (Montpelier) tanner and currier, emp. Pecks & Cummins, 

h 45 Berlin st. 
Bradshaw George. (Montpelier) lawyer, prop. Bradshaw place, and farm go, 

summer residence Northfield st.; winter residence New York city. 
Braman Karl F., (\V. Berlin) r 45, granite cutter, emp. Berlin Granite Co., 

bds. with L. O. Barker. 
Brown Hosea N., (Gouldsville) r 35, 250 sugar trees, 30 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer, leases of his father, D. C, 330. 
Brown Theodore, (Montpelier) 250 sugar trees, farmer 75, and woodland 47. 
BROWN WILBUR, (Montpelier) r 10, prop, saw, grist and cider-mills, 

manuf. of dimension and hard wood lumber, shingles and wood, does 

custom grinding, dealer in flour, feed and grain, makes from 1,000 to 

2,000 barrels of cider annually, timberland 300, and pasture land 350. 
Brown William, r 40 opn. 39, 600 sugar trees, 25 cows, breeder of fine horses, 

farmer 223. 
Bullock Atwood C, (Montpelier) r 16, 12 grade Jersey cows, farmer 125. 



42 TOWN OF BERLIN. 



CAMERON IRA C, r 55, 500 sugar trees, breeder of fine horses, 12 cows, 

farmer 200, served in Cos. E and K, 6th Vt. Vols. 
Campbell James, (Montpelier) tanner, emp. Johonnot, h 6 Northfield st. ' 
Campbell Marshall, (Montpelier) r 11, 200 sugar trees, 9 cows, farmer 85. 
Cantillion Thomas. (Montpelier) stonecutter, emp. Eagan & McQueeney, h 

Bradshaw block. 
Campbell Martin, (Montpelier) r 11, farmer with his father, Marshall. 
Carr Peter, (Montpelier) laborer, bds. Northfield st. 
Carrigan Richard, (Montpelier) r 8, 300 sugar trees, farmer, leases of Lyndon 

Ayers 75. 
Cass Henry L., r 37, 1,000 sugar trees, 11 head of oxen for beef, farmer for 

J. R. Langdon 150. 
Cass Tad H., r 18, carpenter and farmer i. 
Celley Charles N., (Montpelier) r 8, farmer 146, and owns stock horse " Gen. 

Grant.'' 
Celley D. Birney, (W. Berlin) r 32, farm it, and leases of A. K. Warren 8 

cows and farm 250. 
Celley Jane E. Mrs., (VV. Berlin) r 32, h and 11 acres. 
Chandler Daniel, (Northfield) r 44, 750 sugar trees, 33 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer 275. 
Chandler Ervin L., (Gouldsville) r 47, farmer with his father, Lemuel. 
Chandler George C, (Montpelier) r 10, 2,000 sugar trees, breeder of full blood 

Jersey cattle, reg., farmer 150. 
CHANDLER LEMUEL, (Gouldsville) r 47, justice of the peace, 300 sugar 

trees, 16 cows, farmer 205. 
Chandler Myron L., (Gouldsville) r 47, medical student, teacher in Mt. Pleas- 
ant academy and Military school, Sing Sing, N. Y. 
Chase Amos, (W. Berlin) r 19, retired farmer. 
Chase Amos N., (W. Berlin) rig. farmer with Joseph. 
Chase Joel W., (Montpelier) r 47, farmer 125. 

Chase Joseph, (W. Berlin) rig, 300 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 140. 
Chase Nelson, (W. Berlin) r 32, 5 grade Jersey cows, farmer 60. 
Chase Truman, (Gouldsville) r 47, 6 cows, farmer, leases of his son Joel 125. 
Chatfield Lewis, manages for J. C. Gleason farm 75. 
Cheney Hannah, (W. Berlin) r 21, widow of Edmund, farm 13. 
Clark Arthur, (Montpelier) oft" r 10, teamster, emp. Wilbur Brown. 
CLOGSTON ELMER E., (Montpelier) machinist, emp. Johnson & Colton, 

h 8 Bradshaw place. 
CLOGSTON ORAMEL C, (Montpelier) manuf. and dealer in lumber, mills 

in Worcester, h Berlin st. 
COBURN ALONZO L,, (W. Berlin) r 36, quarryman, h and 2 acres. 
Coburn John, (W. Berlin) r 45, stonecutter and farmer 3 . 
Colby Hosea B., (Montpelier) r 8, 800 sugar trees, farmer on the estate of 

Levi 140. 
Colby Margery Miss, (Montpelier) r 10, resident. 
Colby Mary A,, (Montpelier) r 8, widow of Levi. 
Conlon Mary Mrs., (Montpelier) owns h and lot 16 Northfield st. 
Conlon Patrick, (Montpelier) resident, h 16 Northfield st. 
Conlon Thomas, (Montpelier) granite cutter, bds. 16 Northfield st. 
Connolly Ellen, (Montpelier) widow of John, h Northfield st. 
Connolly John, (Montpelier) stonecutter, emp. Merrill Russell, h Northfield st. 
Connor Charles, (Montpelier) emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 10 Bradshaw place. 



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COOK JAMES, (Montpelier) r 13, apiarist 16 colonies, 20 cows, farmer, 

leases on shares of M. Marvin, of Montpelier, 175. 
Cook John I.., (Montpelier) r 13, son of James, farmer and apiarist 16 

colonies. 
Cook Robert, 2d, (Montpelier) r 20, 200 sugar trees, farmer 70. 
Cooke David, (Montpelier) r 28, laborer. 

Corcoran Timothy, r 49, 500 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer r5o. 
Covell James M., r 57, 500 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer. 
COVELL STEPHEN H., r 57, 1,000 sugar trees, 7 cows, grower of young 

cattle, 20 head, 70 sheep, breeder of fine horses, 5 head, farmer 200, 

and in WiUiamstown, Orange Co., 80. 
Crandall George H., r 49, 16 cows, farmer 200. 
Crane Albert H., (Montpelier) r r, 6 cows, and farmer 35. 
Crane Gerard W., (Montpelier) laborer, h Northfield st. 
Crane Hubbard K., (W. Berlin) pastor Free Baptist church of WiUiamstown, 

Orange Co., h and 3 acres. 
Crossett James, (Montpelier) contractor and builder, h 43 Berlin st. 
Cruikshank Harvey, (Montpelier) r 14, stonecutter. 

CUMMINGS ALBERT D., (MontpeHer) r 1 2, 8 grade Jersey cows, farmer 65. 
Cummings Alvin P., (MontpeHer) r 11, (J. L. Cummings & Son). 
Cummings J. L. & Son, (Montpelier) r 11, (Alvin P.) general coopers, manufs. 

of cisterns, barrels, tubs, pails, etc. 
Cummings John L., r 1 1, (J. L. Cummings & Son). 
Cummings Nancy, (Montpelier) r 11, widow of Andrew, farm 20. 
CUMMINGS SYLVESTER, (Montpelier) r 11, 600 sugar trees, 18 cows, 

farmer 128.. 
Currier Charles P., (Montpelier) r 10, cooper, and farmer 20. 
Currier Herbert, (Montpelier) silver plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, h 18 

Northfield st. 
CURRIER PASCHAL W., r 29, 500 sugar trees, 25 grade Jersey cows, 

breeder of fine horses, farmer 250. 
Currier Theodore, (W. Berlin) r 45, laborer. 
Curtis George S., (Montpelier) laborer, bds. 26 Prospect. 
Curtis Nelson A., (Montpelier) retired carpenter and joiner, aged 70, h 39 

Berlin st. 
Cutler Leonard H., (Montpelier) farm laborer, h and lot Berlin st. 
Daniels Frank, (Montpelier) laborer, h Northfield st. 
Davenport William B., r 51, farmer 12. 
Devine John, (Montpelier) custom shoemaker, served in Co. G, 6th Vt. Vols., 

from October 15, 1861, to close of the war, h ;^;^ Berlin st. 
Dewey Charles F., r 30, farmer 43. 
Dewey Elmer C, r 30, farmer, son of Charles F. 
DEWEY WILLIAM H., (W. BerUn) r 19, 800 sugar trees, breeder of 

thoroughbred Devon cattle, 26 cows, 25 grade Merino and Cotswold 

sheep, apiarist 12 colonies, and farmer 300. 
Dobay George, (Montpelier) laborer, h Nichols block. 
Dodge Abigail, (Montpelier) r 12, widow, resident, aged 86. 
Dodge Daniel P., r 30, carpenter and joiner, invalid, h and lot. 
Dodge George W., (Barre) r 25, 400 sugar trees, 20 cows, breeder of young. 

cattle, 25 head, farmer 285. 
Dodge Leon B., (Barre) r 25, farmer with his father, George W. 
Dodge N. Brown, r 28, cooper, resides with Ira A. Benjamin. 
Donahue Dennis W., (Gouldsville) r 35^, 10 cows and farmer 125. 



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Donahue Timothy W., (Montpeher) reed and ratan worker, emp. S. B. Snnith, 

h 4 Bradshaw place. 
Doucett John, (Montpelier') r 13, blacksmith, emp. John Mooney, farmer 15. 
DOWNER ROSAMOND P., r 43, widow of Wooster, resident. 
DREW MILTON D., (W. Berlin) r 23 n cor. ig, 500 sugar trees, 20 cows, 

breeder of grade Jersey cattle and fine horses, farmer [76. 
Dudley George T., (Barre) r 14, carpenter and joiner. 
Dudley William N., (Montpelier) farmer 12. h 22 Berlin st. 
Dupree Henry, r 40, laborer, emp. A. M. Slocum. 
Dustin Cynthia K., r 30, widow of P. N., resides with C F. Dewey. 
DUSTIN GARDNER W., r 42, 300 sugar trees, in winter 30 cows and 

about T2 cows in summer, 30 sheep, farmer 100, and pasture land 20. 
Eastman Charles W., (Gouldsville) r 35, butcher and farmer. 
Eastman Emeline Mrs., (Gouldsville) r 35, 1,000 sugar trees, 11 cows, farm 

ISO- 
Eastman Webster D., (Gouldsville) r 35, larmer. 

Tldwards Erastus, (Barre) r 25, 500 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 130. 

Ellis Fred. (W. Berlin) r 36, musician, and farmer with his father, Lucius A. 

Ellis L. Nelson, (W. Berlin) r 36, 500 sugar trees, 18 grade Jersey cows, 

breeder of fine horses, farmer 180. 
Ellis Lucius A., (W. Berlin) r 36, 500 sugar trees, 7 cows, farmer 100. 
EMERSON OILMAN S., (W. Berlin) r 31, 500 sugar trees, breeder of full 

blood Jersey cattle, 12 cows, 8 head young cattle, farmer 150. 
Excelsior Granite Co., (Montpelier) (S. I. Staples and M. A. Copeland, of N. 

Adams, Mass.) manufs. of monumental granite work. 
Farrar Stephen, (W. Berlin) r 34. pensioner, farmer 30. 
Fisher Leonard, (W. Berlin) r 32, retired farmer, aged 79. 
Fitts Orison, (W. Berlin) r 35, 400 sugar trees, 11 grade Jersey cows, farmer 

ISO- 
Ford John, (Montpelier) section foreman M. & W. R. R. R., h 47 Berlin st. 
Foster Nathan S., (W. Berlin) r 19, 6 cows and farmer 60, owns h and lot at 

Berlin Corners and real estate in Connecticut, Florida and Iowa. 
FOSTER TRUMAN R., r 55, 800 sugar trees, 9 cows, breeder of Daniel 

Lambert horses, 86 sheep, farmer 155, pasture and woodland 100. 
Gabree Edward H., (Montpelier) painter, decorator, paper hanger and calci- 

miner, h Berlin st. 
Gallison Harvey L., (Montpelier) teamster, emp. B. Daily, h 35 Berlin st. 
Giroux Louis N., (Montpelier) r 14, carpenter. 

Gleason Mary, (Montpelier) r 20, widow of John, 8 cows and farm 100. 
Gleason Samuel, (Montpelier) off r 19. farmer 90. 
Glines Ebenezer A., (Montpelier) r 10 cor. 8, 400 sugar trees, breeder of 

grade Holstein cattle, Morgan horses, and Chester white swine, 16 covtrs, 

farmer 158. 
Glines Eva C. Miss, (Montpelier) r jo cor. 8, teacher. 
Glynn Edwin L., (W. Berlin) r 32, farmer, owns h and lot in Wentworth, 

N. H. 
Glynn Mary A. Mrs., (W. Berlin) r 32, 400 sugar trees, 12 cows, owns farm 

with her son, Fred A. Stebbins, 100. 
Goodhue Helen T., r 29, widow of Daniel, resident, h and lot. 
Goodhue Henry A., r 29, farm laborer. 

Gould Charles, (Montpelier) laborer, emp. John E. Benjamin. 
Gove Burt S., (W. Berlin) r 45, farmer with his father, Winthrop. 
GOVE EDWIN W., (Montpelier) ofif r 10, sawyer, emp. Wilbur Brown. 



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Gove Winthrop, (W. Berlin) r 45, carpenter and joiner, breeder of fine Mor- 

rell and Morgan horses, farmer 40. 
Gray Ira, r 18, 500 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer, leases of John Woodbury 

160. 
Green Willie H., r 30, farm laborer. 
Guiot Ramie, (Montpelier) laborer, 14 Northfield st. 
Hall Charles I., (Gouldsville) r 35^, lumberman and laborer. 
Hall John J., r 30, pastor Cong, church. 

Hall William, (Gouldsville) r 35^, lumberman, and owns farm in Moretown. 
Halland John, (Gouldsville) r 35^, 300 sugar trees, 11 cows, farmer 118. 
Hancock Crismon, (W. Berlin) pensioner, assistant postmaster, and retired 

farmer, aged 80. 
Harran Ira D., (Montpelier) r 7, 10 cows, and farmer, leases of John 

Moriarty 75. 
Harrigan Annie Miss, dressmaker, 18 Northfield st. 
Harrigan Jeremiah, (Montpelier) section hand, 18 Northfield st. 
Harrigan Nellie, (Montpelier) dressmaker, 18 Northfield st. 
Harvey Oel S., (Montpelier) r 14, laborer. 

Hawes Henry H., (Montpelier) r 26, 800 sugar trees, 7 cows, farmer 80, 
Hayward Hiram C, r 48, justice of the peace, 300 sugar trees, 10 cows, 

farmer ico. 
Heath James W.,(W. Berlin) r 36, 500 sugar trees, 18 cows, farmer^ leases on 

shares of L. Nelson Ellis 180. 
Hedges Jesse, (Northfield) r 36, farmer, leases on shares of R. W. Strong 

300. 
Hewett Arthur L., (W. Berlin) r 45. justice of the peace, selectman, auditor, 

teacher and farmer, h and 2 acres. 
Hewett Henry J., (W. Berlin) r 31, quarryman, and farmer 60. 
Hill George, (VV. Berlin) r 34, fruit grower 650 trees, farmer 30. 
Hill Herman, (VV. Berlin) r 35, farmer, emp. Orison Fitts. 
Hill Martin E., (W. Berlin) 5 cows, and farmer 100. 
HOBART DAVID, r 31 cor. 22, 9 grade Jersey cows, farmer 100. 
HOBART L. M., r 31 cor. 32, teacher. 
HoUenbach John, (W. Berlin) r 35, farmer 52. 
House Albert, r 57, 125 sugar trees, farmer 70. 
House Eleazer H., r 57, 800 sugar trees, 13 cows, farmer i(?). 
Howland Arthur L., (Montpelier) granite polisher, emp. Pioneer Polishing 

Co.. h 31 Berlin st. 
Howland Curtis, (Montpelier) granite polisher, emp. Pioneer Polishing Co, 

h 3 1 Berlin si. 
Howland Laura L., (Montpelier) widow of Hiram B., h and lot 23 Prospect. 
HUBBARD SARAH BATES, r 30, widow of C. Nelson, 400 sugar trees, 

8 cows, farmer 75. 
Humphrey Abial P., (Montpelier) tanner at Johonnott's, h 2 School ave. 
Huse James M., r 54, dentist, physician and surgeon. 
Huse John F., r 54, dealer in fresh meat and fish, pensioner, atid farmer. 
Jacobs Elmer E , (Montpelier) carpenter, h 25 Prospect. 
Johnson Edwin P., (Montpelier) printer, emp. Union Card Co., h 4 School ave. 
Johnson Vatancourt C, (Montpelier) r 10, 1,500 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 

200, served in Co. K, 2d N. H. Vols., 4 years. 
JONES OSCAR D., (Montpelier) r 19, 500 sugar trees, 20 cows, breeder of 

grade Holstein cattle ami fine horses, farmer 175. 



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Keith Charles, (Montpelier) tanner and manager of the Johonnott tannery, h 

Northfield st. 
Kelley Cornelius, (Montpelier) r 10, bridge watcher for C. V. R. R. 
Kelley John, (Gouldsville) r 35^, 6 cows, and farmer 45. 
Kellogg George VV., (Montpelier) r 14, granite polisher, emp. B. J. Reed. 
Kelty Lawrence E., (Montpelier) r 57, farm laborer. 
Kent Herbert, (Montpelier) clerk, emp. G. D. Butler, h 17 Berlin st. 
Kimball Charles, r 30, dealer in groceries, provisions, nails, flour, meal and 

feed. 
Kimball Orrin, (Northfield) r 44, 200 sugar trees, 25 cows, breeder of grade 

Holstein cattle, and Chester white and Berkshire swine, farmer 250. 
Kimmis Cora K., (Montpelier) r 2, 9 cows, and farmer 84. 
Kimmis Jared, (Montpelier) r 2, farmer 84. 

Kinney ]. Kendrick, (Montpelier) r 8 cor. 2, law writer, and farmer 60. 
Lacroix Ferdinand, (Montpelier) r 20, 10 cows, and farmer too. 
LANE EDWIN, (Montpelier) r 13, (D. & E. Lane, of Lanesboro) h and 10 

acres. 
Lathrop George A., (Montpelier) r 7, farmer, leases on shares 10 cows and 

90 acres. 
Laundry Frank, (Montpelier) r i r, laborer. 

Lawrence Abigail D., (Montpelier) widow of George, h and lot 26 Prospect. 
Lawrence Clmrles, (Montpelier) jobber and teamster, h 41 Berlin st. 
Lawrence Gustavus L., (Montpelier) pressman Argus and Patriot o^cq, h 

41 Berlin st. 
Lawrence Herbert, (Montpelier) shifter, emp. M. & W. R. R. R. 
LAWRENCE LEONARD P., (Montpelier) r 12, road commissioner, general 

jobber in team work, 700 sugar trees, milk dealer, 20 cows, breeder of 

grade Holstein cattle, farmer 200. 
Lawrence Samuel F., (Montpelier) tanner, emp. A. Johonnott, h 33 Berlin st. 
Lawson Nettie, (Montpelier) widow of George, resident, h 23 Prospect. 
Lawson W. E. Mrs., (Montpelier) dressmaker, h 40 Prospect. 
Lawson William E., (Montpelier) bridge builder, emp. C. V. R. R., h 40 

Prospect. 
LELAND BROTHERS, (Montpelier) r 6, breeders of grade Holstein and 

Jersey cattle, milk dealers, 25 cows, breeders of fine horses, and farmers 

200. 
Leland George, (Montpelier) r 6, retired farmer, aged 75. 
LELAND JEROME W., (Montpelier) r 6, (Leland Brothers). 
LELAND WILMER A., (Montpelier) r 6, (Leland Brothers). 
Lennox Henry, (W. Berlin) r 34, 6 cows, and farmer 50. 
Lennox John, (Montpelier) r 34. farmer 75. 
LEONARD CHARLES P., (W. BerHn) r 34, blacksmith, 300 sugar trees, 

6 cows, farmer 77, pensioner, served in Co. G, 4th Vt. Vols., 4 years, 

and prisoner in Andersonville 10 months. 
Leonard Chauncey, r 30, retired blacksmith. 
LIBBEY ALONZO S, (Gouldsville) r 44, 1,500 sugar trees, 14 cows, and 

farmer 100. 
Loveland Louisa, r 54, widow of Charles, 500 sugar trees, breeder of horses, 

farmer 240. 
Luce Alanson, (Montpelier) dealer in live stock and farmer 3, h 30 Prospect. 
Lull Leonard T., r 54, farmer. 
Lynch Marks, (Montpelier,) stationary engineer for Johnson & Colton, h 

Berlin st. 



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Macoon Lemira Miss, r 29, resident, h and 3 acres. 

March Abel, r 29, carpenter and joiner, farmer 10. 

Marcotce Levi, (Montpelier) r 31, r, 000 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer, leases 
on shares of Joseph A. Wing about 200. 

Marsh Sofronia H., (Montpeher) widow of Charles, resident, h 25 BerUn st. 

Martin Campbell B., (Montpelier) r 7, veterinary surgeon, 1,000 sugar trees, 
10 cows, farmer 130. 

MARTIN CHARLES P., r 50, 550 sugar trees, breeder of Knox and Lam- 
bert horses, 7 head, hay grower, farmer 190. 

Martin Danforth, (Montpeher) r rz, laborer, h and 2 acres. 

Mayo Moses, (Monti)elier) r 11, farmer, leases of Emory Hale 50. 

McCarty Daniel, (Gouldsville) r 47, 18 cows, farmer 183. 

McCarty Jerry, (Gouldsville) r 35^, 6 cows, farmer 150. 

McGovvan Roger. (Montpelier) resident, bds. 9 Northfield st. 

McINTOSH CHARLES N., (W. Berlin) off r 45, 400 sugar trees, 8 cows, 
24 sheep, farmer 135. 

McMahon John, (Montpelier) r 20, 6 cows, farmer 175. 

McMahon Patrick, (Montpelier) station agent at the junction. 

McMahon Thomas, (Montpelier) r 19, track hand. 

Meader Artie M., (Gouldsville) farmer, emp. H. N. Brown. 

Merrill Daniel, (Gouldsville) r 45, resident and retired farmer, aged 88. 

Merrill Mary, (Gouldsville) r 45, widow of Obed S. 

Merrill William E., (Gouldsville) r 45, 300 sugar trees, 17 cows, farmer, 
manages the estate of his father, Obed S., 185. 

Minahan Dennis, (Montpelier) invalid, h Berlin st. 

Morey Moses P., (Montpelier) blacksmith, h i Northfield st. 

Moriarty Thomas C, r 43, farmer, manager for S. H. O. Bosworth, of Mont- 
pelier, 10 cows, 23 head young cattle, and farm 118. 

Moses Maria A. Mrs., (Montpelier) h and lot. 

Moses Sarah J. Miss, (Montpelier) r 8, resident, h and lot. 

Murray Dennis, (Montpelier) r 2, farm laborer. 

Murray Peter, (Montpelier) laborer, h 14 Northfield st. 

Murtagh Owen, (Montpelier) night watchman, emp. at engine-house, M. & 
W. R. R. R., h 29 Berlin st. 

Newton George L., (Montpelier) carpenter, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 57 Ber- 
lin St. 

Nichols Charles H., (VV. Berlin) r 45, farmer 45. 

Normandin Louis, (Montpelier) blacksmith, Berlin St., h do. 

Norton Andrew S., (W. Berlin) r 31 opp. creamery, cream gatherer and farmer, 
manages 100 acres for J. T. 

Norton Joseph T., r 31, 300 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 100. 

Nye Eliza P., r 40, widow of Sylvanus F., resident. 

Nye Newton P., r 40, 800 sugar trees, hay grower, farmer 120. 

Nye William B., r 37, resident. 

O'Neil Edward, (Montpelier) plumber, emp. J. W. Peck, bds. Northfield st. 

Papineau George, (Gouldsville) r 35, laborer. 

Patterson Charles A., (W. Berlin) r 31, quarryman, emp. Berlin Grawite Co. 

Patterson James, (W. Berlin) r 36, resident. 

PEARSON ARTEMUS N., M. D., r 43 cor. 30, postmaster, notary public, 
eclectic physician and surgeon, h and i acre. 

Pearson Don C, r 38, 13 grade Jersey cows, farmer 100. 

Pearson G. Willie, r 38, farmer, son ( f Don C. 



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Pearson Moses, (Montpelier) r 13, manager Pioneer mills and prop, board- 
ing house, farmer 15. 

Perrin Amanda C, r 50, widow of J. E., 800 sugar trees, breeder of fine Mor- 
gan horses, 25 cows, 25 head young cattle, farm 300. 

Perrin Brothers, r 40, (George K. and H. M.) farmers and man:igers for Mrs. 
Amanda C, estate of their father, J. E.. 300 acres. 

Perrin Elisha, farmer, emp. Will Coburn, of E. Montpelier. 

Perrin J. Newton, r 50, justice of the peace, 800 sugar trees, breeder of high 
grade Jersey cattle, 28 cows, farmer 175. 

Perrin J. Newton, Jr., graduate of University of Vermont. 

Perrin Julius, (Montpelier) blacksmith. 

Perrin Porter, r 50, farmer with his father, J. Newton. 

Pettengill Aaron M., (Montpelier) r 12, farmer 6. 

Pewtner Joseph H., (Gouldsville) farmer, emp. H. N, Brown. 

Phelps John F., (Montpelier) r 12, farmer 17. 

Pioneer Mills, ( Montpelier) G. W. Scott, E. Scribner and J. G. Scribner, props., 
manufs. of lumber. 

PITKIN CLARENCE H., (Montpelier) r 3, (Pitkin & Huse) U. S. attor- 
ney for the district of Vermont, farmer 60. 

Poor Chauncey G., r 43, 600 sugar trees, 18 cows, farmer 200. 

Pratt George W., r 37, 250 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer, owns f of the estate 
of his father, George S., about 200 acres. 

Pratt Sarah D., r 37, widow of George S., owns ^ of the estate of her husband, 
200 acres. 

Prescott Aldee E., (Barre) r 25, 500 sugar trees, 15 cows and farmer, leases 
of Erastus Edwards [30. 

Preston Janette D., (Montpelier) r 12, widow of Philander, resident. 

Preston Philip, (Montpelier) painter, carpenter and wheelwright, h 5 North- 
field St. 

Putney Alson D., (Montpelier) r 6, laborer, emp. H. Atkins. 

Putney Willard, (Montpelier) r 6, farm laborer. 

REED BENJAMIN J., (Montpelier) prop, of granite polishing-mills at 
Pioneer mills, h 57 Main st., Montpelier. 

Reed Benjamin P., farmer 5. 

Reed George D., (Montpelier) silver plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, h 2 
Northfield st. 

Reed Henry C, r 43, cream gatherer, emp. Mirror Lake creamery. 

Reed Martin L.. (Montpelier) r ro, 6 cows and farmer 76. 

RICHARDSON ENOCH E., (Montpelier) r 11, 23 cows, manager of farm 
for VV. N. Peck 175. 

Richardson Lafayette, r 30, carriageniaker and farmer 3. 

Roach David, (Montpelier) stonecutter, h Northfield st. 

Roberts Colin C., (Montpelier) granite cutter, emp. Roberts & Son. 

Robinson Loren, (Gouldsville) r 36, laborer. 

Rose Peter, (W. Berlin) r 45, laborer. 

Rowe Joseph, (.Montpelier) r 13, laborer. 

ROWELL AARON' C, (Montpelier) r 22, farmer 16, pensioner, served in 
Co. G, 8th Vt. Vols. 

Rowell Ethie M. Mrs., resides with her mother, Mrs. Fanny E. Alexander, 51 
Berlin st. 

Rowell Gardner P., r 22, farmer and pensioner, served in Co. C, 13th Vt. 
Vols. 



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RUMNEY CHARLES, (W. Berlin) r 36, farm laborer, owns pasture land 

36, served in Co. K, 4th Vt. Vols,, 4 years. 
Riimney Edwin E., (W. Berlin) r 36, laborer, farmer 11. 
Ryan Peter, (Montpelier) off r 10, teamster, emp. Wilbur Brown. 
Sanders Charlie J., (Montpelier) painter, bds. Nichols block. 
Sanders David L., (W. Berlin) r 19, carpenter, h and i acre. 
Sanders Eben P., (Montpelier) laborer and job teamster, h Nichols block. 
Sanders Jane P. Mrs., (Montpelier) washer and ironer, h Nichols bloclc 
Sargent E. G. Mrs., r54, dressmaker. 
Sawtelle Edmund M., (Montpelier) r 10, farmer. 
Sawtelle Jesse R., (Montpelier) r 10, 200 sugar trees, farmer 45. 
Sawyer James, (Montpelier) r 10, farmer. 

Sawyer Wealtha, (Montpelier) r 10, widow of Norman, resident. 
Scott John, r 23, 250 sugar trees, 8 cows, breeder of horses, farmer 98. 
Scoville Mary F., (Montpelier) r 12, widow of James B., 700 sugar trees, 10 

cows, grower of young stock, and farmer on the estate of her husband 

140. 
Scribner J. Oilman, (Montpelier) owner of Pioneer mills with his father, 

Eben, and George W. Scott, farmer 30, h 14 Prospect. 
Searles Charles, (Northfield) r 36, farmer for Jesse Hedges. 
Selina George H., (Montpelier) fireman M. & VV. R. R. R., bds. 43 Berlin st. 
Selina Julius A., r 30, 300 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer, leases of Mrs. C. A, 

Bosworth 72. 
Seymour Charles, (Montpelier) off r — , 8 cows, and farmer 50. 
Seymour Felix, (Montpelier) off r — , laborer. 
Shambo Francis, (.Montpelier) stone mason, h 39 Berlin st. 
Shambo Francis Mrs., (Montpeher) dressmaker, h 39 Berlin st. 
Shangley John, (Montpelier) plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, h Berlin st. 
Shumway Emory L., (Montpelier) retired manuf., h 25 Berlin st. 
Silver Charles E., (Montpelier) clerk, emp. W. W. Park, h \2 Bradshaw place. 
Simmons Catherine Mrs.. (Montpelier) washing and ironing, and prop, board- 

mg-house, h Northfield st. 
Simmons James C, (Montpelier) shoemaker, h Northfield st. 
Slayton Vernon L., (Montpelier) clerk, emp. H. E., h 9 Prospect. 
SLOCUM ALANSON M., r 40, 600 sugar trees, breeder of full blood Jersey 

cattle, 24 cows, 20 head of young cattle, farmer 174. 
Slocum Grace L. Miss, daughter of A. M., teacher. 
Smith Charles, (Montpelier) r 12, farmer 8. 
Smith George M., (Montpelier) conductor M. & W. R. R. R., bds. 19 

Berlin st. 
Smith John, (Montpelier) r 10, teamster, emp. Wilbur Brown, bds. do. 
Smith John W., (Montpeher) deliverer for Smith & Weston, h 19 Berlin st. 
Smith Osman T., (Montpelier) teamster, h Berlin st. 
Smith Russell C, (W, Berlin) r 31, 600 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer 60. 
SMITH STEPHEN B., (Montpeher) ratan and reed dealer and manuf, opp. 

court-house. State St., Montpelier, h 3 Bradshaw place. 
Sowles Wilder, (Montpelier) repairer, emp. M. & W. R. R. R., h Langdon 

ave. 
SPARROW ALBERT S., (Montpelier) r 7 cor. 4, 25 cows, farmer 400. 
Sparrow Irvin L., (Montpelier) r 7 cor. 4, farmer with Albert S. 
Spear Thomas, (Montpelier) r 12, 9 cows, farmer 80. 
St. Clair David, (Montpelier) r 6, tanner, emp. Charles Keith. 
St. John Almon, r 43, farm laborer. 

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St. John Jolm, (Montpelier) r — , farmer 13. 

St. John John, Jr., (MontpeUer) r 25, 500 sugar trees, 25 cows, farmer, leases 

on shares of Leonard Aldrich, of Barre, 226. 
Staples Orpheus F., (Montpelier) r 13, granite cutter, emp. Excelsior Granite 

Co. 
Staples Sylvanus I., (Montpelier) r 13, (Excelsior Granite Co.) 
Stebbins Fred A., (W. BerUn and Windsor, Windsor county) r 32, brakeman 

C. V. R. R., owns farm with his mother 100. 
Stewart Abel H., r 44, 500 sugar trees, 10 cows, i^ head young cattle, farmer 

Stewart Clarence, r 30, farmer, leases on shares of Mrs. C. N. Hubbard 300 

sugar trees and farm 20. 
STEWART CLARK H., r 43, prop, summer boarding-house, picnic grounds 

and boat livery, 275 sugar trees, 30 sheep, 7 high grade Jersey cows, 

prop. Hambletonian stock horse " Vermonter " and Percheron stock 

horse " Rupert," farmer no. 
STEWART ROLLIN D., r 43, carpenter, 6 cows, breeder of grade Jersey 

cattle and Hambletonian horses, farmer 60, served in Co. C, 13th 

Vt. Vols. 
Stickney George E., (Montpelier) farm laborer. 
Stiles Austin, (W. Berlin) r 36, laborer. 
Stiles Lucy A., (W. Berhn) widow of Elijah, resident. 
"Stone John, (Montpelier) harnessmaker, emp. J. Lease, h 9 Northfield St. 
Strong Horace W., (Northfield) r 47, 400 sugar trees, to grade Jersey cows, 

breeder of fine horses, farmer 100. 
Strong Levi, r 30, mason, h and 3 acres. 
Strong R. Warner, (Northfield) r 36, 350 sugar trees, 23 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer 300. 
SWEENEY DENNIS, (Montpelier) r 22, 500 sugar trees, 9 cows, breeder 

of fine horses, farmer 130. 
Towner Edward E., (Montpelier) r 16, (S. S. Towner & Son, of Montpelier.) 
Towner Sewell S., (Montpelier) r 6, (S. S. Towner & Son, of Montpelier) 

breeder of thoroughbred Jersey cattle, reg., farmer 45. 
TROW JONES, (W. Berlin) r"45, granite cutter, farmer 30. 
Turner William H., r 29, 200 sugar trees, 11 cows, farmer 100, and pasture 

land 60. 
Yirge Syril, (Montpelier) r 10, quarryman. 

Wade Charles, (Montpelier) wheelwright, disabled soldier, h head of Prospect. 
WARREN ABEL K., r 22, 400 sugar trees, 20 cows, farmer 230, and 

on r 32, 8 cows, and farm 250. 
Wason Harrison D., (Montpelier) r 11, 14 cows, and farmer 100. 
Waterman Walter F., (Montpelier) r 6, farmer and manager for George 

Bradshaw. 
Wedge Ezra B., (Montpelier) off r 10, 300 sugar trees, farmer, leases of 

Samuel Chandler 60. 
Wedge Ezra O., (Montpelier) stonecutter, bds. Berlin st. 
Wedge Henry C, (Montpelier) farm laborer. 
Wedge Heram B., (Montpelier) gas engineer, h Berlin st. 
Welch Pierce, (Montpelier) r 3, 300 sugar trees, breeder of Shropshire 

sheep, 20 head, 6 cows, farmer 90. 
West Berlin Creamery Association, (W. Berhn) Rev. W. B. Worthing, man- 
ager, manufs. of choice butter. 



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51 



West George S., (Montpelier) carpenter and builder, tnanuf. of concrete 

walks, and fire-proof roof painter, h 7 Prospect. 
Wheelock Martin W., (Montpelier) clerk and treas. of Berlin, book-binder 

and paper-box manuf., Main cor. State, h 49 Berlin st. 
Wheeler Oliver, (Montpelier) cabinetmaker, h 25 Berlin st. 
Wilkinson George E., (Montpelier) ernp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 19 Berlin st. 
WILLEY GEORGE J., r 49, carpenter, joiner, contractor and builder, 

farmer 15. 
Willey Herbert G., r 49, farmer. 

Williams JefTerson O.. r 50, 7 grade Jersey cows, farmer 50. 
WILSON WILLARD W., (Montpelier) nickle plater, emp. Johnson & Col- 
ton, h 26 Prospect. 
Wing Catherine E., (Montpelier) r 12, widow of Lemuel, farm 12. 
Winslow George W., r 48, farmer, son of John F. 
Winslow J. Edward, r 48, farmer, son of John F. 
WINSLOW JOHN F., r 48, lister, 800 sugar trees, breeder of fine horses, 

14 grade Jersey cows, farmer 160. 

Woodbury , (Montpelier) off r 8, laborer, emp. Wilbur Brown. 

Woodbury Edwin J., (Montpelier) r 2, 300 sugar trees, 40 cows, breeder of 

horses, farmer 300, on r 57 farm 400, 15 cows and 1,000 sugar trees, 

prop, (in Barre) of meat market, livery stable and boarding-house, owns 

farm with J. R. Langdon 125. 
Woodbury Jonathan A., r 43, 14 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 190, and 

leases to Ira Gray 150. 
Worthing Waldo B., (W. Berlin) pastor M. E. church. 
Woster James F., (Montpelier) r 8, supt. Montpelier poor-house and farm, 

10 cows and farm about 100. 
Young J. Albert, (Montpelier) r 13, wood worker and carpenter. 



CABOT. 



( For explanations, etc., see page t„ part second ) 
(Postoffice address is Cabot, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

ABBOTT N. KNIGHT, (E. Cabot) r 48 cor. 49, 46 head cattle, farmer 60, 

and in Peacham, Caledonia Co., 100. 
Abbott Walter I., (E. Cabot) farmer with N. K. 
Adams Azro K., r 17, farmer 27. 

Adams Charles T., (E. Cabot) r 50, 14 cows, 7 horses, farmer 168. 
Adams Ella L, Mrs., r 27, 600 sugar trees, farm 100. 
Adams Elvira, r 19, widow of WilMam, farm 83. 
Adams George P., r 20. laborer, lives with Levi P. 
Adams John L., rig, (John L. & Will Adams). 
Adams John L. & Will, r 19, 12 cows, 4 yoke oxen, 400 sugar trees, farmers 

300. 
Adams Laura K. Mrs., r 19, owns farm 115. 
Adams Levi P., r 20, farmer 50. 



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Adams Will, r 19, (John L. & Will Adams). 

Ainsworth Albert C, r 16, farmer 100. 

Ainsworth Nancy, h and lot Main. 

Atkins Henry, (Marshfield) r 62, laborer and farmer. 

Atkins Mary L., r 41, widow of William S., 100 sheep, farm 160. 

Austin John, r 53, 22 head cattle, 700 sugar trees, farmer 190. 

AVERILL HENRY L., (S. Cabot) r 67, cooper, postmaster, dealer in 

groceries, boots and shoes, served in Co. L, ist Vt. Cav. 
Burnham Edwin, farmer 11, served in Co. H, 4th, and Co. I, nth Vt. Vols. 
Babcock Abbie P., (Lower Cabot) widow of Isham, h and 14 acres Main. 
Bacon William W., r 19, farmer 54, served three years in ist Vt. Bat. 
BADGER CHARLES A., (E. Cabot) r 48 cor. 49, farmer 25. 
Baker Addison VV., r 39, veterinary dentist, owns 37^ acres of land, winter 

residence Boston, Mass. 
Baker William A., farm laborer, h and lot Elm. 

Barnett Elbridge W., (W.Danville, Caledonia Co.) r 34, farm laborer. 
Barnett George W., (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.) r 33, farm laborer. 
Barnett John, (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.) r 34 cor. 32, farmer 60. 
Barnett Moses, mail carrier from Cabot to Walden, Caledonia Co., h Main. 
Barr Robert S., (E. Cabot) r 49, 35 head cattle, 7 horses, 87 sheep, farmer 

100, and in Peacham, Caledonia Co., 160. 
Barr William H., r 29, 40 head cattle, 150 sheep, farmer 421. 
BARRETT ORRILL F., r 44, 9 cows, i yoke oxen, farmer 125. 
Batchelder Bert, (Marshfield) r 63 cor. 67, prop, hay press, and farmer 100. 
Batchelder Ira, (Plainfield) r 58, prop, saw-mill, joiner, owns 30 acres land. 
Batchelder Joshua, (Lower Cabot) r 39 cor. 55, cooper, lives with his son. 

Matthew. 
Batchelder Matthew, (Lower Cabot) r 39 cor. 55, farmer, h and lot. 
Beedle Josie M , school teacher, taught 32 terms, h and lot. 
Benton Albert E., r 9, farm laborer for William. 
Benton William, r 9, 800 sugar trees, farmer 83. 
Bickford Martha, h and lot Main. 

Bigelow Rufus, (Lower Cabot) farm laborer, h and lot Main. 
Biladeau Napoleon, r 27, farm laborer, bds. with Mrs. Eliza M. Rudd. 
Blake Daniel W.. (S. Cabot) r 67, farm laborer. 

Blodgett Stephen B., (Lower Cabot) r 40, 6 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 60. 
BOLTON JOHN, (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.) r 34, 7 cows, 35 head young 

cattle, 3 yoke oxen, 5 horses, prop, stock horse " Young Morrill," or 

"Bolton Boy," farmer 250, at the head of Joe's pond no, in Walden, 

Caledonia Co., 400, in Peacham. Caledonia Co., 120, pasture land 73, 

served in Co. E, 9th Vt. Vols., and 2d Vt. Bat. 
Bouldry Charles B., (S. Cabot) r 67, farm laborer. 
Bouldrv Harriet S., (S Cabot) r 66, widow of Welcome, h and lot. 
BOULDRY JAMES W., (Marshfield) r 69, 14 head cattle, 6 horses, 600 

sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Boyles Benjamin, r 37, lives with Henry Hills, aged 80. 
Boyles Mahala Mrs., (Lower Cabot) r 40, wool carder for L F. Haines, h 

and lot. 
Boyles Orvis P., r 45, 6 cows, farmer 60. 
BRUCE ROLAND B., (Lower Cabot) r 55, 6 cows, 2 yoke oxen, 1,000 

sugar trees, farmer 100, on r 23 farm 75, and in Woodbury 82. 
Burnap Eben T., r 55, 21 grade Jersey cows, 9 head young cattle, i,ooc 

sugar trees, farmer 360, pasture and woodland in Woodbury 50. 



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Burnham Albert L., r 62, farm laborer for Chandler E. 

Burnham Chandler E., r 62, 5 cow?, 2 yoke oxen, 575 sugar trees, farmer 123. 
Cameron Bemis, (Marshfield) r 62, laborer for Oscar Morrill. 
CARPENTER GEORGE N., (Lower Cabot) r 57, 15 cows, i yoke oxen, 

T,ooo sugar trees, farmer 205, served 3 years as sergeant of Co. I, 9th 

Vt. Vols., was ist lieut. when discharged. 
GATE JOSHUA C, (VValden, Caledonia Co.) r 31, 20 head cattle, farmer 

130. 
Chandler Frank, (S. Cabot) r 66, teamster, farmer 100. 
Chandler George D., (VV. Danville, Caledonia Co.) blacksmith and carriage 

ironer, farm 40. 
Chandler Samuel B., (E. Cabot) r 50, 10 cows, 2,000 sugar trees, farmer no. 
Clark Carlos E., wheelwright in Cabot carriage shop. 
Clark Charles, (S. Cabot) r 63, (Charles & L. L. Clark). 
Clark Charles & L. L., (S. Cibot) r 63, 20 cows, 30 head young cattle, 6 

horses, 1,400 sugar trees, farmers 350. 
Clark Emory H., (E. Cabot) 54 head cattle, 7 Holstein cattle, reg., 100 

sheep, 9 horses, farm 300, postmaster, and dealer in farm implements. 
Clark Harry W., house, carriage, and sign painter. 
Clark Harvey N., (S. Cabot) r 67, prop, saw-mill, dealer m hard and soft 

wood lumber, clapboards, and shingles. 
Clark LorestaL., (S. Cabot) r 63, farmer with Charles H. 
Clark Moses, (S. Cabot) r 66, h and 25 acres. 
Clark Noah A, h and 10 acres, Main. 
Clark Ohn J., (S. Cabot) r 51, 8 cows, farmer 130. 

Clark Sarah K., (S. Cabot) r 51, widow of Ora, owns farm with Olin J. 130. 
Coburn Elihu F., (Lower Cabot) r 60, 8 horses, t stock horse " Black Hawk," 

250 sheep, I yoke oxen, farmer 400. 
Cole Levi P., prop, grist-mill on Winooski river, dealer in flour, feed, salt, 

grass seed, etc. 
Collins Orman R., undertaker, dealer in harness, buffalo robes, whips, road- 
carts, wagons, and sleighs. 
CONNER ORVIS W., r 21, 18 head cattle, 5 horses, 2 yoke oxen, 700 sugar 

trees, farmer 160. 
Cook Edward, r 35, summer resident, winter residence in Arlington, Mass. 
Corliss Andrew G. S., (Marshfield) r 67, road commissioner, i yoke oxen, 

farmer 100. 
Corliss Fred J., r 54, 7 cows, farmer 96. 
Corliss Theron, (Marshfield) r 67, farm laborer. 
Crane John H., r 28, 22 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 150. 
Cunningham David, r 2, 800 sugar trees, 6 cows, i yoke oxen, farmer 80. 
DAMON JOHN H., farmer 14, h Main. 
Davis Frank, (Lower Cabot) blacksmith, h Main. 

Dow Emily C., (Lower Cabot) r 60, h and 50 acres, and 60 acres on r 40. 
Dow George, r 25, 15 cows, 2 yoke oxen, t,ooo sugar trees, farmer 180. 
Dow Henry A., (S. Cabot; r 66, 2 yoke oxen, farmer 125. 
Dow VVinslow, (E. Cabot) r 48, cooper and farmer 30, aged 80. 
Drew James T., tinsmith, dealer in hardware, tin and hollow ware and stoves, 

bds. with N. B. Rogers. 
Drown Enoch, (S. Peacham, Caledonia Co.) r 50, h and 4 acres. 
Duncan Frank J., blacksmith and horseshoer, h Elm. 
Durant John T., (Lower Cabot) r 60, 6 cows, 63 sheep, farmer 225. 
Durgan Alvin D., (E. Cabot) 10 head cattle, farmer 66^. 



54 TOWN OF CABOT. 



Durgan Prudence, (E. Cabot) r 47, widow of Darius, aged 82. 

Eastman Loren, (S. Cabot) r 67, farm laborer, h and lot. 

Elmer Ella Mrs., (Lower Cabot) r 60, milliner at Cabot. 

Elmer George, r 29, farm laborer for G. M. Webster. 

Elmer Palmer B., (Lower Cabot) r 60, printer, carpenter and joiner, h"and 

lot. 
Everette Hugh M., carriagemaker and repairer. 
Farr Fanny, h and lot Main. 

Farr Roswell, r 62 cor. 61, farm laborer for H. H. Whittier. 
Farrington David G., retired farmer, h and lot Main. 
Farrington Edward W., retired farmer, aged 84. 
FARRINGTON JOHN A., pres. Caledonia National Bank, of Danville. 

Caledonia Co., general merchant, prop. Cabot carriage shop, 10 head 

cattle, 8 horses, prop, saw-mill at Lower Cabot, farm 200. ^^^ 

Finley John, (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.)r 12, 12 head cattle, farmer 6o.'l 
Fisher John M. Hon., (Lower Cabot) r 26, 20 head cattle, 500 sugar trees^ 

farmer 75. 
Fisher Luke C, r 25, farmer; refused to give further information. 
Folsom Leonard, (Marshfield) r 61, 25 head cattle, farmer 188. 
FORD FOWLER S., (Lower Cabot) r 60, manuf. of butter boxes and prints. 
Foster Alonzo M., r 27, 14 head grade Jersey cattle, 2,000 sugar trees, 20Q 

apple trees, farmer 160. 
FOSTER CHARLES D., r 35, 10 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Foy Delinda, widow of Ichabod, h and lot Main. 
Fitts Orvis, retired station agent on P. & O. R. R., h Main. 

Freeman Kelsey P.. served in Co's H and E, Vt. Regt., h and lot Main. 

French Charles H., (Lower Cabot) r 69, farmer 16. 

FRENCH EUGENE M., (S. Cabot) r 63, carpenter and joiner, 15 cows^ 

farmer 100. 
French George A., (S. Cabot) r 67, laborer for A. G. S. Corliss. 
GALE FRED P., physician and surgeon, Main, h do. 
Gardner Hiram, farmer 80, h Main. 

Garney Phineas K., r 26, 350 sugar trees, 11 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Gibson George, r 43 cor. 44, laborer for George Gould. 
Gile Fred, r 15, farmer, leases of George C. Smith 125. 
Gilman John A., farm laborer, h and lot Church. 
Goodale George H., stone polisher at St. Johnsbury, Caledonia Co., h and 

lot Main. 
GOODALE WILL L., physician and surgeon, bds. Winooski House. 
Goodell Francis, (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.) r 35 cor. 31, 15 head cattle, 

farmer 100. 
Goodwin Rebecca, r 2, widow of Jotham, h and lot. 
GOULD GEORGE, r 43 cor. 44, 25 grade Durham cows, i full blood Hol- 

stein bull, 10 horses, farmer 300. 
Graves Hyram, (Marshfield) r 69, farmer 38. 

GRAVES JOHN B., (Marshfield) r 69. sawyer for his father, Jonathan C. 
Graves Jonathan C, (Marshfield) r 69, prop, saw-mill, manuf. of chair stock 

and dressed lumber, h and 100 acres. 
Graves William A., (Marshfield) r 69, straw manuf in Massachusetts. 
Gray Joshua C, (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.) 20 head cattle, 9 horses, 

farmer 150. 
Growse George, r 27, farmer and laborer. 
Haines Emily C, widow of Edward, h and lot Church. 



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Haines Ezra W., stage driver and mail carrier from Cabot to Marshfield, has 

carried mail thirteen years, h and lot Main. 
HAINES IRA F., (Lower Cabot) r 41, prop, cloth dressing and wool card- 

ing-mill. 
Haines Julia M., (Lower Cabot) r 41, teacher, bds. with Ira F. 
Haines Lelia Miss, (Lower Cabot) h and lot Main. 
HAINES MOSES S., (Lower Cabot) r 41, 12 cows, 700 sugar trees, farmer 

170. 
Hall Benjamin, (Lower Cabot) r 39, farmer. 

Hall Dean S., (S. Cabot) r 67, blacksmith, manuf. of cant-dogs and lumber- 
men's tools, apiarist 50 colonies. 
Hall Emma A., (S. Cabot) r 67, widow of mason, farm 90. 
Hall Eugene E., (E. Cabot) carpenter and joiner, h and lot. 
Hall John, (S. Cabot) r 64, farmer 70. 
HALL MARK P., (S. Cabot) r 64, 11 cows, farmer, leases of G. & F. 

Wooster, of Marshfield, 140, served in Co. G, 4th Vt. Vols. 
Hamilton James, (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.) r 13, 8 head cattle, farmer 65. 
Hanson Warren, (S. Cabot) r 67, millwright, h and lot. 
Hatch Gonsalvo C, (Lower Cabot) dealer in West India goods, groceries, 

flour, feed, hardware, glass, lard, butter, and butter tubs. Main. 
Hatch Hellen M., (S. Cabot) postmaster. Main. 
Hathaway Lois B. Mrs., (S. Cabot) r 66, farmer 150. 
Haws George E., (S. Cabot) r 69, laborer for J. C. Graves. 
Heath Clarence, r 10, painter, h and 10 acres. 
Heath George, r 10, farmer with his father, John. 
HEATH GEORGE W., (E. Cabot) r 46, mail carrier from W. Danville, 

Caledonia Co., to Marshfield, 12 head cattle, farmer 108. 
Heath John, r ic, aged 80, farmer 90. 
Heath Orlando, laborer, h Main. 

Herrick Lucius, r 27, 5 grade Jersey cows, 225 sugar trees, farmer 50. 
Kickie James, r 17, 16 grade Jersey cattle, 50 sheep, 6 horses, 2,000 sugar 

trees, farmer 235. 
Hill Gilbert, (E. Cabot) r 47, 12 cows, farmer 80. 
Hill Lewis B , (E. Cabot) r 47, 23 head cattle, farmer 148. 
Hills Henry M., r 37, teamster, and farmer 40. 
Hooker Almira E. Mrs., (S. Cabot) r 67, 10 cows, farm 90. 
Hopkins Alonzo A., (Marshfield) r 59, 14 cows, 5 horses, 550 sugar trees, 

farmer 150. 
HOPKINS EASTMAN T., r 20, 15 full blood Jersey cows, i Jersey bull, 30 

sheep, TO horses, i yoke oxen, 15 head young cattle, t stock horse 

" Duke Alexis," 700 sugar trees, farmer 147, in Woodbury 300. 
Hopkins Lewis A., r 55, 17 head cattle, apiarist 8 colonies, farmer, leases of 

James Patterson 160. 
Hopkins Samuel L., r 21, mason, 6 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Houghton Herbert L., {¥.. Cabot) r 50, farmer, leases of B. F. Rollins, of 

St. Johnsburv, Caledonia Co., 240. 
HOYT ENOCH^ r 37 cor. 43. (Enoch & George W. Iloyt). 
HOYT ENOCH & GEORGE W., r 37 cor. 43, 13 cows, i yoke oxen, 

farmers 115, on r 62 farm 31, and in Woodbury 35. 
HOYT GEORGE W., r 37, cor. 43, (Enoch & George W. Hoyt). 
Ide Dexter, (Marshfield) r 57, 12 cows, i yoke oxen, farmer 150. 
Ide Milton C, (Marshfield) r 57, laborer, lives with his father. Dexter. 
Ide Ralph R., (Marshfield) r 57, 7 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 100. 



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Jackson Frank H., r 29, farm laborer. 

Jackson Mary C, r 45, widow of Almon, h and 10 acres. 

Jacobs Don L., r 20, 300 sugar trees, farmer 50. 

Jacobs Hosea B., r 5, 7 cows^ farmer no. 

Johnston Thomas J., (E. Cabot) r 46, 17 head cattle, farmer 100, and in 
Peacham, Caledonia Co., 25. 

Kenaston William, r 3, 600 sugar trees, farmer 100. 

Kimball Alphonso D., (Lower Cabot) r 20, farmer 80. 

Kimball Edward F., rig, farm laborer, lives with John L. Adams. 

Kimball George O., r 19, 12 cows, 2 yoke oxen, 2,000 sugar trees, farmer 
260, and in Woodbury 100. 

Kimball Jennett L., (Lower Cabot) r 21, widow of Isaac N., h and lot. 

Kimball Orson, r 21, farmer ;^8, and in Woodbury woodland 12. 

King Frank, laborer for E. & G. W. Hoyt, h Main. 

KNAPP FRANCIS L., r 2, 1,000 sugar trees, 6 cows, 3 horses, farmer 130, 
soldier in Co. D, 6th Vt. Vols. 

Knapp James E., pastor Methodist church, h Elm. 

Knights James B., goldsmith, dealer in jewelry, plated ware, watches and 
clocks, manuf. of and deailer in fire arms, bds. with N. B. Rogers. 

Laird Addison, r 29, 18 cows, 24 head young cattle, farmer 200. 

Laird Frank L., r 19, farmer, leases of Mrs. Laura K. Adams 115. 

Laird Roswell, r 2, farmer 68. 

Lamberton Cassius, (S. Cabot) r 51, farmer 50. 

LAMSON JOSEPH P., r 25,att'y and counselor at law, master in chancery, 
justice of the peace, and practitioner in U. 8. courts, 6 full blood 
Jersey cows, 6 oxen, 25 head cattle, 10 horses, farm land 230, and in 
Hardwick, Caledonia Co., 280. 

LANCE BYRON J., prop, shingle-mill on r 38, h and lot Elm. 

I>ance Clyde L,, r 26, farm laborer, lives with Theroa H. 

Lance Cynthia M. Mrs., r 38, h and 6 acres. 

Lance Paul, (Lower Cabot) r 39, 12 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 100, and 
in Marshfield 22J. 

Lance Theron H., town treasurer, dealer in wool and farm produce, farm 
TOO, wood and pasture land 50. 

Lang Joseph, r 40, 6 cows, 2 yoke oxen, farmer 100, and in Peacham, Cale- 
donia Co., 75. 

Lawson Betsey, r 3, widow of Rollins, resides with her son Edgar R. 

Lawson Charles C, clerk for J. A. Farrington, bds. with Mrs. P. B. 

Lawson Edgar R., r 3, 400 sugar trees, farmer 50. 

Lawson Henrietta, widow of Phineas B., h and lot Main. 

Lilley Olive Mrs., bds. with Dr. F. P. Gale. 

Lintan John, (Marshfield) r 68, tin peddler. 

Lyford George W., (Lower Cabot) r 20, 14 head cattle, farmer 160. 

Lyford Harry L., r 36, farmer 10. 

Lyford Laura A., widow of W. W., h and lot Main. 

Lyford Lucinda, (Lower Cabot) leases h of Mrs. Abbie P. Babcock, Main. 

Lyford William M., (Lower Cabot) r 57, 8 cows, farmer 85, in Woodbury 40. 

Mack Asa B., r 34, farmer 80, served in Co. G, 4th Vt. Vols., was in Ander- 
son ville prison 5 months and 19 days; weight when taken 200 lbs., when 
discharged 86 lbs. 

MARSH ALFRED M., r 27, 3d selectman, farmer with James. 

Marsh James, r 27, 6 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 140. 

Marsh William R , r 27, 6 cows, 5 horses, farmer 155. 



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Martin Catherine, (Lower Cabot) r 39 cor. 55, owns h and lot. 

Mason Nathaniel J., (Walden, Caledonia Co.) r 33, 6 cows, 5 horses, farmer 

100, and in Walden 40. 
McAllister Lyndan, r 8, 8 grade Jersey cows, farmer too. 
McCormac John, (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.) r 14, 14 head cattle, farmer 80. 
Morse Joshua O., retired stage driver, h Main. 
McDaniels M. W. Mrs., (Lower Cabot) general merchant, owns 10 acres of 

land on r 40. 
McDufifey Frederick, h and lot Main. 
McLean John, farm laborer, h Main. 

McLean Samuel E., (Lower Cabot) r 39, painter, owns h and 85 acres. 
Meader George E., roof painter, dealer in Metcalf's fire-proof paint, h 

and lot. 
Meader Samuel, roof painter, h Main. 
Merrill Francis W., r 2, farmer 40. 
Metcalf Samuel, (Lower Cabot) r 60, h and lot. 

Miers Lafayette, blacksmith, horse and ox-shoer, and carriage ironer, Main. 
Morrill Edwin J., (Lower Cabot) r 60, farmer, lives with his father, Oscar F. 
MORRILL OSCAR F., (Marshfield) r 60, 25 cows, 2 yoke oxen, 25 head 

young cattle, 8 horses, farmer 337. 
Morris Ceylon A., (Marshfield) r 62, 10 cows, 1 yoke oxen, 800 sugar trees, 

farmer 100. ^ 

Morse Clara G., widow of Jesse, h and 30 acres Main. 
Morse Edward C, r 7, farm laborer, lives with Nelson. 
Morse George VV., r 7, bds. with Nelson. 

Morse Harry F., (S. Cabot) r 67, farmer, leases of Mrs. Emma C. Hall go. 
MORSE HENRY, (E. Cabot) r 46, 16 head cattle, farmer 115. 
Morse Horace H., tin peddler, h and lot Main. 
Morse Nelson, r 7, 9 cows, i yoke oxen, farmer 220. 
Moulton Thomas, (E. Cabot) r 46, laborer. 
Nelson Olney, r 35, 12 cows, farmer 100. 
Nelson Stephen A., r 37, 9 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 80. 
Nownes Benjamin, (Marshfield) r 60, 9 cows, farmer, leases of G. & F. 

Wooster, of Marshfield, 160. 
Noyes Albert W., r 24, (Noyes & Phelps) owns in Woodbury 140 acres land. 
Noyes George, (Lower Cabot) r 39, farm laborer. 
Noyes James, (Lower Cabot) h and 2^ acres Main. 
Noyes Miranda T. Mrs., r 25 cor. 19, 10 cows, farmer 120. 
Noyes & Phelps, (Albert W. N. and Charles O. P.) props, saw-mill, and 

dealers in lumber. 
Oderkirk Charles E., (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.) r 33, 20 head cattle, 11 

horses, farmer 100, in Danville, Caledonia Co., 48. 
Osgood Albert, r 29 cor. 45, farmer with Benjamin F. 
OSGOOD BENJAMLN F., r 29 cor. 45, 18 head cattle, farmer 145. 
Osgood George W., retired farmer, h and lot Main. 
Osgood Herman, (Lower Cabot) r 60, carpenter and joiner, h and lot. 
Osgood John B , r 54 cor. 42, farm laborer, lives with Solomon VV. 
Osgood Solomon W., r 54 cor. 42, farmer 100. 
Osgood Walter H., r 41, laborer for Mrs. M. L. Atkins. 
Page George L., r 52, 18 head cattle, farm 1 16. 
Paquin Frank, r 31, farmer. 
PATTERSON JAMES, (E. Cabot) r 47, 8 cows, farmer 130, at Lower 

Cabot 4, in Ryegate, Caledonia Co., 116, and in Walden, Caledonia Co., 

160. 



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Paine George W., r 29, farmer, aged 80. 

Paine Herbert, r 25, farm laborer. 

Peck Edgar C, (Lower Cabot) r 41, laborer for M. S. Haines. 

Peck Horace D., r 20, veterinary surgeon, prop, stock horse " Black Jim," 

and owns 15 acres land. 
Peck Oren D., r 25, veterinary surgeon, and owns 25 acres of land. 
Perkins Charles, (Lower Cabot) r 40, farmer 10. 
Perkins Charlotte, h and lot Main. 
Perkins Nathaniel, farmer 75, aged 88, h Main. 
PERRY ALLEN, dealer in produce, 8 head cattle, farmer. 
Perry Lucy, r 36, widow of A. P., h and lot. 
Perry Martha, widow of Elijah, h and lot Main. 

PERSONS GEORGE B., r 26, farmer, leases of George W. Webster 100. 
Phelps Charles O., r 20, (Noyes & Phelps). 

Pike Bemis, (Lower Cabot) r 40, 7 cows, i yoke oxen, farmer 35. 
Pike John G., r 10, 13 head cattle, farmer 108. 
Pitkin William, leases of Mrs. Mary Stone h and lot Main. 
Powers William H., r 16 cor. 17, 8 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Preston Asa L., r 35, farmer 108. 

Preston William, (Lower Cabot) r 60, carpenter and joiner, h and 10 acres. 
Putnam Rives W., (Lower Cabot) r 20, road commissioner, 10 head cattle, 

farmer 102. 
Reed Dexter W., r 35, 14 cows, farmer 155. 
Reed Ira D., r 52, farmer, leases of George L. Page 116. 
Reed Levi H., r 35, seedsman, dealer in phosphates, and farm laborer. 
Rogers Beauman G., (Wells & Rogers) telegraph operator. 
Rogers Daniel W., r 2, 13 grade Jersey cows, 1,200 sugar trees, farmer 187. 
Rogers George, aged S3, works for Mrs. W. Adams, h Main. 
Rogers Heman A., r 2, farmer Vv^ith Daniel W. 
ROGERS NAPOLEON B., deputy sheriff, 10 head cattle, 600 sugar trees, 

farmer 30. 
Rogers Robert H., r 15, 8 head cattle, 6 horses, farmer 120. 
Rudd Eliza M., r 27, widow of William, owns h and 20 acres. 
Russell Henry A., pastor Cong, church, h and lot Main. 
Russell Henry O., r 20, farm laborer, lives with Hiram L. 
RUSSELL HIRAM L., r 20, farmer 30, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols. 
Russell Wallace H., r 28, laborer. 

Severance Hannah L., r 28, (Sarah D. & Hannah L. Severance). 
Severance Sarah D., r 28, (Sarah D. & Hannah L. Severance). 
Severance Sarah D. «S: Hannah L., r 28, 18 head cattle, farmers 116. 
SHORTT LEE, (Lower Cabot) r 60, laborer, h and 10 acres. 
Simons John N., (Lower Cabot) r 60, farm laborer, h and lot. 
Smith Daniel H., r 27, 6 cows, farmer 100. 
Smith Donald A., r 35, 7 cows, farmer 82^. 

SMITH DONALD D., r 35, quarryman in Hardwick, Caledonia Co. 
Smith Eben C, (Lower Cabot) r 24, 10 cows, 11 head young cattle, i yoke 

oxen, butcher and prop, meat market, runs meat cart, farmer 100. 
Smith Edward F., (Lower Cabot) r 39, stock and produce broker, and prop. 

stock horse "Black Prince." 
Smith George C, r 15, book agent, and farmer 125. 
Smith Henry D., r 45, 12 cows, 18 head young cattle, farmer 140. 
Smith Irwin H., r 27, laborer for Daniel H. 
SMITH JOSEPH v., (Marshfield) r 71, 13 head cattle, farmer 100. 



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59 



Smith Lorenzo, r 6, 8 grade Jersey cows, i yoke oxen, i,ooo sugar trees, 

farmer 165. 
Somers Woodward W., (W. Danville, Caledonia Co.) r33, 12 cows, farmer 123. 
Soiithwick John M., r 42, g cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 124. 
SOUTHWICK WILLIAM O., (S. Cabot) r 67, farm laborer, h and lot. 
Spencer Jesse L., (Marshfield) r 69, laborer for J. C. Graves. 
Stevens George W., r 27, sione mason, owns hand 52 acres, resides in Mass- 
achusetts. 
STEVENSON JAMES, (S. Cabot) r 66, prop, saw-mill, farmer 100, and in 

Peacham, Caledonia Co., 400. 
Stevenson William S., (S. Cabot) r 51, farmer 100. 
St. John Lewis, r 17, keeper town poor farm 100. 
Stone Eli H. B.,r 29, 9 cows, 25 head young cattle, 2 yoke oxen, 2,100 sugar 

trees, farmer 155. 
Stone Harvey, prop. Winooski House and summer boarding-house, livery 

connected. Main. 
STONE JOHN M., (Lower Cabot) r 55, 500 sugar trees, farmer 50, soldier 

in the civil war. 
STONE JUSTIN I., (Lower Cabot) r 55, Hves with Matthias J. 
Stone Matthias J., (Lower Cabot) r 55, 9 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 130. 
Stone William S., (Lower Cabot) r 55, farmer, leases of Nelson Morse 40. 
Sulham Bert, (Lower Cabot) laborer, h Main. 
TIBBETS JOHN, (Marshfield) farmer. 
TIBBETTS WILLIAM R., (S. Cabot) r 66, farm laborer. 
Thomas John, (S. Cabot) r 67, farm laborer, h and lot. 
Tibbitts Edward J., (Lower Cabot) r 56, 10 cows, 2 yoke oxen, farmer, leases 

of Eben T. Burnap about 100. 
Tibbitts George N., (Lower Cabot) r 56, 7 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 

130. 
Tice Dorotha, (E. Cabot) r 48, widow of William. 
Voodry Florence C. Mrs., (Sedgwick C. Voodry & Co.) resides with her son 

Sedgwick C. 
VOODRY SEDGWICK C. & CO., (Mrs. Florence C.) dealers in standard 

groceries, fruit, salt, fish, farming tools, drugs and proprietary medicines, 

physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded, telephone in store, Main. 
VOODRY SEDGWICK C, (S. C. Voodry & Co.) owns h and lot. 
Walbridge E. Payson, r 29, laborer for John W. 
Walbridge John W., r 29, 13 cows, farmer 220. 

Walbridge Leander L., r 7, 7 cows, i yoke oxen, 125 apple trees, farmer 128. 
Walbridge Levi J., r 16, 2d selectman, overseer of the poor, 20 cows, 27 

head young cattle, i yoke oxen, 48 sheep, 5 horses, 1,100 sugar trees, 

farmer 190. 
Walbridge Lyman, (S. Cabot) r 51, 7 cows, farmer 145. 
Walbridge Robert, r 7, farm laborer, lives with Leander L. 
Walbridge Susan, h and lot Main. 
WALDO ERASMUS D., pension agent, owns i6|^ acres of land, served in 

Co. D, I St Vt. Cav.. h Main. 
Waldo Willie E., laborer for Eben C. Smith, h Main. 
Walker William C, r 62, 8 cows, .;oo sugar trees, farmer 100. 
WARDEN L. H., farm laborer. 

WARREN MIAL D., physician and surgeon, Main, h do. 
Waterman George, r 21, farm laborer for O. W. Conner. 
Webster Byron G., r 16, lives with George M. 



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Webster George M., r i6, lo cows, 8 horses, i,ooo sugar trees, loo apple 

trees, farmer loo, and on Cabot Plain loo. 
Wallace Matthew P., r 25, retired physician, aged 75, h and lot at Lower 

Cabot, resides with L. C. Fisher. 
WELLS HIRAM, (Wells & Rogers) town representative 1886, and town 

clerk. 
Wells Merton D., clerk for Wells & Rogers, lives with Hiram. 
Wells &: Rogers, (Hiram W. and Beauman Ct. R.) general merchants, and 

managers telegraph office. 
Wheeler Zelando L. C, (Lower Cabot) r 23, farmer, leases of R. B. Bruce 75. 
Whitcomb Benjamin H., r 17, 20 head cattle, farmer 250. 
Whitehill Myra Mrs., (Groton, Caledonia Co.) r 28, h and 11 acres. 
Whittier Harry H., r 62 cor. 61, 12 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 150. 
Whittier William P., postmaster, 8 head cattle, farmer 47, h Main. 
Willey Chester A., retired miller, h and lot Elm. 
Williams Herbert G., dentist, over J. A. Farrington's store, h Main. 
Wilson Joseph, (Marshfield) r 68, carpenter and joiner, farmer 65. 
Wilson Nathaniel L., (E. Cabot) r 50, 12 head cattle, farmer 86. 
Wilson William P., (Marshfield) r 70, 15 head cattle, 700 sugar trees, farmer 

100. 
Winooski House, Harvey Stone, prop., livery connected, Main. 
Wiswell L. Gertrude, bds. with Sherburne L. 
WISWELL SHERBURNE L., physician, member of Montpelier board of 

examining surgeons and consulting physicians. Main, h do. 
Woodard Thomas E., (S. Cabot) carpenter and joiner, farm 55. 
York Edson, carpenter, joiner and mason, h Elm. 



CALAIS. 



( For explanations, etc., see page t^, part second.) 
(Postoffice address is Calais, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Abbott Andrus, (N. Montpelier) r 70, retired carpenter and joiner. 

Adams Charles O, (N. Montpelier) r 76, 11 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 

86^, and in E. Montpelier 34. 
Ainsworth Albert, (E. Calais) r 38, laborer, emp. J. N. Bliss. 
Ainsworth Amasa, (N. Calais) r 16, farm laborer for D. C. Ormsbee. 
ALMSWORTH EDGAR R. (N. Calais) r 20, farm laborer. 
Ainsworth Fortis, (N. Calais) r 17, retired farmer, aged 76. 
Ainsworth Harvey, r 27, 12 grade Jersey cows, 9 head young cattle, 8:0 

sugar trees, 75 apple trees, (some of which were planted in 1803,) farmer 

Ainsworth Henry P., (N. Montpelier) r 70 cor. 66, emp. H. M. Nichols. 

Ainsworth Jacob, (N. Calais) r 17, farmer. 

Ainsworth John, (N. Calais) r 46, 500 sugar trees, farmer 80. 

Ainsworth Lavake, (N. Calais) butcher. 

Ainsworth Merrick, (E. Calais) jeweler, watch and clock repairer, h Mill. 



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AINSWORTH OSCAR VV., carriagemaker and millwright. 

Ainsworth Otis, (N. Calais) r 31. emp. in saw-mill, farm 100. 

Ainsworth Volney, (N. Calais) r 45, farm laborer. 

Ainsworth Warren F., (N. Calais) r 17, harnessmaker. 

Ainsworth William, r 38, farm laborer. 

Albee William A., (N. Calais) r 6, 400 sugar trees, farmer 35. 

Allen Martha J., (N. Montpelier) r 70, widow of John L., 21 cows, 10 head 

young cattle, 1,200 sugar trees, farmer 240. 
Avery James, (E. Calais) r 46, mason, h and lot. 
Bailey Henry R., (N. Calais) r 46, farmer 48. 
Bailey Sargent F., (N. Calais) r 7, mason, 9 head cattle, 100 apple trees, 

farmer 60, aged 74. 
Bancroft Burt H., (E. Calais) r 56, laborer for C. H. Burnap. 
Bancroft Erwin, (N. Calais) r 47, farmer, with his father, Harrison. 
Bancroft Harrison, (N. Calais) r 47, 18 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer 

140, aged 73. 
Bancroft John, (E. Calais) retired undertaker, aged 70, li and lot. Main. 
BANCROFT MALLORY M., mechanic, prop, shingle and grist-mill and 

carriage shop, owns h and lot on r 24, bds. with Nathan L. at Maple 

Corners. 
Bancroft Nathan L.. r 24, 12 cows, 10 head young cattle, 400 sugar trees, 100 

apple trees, farmer 160. 
Barton John, Jr., (N. Calais) r 5, farmer 25, served in Co. K, nth Vt. Vols. 

and was confined in Andersonville prison 5 months. 
Bemis Luther D., (E. Calais) meat cook at Pavillion Hotel, Montpelier, h 

Main. 
BENNETT CAROLINE E., (N. Montpelier) farmer. 
Bennett Charles S., (N. Montpelier) r 76, carpenter and joiner, 6 cows, 250 

sugar trees, 300 apple trees, farmer 73. 
Bennett Philip S , r 42, 17 cows, 40 sheep, 450 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, 

farmer 179, and in Woodbury 50. 
Bidder Watson, (N. Calais) r 20, carpenter and joiner, farmer, leases of Will- 
iam Carley 20. 
Blake Tim M., ^^N. Montpelier) laborer. 
Bliss Albert C, r 56, farmer with Caleb. 
Bliss Albert N., (E. Calais) r 36, clergyman and farmer, lives with his father, 

Norman W. 
Bliss Caleb, r 56, 9 cows, farmer 200. aged 82. 
BLISS GEORGE B. W., (E. Calais) r 69, 10 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 

70, emp. Levison & Lamb Mfg. Co. 
Bliss JeromeN., (E. Calais) r 38, 15 cows, 12 head young cattle, 1,500 sugar 

trees, farmer 200. 
Bliss Joseph E., r 57, farmer 28. 
Bliss Joseph W. E., r 43, 7 grade Jersey cows, 12 head young cattle, 300 

sugar trees, 150 apple trees, farmer 120 ; farm settled by Moses Stone 

in 1787; first house built in town. 
Bliss Norman W., (E. Calais) r 36, 17 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, 250 apple 

trees, farmer 108. 
Bliss Warren E. (E. Calais) r 35, 2d selectman, road commissioner, 21 head 

cattle, 700 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, farmer 112, served in Co. G, 4th 

Vt. Vols. 
Brown Adin A., (Montpelier) r 62, blacksmith. 
Brown Philo W., farmer for William White. 



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Brown William B., (N. Montpelier) r 76, farm laborer. 

Bruce Harriet M., (N. Calais) r 39, h and lot and 10 acres. 

Bugbee Willard C. (N. Montpelier) r 78, 10 cows, 650 sugar trees, farmer 204. 

Bullock Herman W., (E. Calais) r 52, farmer for WiUard Lilley. 

Bumpus Charles W., (N. Calais) r 30, farmer, owns 50 acres, and leases of H. 

E. Rickard 100, h and 4 acres. 
Burnap Anna E., (E. Calais) r 56, school teacher, taught 36 terms. 
BURNAP CHARLES H., (E. Calais) r 56, farmer, leases of Erasmus L. 

170, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols. 
Burnap Erasmus E , (E. Calias) r 56, 24 head cattle, 700 sugar trees, farmer 

170, aged 74. 
Burnap Harvey E., (E. Calais) r 46, laborer. 

Burnham Edwin, (N. Calais) farm laborer, expressman M. B. & L. R. R. 
Burnham Fred A., r 28, farm.er 75. 
Butterfield Joseph W., (N. Montpelier) r 81, 15 grade Jersey cows, 15 head 

other cattle, 200 sugar trees, farmer 175. 
Cameron Alvin M., (N. Calais) r 29 cor. 21, farm laborer, emp. M. W. 

Wright. 
Carley William, (N. Calais) r 20, farmer 20. 
Carnes Jonathan P., (N. Montpelier) r 70, retired millwright, farmer with his 

son Wallace E. 
Carnes Wallace E. (N. Montpelier) r 70, 12 cows, farmer 80. 
Carver Gilbert S., (E. Calais) r 34, 8 cows, farmer 50, and in Woodbury 40, 
CATE LEMUEL M., (N. Montpelier) r 80, ist selectman, road commis- 
sioner, 15 cows. 13 head young cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 160. 
Chapin Albert L., (N. Montpelier) r 71, laborer for Henry A. 
Chapin Alvin M., (N. Montpelier) r7i, 200 sugar trees, farmer 35. 
CHAPIN HENRY A, (N. Montpelier) r 71, 10 cows, 700 sugar trees, 

farmer 208. 
Chapin William H., (N. Montpelier) r 76, 9 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 96. 
Chase Faridau N., r 57, carpenter, joiner, and farm laborer. 
Chase George W., (N. Montpelier) r 77, 10 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 87. 
Chase Simon P., r 14, farmer, leases of A. J. Martin 130. 
Chase Wareham A., (N. Calais) prop, shingle and cider-mill, h Main. 
Choate E. R., farm laborer. 

Choate May R., (N. Montpelier) r 79, h and 15 acres. 
Cilley Frank G., r 89, laborer, h and lot. 

Clement Hope Miss, (N. Calais) r 45, summer resident, home in Boston, Mass. 
Coffron John, (E. Calais) r 53 cor. 54, 7 cows, farmer 65. 
Cole Fred H., (E. Calais) r 48, retired locomotive engineer, farmer, leases of 

William V. Peck 97. 
Collier Chandler, (Worcester) r 11, laborer. 
CONNER DORMAN, (N. Calais) r 39, laborer. 

Converse Elmer P , (N. Montpelier) r77 cor. 72, farm laborer for Luther. 
Converse Homer L., (N. Montpelier) r 77 cor. 72, laborer for Luther. 
CONVERSE LUTHER, (N. Montpelier) r 77 cor. 72, 20 cows, 10 head 

young cattle, 600 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, farmer 225. 
Cross Cynthia, (E. Calais) widow of Albert A., h and lot Main. 
Cummings Simeon E., r 27, farm laborer. 
Dailey Carlton, r 28, farmer 120. 
Dailey Edgar A., r 21, farmer 64. 
Dailey Myron M., r 39, farmer 35. 
Daley Sullivan, (N. Calais) r 9, farmer 65. 



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Daley William H., (Montpelier) r 63, prop, saw-mill, 2 houses and 15 acres. 

DARLING JOSEPH E., (E. Calais) r 55, Scows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 96. 

Davis Isaac, (N. Montpelier) r 69, farmer 22, aged 79. 

Davis Kendall P., (N. Calais) retired painter, aged 83, h Main. 

Davis Orin, r 28; pastor of Christian church at Calais Center. 

Dodge Charles R.,r 59, 9 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 120. 

Dodge Don H., (Montpelier) r 64, carpenter and joiner. 

Dodge Harwood C, (N. Calais) r 2^, 200 sugar trees, farmer 20. 

Dodge Nathan H.. (Montpelier) r 64, retired blacksmith, farmer 32. 

Doty Clark D., (Worcester) r 26, 10 cows, 270 sugar trees, 200 apple trees, 

farmer 77. 
DREW GEORGE A, (E. Calais) r 37, 30 head cattle, farmer 48, and in 

Woodbury 150. 
Drew Levi B., (E. Calais) r 19, prop, trout pond, farmer 7. 
DUTTON ASA G., (E. Calais) r 49, 10 head cattle, 200 apple trees, farmer 

103. 
DUTTON WILLIAM H., (E. Calais) r 18, farmer 118. 
DWINELL ALBERT, (E. Calais) prop, of saw, planing and shingle-mills, 

12 head cattle, farmer 300, h Main. 
DWINELL CLARENCE R., (E. Calais) justice of the peace, public tele- 
phone office, general merchant, Main. 
Dwinell Dell B., (E. Calais) teacher, graduate of Vermont Methodist semi- 
nary, lives with his father, Albert. 
Dwinell Ira S., (E. Calais) asst. judge of Washington County Court, farmer 

70, h Maple. 
Dwinell Levi G., (E. Calais) r 52, 250 sugar trees, farmer 70. 
Earle James M., (N. Calais) r 17, farmer for Mrs, Mark Ainsv/orth. 
EASTMAN CURTIS O., (E. Calais) r 49, 32 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, 

150 apple trees, farmer 130, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols. 
Eaton Jacob, retired farmer, bds. with F. M. Nichols. 
Ellis Ira, Jr., r 58, 7 cows, farmer 100. 
Emery Robert, (E. Calais) r 37, laborer, b and lot. 
Fair Jeremiah B., (N. Calais) teamster, to Montpelier, h Main. 
FAIR SHUBEL B., (N. Calais) postmaster, dealer in dry goods, groceries, 

drugs, boots and shoes, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols., Main, h do. 
Farnsworth Cyrus, M. D., (E. Calais) r 69, eclectic physician, 6 cows, farmer, 

leases of Alden Hopkins 75. 
Fay David B., (E. Calais) lawyer, admitted to the bar at Montpelier in 1847, 

h and lot Main. 
Fay Henry, (N. Calais) r 21, retired farmer, resides with Willard. 
Fay Willard, (N. Calais) r 21, carpenter and joiner. 
'Felch James L., (N. Calais) r 8, laborer for L. C. Parker. 
FOSTER CHARLES W., (N. Calais) r 5, 10 head cattle, 600 sugar trees, 

150 apple trees, farmer 135. 
FOSTER SYDNEY H., (N. Calais) r 17, 30 head cattle. 6 horses 1,400 

sugar trees, 100 apple trees, farmer 190, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols. 
Freeman George W., (N. Montpelier) r 66, 12 cows, 8 horses, 400 sugar 

trees, farmer 115. 
Freeman Harvey F., (N. Montpelier) r 66, carpenter and joiner, owns 2 

houses in Montpelier. 
Fuller Frank E., r 59, 7 cows, farm 85. 
Fuller Sylvester S., r 44, 14 cows, 9 head other cattle, 650 sugar trees, farmer 

165. 



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Gallison John, r 73, 13 cows, farmer 132. 

GEORGE ALBERT, (E. Calais) r 37, 16 head cattle, farmer no, served in 
Co. C, I St Vt. Cav. 

George Arthur P., {^. Calais) r 36, 15 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, loo ap- 
ple trees, farmer 123. 

George Asa N., (E. Calais) r 54, farmer 60. 

GEORGE EDWIN R., (E. Calais) harnessmaker and dealer in harnesses, 
etc., h and lot. 

George Luella, (E. Calais) r 33, owns 3 acres. 

GEORGE OSCAR F., (E. Calais) physician and farmer, resides with Ed- 
win R. 

Giddings John S., r 57, farmer 39. 

Gilbert Joseph O., (E. Calais) harnessmaker for E. R. George. 

Goodall Riley C, (N. Calais) r 44, laborer. 

Goodell Frank A., (N. Calais) r 29, farmer with his father, Roswell J. 

Goodell Irena M., (E. Calais) r 35, widow of L. P., 8 cows, farm 77. 

"Goodell John A., (E. Calais) r 69, farm laborer, emp. C. A. Moore. 

Goodell Lemuel P., (N. Calais) r 39, farmer, leases of J. Q. Haskell 22. 

Goodell Mary E., (N. Calais) r 29, school teacher. 

Goodell Moses S., (N. Calais) r 21, 10 cows, farmer 100. 

Goodell Roswell J., (N. Calais) r 29, 8 cows, 450 sugar trees, farmer 88. 

Gould Charles A., r 41, 7 cows, farmer 100. 

Gray Charles A., (E. Calais) r 69, 24 head cattle, 600 sugar trees, farmer 90. 

GRAY CLARK M , (E. Calais) r 55 cor. 46, 19 cows, 10 head other cattle, 
farmer 200. 

Gray Clark S., (E. Calais) r 69, 9 cows, 900 sugar trees, farmer 112, aged 75. 

Gray Frank, (E. Calais) r 69. 10 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, 
farmer, leases of G. B. W. Bliss 70. 

Gray Freeman H., (E. Calais) r 67, 1 1 head cattle, 450 sugar trees, farmer 100. 

Gray George H., M. D., (E. Calais) eclectic physician and surgeon, h and 
lot Main. 

Gray George S., ^N. Montpelier) r 80, farmer 23. 

Gray Herbert C, (E. Calais) r 55 cor. 46, farmer with his father, Clark M. 

Gray Otis, r 43, 7 cows, manager town poor farm 130. 

Guernsey Almon C, r 44, 22 cows, 10 head other cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, 
farmer 20. 

GUERNSEY ESTHER A. Miss, (E. Calais) r 45, summer resident, home 
address 131 Newbury St., Boston, Mass. 

Guernsey Fred E , r 44, farmer with his father, Almon C. 

GUERNSEY OSCAR W., (E. Calais) r 34, 17 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, 
farmer 159, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols. 

Hackett John S., r 27, farm laborer. 

Hall George E., off r 58, farmer 50. 

Hall J. Van, (N. Calais) r 47, farmer with his father, John VV. 

HALL JOHN W., (N. Calais) r 47, 10 head cattle, 225 sugar trees, 40 apple 
trees, farmer 8 i. 

HALL WILLIAM C, (E. Calais) emp. Levison & Lamb Mfg. Co., h Main. 

HAMMOND JOHN F. C, (E. Calais) farm laborer, sergeant of Co. A, 6th 
Vt. Vols./h and lot School. 

Hammond Lucy B. Mrs., (E. Calais) resides with C. R. Dwinell, aged 76. 

Harwood Taylor, (E. Calais) r ^;^, farmer 34. 

Harwood Willis T., (E. Calais) r ^^, farm laborer, painter, and canvasser. 

Haskell Chauncey C, (N. Calais)'r 7, farm laborer for S. F. Bailey. 



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HASKELL EDWIN D.. (N. Calais) general merchant and job printer, Main, 

h and lot tlo. 
HASKELL JOHN Q., (E. Calais) r 19 cor. 20, 29 head cattle, 500 sugar 

trees, 150 apple trees, farmer 150^, and at N. Calais 10. 
Haskell Kate A., (E. Calais) rig cor. 20, farmer 20. 
Haskell Recta C. Mrs., (N. Calais) r 15, farmer 100. 

Hathaway Mahlon S., r 10, town supt. of schools, 10 head cattle, farmer 70. 
Hawkins Almon W., r 3, 8 horses, apiarist 17 colonies, farmer 120. 
Hawkins Darius E., r 2, dealer in watches, clocks, and jewelry, and repairer.. 
Hawkins David F., r 3 cor. 4, apiarist 4 colonies, farmer 30. 
Hawkins George T., off r 11, farmer, leases of A. Wheeler 180. 
Hawkins Harry E., r 3, laborer. 

Hawkins John W., r 3, 8 horses, apiarist 17 colonies, farmer 120. 
Hawkins Tisdell, off r 11, retired farmer, aged 77. 
Heath William, (Montpelier) r 64, laborer. 

Herrick William V., (INIontpelier) r 60, 6 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 53. 
Hersey Herman E., r 9, 300 sugar trees, farmer 117^. 
Hersey Nathaniel S., r 45, carpenter and joiner, h and lot. 
Hicks Elnora G., (E. Calais) r 49, widow of A. P.. 25 head cattle, 2,000 

sugar trees, 100 apple and pear trees, farmer 123. 
Hicks Fanny M. Miss, (E. Calais) r 49, resides with Elnora G. 
Hill Benjamin P., r 43, retired mechanic. 
HILL JAMES J., r 43, 8 cows, 400 sugar trees, 75 apple trees, farmer, leases 

of Mrs. Sallis Howard 100. 
Holt Dean S., r 45, farmer with Noah H. 
Holt Noah H., r 45, 6 cows, farmer 22. 

Holton Elijah A., (E. Calais) r 47, with his father, Roderick. 
Holton Roderick, (E. Calais) r 47, 18 head cattle, farmer 112. 
Hopkins Alden, (E. Calais) r 69. retired farmer 75, aged 74. 
IDE IRA, (E. Calais) r 51, 15 cows, 700 sugar trees, 200 apple trees, farmer 

115- 
Jack Alfred F., (N. Calais) r 29, carpenter and joiner, clerk for E. D. Has- 
kell. 
Jack John, (N. Calais) r 15, farm laborer, leases 20 acres of Melvin Tichout. 
JACK T. CELINDA, (E. Calais) r r8, widow of Matthew, 300 sugar trees, 

farmer 100. 
Jacobs Carlos S., (E. Calais) r 45, farmer 18. 
Jacobs Henry, off r 3, 6 cows, farmer 100. 

Jennings Berrilla, (N. Calais) widow of Alva E., h and lot Main. 
Johnson George H., (N. Montpelier) r 70, laborer for F. E. Willard. 
Jones Lucius A., (E. Calais) r 19, 9 head cattle, 200 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Jones Silas F., (E. Calais) r 19, farmer with Lucius A. 
Keniston Marcus C, (E. Calais) r 32, 15 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, farmer 

150, and in Woodbury 20. 
KENT CHARLES V.. r 42, 7 full blood Jersey cows, 18 horses, prop, stock 

horses '"Autocrat," " Van Franklin Standard No. 6,120," and "C. H. 

Briggs," full brother to No. 6,120, 1,100 sugar trees, 50 apple trees, 

farmer 96, and pasture land in Woodbury 100. 
Kent George, Jr., r 25, 15 head cattle, farmer 28. 
KENT GEORGE W., r 25, 50 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 280, and 

in Elmore, Lamoille Co., 100. 
Kent Herbert A., ir full blod Jersey cows, 15 head young cattle, 8 horses, 

farmer 98, h at Kent's Corners. 

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66 TOWN OF CALAIS. 



Kent Ira, r 40 cor. 27, retired farmer, aged 85, 12 cows, 500 sugar trees, 

farm 160, and 150 on r 45. 
Kent John V. R., r 40, retired farmer, aged 74, h and lot, owns 200 acres in 

Elmore. Lamoille Co., and in Woodbury. 
Kent Lucy A., widow of Abdial, farm 98, h at Kent's Corners. 
Kent Leroy A., postmaster and general merchant, Kent's Corners. 
Kent Lucy A., widow of Abdial, farm 98, h at Kent's Corners. 
Kent Murray A., r 40, auctioneer and laborer. 
King Benjamin, (E. Calais) retired farmer, h Main. 
LAMB JACOB O., (E. Calais) (Levison & Lamb Mfg. Co.) photographer, h 

Main. 
Lamberton Moses R., (E. Calais) blacksmith, Main, h do. 
Lamphere Theron T., r 27, insurance agent, dealer in phosphates, 24 head 

cattle, farmer, leases of Harvey Ainsworth 154. 
Laundry Jesse, r 2, laborer. 
LeBARRON ORLANDO C, (E. Calais) r 52, 15 head cattle, 400 sugar 

trees, 200 apple trees, farmer 150. 
LeBarron Truman, (N. Montpelier) r 73, 10 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 

ISO- 
LEONARD ALMA D., (E. Calais) r 34, school teacher, taught 30 terms. 
Leonard Joseph W., (E. Calais) r 34, 20 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, 

farmer 160. 
Leonard Lee W., (E. Calais) r 32 cor. 37, clerk for White & Pierce, bds. 

with B. P. White. 
Leonard Lewis O , (E. Calais) leases saw-mill of A. Dwinell. 
LEONARD ORLANDO H., (N. Calais) r 30, 6 cows, 800 sugar trees, 

farmer no, served in Co. G, 4th Vt. Vols. 
Levison & Lamb Mfg. Co., (E. Calais) (C. G. Levison, of New York, and 

Jacob O. Lamb) manufs. of druggists' fine wooden boxes, wholesale 

office 290 Broadway, New York city. 
Lilley Harvey W., (E. Calais) r 46, dealer in hay and prop, hay press, 10 

cows, 9 head young cattle, farmer 200. 
LILLEY WILLARD, (E. Calais) r 52, 23 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, 

100 apple trees, farmer 155, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols., and lost an 

arm. 
Lindsey William E., (Montpelier) r 60 cor. 59, laborer for H. W. Town. 
LOWELL LUVIA A., (E. Calais) farmer. 
Marsh Betsey, (N. Calais) widow of Jacob A., h and 19 acres. 
Marsh Marinda R., (N. Calais) widow of Jason, h and lot Main. 
Marshall Frank J., (Marshfield) r 36, farm laborer for John. 
Marshall John, (Marshfield) r 36, 10 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Martin Adin M., (E. Calais) r 51, farm laborer. 
Martin Andrew J., (N. Calais) r 14, millwright, 10 head cattle, and farm 

130. 
MARTIN ARDIN, (E. Calais) r5i, 12 cows, 600 sugar trees, 75 apple 

trees, farmer, leases of W. C. Bugbee 120. 
Martin Charles E., (N. Calais) r 39, 9 cows, farmer 135. 
Martin Clarence S., r 24, laborer. 

Martin James, r 61, farmer 51, served in Co. I, 9th Vt. Vols. 
Martin John A., emp. W. P. Slayton. 
Martin Joseph B , (N. Montpelier) r 72, 12 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, 75 

apple trees, farmer 87. 
Martin Louis K., (N. Calais) carpenter and joiner, h and 5 acres. Main. 



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Martin Philip S., (N. Montpelier) r 72, laborer. 

Martin William, r 25, farm laborer. 

Martin William, r 41, mechanic and farmer. 

McKnight Thomas, r 10, retired carpenter, aged 82. [Died Sept. i, 1888.] 

McLoud Henry H., (Montpelier) r 63, 9 cows, 12 head young cattle, 900 

sugar trees, farmer 160. 
Merritt Addison. (E. Calais) r 52, farmer 60. 
Merritt Ruth, (E. Calais) r 52, farmer 60. 
Merritt Walter, (N. Montpelier) r 79, farmer 35. 
Mills ]ohn. r 2, farmer and sawyer, h and lot. 
MOORE CLIFTON A., (E. Calais) r 69, 38 head catile, prop, stock horse 

"Young Ethan," 800 sugar trees, roo young apple trees, farmer 225. 
Moore Edward (E. Calais) r 69, retired farmer, aged 74. 
Morse Allen, r 10, cor 11, 7 full blood Jersey cows, 240 sugar trees, 60 apple 

trees, farmer 65. 
Morse Harry A., (Montpelier) r 42, farmer with his father, John. 
Morse John, (Montpelier) r 42, 27 cows, 15 head young cattle, 400 sugar 

trees, 60 apple trees, farmer 300. 
Moulton David H., (E. Calais) r 36, laborer, emp. George Sumner, of Bos- 
ton, Mass. 
MOWER ALBION J., r 13, 10 cows, 26 head young cattle, 50 sheep, 11 

horses, 2 stock horses, '' Morgan " and " Gen. Stannard," 1,500 sugar 

trees, 200 apple trees, farmer 400, captain of Co. I, 9th Vt. Vols. 
Nelson Azro, r 41, 75 apple trees, farmer 25. 
Nelson Byron H., r 25, laborer. 
Nelson James C.,r 42, farmer 35. 
Nelson Lewis W., r r, 1,200 sugar trees, farmer 231. 
Newton Henry H., (E. Calais) cabinet maker and joiner, aged 81, h and lot 

Main. 
JNichols Horace M,, (N. Montpelier) r 70, cor 66, 10 cows, farmer 120. 
Nye Ada I., (N. Calais) school teacher 17 teams, bds. with Melvin. 
Nye Alanson, (Montnelier) r 62, 9 cows. 300 sugar trees, farmer 74. 
-NYE BURT W., (N. Calais) house, sign and carriage painter, bds. with his 

father, Melvin, Main. 
Nye Melvin, (N. Calais) carpenter, joiner and wheelwright, h Main. 
ORMSBEE DeWITT CLIN TOM. (N. Calais) r 16, farmer 193, served in 

Co. I, nth Vt. Vols. 
Ormsbee John T., (Marshfield) r 36, 13 head cattle, 700 sugar trees, farmer 

Ormsbee Jonas G., (N. Calais) owns h and 99 acres, and in Woodbury 6. 
Ormsbee Thomas J., (N. Calais) r 15, 6 cows, farm 100. [Deceased.] 
Owen Sullivan D., (E. Calais) r 67, runs hulled corn cart, farmer, leases of 

Mrs. Fanny Spaulding, of Barre, 67. 
PARKER CHARLES H., r 44, owns farm 20, and farmer for Mrs. Philura 

Templeion. 
Parker George W., (E. Calais) r 38, draws freight to Plainfield depot, 13 

head cattle, farmer 70. 
PARKER LEANDER C, (N. Calais) r 8, 16 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, 

150 apple trees, farmer 140. 
Patterson Carter, (N. Calais) r 39 cor. 21, retired farmer. 
Pearce Alonzo D., (E. Calais) draws freight to Plainfield, farmer 15, h Main. 
PEAPvCE INEZ M., (E. Calais) dressmaker and librarian of circulatmg 

library, h Main. 



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Peck Sharlock, (E. Calais) retired farmer, aged 76, h and 12 acres in E. 

Montpelier, h and lot Main. 
Peck Wesley C, (E. Calais) r 53, 19 head cattle, 8 horses, farmer 160. 
Peck Willard D., (E. Calais) r 48, farm laborer, emp. William V. 
PECK WILLIAM V., (E. Calais) r 48, (Peck & Dudley) inventor of the 

odorless fertilizers, 8 cows, 6 horses, 19 head swine, 500 sugar trees, 100 

apple trees, farmer 97, captain of Co. H, 13th Vt. Vols. 
PECK & DUDLEY, (P. O. box 170, Montpelier, or E. Calais) (William V. 

P. and D. W. D., of Montpelier) manufs. of odorless fertilizers. 
Perry Lemuel, r 57, retired farmer, aged 8^. 
PERSONS DELBERT J., r 74, farm laborer for Joseph, Jr. 
Persons Joseph, r 39, retired blacksmith^ aged 78, h and lot. 
Persons Joseph, Jr., r 74, 14 head cattle, farmer 97. 
Pierce George O., (E. Calais) r 34, 17 head cattle, 8 horses, 1,000 sugar 

trees, ico apple trees, farmer 137^. 
PIERCE LOOMIS 8., (E. Calais) r 35, 15 head cattle, 5 horses, 600 sugar 

trees, farmer 33, and in Woodbury 65. 
PIERCE WALTER L., (E. Calais) (White & Pierce). 
Pierce Zalmon, (E. Calais) r 36, 24 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, 75 apple 

trees, farmer 250. 
Pike Albert S., r 3q, retired millwright. 
Pike Horace, (E. Calais) farm laburer, h Main. 
PITKIN BYRON P., (Marshfield) r 36, 350 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, 

farmer 50. 
Pitkin Ella D., (Marshfield) r 36, prop, saw-mill at Cabot. 
PRATT WILLIS W., (N. Calais) r 46, 400 sugar trees, farmer, leases of H. 

R. Bailey 48. 
Pray Fred L., r 10, laborer. 
Pray Larnard C, (N. Montpelier) r 76, cook at Pavillion Hotel. Montpelier, 

h and lot. 
Pray William M., r 4, 6 cows, farmer no. 

PREVOST LOUIS L , (E. Calais) emp. Levison & Lamb Mfg. Co. 
Putnam Orson, (N. Calais) blacksmith, horseshoer and carriage ironer. Main, 

h do. 
Remick George, (N. Calais) r 2r, farmer, served 3 years and 5 months in Co. 

A, 8th Vt. Vols. 
Rich Drury, poor farm. 

Rickard Harley E., (N. Calais) r 30, 50 apple trees, farmer 100. 
Rickard Otis J., (N. Calais) r 30, farmer 30. 
Roberts Jerome H., (E. Calais) r 69, carriage painter. 
Robinson Caroline E., widow of William C, h and lot at Maple Corners. 
Robinson Ina Lucy, teacher, bds. Maple Corners. 
Robinson Irving, r 41. farmer with his father, Julius S. 
ROBINSON JULIUS S., r 41, 14 cows, 8 horses, 700 sugar trees, 40 apple 

trees, farmer 25. 
Robinson Samuel O., r 45, town clerk and treasurer, prop, grist-mill, farm 20, 

owns the ground upon which was built the first saw-mill in town, by Col. 

Jacob Davis and Samuel Twiss, between June 6, 1792, and Oct. 2, 1793. 
Rublee Charles, (E. Calais) r 18, farm laborer for Mrs. T. C. Jack. 
Russ Charles C, (N. Calais) r 29, laborer. 

Russ Eddie G., (N. Calais) clerk for E. D. Haskell, and farm laborer, h Main. 
Sabin John C, r 9, carpenter and joiner, h and 4 acres. 
Sanders Arthur L., r 45, farm laborer. 



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Sanders Asbury, r 43, 9 grade Jersey cows, 500 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, 

farmer 175. 
SANDERS AUSTIN H., r 45, farmer 30. 
Sanders George E., r 45, laborer. 
SCRIBNER ANDREW J., (N. Calais) r 20, 20 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, 

farmer 120. 
Scribner Herbert F., (N. Calais) r 19 cor. 20, laborer. 
Sicely Joseph, (E. Calais) r 77, h and 3 acres. 

Slade Howard, (Worcester) r 26, retired carpenter and joiner, aged 86. 
SLAYTON ALFRED O., (E. Calais) r 46, 13 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, 

farmer 135, and owns 6 acres in E. Montpelier. 
SLAYTON ARO P., (Montpelier) r 62, 6 grade Jersey cows, 300 sugar trees, 

60 apple trees, farmer 56, in E. Montpelier 7, captain of Co. H, 13th 

Vt. Vols. 
Slayton Elijah H., (Montpelier) r 64, 14 cows, 600 sugar trees, farmer 160. 
SLAYTON GEORGE C, (E. Calais) r 48, butcher, 7 cows, farmer 90. 
SLAYTON JOSEPH A., r 10, 12 grade Jersey cows, 16 head young cattle, 

500 sugar trees, 75 apple trees, farmer 135. 
Slayton Lucy M., (Montpelier) r 62, school teacher. 
Slayton Orrin L., (Montpelier) r 62, farmer with his father, Aro P. 
Slayton Otis, (E. Calais) wood turner, fork, rake, and hoe handles, manuf. 

of crutches, farm 48 on r 32, h and lot Main. 
SLAYTON SIMEON G., (N. Montpelier) r 65, farmer 91. 
SLAYTON WALTER P., (N. MontpeHer) r 65, 22 head cattle, 1,000 sugar 

trees, 100 apple trees, farmer 204. 
Sloan Lucy A., (E. Calais) r 35, widow of Arunah. 
Slone Asel, r 2, farmer 100. 

SMITH MARTIN A.,r 41, 23 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 127. 
SMITH ORANGE S., r 13, 12 head cattle, 40 apple trees, farmer 63, and 

in Woodbury 40. 
Smith Walter S., r 13, farmer with his father, Orange S. 
Southwick George W., (N. Montpelier) r 69, farmer 37I-. 
SPARROW EDSON J., r 57, 16 grade Jersey cows, 1,000 sugar trees, 

farmer 120. 
Spencer George W., (N. Calais) r 17, roof painter, dealer in Metcalf's fire- 
proof paint. 
Sprague Frank L., (E. Calais) r 36, farm laborer, erab. Zalmon Pierce. 
Stanton Isaac M., (E. Calais) r 69 cor. 67, farmer 75. 
Stickney Elbridge H., (Worcester) r 26, 10 cows, farmer 77. 
Stickney Leroy W., (Worcester) r 26, professor of music in Boston, Mass. 
Stoddard William E., (E. Calais) r 32, house painter. 
Stow Alonzo, (N. Calais) retired blacksmith, aged 78, h Main. 
SUMNER S. W., (E. Calais) farmer. 
Tabor Isaac S., (N. Calais) r 39, farmer 15. 
Tashro Olmon, (E. Calais) r 34, laborer for J. W. Leonard. 
Templeton Philura Mrs., r 44, farm 30. 

Thomas John, (E. Calais) r 19, 14 head cattle, 450 sugar trees, farmer 98. 
THURSTON OVETT C, r 57, 11 grade Jersey cows, 11 head young cattle, 

250 sugar trees, farmer 187. 
TITCHOUT ALVA, (N. Calais) laborer, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols., h 

and lot Main. 
TOBY MARTIN D., (Montpelier) r 62, 7 grade Jersey cows, 1,600 sugar 

trees, 150 apple trees, farmer 84. 



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Toby Mary C, r 24, widow of J. K., farm 58. 

Toby William E., (N. Calais) r 17, retired carpenter and wheelwright. 

TOWN HENRY W., (Montpeher) r 60 cor. 59, 18 cows, 7 horses, 800 sugar 

trees, farmer 140. 
Tucker Almon A., (E. Calais) r 51, 9 cows, 15 head cattle, farmer, leases of 

Mrs. Eleanor Wells 140, and owns in Marshfield 40. 
Van Orman Jerome B., r 39, blacksmith and horseshoer, h and lot. 
Wait Marcus S., (E. Calais) h and lot Main. 
WATSON CHARLES A., r 24, town grand juror, pres. Woodbury Granite 

Co., dealer in carriages, road carts, sleighs, harnesses, and robes, 1 1 cows, 

50 sheep, 21 horses, farmer 100, served in Co. C, 13th, and Co. E, 

17th Vt. Vols. 
Webb Simeon, (E. Calais) prop, grist-mill, h Main. 
WELLS ALVAH N., r 27, carpenter and joiner. 
Wells Henry C, (E. Calais) r 69, mechanic, 700 sugar trees, farmer 104, and 

in Woodbury 100. 
Wheeler Aaron, (Worcester) r 11, 10 cows, 12 head young cattle, i full blood 

Durham bull, 27 sheep, 800 sugar trees, 150 apple trees, farmer 500. 
Wheeler Alonzo L., r 40, stage driver from Calais to Montpelier. 
Wheeler Benjamin, r 43, 500 sugar trees, 75 apple trees, farmer 100. 
Wheeler Benjamin F., (Worcester) r 26, Christian clergyman, h and 18 acres. 
Wheeler Enoch O., (Worcester) r 26, farmer 60. 
Wheeler Martin C, (Worcester) r 11, farmer with his father, Aaron. 
Wheeler Melvin J., r 42, farmer 25. 
Wheeler Phineas, (E. Calais) r 18, prop, saw-mill, 14 head cattle, 200 sugar 

trees, farmer tig, and in Woodbury 80. 
Wheeler Simeon S., r 24, laborer. 
Wheeler Vernon B., (N. Montpelier) r 69, farmer, leases of H. C. Wells 800 

sugar trees and farm 100. 
Wheelock Alfred P., (E. Calais) r 52 cor. 57, 400 sugar trees, 75 apple trees, 

farmer 70. 
Wheelock Mehitable, r 28, widow of J., owns farm. 

Wheelock Omer, (Worcester) r 26, 12 cows, 250 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Wheelock Russell, (E. Calais) shoemaker, Main, h do. 
White Benjamin P., (E. Calais) (White & Pierce) postmaster and notary 

pubhc. 
WHITE CHARLES R., 7 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 92, served as ist 

sergeant of Co. H, 13th Vt. Vols. 
WHITE CLARENCE N., (Montpelier) r 62, 10 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, 

farmer 140. 
White Elijah E., (E. Calais) cooper, carpenter and joiner, h Main. 
White Ira L., (N. Calais) bridge builder, carpenter and joiner, leases h and 

15 acres of his son John W., of Blackstone, Mass. 
White Jacob, (E. Calais) r 52, manuf. butter tubs, lives with Benjamin P., 

aged 82. 
White Oscar F., (E. Calais) r 19, 200 sugar trees, farmer 65. 
WHITE WILLIAM, 6 grade Jersey cows, 12 head swine, 56 sheep, 300 

sugar trees, 100 apple trees, farmer 162, h at Maple Corners. 
WHITE WILLIAM L., clerk for L. A., h at Kent's Corners. 
WHITE & PIERCE, (E. Calais) (Benjamin P. W. and Walter L. P.) gen- 
eral merchants and agents for soluble Pacific guano. 
Wilber Simeon, (E. Calais) prop, grist-mill on Kingsbury Branchy dealer in 

flour, feed, and meal, h and lot Main. 



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Wilbur Alonzo E., (S. Woodbury) r 20, farm laborer for his father, Reuben. 
Wilbur Eva L. Mrs., (E. Calais) dealer in millinery and fancy goods, h Main. 
Wilbur Reuben, (S. Woodbury) r 20, 15 head cattle, 31 sheep, 500 sugar 

trees, 150 apple trees, farmer 140. 
Willard Fitch E., (N. Montpelier) r 70, 15 cows, 10 head young cattle, 300 

sugar trees, farmer 200. 
WING^CHARLES A., (E. Calais) r 49, tinsmith, and laborer for Mrs. E. G. 

Hicks. 
Wright Mason W., (N. Calais) r 39 cor. 21, 10 cows, farmer i6o, aged 8;^. 



DUXBURY. 

(J^or explanations, etc., see page 3, part second.) 

(Postoffice address is Du.xbury, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Abret Stephen, (Waterbury) r 18, farmer, leases of R. O'Brien 100. 

Ames Ann E., (Waterbury) r 19, widow of Philo, resides in the first house 

built in town. 
Andrews George D., (Moretown) r 39, farmer with his father, Jacob D. 
Andrews Jacob D., (Moretown) r 39, 900 sugar trees, 45 head cattle, farmer 

390- 
Armes Jesse W., (Waterbury) r 19, carpenter and joiner. 
Armes Permele, (Waterbury) r 19, widow of Deacon Ira, farm 8, aged 89. 
Armington George F., (Waterbury) r 30, farmer 158. 
Atherton Amoriah C, (Waterbury) r 25, 19 head cattle, 375 sugar trees, 

farmer 160. 
ATHERTON CHARLES W., (Waterbury) r 28, constable and collector, 

dealer in groceries, flour, feed, and Baker's horse and cattle medicines, 

500 sugar trees, 11 cows, farmer 140 and io|- on r 19. 
Atkins Charles H., (Waterbury) r 22, retired miller, aged 76. 
ATKINS EDWIN G., CMoretown) r 43, served in Co. B, 13th Vt. Vols. 
ATKINS FRANK C, (N. Duxbury) r 3, sawyer. 
ATKINS HARVEY S., (N. Duxbury) r 3, clapboard sawyer. 
Atkins James W., (Waterbury) r 18, 7 head cattle, farmer 175. 
Atkins Sidney E., (Moretown) r 38, foreman and sawyer, emp. H. O. Ward. 
Avery Clark, (Moretown) r 43, 600 sugar trees, 9 head cattle, farmer 125. 
Baldmg W. Edwin, (Moretown) r 43, wheelwright, farmer 50. 
Bates Salmon, (N. Duxbury) r 13^, blacksmith, emp. J. A. & L. J. Durkee. 
Bennett William H., (Moretown) r 40, farmer, leases of C. Corliss [50. 
Bessey Orin, (N. Duxbury) r i, laborer. 
Bogs Louisa Mrs., (Waterbury) r 19, resident, h and lot. 
Bruce Chloera, (Waterbury) r 19, h and lot. 
Bruce Luther D., (Waterbury) r 19, farmer 7^\, aged 80. 
Buckley Don, (Moretown) r 37, farmer 200. 
Burk Michael, (N'. Duxbury) off r 9, 6 cows, farmer 150. 
Burk Patrick, (N. Duxbury) r 9, 10 head cattle, farmer 125. 
Burk Richard, (N. Duxbury) r 9, 17 head cattle, farmer 200. 



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Cain Mary M., (Waterbury) r 19, widow of Timothy, h and lot. 

Callahan Frank, (N. Duxbury) r 13, 10 head cattle, farmer 100. 

Canedy Sophronia, (Waterbury) widow of L. T. 

Carver John, (Waterbury) r 23, 20 head cattle, farmer 250. 

Carver Thomas, (Waterbury) r 29, 15 head cattle, farmer 200. 

CASEY MICHAEL R., (N. Duxbury) r 9, laborer with William. 

Casey Timothy, (Waterbury) off r 8, 10 head cattle, farmer 300. 

Casey William, (N. Duxbury) r 9, 300 sugar trees, 200 apple trees, 8 head 
cattle, farmer 100. 

Clark Francis, (N. Duxbury) r 11, h and lot, aged 76. 

Clark Nathan H., (Waterbury) r 34, 7 head cattle, farmer 25. 

Clark Otis S., (Waterbury) r 34, farmer 108. 

Clark Prentiss S., (N. Duxbury) r 13^, laborer. 

Coburn Henry R., (Waterbury) r 6, brick mason, 13 head cattle, 350 sugar 
trees, farmer 80. 

Cola Lewis, (Waterbury) off r 28, farmer 28. 

Collins Filando, (Waterbury) r 22, farmer 25. 

Conely Kerry, (N. Duxbury) r 13, 12 head cattle, farmer 100. 

Conner William H., (N. Duxbury) r 2, laborer. 

Corliss Benjamin, (Moretown) r 40, 500 sugar trees, 16 head cattle, farmer 
160. 

Corliss Charles B., (Moretown) r 40, farmer 150. 

Corliss William E.. (Moretown) laborer. 

Corse Wells E., (Waterbury) r 16, farmer 50. 

Crosby James W., (Waterbury) r 22, retired conductor. 

Crossett Cornelia A., (Waterbury) widow of E. C, resident, owns 2 houses 
and farm 13. 

Crossett James, (Waterbury) r 22, 1,200 sugar trees, 25 cows farmer 300. 

*CROSSETT JAMES E., (Waterbury) r 22, 2d selectman, prop, saw-mill, 
dealer in all kinds of dimension hard and soft wood lumber, leases of 
James 25 cows and 1,200 sugar trees, owns 24 head cattle, 4 horses, 2 
houses, and wild land 400. 

DAVIS ALPHA W.. (N. Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 

Davis Fred C, (N. Duxbury) r 4, 6 cows, farmer, leases of Russell 160. 

Davis George W., (Waterbury) r 6, 9 head cattle, farmer 130. 

Davis Joel T., (Waterbury) r 22, farmer 11. 

Davis Russell, (N. Duxbury) r 4, 6 cows, farmer iCo. 

Durkee Alba J., (N. Duxbury) r 13^, laborer. 

Durkee Arba, (N. Duxbury) r 13^, laborer. 

DURKEE J. A. & L. J. (N. Duxbury) r 13^, props, steam -mill for manufac- 
turing barrel staves, shingles and clapboards, timber land 1,400. 

DURKEE JOHN A., (N. Duxbury) r 13^, (J. A. & L. J. Durkee) 3d 
selectman, prop, saw-rnill, manuf. of dimension lumber, 2 houses and 
blacksmith shop, served in Co. I, 9th Vermont Vols., commander of 
Dillingham Post, No. 22, G. A. R., of Waterbury. 

DURKEE LESLIE J., (N. Duxbury) r 13I, (J. A. & L. J. Durkee) owns 
3 houses, and farm 100. 

Durkee Owen G., (N. Duxbury) r 13^, foreman for J. A. & L. J. Durkee. 

Egan John W., (Waterbury) r 28, 20 head cattle farmer 167. 

Farnesworth Francis F., (Waterbury) r 6, retired cabinet maker, aged 79. 

Farnsworth George, (Moretown) r 31, 14 head cattle, farmer 135. 

Farnsworth Silas A., (Waterbury) r 34, farm laborer. 



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FARRAND DAVID E., (Waterbury) r 19, carpenter and bridge builder, 6 

cows, farmer 50. 
Foss Jacob, (Waterbury) r 19, 9 head cattle, farmer 77. 
Foster Samuel S., (Waterbury) r 19, sawyer and carpenter. 
Freeman George W., (Moretown) r 39, painter, 13 head cattle, farmer 54. 
Gabree Henry J., (Waterbury) r 19, laborer, owns h and lot. 
Gabree Silas, (Waterbury) r 19, laborer. 
Gorman Patrick R., (Waterbury) r 16, 15 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, farmer 

100. 
Grace Edward, (N. Duxbury) r 14, farmer 160. 
Grace Patrick, (N. Duxbury) laborer. 
Grace Robert, (N. Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 
Graves Lewis B., (Waterbury) r 17, 300 sugar trees, 300 apple trees, 30 head 

cattle, farmer 100. 
Graves Luther, (Waterbury) r 17, 300 sugar trees, 300 apple trees, 30 head 

cattle, farmer 160. 
GREY DARIUS A., (Waterbury) r 4, prop, stock horse " Reindeer," 19 

head cattle, 7 horses, soldier in Co. K, 6th Vt. Vols. 
Grey Elisha B., (Waterbury) r 4, farm laborer. 
Griffith Milo H., (Moretown) r4i, 500 sugar trees, 14 head cattle, farmer 

150. 
Griffith Roland A., (Moretown) laborer. 
Griffith Vernon D., (Moretown) lumberman, and farmer 30. 
Griffith William C, (Moretown) r 38, laborer. 
Hart Frank, (Moretown) r 38, farmer roc. 
Hart Frederick A., (Waterbury) r 6, farmer. 
Haskins Alpheus, (N. Duxbury) r 13^, laborer. 
Haskins George M., (N. Duxbury) r 13^, laborer. 
Haskins Jeremiah. (N. Duxbury) r 13^^, farmer 65. 
Hayes VVilliam, (Waterbury) r 30, 12 head cattle, farmer n6. 
Healy John, (Waterbury) r 23, 400 sugar trees, too head cattle, farmer 120. 
Henry Martin L.. (Waterbury) r 20, 13 head cattle, farmer. 
Hills Bark L., (Waterbury) r 27, farmer. 

Hills George W., (Waterbury) r 27, 7 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Hills Grant O., (Waterbury) r 6, laborer. 
Hills L. D. & Z. A., (Waterbury) r 6, 700 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, 15 

head cattle, farmer 115. 
Hills Lorenzo D., (Waterbury) r 6, (L. D. & Z. A. Hills). 
Hills Martin J., (Waterbury) r 34, farmer with S. S. 
Hills Sidnev S., (Waterbury) r 27, 6 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 74. 
Hills ZerahA., (Waterbury) r 6, (L. D. & Z. A. Hills). 
Hoadley Melvin, (Moretown) r 35, tarmer 49. 
Hoppman Elias P., (Moretown) r 37, retired farmer. 
Hoppman Thomas E., (.Moretown) r 37, farmer 50. 
HOY THOMAS H., (N. Duxbury) sawyer in Ellis's mill. 
Hunt Fred M... (Moretown) r ;^8, farmer. 
HUNTLEY EBER W.. (Waterbury) r [9, town clerk and treasurer since 

1872, prop, of saw and lumber dressing mill, and manuf of chair stock. 
Huntley Isaiah, (Waterbury) r 19, retired farmer, aged 83. 
Hurdle John I., (N. Duxbury) r 13, farmer, leases of A Lewis 12. 
Johnson Benjamin B , (Moretown) r 43, farmer 80. 
Johnson Ebenezer, (Moretown) r 43, retired farmer. 
Johnson Frank E., (Moretown) r 43, farmer 16. 



74 TOWN OF DUXEURY. 



Johnson Ira I., (Moretown) r 34, farmer 60. 

Kellogg Charles W.. (Moretown) r 40, 7 cows, farmer 100. 

Kellogg Samuel C, (Moretown) r 40, 8 head cattle, farmer. 

Kennedy Samuel R., (N. Duxbury) r 2, 10 cows, farmer 120, and mountain 

land 100. 
Kennedy Thomas, (N. Duxbury) r 9, farmer 96. 
Kirby Edward^ (N. Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 
Kirby Willie, (N. Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 
Knapp Orlando, (Waterbury) r 19, retired shoemaker. 
Labell Emery M., (Waterbury) 12 cows, farmer, leases on shares of E. G. 

Moody. 
Lamizell Charles E., (Moretown) r 43, laborer. 
Lamizell Fred W., (Moretown) r 43, laborer. 
Lamizell William, (Moretown) r 43, 12 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Lavanway E. O., (N Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 

Lewis Abel A., (Waterbury) r 6, school superintendent, prop, grist and cider- 
mill, manuf. of boiled cider and apple jelly, farmer 5. 
Lewis Luke M., (N. Duxbury) r 4, farmer 4, woodland 28. 
Little William J., (N. Duxbury) r i^^^, laborer, 
Lyman Anaza, (Waterbury) resident, h and lot. 
Lyman Cyrenun, (Waterbury) laborer. 
Lyman Mary, (Waterbury) r 21, farm 135. 

Lyman Richey, (Waterbury) r 2r, 11 head cattle, farmer, leases of Mary 135. 
Maloney John T., (N. Duxbury) r 11, farmer. [Now in Colorado.] 
Maloney T. Edward, (N. Duxbury) r 13, laborer. 
Maning David, (Waterbury) r 15, 12 head cattle, farmer 225. 
Marrian Thomas, (Waterbury) farmer 37. 
McGrath William, (Waterbury) r 8, 300 sugar trees, 200 apple trees, 10 cows, 

farmer 124. 
McMuUen James C, (Waterbury) farmer with Robert J. 
McMuUen Robert J., (Waterbury) r 22, 12 head cattle^ 700 sugar trees, 

farmer 98. 
Montgomery Drury A., (Moretown) farmer with Eleazer B., owns pasture 

and woodland 112. 
Montgomery Eleazer B., (Moretown) r 31, 700 sugar trees, 22 head cattle, 

farmer 183. 
Montgomery Morris B., (N. Duxbury) r 3 laborer. 
Montny Nelson, (N. Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 
Morse Albert, (Waterbury) r 4, 7 cows, farmer 100, aged 76. 
Morse Buel W., (Waterbury) r 19, teamster and farmer on Crossett hill 4. 
Morse Daniel J., (Waterbury) r 24 farmer 40. 
Morse Edgar H., (Waterbury) r 16, farmer 70. 
Morse Edgar J., (Waterbury) r 4, farmer. 
Morse Edgar J., (N. Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 

Morse George P., (N. Duxbury r g, [50 apple trees, farmer 160. 
Morse Hazen C, (Waterbury) r 19, carpenter and joiner. 
Morse Horace, (Waterbury) off r 24, 300 sugar trees, 13 cows, farmer 130. 
Morse Jacob, (N. Duxbury) r 11, retired farmer, aged 89. 
Morse James, (Waterbury) r 24, laborer. 
MORSE LUCIUS, (Waterbury) r 24, 4 head cattle, 15 sheep, 2 horses, 

farmer 70. 
Morse Samuel C, (N. Duxbury) r 2, lumberman, leases of P. Dillingham, 5 

horses, i yoke oxen, farm 100. 



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75 



Morse Tiberius, (Waterbury) r 25, 300 sugar trees, 8 head cattle, farmer 85. 
Murray Daniel T., (Moretown) r 40, 20 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, farmer 

ISO- 
Murray Lester K., (Moretown) r 40, farmer with Daniel T. 
Neill John, (Moretown) off" r 40, 14 head cattle, farmer 140. 
Nelson Stephen, (Fayeston) 16 head cattle, farmer 200. 
O'Brian David J., (N. Duxbury) r 14, 200 sugar trees, 300 apple trees, 17 

cows 14 head other cattle, farmer 310. 
O'BRIAN JAMES, (Waterbury) r 7, 12 head cattle, 2 horses, farmer 140. 
O'Brian Timothy, (N. Duxbury) r 14, 17 cows, farmer roo. 
O'Brien Michael, (N. Duxbury) r 13, 12 cows, 8 head other cattle, farmer 

160. 
O'Neil John, (N. Duxbury) r 14, 9 cows, farmer 160. 
O'Neil John, Jr., (N. Duxbury) r 13, 10 head cattle, farmer 215, 
Pape George T., (N. Duxbury) r 11, 8 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Parcher Henry J., (Moretown) r 38, 7 cows, farmer 75. 
Perkins William, (N. Duxbury) r 3, blacksmith. 
Perish Emily, (Waterbury) h and lot. 
Perry Jesse T., (Waterbury) r 19, wheelwright, farmer 40. 
Phillips Albert M., (Moretown) r 43, farmer 7. 
Phillips Alva B., (Waterbury) r 35, laborer. 
Phillips John B., (Waterbury) r 35, prop, saw-mill, farmer 105. 
Phillops Don E., (Waterbury) r 28, farmer 115. 
Phillops Wendell E., (Waterbury) r 28, farmer 115. 
Pickett Benjamin F., (Waterbury) r 28, 10 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Pickett Frank O., (Waterbury) r 28, laborer. 
Preston Daniel, (VVaterbury) r 4, 19 head cattle, 7 horses, 400 sugar trees, 

farmer 200. 
Preston John W., (Waterbury) rig, laborer, and farmer 17. 
Preston Rufus, (Waterbury) r 4, 19 head cattle, 20 cows, 7 horses, 40a 

sugar trees, farmer, leases of Daniel 200, and owns in Bolton, Critten- 
den Co., 200. 
Ravlin Jason P., (N. Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 
Ravlin Milo, (N. Duxbury) r i^^, laborer. 
Richards Willie A., (Waterbury) r 24, farm laborer. 

Richardson Cyrus F. ,( Waterbury) r 27,6 cows, farmer with Mrs. McAllister 80. 
Ricker Henry J., (Waterbury; r 6, 17 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer, leases of 

F. A. Atherton 200. 
Ricker Levi F., (Waterbury) r 4, 25 cows, farmer, leases of G.W. Randall 250. 
Russ Daniel, (N. Duxbury) i3|-, engineer, emp. J. A. & S. J. Durkee. 
Russell Heman C, (Waterbury) r 6, farmer 35. 
Sanford Ozias, (N. Duxbury) r 13^, laborer. 
Seaver Charles S , (VVaterbury) r 27, 400 sugar trees, 13 head cattle, farmer, 

leases cf B. Phillips 100. 
Shambo Ernest T., (N. Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 
Shambo Eugene, (N. Duxbury) r i, laborer, h and lot. 
Shaw Oliver, (Waterbury) r 34, farmer 6. 
Sherman Charles, (N. Duxbury) r 36, farmer 100. 
Sherman Charles, (Moretown) r 36, farmer 70. 
Sherman Ezra, (N. Duxbury) farmer 100. 
Sherman Ezra S., (Waterbury) r 42, farmer with Reuben S. 
Sherman Reuben S., (Waterbury) r 42, 9 head cattle, farmer 50. 
Shonio Alfred, (N. Duxbury) r 13^, farmer 158. 



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SHONIO ARNOLD B., (VVaterbury) r 20 cor. 16, farmer 35, served in Co. 

B, 6th Vt. Vols. 
Shonio Chancy S., (Waterbury) r 19, laborer. 
Shonio Manley J., Waterbury) laborer. 
Shonio Philip E., (Waterbury) r 20 cor. 16, laborer. 
Shonio Samuel M., (Waterbury) r 20 cor 16, farm laborer. 
Shonio Sewell P., (Moretown) r 43, cooper and farmer 2. 
Simonds Charles E, (Waterbury) r 28, 11 cows, farmer, leases of C. W. 

Atherton 140. 
Smalley Alfred B., (Waterbury) r 19, blacksmith, agent for Clark's adjustable 

guard plates. 
Smith James, (Waterbury) r 17, farmer 4. 
Sprague Dolly, (Waterbury) r 19, widow of Ira, farmer 125. 
Stitt James, (Waterbury) r 7, farmer 30, aged 93. 
Stockwell Byron J., (Moretown) r 43, 10 cows, farmer 100. 
STRICKLAND' WILLIAM R., (N. Duxbury) lumberman, and farmer 3, 

owns on " Camel's Hump " 105. 
Suraerville Nathan, (Waterbury) 50 cows, 14 head other cattle, 6 horses, 

farmer 212, 
Sumerville Samuel, (Moretown) r 40, 1,000 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 125. 
Sweeney Edward A., (N. Duxbury) r 3, assistant postmaster and station 

agent. 
THOMAS ICHABOD W., (N. Duxbury) r 13^, farmer 25, served in Co. G, 

6th Vt. Vols. 
Toben Patrick, (N. Duxbury) r 9, 9 head cattle, farmer 70. 
Turner Albert C, (Moretown) r 42, farmer with Lyman V. 
Turner Chester, (N. Duxbury) r 13^, farmer 100. 
Turner Harley P., (Moretown) r 43, 450 sugar trees, 130 apple trees, 15 head 

cattle, farmer 80. 
Turner Lyman C, (Moretown) r 43, farmer 55. 
Turner Lyman V., (Moretown) r 42, 800 sugar trees, 16 head cattle, farmer 

200. 
Turner Orson C, (Waterbury) r 19, canvasser and farmer. 
Turner Samuel M., (Moretown) r 42, 325 sugar trees, 27 head cattle, farmer 

ISO- 
Turner Vernon V., (N. Duxbury) r 3, laborer. 

Walker Henry, (N. Duxbury) r 14, lumberman, 6 cows, farmer 100, and 
timber land 130. 

Wallace William W., (Waterbury) r 19, laborer, owns h and lot. 

WARD HIRAM O., (Waterbury) r 27, town representative, ist selectman, 
prop, of 2 saw-mills, and a box factory and grist-mill in Moretown, deal- 
er in all kinds of lumber, 20 head cattle, 5 horses, farmer 115, and wild 
land 1,300. 

Ward William E., (Moretown) r 40, 1,600 sugar trees, 25 cows, 25 head 
young cattle, farmer 380. 

WELLS MARY L. Mrs., (Waterbury) r 19, dealer in millinery and fancy 
goods, farm 8. 

Wheeler Charles, (Moretown) r 37, served in Co. B, loth Vt. Vols. 

Wheeler Charles E., (Moretown) r 40, 500 sugar trees, 16 head cattle, farmer 
100. 

Wheeler Jesse E., (Moretown) r 37, 11 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 
130. 

Wheeler William A., (Moretown) r 41, farmer 2. 



TOWN OF EAST MONTrELIER. 77- 

WHITE EVAN L., (N. Duxbury) r i, station agent, postmaster 14 years, 
dealer in groceries, 5 yoke oxen, 10 head other cattle, 6 horses, prop, 
saw-raill; dealer in all kinds of coarse lumber, farmer 200, and wild land 
1,300. 

White John W., (N. Duxbury) r i, retired sewing machme agent. 

Woodard Edward L., (Moretown) r 36, farmer 85. 

Wrisley Mark H., (Waterbury) r 19, farm laborer. 

Young Jesse, (N. Duxbury) r 2, laborer. 



KAST MONTPKLIER. 

(For explanations, etc., see page 1, part second.) 

(Postoffice address is East Montpelier, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Angell Sylvan us, (Montpelier) r t^t^, carpenter, and farmer about 25. 

Arbuckle Betsey H. Mrs., farmer 15. 

Arbuckle E. Bennett, section boss, M. & W. R. R. R. 

ARBUCKLE FRED N., carpenter and painter. 

Arbuckle Philander, stone mason and carpenter. 

Arms Austin D., (Montpelier) r 28 cor. 34, 300 sugar trees, breeder of high 

grade Jersey cattle. 10 cows, farmer 75. 
BACON HORACE F., (Montpelier^ r 5, carpenter and joiner, farm.er 

about 3. 
BAILEY ALFRED W., (Montpelier) r 46, r,ooo sugar trees, 25 grade 

Jersey cows, farmer 230. 
Bailey James V., (Montpelier) r 2, 8 cows, farmer, leases of Mrs. Caroline 

Bennett, of Montpelier, 80. 
Bancroft Helen C, widow of George W., resident. 

Barton David, (Montpelier) off r 18, bds. with Calvin L. Parmenter, aged 71. 
Basselt Caira Miss, (N. Montpelier) resident, aged 75. 
Batchelder Laura L., (Montpelier) r 12, widow of Augustus F., 275 sugar 

trees, farm 28. 
Batchelder Levi F., (Montpelier) r 12, farmer, manages farm for his mother, 

Laura L. 
Beckley George A., (N. Montpelier) miller, emp. M. V. B. Hollister. 
Bliss Charles C, (Montpelier) r 32, 300 sugar trees, 20 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer 300. 
Bliss Horace E., (Montpelier) r 31, 300 sugar trees 10 cows, farmer 75. 
Brooks Christopher C, r 19, road commissioner, 307 sugar trees, 12 cows, 

farmer 114. 
Brown Frederick, (Montpelier) r 33, laborer. 

BROWN JOSEPH B , (Montpelier) r 18, laborer, 100 fruit trees, farmer 4. 
Bruce Gustavus A., (Montpelier) r 13, mason, 1.200 sugar trees, stall feeder 

of oxen for beef, farmer with Amasa Cummins 125. 
Bushby Amos, (N. Montpelier) wool sorter, emp. G. F. Sibley. 
Byron Frederick, (Montpelier) r 28, retired, bds. with David Fleming. 
Caswell James S., (Montpelier) r 32, emp. Mrs. Fanny Cutler. 



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Gate Alvin M., (N. Montpelier) r 40, 400 sugar trees, 25 cows, grower of 

young cattle and breeder of horses, farmer 300. 
Gate Austin P., (N. Montpelier) farmer with his father, Alvin M. 
Gate Stephen D., (N. Montpelier) r 40, 200 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer 80. 
Ghase George H., (Montpelier) r 13, 200 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer 100. 
Ghoate Edwin R., (N. Montpelier) carpenter and builder. 
GLARK C. MURRAY, r 68, i.ooo sugar trees, 21 grade Jersey cows, 8 

Gotswold sheep, farmer 215. 
GLARK GEORGE H., r 68, 500 sugar trees, breeder of Hambletonian 

horses, 20 grade Jersey cows, farmer 190. 
Glark Merrill C., (N. Montpelier) foreman, emp. G. F. Sibley. 
GLARK ORLANDO, (Montpelier) r 27, lister, 500 sugar trees, 25 high 

grade Jersey cows, breeder of fine horses, farm 188, and on r 43, 450 

sugar trees and farm 56. 
Glark Theophilus, r 21, 800 sugar trees, 16 cows, farmer 200. 
Glifford Amplyus B., wheelwright, and dealer in groceries. 
GLOGSTON GHARLES H., (Montpeher) r 6, 3 grade Jersey cows, farmer 

22, enlisted in the 8th Vt. Regt., Sept., 1861 ; discharged in 1862; re- 
enlisted in Go. E, 17th Regt., went to the front, and lost an arm May 12, 

1864, at the battle of Spottsylvania. 
Glough John, (Montpelier) r 28, farmer 30. 
GOBURN ARTHUR D., r 42, 700 sugar trees, 10 grade Jersey cows, 

breeder of horses, farmer 74. 
Goburn F. William, (Plainfield) r 50, 500 sugar trees, 50 cows, breeder of 

young cattle, 20 head swine, farmer 240. 
GOBURN J. LEANDER, (N. Montpelier) r 41, town law agent, 800 sugar 

trees, breeder of Hambletonian horses, 4 head, 15 cows, farmer 100. 

[Died April 5, 1888.] 
GOBURN JAMES A. Hon,, r 41, notary pubUc, 500 sugar trees, 35 grade 

Jersey cows, farmer 300. 
Goburn Lewis D., (N. Montpelier) r 41, student at Tufts college. 
GORLISS JOHN E., brick layer and plasterer, owns h and lot, High St., 

Barre. 
Grosby George A., (Montpelier) r 54 cor. 44, farmer with William H. Maloy. 
Gullum John, laborer. 
GUMINGS TIMOTHY S., (Montpelier) r i, 400 sugar trees, breeder of 

full blood, Gotswold sheep, 13 head, farmer 700. 
GUMMLVGS DAVID W., (Montpeher) r 55, 100 sugar trees, farmer, owns 

with his mother farm 65. 
GUMMINGS EDGAR A., (Montpelier) r 31, farmer with his father, Lucius. 
GUM MINGS ELIZA A., (Montpeher) r 55, widow of Avery, owns with her 

son David W., farm 65. 
Gummings Lucius, (Montpelier) r 31, 525 sugar trees, 12 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer 100. 
GUMMINS AMASA, (Montpeher) r 13, farmer 125. 
Gurran Daniel W., (N. Montpelier) r 38, laborer. 
Gutler Albert H., (Montpelier) r 38, farmer 50. 
Gutler Glinton, (Plainfield) r 50, 10 cows, 150 sheep, breeder of young cattle, 

conducts the farm of P. M. Shepard 180. 
Gutler Fanny, (Montpelier) r 32, widow of Willard, 300 sugar trees, farm 90. 
Gutler George D., (N. Montpelier) r 37, 18 cows, farmer 126. 
Gutler Nathaniel A., (Montpelier) r 55, 300 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 86. 
Daniels Garolin Mrs., (N. Montpelier) factory operator, h and lot. 



TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 79 

Davis Frederick R., (N. Montpelier) dresser, emp. G. F. Sibley. 

Davis George, r 35, 350 sugar trees, 9 cows, breeder of full blood light 

Bramah fowls, farmer no. 
Davis George E., (Montpelier) r 17, farmer with his father, Timothy. 
Davis Oscar L., (Montpelier) r 13, carpenter, and farmer with his father, 

Samuel. 
Davis Samuel, (Montpelier) r 13, 300 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
DAVIS TIMOTHV'Capt., (Montpelier) r 17, 650 sugar trees, 20 grade 

Jersey cows, farmer 165. 
Dillon Belle Miss, (Montpelier) r 8, nurse, daughter of William Dillon. 
Dillon Michael, (Montpelier) r 8, 4 grade Jersey cows, and farmer 25. 
Dillon William, (Montpelier) r 8, 8 grade Jersey cows, farmer 90. 
DINGWALL ALEXANDER, (Montpelier) r 28, carpenter and joiner, h 

and 7 acres, soldier in Co. C, 13th Vt. Vols. 
Dingwall Cortez A., (Montpelier) r 28, farm laborer. 
Dix George H., r 57, selectman, justice of the peace, 400 sugar trees, 16 

cows, farmer 150. 
DODGE IRA C, (Montpelier) r 28, 1,000 sugar trees, breeder of thorough- 
bred Jersey cattle, reg., 17 full blood and high grade Jersey cows, farmer 

160. 
Dodge Jefferson, r 26, resident, aged 76. 

Dodge William H., (N. Montpelier) r 37, carpenter, and laborer. 
Dudley Charles F., teacher of vocal music, farmer 30. 
ELLIS SYLVANUS, (Montpelier) r 2, 600 sugar trees, 16 high grade Jersey 

cows, farmer 150. 
Emerson John, (Montpelier) r 44, farmer 55. 
Fifield William C, served in Co. F, 6th Vt. Vols., and was confined in Libby 

prison. 
Filch Harry A., (Montpelier) r 18, farmer, leases of Esther Ann Guernsey 60. 
Fleming David, (Montpelier) r 28, farmer 17. 
FOSTER AUSTIN S., r 48, 300 sugar trees, 20 grade Jersey cows, breeder 

of Hambletonian horses, farmer 170. 
FOSTER EDWIN H., r 9, ist selectman, 1,000 sugar trees, 30 grade Jersey 

cows, farmer 200. 
FOSTER WILLIAM J., (Montpelier) r 28, served in Co. B, 4th, and Co. C, 

8th Vt. Vols., pensioner, h and 2 acres. 
FULLER FRED, (Montpelier) r 5, 450 sugar trees, 16 high grade Jersey 

cows, 5 head young cattle, i brood mare, farmer 120. 
GALLISON JOHN W., (Montpelier) r 55, farmer with his father, WiUiam. 
Gallison William, (Montpelier) r 55, farmer 50. 
Glidden Katie R. Miss, (N. Montpelier) weaver, emp. G. F. Sibley. 
Glidden Susan, (N. Montpelier) widow of Levi, resident. 
Goodwin Byron, (N. Montpelier) r 37, 300 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 100. 
Goodwin George, (Montpelier) r 28, fire insurance agent, 10 cows, farmer 80. 
Goodwin Harriet Miss, (N. Montpelier) r 37, music teacher. 
Goodwin Harry W., (N. Montpelier) r 37, farmer, with his father, Byron. 
Gould Albert O., (Montpelier) 13, resident and invalid. 
Gould E. H. & G. F., (Montpelier) r 13, 600 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 

132, pasture and woodland in Calais 165. 
Gould Edwin H., (Montpeher) r 13, (E. H. & G. F. Gould) farm 70. 
Gould George F., (Montpelier) r 13, (E. H. & G. F. Gould). 
Gould Herbert, (Montpelier) r 16, canvasser. 
Gould Hosea, (Montpelier) r 15, resident. 



8o TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 

Gould Ira B., (Montpelier) r 1 8, farm laborer. 

Gould John M., (Montpelier) r i8, 800 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 135. 

Gould Julia E. Miss, (Montpelier) r 13, teacher of piano, organ and vocal 
music. 

Gould Linsey, (Montpelier) r 15, 200 sugar trees, farmer 50. 

Gould Lucius B., (Montpelier) r 16, prop, threshing and wood-sawing ma- 
chine, 8 cows, farmer 90. 

Gould Milo, (Montpelier) r 15, laborer and farmer 4. 

Gould Prentice, (Montpelier) r 15, laborer. 

Gould Roxana, (Montpelier) r 15, widow of Joseph 2d, 200 sugar trees, 
farm 75. 

Gould Stephen, (Montpelier) r 16, farmer 90. 

Gove Austin A.. (Montpelier) r 28, farmer, emp. Ira C. Dodge. 

Gove Elisha, (Montpelier) r 34, 10 cows, farmer 8^, and in Calias 100. 

Gray Albert T., (N. Montpelier) r 23, 9 cows, farmer 90. 

Gray Albert T., (N. Montpelier) r 24, 10 grade Jersey cows, 10 head young 
cattle, farmer 100. 

Gray Betsey Miss, resident aged 85. 

GRAY EZEKIEL D., (N. Montpelier) r 36, breeder of Hambletonian 
horses and manager of stock horse. 

Gray Ruth W. Miss, (N. Montpelier) r 37, dressmaker. 

GREELEY ELLEN, (N. Montpelier) r 39, widow of Stephen, 300 sugar 
trees, 16 cows, farmer 150. 

Greeley William N., (N. Montpelier) r 39, farmer with his mother, Mrs. 
Ellen. 

Greenwood Louis, (Montpelier) r 55, farmer 32. 

Gusha Alonzo B., r 49, 500 sugar trees, 10 grade Jersey and Durham cows, 
50 sheep, prop, stock horse " Tom Cassavant," farmer 90. 

Hackett George H., r 51, shifter, emp. C. V. R, R. 

Hall Abijah, (Montpelier) r 46, machinist and millwright. 

Hall Albert C, (\Iontpelier) r 10, butcher and dealer in fresh and salt 
meats. 

Hall Hattie Mrs., (Montpelier) r 46, farm 46. 

Hamblin Charles W., r 42, dealer in live stock, and farmer with his father, 
Marcus B. 

Hamblin Marcus B., r 42, 500 sugar trees, 12 grade Jersey cows, farmer 73. 

Hamblin Mary Miss, (Montpelier) r 28, h and 2 acres. 

Hamblin Sarah M. Miss, (Montpelier) r 28, Center road, resides with her 
sister Mary. 

HAMMETT GEORGE H., assistant postmaster, breeder of fine Hamble- 
tonian horses, 12 cows, farmer 140. 

HAMMETT LOUIS C, (N. Montpeher) r 36, manager of Hammett stock 
farm. 

HAMMETT STOCK FARM, (N. Montpeher) r 36, F. W. and W. S. Ham- 
mett, of Philadelphia, props , Louis C. Hammett, manager, breeders of 
standard bred road and trotting horses, props, registered stock horse 
" Nordeck," farm 233. 

Hathaway Ellen Miss, dressmaker. 

Hathaway George, (N. Montpelier) finisher, emp. G. E. Sibley. 

Hathaway Henry W., retired farmer. 

Hathaway Melissa Miss, (N. Montpelier) weaver and farmer 14. 

Hersey Calvin, (Montpelier) r ^;^, 400 sugar trees, 15 high grade Jersey cows, 
breeder of Morgan horses, farmer 126. 



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Hersey Elon L., (Montpelier) r ^3, farmer. 

Hill Lorenzo D., r 34^^, 400 sugar trees, breeder of horses, and farnner 55. 
Hill Philip, r 57, retired farmer, resides with his son, S. Wesley, aged 80. 
HILL S. WESLEY, r 57, 600 sugar trees, 30 grade Durham cows, 11 head 

young cattle, breeder of Morgan horses, 7 head, farmer 150. 
HOLLISTER ANDREW J., (N. Montpelier) r 39|-, breeder of young cattle, 

14 cows, farmer 70. 
HOLLISTER CHARLES P., (N. Montpelier) r 38, breeder of young cattle, 

12 cows, farmer 50. 
HoUister Hubert C, (Montpelier) r 6, 9 cows, farmer, leases of Austin Paine 

115- 
HOLLISTER MARTIN V. B., (N. Montpelier) prop, of custom grist, saw, 

and planing-mills, dealer in lumber and shingles, farmer 15. 
Holmes Diana, (N. Montpelier) r 39, widow of William, resident, aged 75. 
Holmes George, laborer. 
Horan Martin, (Montpelier) r 16, farmer 29. 
Howland George^ r 58, auctioneer, 16 grade Jersey cows, 10 head young 

cattle, farmer 135, pasture and timberland 120. 
Hubbard Ashley, (Montpelier) r 46, 400 sugar trees, to cows, farmer 96. 
Huntington George A., station agent and telegraph operator M. & W. R. 

R. R., 250 fowls, and dealer in phosphates. 
Jackson Charles E., (Montpeher) r 7, lumberman and farmer, and timber 

land 20. 
Jackson Edwin, (Montpelier) r 7, dealer in lumber, 17 grade Jersey cows, and 

farmer 157. 
JACKSON WILLIAM E., (Montpelier) r 7, farmer with his father, Edwin. 
Jacobs Fred H., (Montpelier) r 5, butcher, and farmer with his father, 

Harvey W. 
JACOBS HARVEY W., (Montpelier) r 5, butcher, and dealer in fresh and 

salt meats, butter and eggs, 6 grade Jersey cows, farmer 55. 
Jacobs Henry A., (Montpelier) r 14, 250 sugar trees, 9 cows, farmer, manages 

Joseph Richard's farm 126. 
Johnson Alvah W., (N. Montpelier) spinner, emp. G. F. Sibley. 
Jones Alice G. Mrs., dressmaker. 
JONES CHARLES, (Montpelier) r 14, 300 sugar trees, 10 high grade Jersey 

cows, farmer 63. 
Jones Inda M. Miss, (Montpelier) r 14, teacher, daughter of Charles. 
Tones M. Walter, (Montpelier) r 14, butcher, and dealer in meats. 
Kelley WiUiam, (Montpelier) r 44, 500 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer, leases of 

Joseph A. Wing, of Montpelier, 160. 
Kelton Edwin, r 42, resides with his father, Truman C. 
KELTON FRANCIS P., r 52, breeder of full blood and high grade Jersey 

cattle, reg., 18 cows, farmer 160, and woodland 10. 
KELTON GEORGE, (N. Montpelier) r 37, 350 sugar trees, 12 grade Jersey 

cows, farmer 95. 
Kelton Henry, r 50, 10- grade Jersey cows, 50 Merino sheep, farmer 90. 
Kelton Herbert, r 42, commissioner of highways, horse trainer, and farmer 

with his father, Truman C. 
Kelton Truman C, r 42, town clerk 25 years, treasurer 11 years, justice of 

the peace about 25 years, 400 sugar trees, 20 grade Jersey cows, farmer 

213- 
Lane George A., (Montpelier) r 16, 300 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer 75. 

Lawson Stillman, r 67, shoemaker, and farmer 3. 

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82 TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 



LeBARON franklin, r 51, farmer 30, soldier in Co. E, 8th Vt. Vols., 2 

years. 
Leslie Frank, Jr., general blacksmith. 

Little Hazen A., (N. Montpelier) foreman weaving room for G. F. Sibley. 
Little Robert B., (N. Montpelier) spinner emp. G. F. Sibley. 
Little Walter H., (N. Montpelier) student, son of Walter S. 
LITTLE WALTER S.. (N. Montpelier) 1,000 sugar trees, breeder of Ham- 

bletonian and Fear Naught horses, 10 cows, farmer 90. 
Luby William, r 34, 400 sugar trees, 14 cows, farmer, leases of John M. Wil- 

lard's estate 100. 
MALLORY LEVI T., r 58, dealer in live stock, 8 cows, grower of young 

cattle, farmer 100. 
MALOY WILLIAM H., (Montpelier) r 54 cor. 44, 400 sugar trees, 18 

cows, breeder of horses, farmer 126. 
McKNIGHT EDWIN P., r 25, cor. 36, 300 sugar trees, 14 cows, breeder 

of Hambletonian horses, farmer 150. 
Morgan James J., (Montpelier) r 4, farmer, with his father, John H. 
Morgan John H., (Montpelier) r 4, breeder of high grade Jersey cattle, 9 

cows, farmer 70. 
MORSE ERI, (Montpelier) r 5, 2,000 sugar trees, breeder of fine horses, 15 

head, 12 cows, farmer, on the Morse homestead 200, and owns two farms 

of 125 acres. 
MORSE FOREST E., (Montpelier) r 5, 1,500 sugar trees, 15 full blood 

and high grade Jersey cows, farmer 180. 
MORSE KATE Mrs, (N. MontpeHer) r 39, dressmaker. 
Nelson Alfred M., (Montpelier) r 7, 8 head cattle, and farmer, leases of Mrs. 

Alice Sanders 50. 
Norcross Edmund P., (Norcross & Perkins) farmer 50. 
Norcross & Perkins, props, saw-mill, manufs. of hard and soft wood lumber 

and spruce shingles. 
NOYES JOHN L,, prop, custom grist-mill, dealer in corn and meal, also 

does planing and dressing. 
Nye Ezekiel D., (N. Montpelier) reparer of musical instruments and retired 

manuf. of organs, etc. 
NYE GEORGE G., (N. Montpelier) justice of the peace and retired manuf. 

of organs. 
Nye William G., (N. Montpelier) postmaster and general merchant, h and lot. 
O'Connell Barney, (N. Montpelier) foreman finishing room G. F. Sibley. 
Ormsbee Dulcena, (Montpelier) r 10, widow of Caleb, farm 37^. 
Ormsbee E. West, (Montpelier) r 28, justice of the peace, town auditor and 

grand juror, 600 sugar trees, 11 cows, farmer 127. 
Ormsbee Elhanan W., (Montpelier) r 10, 1,000 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 

150. 
Ormsbee Elmer C, (Montpelier) emp. of his father, E. West. 
Ormsbee Joel T., (Montpelier) r 28, 500 sugar trees, 19 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer 187^. 
ORMSBEE LORENZO E., (E. Montpelier) r 28, lister, 500 sugar trees, 22 

grade Jersey cows, farmer, leases on shares of his father, Joel T., 187^. 
Ormsbee Lyman W., r 34, farmer 30. 
Ormsbee Lyman W. Mrs., farm 30. 

Ormsby Charles H., (N. Montpelier) carpenter and joiner, emp. G. F. Sibley. 
Paine Herbert M., (Montpelier) r 45, prop, wood sawing machine, farmer, 

leases on shares of his father. Mason, 350 sugar trees and farm 155. 



TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 83 

Paine Mason, (Montpelier) r 45, 350 sugar trees, 19 cows, farmer 155. 
Parker Frank J., r 35, breeder of full blood and grade Jersey cattle, 12 cows, 

farmer 90. 
PARKER REUBEN C, (Montpelier) r 3 cor. 2, 700 sugar trees, 12 cows, 

breeder of Fearnaught horses, farmer 120. 
Parker Sunon, (Montpelier) r 11, 400 sugar trees, 9 cows, horse breeder, 9 

head, farmer 75. 
PARMENTER CALVIN L., (Montpelier) off r 18, 500 sugar trees, 14 full 

blood and high grade Jersey cows, farmer 140. 
Parmenter Luther M., (Montpelier) r 18, 600 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer no. 
Patterson Dean H., (Plainfield) r 50, 225 sugar trees, 18 cows, farmer 152. 
PEARCE LORENZO J., (Montpelier) r 17, lister, 500 sugar trees, 20 high 

grade Jersey cows, farmer 175. 
PECK ELLEN O. Miss, (Montpelier) r 10, town supt. of schools, resides on 

the estate of her father, Hon. Addison. 
PECK MARIETTA Miss, (Montpelier) r 10, resides on the estate of her 

father, Hon. Addison. 
PECK MARY Mrs , (Montpelier) r 10, widow of Hon. Addison, 800 sugar 

trees, 20 grade Jersey cows, farm 200. 
PRATT AZRO A., (Plainfield) r 50, 200 sugar trees, 14 cows, breeder of 

grade Jersey cattle and Morgan horses, farmer 1 15, corporal Co. C, 13th 

Vt. Vols., I year. 
Pratt George C, (Plainfield) r 50, student at the Vermont Methodist 

seminary. 
Pratt Miller N., (Plainfield) r 50, student. 
Pratt Marvin A., (Plainfield) r 50, teacher, and law student. 
Pray Ephraim, (N. Montpelier) dealer in cheese, h and lot. 
Pray Ephraim, Jr., (N. Montpelier) teamster, prop, of a threshing and wood 

sawing machine. 
Pray George L., (N. Montpelier) laborer. 
Rich Fanny B. Miss, (N. Montpelier) r 37, resides with her sister, Mrs. George 

Kelton. 
Rich Sally Miss, (N. Montpelier) r 37, resides with her niece, Mrs. George 

Kelton. 
Richards Joseph, (Montpelier) r 14, farmer 126, aged 83. 
ROBBINS FRED J., (Barre) r 67, farmer with his father, James H. 
ROBBINS JAMES H., r 27, 300 sugar trees, 20 grade Jersey cows, breeder 

of horses, farmer 145. 
Sanders Charles, (Montpelier) r 15, farmer 24, pasture and woodland 28. 
SANDERS GEORGE VV., (Montpelier) r 9, 450 sugar trees, breeder of 

young cattle, 10 full blood and high grade Jersey cows, farmer 65. 
Sanders Harry L., (Montpelier) r 9, student and farmer. 
SANDERS LUCIUS E., (Montpelier) r 5, 225 sugar trees, farmer 90. 
Sanders M. AHce Miss, (Montpelier) r 9, teacher, daughter of George W. 
Sanders Walter H., (Montpelier) r 6, 300 sugar trees, 7 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer 50. 
Sanders VVillard, (Montpelier) r 6, 7 head young cattle, farmer 50. 
Shepard Prentiss M., (Plainfield) r 50, 300 sugar trees, farmer 180. 
SHORTT GEORGE LEWIS, (Plainfield) r 59, 450 sugar trees, breeder of 

full blood Yorkshire swine, and full blood and high grade Jersey cattle, 

35 cows, farmer, manages 200 acres for his mother, Mrs. C. A. 
Shortt Gilbert, (N. Montpelier) r 37, farm laborer. 
Shortt Orville W., (Plainfield) r 59, farmer. 



84 TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 

Sibley Betsey M., (N. Montpelier) widow of Charles, resident, h and lot. 

Sibley Clark, r 52, 300 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer loi. 

SIBLEY FRED H., r 19, 200 sugar trees, 37 cows, farmer on the Sibley 

homestead 250. 
SIBLEY GEORGE F., (N. Montpelier) town representative, prop, of Lin- 
coln woolen-mills, manuf. of white flannels, 400 sugar trees, 12 cows, 

farmer 172. 
Slayton Alfred O., (Montpelier) r 10, farmer 9, and leases of his mother, 

Dulcena Ormsbee, 37^- 
Slayton Aro P., 2d, (N. Montpelier) r 21, prop, threshing and wood sawing 

machines, 400 sugar trees, breeder of horses, 20 grade Jersey cows, 13 

.Southdown sheep, farmer 200. 
SNOW ALONZO, (N. Montpelier) r 36, 500 sugar trees, 10 grade Jersey 

cows, farmer 90. 
Snow Fred M., (N. Montpelier) r 22, 250 sugar trees, breeder of Wyandotte 

and brown Leghorn fowls, farmer 56. ^ 

Southwick Mary B., (N. Montpelier) r 37, widow of Benjamin, resident, 
Sparrow Hiram L., r 25, 600 sugar trees, dealer in horses, 16 cows, farm 130. 
Spaulding Clark P., (N. Montpelier) r 22, 250 sugar trees, 7 cows, farmer 60. 
Stackpole Charles H., r 52, 500 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer iio. 
Stanley William, r 26, 6 cows, farmer 50. 

STEVENS ENOS F., r 41, horse trainer and dealer, and breeder of fine Mor- 
gan horses, 12 high grade Jersey cows, farmer 112. 
Stevens Mary G., widow of C. Hinkley, resident, h and lot. 
Stevens Thomas B., r 53 cor. 54, 400 sugar trees, 30 full blood and 14 grade 

Jersey cows, 20 full blood Cotswold sheep, farmer 450. 
Stevens William A., r 51, farmer 10. 
Steward Horace O., (Montpelier) r ^^, butcher and dealer in meat, 500 sugar 

trees, 8 cows, farmer 85. 
STEWARD ORAMEL G., (Montpelier) r 3, representative, 600 sugar trees, 

20 grade Jersey cows, farmer 200. 
Stoddard Francis F., (Montpelier) off r 12, 300 sugar trees, 6 grade Jersey 

cows, farmer 60. 
Stoddard Herbert C, (Montpelier) off r T2, farm laborer. 
Strong Fred W., (Montpelier) r 28 cor. 34, farmer, emp. A. D. Arms. 
Strong Lewis H., (N. Montpelier) factory operative, emp. G. F. Sibley. 
Tabor George C, (N. Montpelier) butcher and farmer 15. 
Tabor Jane A., r5i, widow of Charles A., 10 cows, farmer 160. 
Taylor Dexter M., (Montpelier) r 6, 400 sugar trees, 8 high grade Jersey 

cows, farmer, leases of his father, Moses B., 140. 
Taylor Moses B,, (Montpelier) r 6, farmer 140. 

Templeton Aden C, (Montpelier) r 12, farmer, leases of his father, C. 
'■ Clark, 61. 
Templeton Austin, r 34, town grand juror and auditor, 580 sugar trees, 10 

grade Jersey cows, farmer log. 
Templeton C. Clark, (Montpelier) r 12, cooper, 400 sugar trees, 8 cows, 

farmer 6 [. 
Templeton Clarence V., (N. Montpelier) off r 22, 300 sugar trees, 9 cows, 

farmer 90. 
Templeton George V., (N. Montpelier) r 27, 7 cows, and farmer 54. 
TEMPLETON H. LEE, (Montpelier) r 12 cor. 28, farmer and manages his- 

father's, Hiram's, farm 190. 
Templeton Henry H., r 34, selectman, 400 sugar trees, farmer 41. 



TOWN OF EAST MONTPELIER. 85 

TEMPLETON HIRAM, (Montpelier)r 12 cor. 28, 500 sugar trees, 20 grade 

Jersey cows, 22 grade Cotswold sheep, faroier 190, and pasture land 30. 
Thresher Wessen, (Montpelier) r 44, 10 cows and farmer 80. 
Tichnor WilHam, (MontpeHer) r 46, farmer, leases of E. P. McKnight 40. 
Tillotson Chester B., r 43, 500 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 140. 
Tillotson Chester F., r 43, farmer, leases of his father, Chester B., 12 cows 

and farm 140. 
TOWN CLINTON E., (Montpelier) r 45, 700 sugar trees, farmer, leases of 

his mother, Elizabeth, 130. 
TOWN LUTHER G., r 50, 125 sugar trees, breeder of short horn Durham 

cattle, 40 head, 20 cows, farmer 160. 
TRACY ANDREW A., (Montpelier) r 18, 150 sugar trees, farmer 50. 
Tracy Willis F., (Montpelier) r 18, mechanic and farmer. 
Vincent Enoch H., (Montpelier) r 10, 400 sugar trees, 10 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer 90. 
Vincent George C, r 43, farmer with his father, Horace M. 
VINCENT HORACE M., r 43, 800 sugar trees, 16 grade Jersey cows, 

breeder of horses, farmer 160. 
Warren Elsie Miss, (N. Montpelier) r 37, artist, teacher of oil painting. 
Warren Lester Rev., (N. Montpelier) r 37, superanuated Uuiversalist preacher, 

aged 72. 
Weeks Charles E., (Montpelier) r 11, farmer, leases of Willard Daily 45. 
WHEELER BENJAMIN I., r 52, capitalist, h and i acre. 
Wheeler Edwin M., (Montpelier) r 3, laborer. 
WHEELER LUTHER S., (Montpelier) r 65, 300 sugar trees, 12 cows, 

farmer 102. 
WHEELOCK JULIUS S., manuf. and dealer in lumber, prop, saw and 

grist-mills, and dealer in flour, feed and grain, timberland 100, pasture 

land 40, and farm in Berlin 50. 
WILLARD CHARLES C, r 51, dealer in fine horses, 3 grade Jersey cows, 

breeder of Shropshire and Southdown sheep, farm 53, h and lot, also h 

and lot in Montpelier. 
WILLARD CHARLES K., r5 grade Jersey cows, farmer 76, and owns 

undivided half of 130 acres. 
Willard Frank P., r 60, dealer in phosphates, 1,000 sugar trees, breeder of 

Chester white swine, 30 grade Jersey cows, 200 fowls, farmer 250. 
WILLARD MATTHEW D., postmaster, collector for Vermont Mutual 

Fire Insurance Co., dealer in agricultural implements, h and 2 acres. 
Willard Philena I., widow of John M., resides on the estate of her husband. 
WILLEY JULIAN D., (Montpelier) r 18, 150 sugar trees, breeder of grade 

Holstein cattle, 5 grade Jersey cows, farmer 85. 
Williams Charles, (N. Montpelier) spinner, emp. G. F. Sibley. 
Williams John, (N. Montpelier") factory operative, emp. G. F. Sibley. 
Wing Marcus T. C, (Montpelier) r 28, 260 sugar trees, farmer 27. 
Woodward Hiram B., (Montpelier) r 28, agent for all kinds of building 

materials, architect and builder, farmer 13. 
Woodward William B., (Montpelier) r 28, carpenter, 
Worcester Hartwell P., section boss M. & W. R. R. R., h and 5 acres. 
Young James R., r 27, constable and collector, 10 cows, farmer 102. 



86 TOWN OF FAYSTON. 



FAYSTOK. 

( For explanations, etc., see page t^, part second.) 
(Postoffice address is in parenthesis.) 

Austin Isaiah S., (VVaitsfield) r 30^, sawyer. 

Backus William E., (Waitsfield) r 27, farmer about loo. 

Backus Willie. (Waitsfield) r 27, farmer, son of William E. 

Baird Alexander, (Waitsfield) 127, farmer about 75. 

Baird Hugh, (Waitsfield) r 26, farmer and manuf. of clapboards. 

Baird James, (Waitsfield) r 2t, farmer about 150. 

Baird James, Jr., (Waitsfield) r 27, 18 cows, farmer 309. 

Baird James C., (Waitsfield) r 32. farmer. 

Battis Charlie, (Waitsfield) r 38, farmer 30. 

Bean Benjamin, (Waitsfield) r 22, 15 cows, farmer 200. 

Benjamin John, (N. Fayston) r 5, farm laborer. 

BILLINGS C. D. & SON, (Waitsfield) r 32, (George N.) manufs. of clap- 
boards, farmers about 30, timberland 2,000. 

BILLINGS COUNT D., (Waitsfield) r 32, (C. D. Billings & Son). 

BILLINGS GEORGE N., (Waitsfield) r 32, (C. D. Billings & Son). 

Boyce Dan, (Waitsfield) r 23, cooper, and farmer 50. 

BOYCE JACOB S., (N. Fayston) r 4, carpenter and joiner. 

BOYCE JAMES P.,(N. Fayston) r 4, town representative, justice of the peace, 
8 cows, farmer 1 10. 

BOYCE MASON W., (N. Fayston) r 2, farmer. 

Boyce Orrin O., (N. Fayston) r 4, farmer 160. 

BOYCE SETH, (N. Fayston) r 14, town treasurer, justice of the peace, trus- 
tee of surplus revenue money, 500 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 175. 

BRAGG AZRO D., (Waitsfield) r 28, constable, lister, 2,000 sugar trees, 35 
cows, farmer 500. 

Bragg Francis A., (VVaitsfield) r 28, farmer, son of Azro D. 

Bragg William C, (Waitsfield) r 28, farmer, son of Azro D. 

Brown David G., (N. Fayston) r 12, farmer, leases of Mary J. Fisher. 

Browne John P., (N. Fayston) r 2, farmer 85. 

Browne Richard, (N. Fayston) r 2, farmer 50. 

Bruce Ethan A., (Waitsfield) r 31, carpenter and joiner, farmer 85. 

Buzzell George W., (VVaitsfield) r 35, music teacher. 

Carey William, (Waitsfield) r 25, farmer 109. 

Carroll Fred C, (Waitsfield) farmer with Lawson P. 55. 

Carroll George H , (Waitsfield) off r 29, farmer. 

Carroll Lawson P., (VVaitsfield) off r 29, farmer 154, owns with Fred C. 55. 

Chase John J., (Waitsfield) r 37, farmer 110. 

Chipman William S., (N. Fayston) r 8, overseer of the poor, farmer 115. 

Colton Peter, (Waitsfield) r ^Z-, farmer 59. 

Colton Willie, (Waitsfield) r 39, farmer 40. 

Crowley Daniel, (N. Fayston) r 15, farmer about 50. 

Dana Chester S., (Waitsfield) r 32, farmer, leases of Joseph Palmer, of Waits- 
field. 

Dana Phna J., (Waitsfield) r 32, farmer about 65. 



TOWN OF FAYSTON. 87 



DANA SAMUEL J., (Waitsfield) r 30J, town clerk, selectman, justice of the 
peace, town agent, grand juror, prop, of shingle-mill, carpenter and joiner, 
farmer 4. 

Dana William C, (Waitsfield) r 26, farmer 26. 

DAVIS EDGAR A., (N. Fayston) r 13, prop, clapboard-mill, 8 cows, farmer 

125- 

Davis Orlando, (N. Fayston) r 3, sawyer, farmer 6. 

Dickson Alexander, (Waitsfield) r 36, farmer 80. 

Dumas Edmond A., (Waitsfield) r 32, sawyer. 

Durkee Wesley M., (N. Fayston) r 2, 8 cows, farmer no. 

Eaton Lawrence B., (N. Fayston) r 11, farmer, leases of Nathan Boyce, of 
Waitsfield, 200. 

Fisher Mary J. Miss, (N. Fayston) farmer. 

Fisher William J., (N. Fayston) r 8, 8,000 sugar trees, farmer 500. 

Foster Oramel H., (Waitsfield) r 26, farmer 150. 

Goss John, (N. Fayston) r 5, farmer no. 

Grandfield Charles C, (N. Fayston) r 3, son of John A. 

GRANDFIELD JOHN A., (N. Fayston) r 3, prop, of saw and clapboard- 
mill, farmer 50, and timberland 2,400. 

Grandfield John A., Jr., (N. Fayston) r 3, son of John A. 

Grandfield William R., (N. Fayston) r 3, son of John A. 

Grandy Dan, (Waitsfield) r 30^, cooper, and farmer 16. 

Hagan Daniel, (N. Fayston) r 15, farmer. 

Hagan Joseph, (N. Fayston) r 15, farmer about 100. 

Harrington Charlie, (N. Fayston) r 12, laborer. 

Heaton Fred S., (N. Fayston) r 12, wheelwright. 

Hickory Julius H., (Waitsfield) r 39, farmer 155. 

Hill Jason S., (N. Fayston) r 12, laborer. 

Howe Allen S., (N. Fayston) r 3, farmer 150. 

Howe William W. H., (Waitsfield) r 33, farmer 3. 

Ingalls Charles C, (N. Fayston) r 16, farmer about 50. 

Johnson James H., (N. Fayston) r 16, thresher and wood sawyer, farmer 7. 

JOHNSON STEPHEN, (N. Fayston) r 3, justice of the peace, lister, carpen- 
ter and joiner, farmer 23. 

Kelsey William C, (Waitsfield) r 29, farmer 112. 

Kelty John, (Waitsfield) r 39, farmer 83. 

Kelty John F., (Waitsfield) r 25, farmer about 215. 

Kew George, (Waitsfield) r ^^, farmer 210. 

Kew Henry, (Waitsfield) r 31, 15 cows, and farmer about 185. 

Kew Jerry, (Waitsfield) r 33, farmer about 100. 

Kew John, (Waitsfield) r 25, farmer about 50. 

Little John, (N. Fayston) r 21, farmer 80. 

Livingston John, (Waitsfield) r 27, farmer about 140. 

Long Edward J., (Waitsfield) r 36, farmer about 130. 

Loveland David, (Waitsfield) off r 33, farmer about 50. 

MAHURON ALLEN E., (Waitsfield) r 36, 12 cows, farmer 140. 

Mahuron HoUis, (Waitsfield) r 39, farmer 238. 

Mahuron Horace A, (Waitsfield) r 33, farmer 200. 

Mahuron Thomas A., (Waitsfield) r 36, farmer, son of Allen E. 

Marble Bryan, (N. Fayston) r 10, farmer. 

MARBLE ELIAS L., (N. Fayston) r 13 cor. 7, grocer, 500 sugar trees, 10 
cows, farmer 226, and in Duxbury 140. 

Marble Samuel E., (N. Fayston) r 12, 500 sugar trees, farmer 100. 



88 TOWN OF FAYSTON. 



Maxwell John, (Waitsfield) r 37, farmer 197. 

Maxwell Robert, (Waitsfield) 135, farmer 135. 

Maxwell Robert A., (Waitsfield) r 36, 15 cows, and farmer 150. 

Maxwell Samuel, (Waitsfield) r 34, farmer 125. 

Maxwell William J., (Waitsfield) r 30^, prop, threshing and wood sawing 

machines, farmer 125. 
McCarty John, (Waitsfield) rig, farmer. 
McCarty Patrick, (Waitsfield) r 22, farmer 135. 

McCarty Thomas C., (Waitsfield) r 19, selectman, 15 cows, farmer 215. 
McCaughin James, (VVaitsfield) r 22, farmer iii. 
McCaughin James, (VVaitsfield) r 21, farmer, son of John. 
McCaughin John, (Waitsfield) r 21, farmer 80. 
McCaughin John, (Waitsfield) r 22, farmer, son of James. 
McCaughin John, Jr., (Waitsfield) r 21, farmer. 
McKay David, (Waitsfield) r 31, farmer about 120. 
McLaughUn Neal, (Waitsfield) r 29, leader of McLaughlin & House's 

orchestra. 
McLaughlin Samuel, (Waitsfield) r 29, farmer about 100. 
McLaughlin Samuel, jr., (Waitsfield) r 29, farmer, son of Samuel. 
Mulvaney Patrick, (Waitsfield) r 18, farmer 16. 
Murphy John, (N. Fayston) r 20, farmer 60. 
Neal James, (N. Fayston) r 21, farmer 110. 
Nelson George, (N. Fayston) r 7, farmer about in. 
Nelson George W., (Waitsfield) r 26, laborer. 
Nelson John. (N. Fayston) r 15, farmer about 100. 
Pasnett Catherine F., (N. Fayston) r 12, widow of Daniel, farmer 18. 
PATTERSON JOHN, (Waitsfield) r 35, 16 cows, farmer 170. 
Pease George H., (N. Fayston) r 3, resident. 
Pease Henry C, (N. Fayston) r 3, 500 sugar trees, farmer 95, and mountain 

land 55. 
Pierce George H., (Waitsfield) r 29. farmer 130. 
Porter Albro C, (N. Fayston) r 12^ farmer 12. 
Porter Guy H., (Waitsfield) r 23, farmer about 90. 
Porter Lester, (N. Fayston) r 17, farmer 80. 
Porter Warren C, (N. Fayston) r 17, farmer 45. 
Robinson Warren J., (Waitsfield) off r 34, 600 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 

150. [Removed to Waitsfield.] 
Ryan John, (N. Fayston) r 7, 700 sugar trees, farmer 90. 
Smith Henry, (Waitsfield) r 28, farmer, son of Patrick. 
Smith Hezekiah, (Waitsfield) r 28, farmer, son of Patrick. 
Smith Josiah, (Waitsfield) r 28, farmer, son of Patrick. 
Smith Patrick, (Waitsfield) r 28, farmer 100. 

Somerville George A., (Waitsfield) r 24 cor. 23, farmer about 110. 
Somerville James H., (N. Fayston) r 5, farmer 145. 
Somerville John, (Waitsfield) r 24 cor. 23, farmer. 
Somerville Mary J., (Waitsfield) r 30, widow of George. 
Somerville Thomas, (N. Fayston) r 20, farmer about 30. 
Stockwell Polly, (N. Fayston) r 12, widow of Nathaniel. 
Strong Matthew S., (Waitsfield) r i8, farmer 200. 
THOMAS WILDER, (N. Fayston) r 12, postmaster, mail carrier from N. 

Fayston to Moretown. [Removed to Moretown.] 
THOMPSON JOHN B., (Waitsfield) r 29 cor. 25, supt. of schools, town rep- 
resentative, town auditor, teacher, 1,000 sugar trees, 12 cows, and farmer 

200. 



TOWN OF MARSHFIELD. 89 



Tucker Eleazer W., (Waitsfield) r 36, 9 cows, farmer 150. 
Tyler L. M., (Waitsfield) r 18, farmer 200. 
Wetmore Daniel H., (Waitsfield) r 32, laborer. 



MARSHFIELD. 

( For explanations^ etc., see page t,, part second.) 
(PostofiSce address is Marshfield, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Abbott Daniel, (Plainfield) r 40, laborer. 

Adams Charles S., geiieral merchant, Main. 

Aiken Frank M., (Plainfield) laborer, lives with O. A. Pratt. 

Aiken Merrill W., (Plainfield) r 53, farmer. 

Aiken Rufus, r 22^, 500 sugar trees, farmer 50. 

Austin Hector M., (Plainfield) r 32, 600 sugar trees, farmer 37. 

Austin Isaac, (Plainfield) r 32, 12 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 92. 

AUSTIN NATT, (Plainfield) r 31, 13 grade Jersey cows, 400 sugar trees, 
farmer 90. 

Austin Samuel, (Plainfield) r 31, resident, bds. with Natt. 

Austin Willard M., (Plainfield) off r 32, 17 cows, 14 head young cattle, 500 
sugar trees, farmer 98. 

Bailey Jerome D. Rev., pastor Cong, church. 

Baker Samuel D., farmer 10, and in Cabot h and 5 acres. 

Balow Sarah J., (Plainfield) off r 53, resides with Hannah Huntington. 

Bancroft Betsey Mrs., (Plainfield) resides with John Perry. 

BANCROFT D. W., prop. Bancroft's liniment, lung and liver syrups, essen- 
ces, etc., owns h on r 23. 

BATCHELDER HARRISON D., (Plainfield) r 47, 10 grade Jersey cows, 
to head other cattle, 600 sugar trees, farmer 75. 

Batchelder Reuben J., (Plairifield) r 47, farmer with Harrison D. 

Baylaw Jerome, (Plainfield) r 28, farmer 25. 

Bean Charles N., (Plainfield) r 49, painter, resides with Harrison. 

Bean Everett A. B , (Plainfield) r 49, farmer, resides with Harrison. 

BEAN HARRISON, (Plainfield) r 49, farmer 50, served in Co. I, nth Vt. 
H. A., 3 years. 

Beckley x-Vbel, r 22, 5 cows, farmer, leases of Mrs. A. Spencer 43. 

Bemis A. Jackson, r 3, resides with Nelson C. 

Bemis Abijah, off r 21, 5 Jersey cows, farmer 85. 

Bemis Carcell A., r 22, mill man, h and lot. 

Bemis Elias S.,r 15, carpenter and farmer. 

Bemis Galusha A., harnessmaker, h Water. 

Bemis George C, r 17, 9 cows, 1,100 sugar trees, farmer 1 15. 

Bemis Ira, farmer 5^. 

Bemis Isaac A., farmer 34. 

BEMIS MARTIN D., butter tub manuf. 

BEMIS MOODY, r 7, 20 head cattle, 5 horses, 1.500 sugar trees, farmer 250. 

BEMIS NELSON C, r 3, 12 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 95. 



go TOWN OF MARSHFIELD. 



Bemis Phineas G., off r 2, resides with Samuel. 

Bemis Samuel, ofif r 2, 15 head cattle, farmer 95, wood and pasture land 600. 

Bemis Sidney, r 15, 6 cows, 600 sugar trees, farmer 50, 

BENT CHARLES C, r 29, 16 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer roi. 

Bent Eunice, r 29. resides with Charles C. 

Bent Sally B., r 29, resides with Charles C. 

BENTON EMEROY, r 8, resides with Levi W. 

BENTON LEVI W., r 8, 12 cows, 8 head other stock, 250 sugar trees, 

farmer 100. 
Benton Prudence Mrs., bds. with S. D. Baker. 
Blaisdell Carrie J., housekeeper for D. Smith. 
Blake Arthur W., clerk, bds. with Henrv. 
BLAKE HENRY, section foreman M.' &: W. R. R. R., served in tst Vt. H. 

A., was taken prisoner at Spottsylvania and confined i year in Libby^ 

Belle Isle, Andersonville, and other rebel prisons. 
BLISS MARCUS R , r 3, 8 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 75. 
Bohonon Frank, r 22, farmer with A. P. Spofford. 
BoUes Henry, (Plainfield) r 50 n 49, farmer with John. 
BOLLES JOHN, (Plainfield) r 50 n 49, 16 head cattle, 600 sugar trees, 

farmer 1 10, aged 75. 
Bond Edwin, r 19, 10 grade Jersey cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
BOUT WELL ALBERT P., job teamster, h and lot, served in nth Vt. Vols., 

and was wounded in the head by a minie-ball at the battle of Cold 

Harbor. 
Boyles Hezekiah O., r 11, 10 head cattle, 1,500 sugar trees, farmer 330. 
Boyles James, r 11, farmer with H. O. 
Brown Aaron, r 12, farmer 315. 
Brown Frank H., carpenter and joiner, h and lot. 
Bucklin Caroline D., r 34, resides with B. B. Martin. 
Bullock Asa M., r 32. 14 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Bullock Ira, (Plainfield) r 32, resides with H. M. Austin. 
Bullock Joseph H., r 2, farmer 8. 
Bullock Marshall, off r 22, laborer, h and i acre. 
Burnham Anna L., teacher, bds. with Mrs. Emily L. 
Burnham Emily L. Mrs., seamstress. 
BUXTON ALONZO, (Plainfield) r 37, 10 grade Jersey cows, 12 head other 

cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Buxton J. Dana, (Plainfield) r 37, resides with Alonzo. 
Cahill Frank B., (Plainfield) off r 31, 11 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 66. 
Carleton Silas A., r 3, 17 head cattle, 700 sugar trees, farmer 95, and in Wood- 
bury wood and pasture land 20. 
Carpenter James H., farmer on r 24, h in village. 
Carpenter Oliver, r 24, teamster for L. T. Kinney. 
Carver Herbert S., physician and surgeon. 
Chester Benjamin F., r 9, farmer 25. 
Chester Richard, r 9, resides with Benjamin F. 
Cilley Jonathan E., r 2, farmer 25. 
Clapp Orville D. Rev., pastor M. E. church. 
CLARK FRED C, (Plainfield) r 40, 8 cows, x6 head other cattle, 500 sugar 

trees, farmer 100, in Plainfield wood and pasture land 88. 
Clark Lyman, real estate owner, bds. with Dr. H. S. Carver. 
Clark Nathaniel, [Plainfield^ r 47, farmer 50. 



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COLBURN ARTHUR T., (Plainfield) r 46, 7 grade Jersey cows, 7 head 

young cattle, 7 horses, 500 sugar trees, farmer 95. 
Colburn Edgar G., (Plainfield) r 46, farmer with Arthur T. 
Cole Frank W., blacksmith. 
Cole Hiram, owns farm 175, aged 79. 
COLE JOSEPH B., (Plainfield) r 48, 10 head cattle, farmer with Mrs. 

D. M. Cole 75, served in Co. G, 15th Vt. Vols. 
Cole Nelson H., farmer, bds. with Hiram. 
Cole Orville D., farmer with Remember, owns farm 90. 
Cole Remember, 20 head cattle, 6 horses, 800 sugar trees, farmer 136, 

aged 72. 
Cole Samuel W., r 10. 18 cows, 20 head other cattle, 8 horses, 2,000 sugar 

trees, farmer 153. 
COLLINS ARTHUR T., (Plainfield) r 46, farmer. 
Danver Richard, (Plainfield) r 40, laborer for C. L. Martin. 
Darling Fred P., r 22, farmer with S. Hicks. 
Davis Abial H., r 3, farmer, leases of Mrs. Rhoda Woodcock 17. 
DAVIS GEORGE O., town treasurer, manuf. of hand-made kip and calf 

boots for wholesale trade, Main. 
Davis Harriet E., resident, h and lot. 

Davis J. Whitney, manuf. of carnages and patent sliding ox-yokes, and re- 
pairer. 
DEWEY HERMAN H., r 45. (H. H. Dewey & Co., Plainfield). 
Dix Leonard, (Plainfield) (in Harris Gore) r r, to head cattle, farmer. 
Dodge Abigail, (Plainfield) r 40, widow of A. Parker, resides with Fred C, 

Clark. 
Dodge Eben P., (Plainfield) r 40, laborer, bds. with Fred C. Clark. 
Dodge Merrill K , r 2, 8 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer 140. 
Doty Josie, resides with Mary. 
Doty Mary Mrs., resident, h and lot. 
DOW JOHN D., (Plainfield) r 35, prop, saw and planing-mill, 8 head cattle, 

farmer 30, and wood and pasture land 165. 
Dow Lester B., (Plainfield) r 35, board sawyer, resides with John D. 
Dow Walter A., (Plainfield) r 35, board sawyer, resides with John D. 
Duke Levi, (Plainfield) r 48, farmer 40. 
Dunkling Henry, r 26, laborer. 
Durant Alexander T., prop, saw and planing-mill, dealer in hard and soft 

wood lumber. 
DWINELL CHESTER W. H., (Plainfield) r 19 cor. 17. 22 full blood and 

grade Jersey and Ayrshire cows, 25 head other cattle, 6 horses, 2,000 

sugar trees, farmer 205, pasture land 72, and owns h and lot in Marshfield 

village. 
DWINELL ERASTUS B., r 19, 10 grade Jersey cows, 1,200 sugar trees, 

farmer 120. 
DWINELL GILBERT L., r 19, mechanic and farmer with Erastus B. 
Dwinell H. Ola, (Plainfield) r tg cor. 17, farmer with Chester W. H. 
Dwinell Henry D. B., r 28, 14 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 175. 
Dwinell Josephine B. Mrs., r 28, resides with Henry D. B. 
DWINELL SIMEON E., (Plainfield) r 32, 10 grade Jersey cows, 1,000 

sugar trees, farmer too. 
EATON JOHN H., (Plainfield) r 34, 20 head cattle, 6 horses, 20 sheep,. 

600 sugar trees, farmer 170. 
Eaton Nathaniel J., (Plainfield) r 34, farmer with John H. 



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Eddy Herbert G., laborer. 

EDDY JOHN E.. r 22, 25 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, farQier 150. 

Eddy M. Louise Mrs., domestic. 

Eddy Mabel, domestic. 

EDSON DEAN VV., job printer of circulars, cards, etc. 

EDSON ELI, manuf. of shaved butter, sugar, and sap tubs, and shingles. 

EDSON IRA H., justice of the peace, pension agent, and manuf. with Eli. 

Egglefield Henry, (Plainfield) r 45, farmer for William Martin, Jr. 

English George W., book-keeper and shoemaker. 

Ennis John A., r r, 21 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 205. 

Farr Rufus H., farmer. 

Faunce George T., agent for " Davis " remedy. 

Felix Nelson, laborer. 

FLOOD ALVINZA N., r 44, (C & A. N. Flood). 

FLOOD C. & A. N., (Plainfield) r 44, 20 cows, 4 horses, 700 sugar trees, 

farmers 120. 
FLOOD CARROLL, (Plainfield) r 44, (C. & A. N. Flood). 
Fulsum George, r 24, farmer with Jonathan. 
Fulsum Harlow, ofif r 24, farmer 100. 
Fulsum Jonathan, farmer 60. 

Getchel Andrew J., r 11, 600 sugar trees and farmer 31. 
Getchel John W., veteran of the late war. 

GILMAN ELBRIDGE W., cadet at Norwich university, class of '89. 
GILMAN SOLOMON L., (Plainfield) r 32, 9 cows, 11 head young cattle, 

600 sugar trees, farmer 150. 
Oilman W. H. Harrison, r 2, 400 sugar trees, farmer 60, aged 72. 
Goodell Mary A., domestic, resides with C. C. Bent. 
Goodrich Wilbur, r 13, farmer 80. 
GOVE NATHANIEL J., (Plainfield) r 39, 60 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, 

farmer with William R. 250, aged 79. 
Gove Philinda Mrs., resident, h and lot. 
GOVE WILLIAM R., (Plainfield) r 39, 20 cows, 40 head young cattle, 800 

sugar trees, 3 horses, farmer with Nathaniel J. 250, served 3 years in 

Co. C, ist Vt. Cav. 
Gray Ezekiel D., (Plainfield) r 45, carriage painter and farmer. 
Guyette Alec, r 25^, farmer with O. H. Luce. 
Guyette Daniel, (Plainfield) off r 48, painter and farmer. 
Guyette Martin, (Plainfield) off" r 48, farmer 50. 
Hadlock Hubbard E., (Lanesboro) mechanic for D. & E. Lane. 
Hall Emma A. Mrs., r 25, resides on the Mason P. Hall estate, owns farm 

in Cabot 100. 
Hall Recta O. Mrs , resident, h and lot, aged 74. 
Hammett Laura M. Mrs., (Plainfield) r 45, bds. with H. P. Martin. 
Hardy Frank, (Plainfield) r 52, farmer 100. 
HARRIS LUCIUS M., (Plainfield) r 51, stationary engineer, 10 cows, 10 

head young cattle, 450 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Haskins Lydia G., r 34, widow of William G., resides with Webster H. 
HASKINS WEBSTER H., r 34, live stock dealer. 15 cows, 25 head other 

cattle, 6 horses, 75 sheep, 750 sugar trees, farmer 375, and pasture 

land 125. 
Hathaway Deborah Mrs., resident. 
Hayes Ora E., farmer 42. 
Heath Rufus. r 13, 500 sugar trees, farmer for Wilbur Goodrich 80. 



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93 



Henderson John, (Plainfield) r 45, laborer. 

Hicks Stephen, r 22, farmer, leases of C. Templeton, of Barre, 100. 

Hill Alfred D., (Plainfield) r 46, farmer with Daniel. 

Hill Daniel, (Plainfield) r 46, 15 cows, 600 sugar trees, farmer 123. 

HILL EDSON K., (Plainfield) r 47, farmer and cheese manuf., prop, cheese 

factory, bds. with John M. 
HILL GEORGE A.. (Plainfield) r 47, farmer with John M. 
HILL HENRY E., (Plainfield) r 36 n 37, farmer with Horace. 
HILL HORACE, (Plainfield) r 36 n 37, 12 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, 

farmer 80. 
HILL JOHN M., (Plainfield) r 47, 35 full blood and grade Jersey cows, 500 

sugar trees, farmer 120. 
Hobart Henry M., r 12, 14 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 92. 
Holcomb Daniel, boot cutter and farmer 16^. 
HoUister Asenath, (N. Montpelier) r 38, resides with Homer H. 
Hollister Emma M., (N. Montpelier) r 38, teacher, bds. with Homer H. 
HoUister George E., (Plainfiekl) r 33, farmer with Stephen R. 300. 
HOLLISTER HOMER H., (N. MontpeUer) r 38, 16 cows, 40 head young 

cattle, 36 sheep, 1,000 sugar trees, 300 fruit trees, farmer 300, served in 

6th Vt. Vols. 
Hollister J. Edwin, (Lanesboro) boarding-house keeper for D. & E. Lane. 
HOLLISTER SAMUEL D., (Plainfield) r 33 n 38, 25 cows, 45 head other 

cattle, 14 horses, 27 sheep, i,ooo sugar trees, farmer 512. 
Hollister Stephen R., (Plainfield) r 33, 16 cows, 35 head young cattle, 6 

horses, 500 sugar trees, wood and pasture land 100, and farmer with 

George E. 300 
Hollister Susan P., (N. Montpelier) r 38, teacher, bds. with Homer H. 
Holt Charles VV., (Plainfield) r 40, 6 cows, farmer ;^^. 
Holt Curtis D., (Plainfield) r 40, farmer with Charles W. 
Holt I. George, (Plainfield) r 48, 11 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Holt Norman, (Plainfield) r 48, 10 head cattle, farmer 80, in Harris Gore 125. 
Hooker Alfred C, r 22^, telegraph operator, bds. with R. Aiken. 
Hudson Roswell S., laborer. 
Huntington Benjamin F., (Plainfield) r 53, farmer on the S. D. Hollister 

farm 250. 
Huntington David, (Plainfield) r 51, farmer, leases of the Dennis Lane 

estate. 
Huntington Hannah, (Plainfield) oft" r 53, resident. 
Huntley Frank G., (Plainfield) r 51, carpenter, owns vegetable farm near 

Richmond, Va. 
Huntoon Mary T. Mrs., (Plainfield) r 47, resides with Harrison D. Batch- 
elder. 
Jack Frank W., (Plainfield) r 40, 12 head cattle, farmer 60. 
Kelley Nena D., (Plainfield) r 19 cor. 17, housekeeper for her father, C. W. 

H. Dwinell. 
Kellogg E. Henry, farmer. 
KING ARZA VV., (Plainfield) r 36, peddler, 14 cows, 6 head young cattle, 

200 sugar trees, farmer 135, and pasture land 50. 
KING GEORGE M., (Plainfield) r 36, farmer with Arza W. 
KINNEY L. T., r 24. prop, saw-mill, resides in Barre village. 
KISER MILFORD N., (Plainfield) off r 36, carpenter and joiner. 



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TOWN OF MARSHFIELD. 



LAIRD PIRNRY S., (PlainfieW) (H. S. Laird & Son, of Plainfield) repre- 
sentative, ist selectman, justice of the peace, prop, steam saw-mill, 
farmer 75, owns with Harry L., in Harris Gore, steam saw-mill and 
timberland 2,000, and in Orange, Orange Co., farm 120. 

LAMBERTON ALBERT E., r 21 cor, 20, 17 grade Jersey cows, 15 head 
other cattle, 6 horses, 200 sugar trees, farmer 165, and in Peacham, 
Caledonia Co., ^ of wood lot 120. 

Lamberton C. & F., r 12, 30 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, and farmers 225. 

Lamberton Coolege, r 12, (C. & F. Lamberton) farmer. 

LAiVIBERTON EDGAR A., r 17 cor. 16, 10 cows, 900 sugar trees, farmer 

135- 
Lamberton Elioenia, resides with R. Cole, aged 80. 

Lamberton Fred, r 12, (C. & F. Lamberton) farmer. 

LAMBERTON HENRY C, r 17, 12 cows, 13 head other cattle, 1,000 sugar 

trees, 200 apple trees^ farmer 147. 
Lamberton Irena Mrs., r 21 cor 20, resides with Albert E., aged 73. 
Lamberton Joanna Mrs., resident, h and lot, aged 79. 
Lamberton Maria Mrs., r 12, resides with C. & F. Lamberton. 
LAMBERTON REUBEN, (Plainfield) off r 48, 10 cows, 10 head young 

cattle, 800 sugar trees, farmer 137. 
Lamberton Silas, r 21, farmer 10. 
Lamberton Wallace E., prop, livery, feed and sale stable, and stock horse 

"Selkieg." 
Lamberton VVyman H., r 8, 17 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 108. 
LANE D. & E., (Lanesboro) (Dennis Lane's estate and Edwin Lane) props. 

steam saw-mill, own timberland 2,600, residence Montpelier. 
LANE EDWIN, (Lanesboro) (D. & E. Lane). 
Lane John C, (Plainfield) r 50, mill man and farmer 20. 
Lane Lee V., (Plainfield) r5o, mill man, bds. with John C. 
Lee Perry, farmer 5, h Main. 
Lewis Charles H., r 12, resides with Franklin E. 
Lewis Franklin E., r 12, 500 sugar trees, farmer 85. 
LOVELAND DANIEL R., r 21, overseer of the poor, justice of the peace, 

8 cows, 17 head other cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer 210. 
LUCAS DAVID K., r 2, 10 head cattle, 200 sugar trees, farmer 50, served 

I year in 3d Vt. Lt. Bat. 

Luce Olean H., r 25^. farmer with Alec Guyette. 

Marshall Joseph M.. (Plamfield) r 50, farmer. 

Marshfield House, Horace H. Meader, prop. 

Martin Abigail Mrs., (Plainfield) r 40, housekeeper for William C. 

MARTIN BENJAMIN F., (Plainfield) r 45, farmer, and owns with William 

trotting stallion " Draco Lambert." 
MARTIN BOWMAN B., Sr., (Plainfield) r 34, 16 cows, 50 head other cattle, 

I I horses, 600 sugar trees, farmer 400. 

MARTIN BOWMAN B., Jr., (Plainfield) r 34, selectman, and farmer with 

Bowman B., Sr., 400. 
MARTIN CASSIUS L., (Plainfield) r 40, live stock dealer, prop, stock 

horse, \o cows, 65 head young cattle, 10 horses, 40 sheep, 600 sugar 

trees, farmer 135. 
MARTIN CURTIS A., (Plainfield) r 43, 30 cows, 90 head young cattle, 

1,000 sugar trees, farmer 150, owns on r 47 farm 240, and wood and 

pasture land 140. 
Martin Edwin B., (Plainfield) r 45, farmer with William. 



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Martin Harry H., (Plainfield) r 45, farmer with William. 

MARTIN HOWARD P., (Plainfield) r 45, 15 grade Durham cows, 65 head 

other cattle, 4 horses, 350 sugar trees, farmer 193, wood and pasture 

land 240. 
MARTIN JACOB M., (Plainfield) off r 37, farmer with Wesley P. 65. 
Martin Jesse. (Plainfield) r 34, resides with Bowman B., Sr. 
MARTIN WESLEY P., (Plainfield) off r 37, 9 cows, 12 head other stock, 

700 sugar trees, farmer with Jacob M. 65. 
MARTIN WILLIAM, (Plainfield) r 45, ^^ cows, 75 head yOung cattle, 32 

horses, 74 sheep, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 1,000, and in Berlin 200. 
MARTIN WILLIAM A., (Plainfield) r 40, 14 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, 

farmer 60. 
McCrillis Evans, 10 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 100 on r 8, h in 

village. 
McCrillis Harry D., dealer in produce, and farmer with Evans. 
McCrillis Sophia Mrs., h and lot Main. 
McKnight James, (Plainfield) off r 50, teamster. 
McKnight Lemuel, (Plainfield) off r 50, resident, aged 77. 
Meader Horace H., prop. Marshfield House and Metcalf's waterproof roof 

paint. 
Mears Ashbel G., r 10, 18 cows, 18 head other cattle, 700 sugar trees, farmer 

200. 
MEARS EZRA N., r 12, 10 head cattle, 35 sheep, 400 sugar trees, farmer 80. 
Mears Mark, general merchant. Main. 
Mears Richard, r 12, resides with Ezra N., aged 85. 
MEARS WILLIAM H. H., town clerk and salesman, h Main. 
Merrill Frank G., board sawyer, h Main. 
MERRITT EDWIN, r t, 10 grade Jersey cows, 10 head young cattle, 1,000 

sugar trees, farmer 75, in Cabot 40, in Woodbury 15, and in Calais 50. 
Merritt Sally, r i, resides with Edwin, aged 86. 
Morgan Newton, r 24, manuf. of wooden ware. 
Munson Lenora Mrs., r i, housekeeper for Edwin Merritt. 
Murray William, r 22^^, farmer 10. 
Newton James P., job teamster, and farmer 15. 
Newton Martin W., r 11, 10 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 125. 
Nichols William A., (Plainfield) farmer 16. 
Northey Emily S., resident, h and lot. 
NUTE LUCIUS D., station agent M. & W. R. R. R., express agent and 

telegraph operator, dealer in Bradley's and Buffalo fertilizers and fine road 

horses, served in Co. C, 13th Vt. Vols., resides at the station. 
Nye Norman, r 16, 8 cows, farmer, leases of P. Spencer 100. 
Orcutt Lucinda Mrs., (Plainfield) r 45, resides with H. P. Martin. 
Ormsbee Ira, r 21, laborer. 
Ormsbee Mary A, Mrs., r 21, owns farm 26. 
Osgood Martha I., r 24, boarding-house keeper for L. T. Kinney. 
PACKER J. Q. A. Dr., r 9, physician and surgeon, prop. Packer's rheu- 
matic and catarrh remedy. 
Packer Silas H., farmer 97. 
Page Frank S., proj). grist-mill. 
Page Lucinda M., resident. 
Parker Sally O., resident, h Main. 
Parks George W., r 34, 9 grade Devon and Jersey cows, 11 head young 

cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 93. 



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Parks William, shoemaker and farmer 25. 

PERKINS D. MARSHALL, (Plainfield) r 36, (Perkins & Norcross) lum- 
berman and farmer. 
Perkins Waldo E., (Plainfield) r 36, lumberman with D. Marshall Perkins. 
PERKINS & NORCROSS, (Plainfield) off r 50,(0. Marshall P., and E. P. 

N., of E. Montpelier) props, steam saw-mill, and own timberland 300. 
Perry Charles D., (Plainfield) r 47, leader Plainfield cornet band, farmer, re- 
sides with John. 
Perry John, (Plainfield) r 47, 12 grade Jersey cows, 10 head young cattle, 650 

sugar trees, farmer 125. 
PHELPS ALLEN, r 24, stone mason, 5 head cattle, farmer 30, served in 

Co. M, 26th N. Y. Cav. 
Pike Charles H., r 16, 18 cows, 16 head other cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 

220. 
Pike Daniel M., r 16, retired farmer. 
PIKE JOHN B., r 34, 10 cows, 10 head young cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 

100, and on r 4 farm 130. 
Pike Martin L., (Plainfield) r 31, farmer 54. 
Pike Mehitable Mrs., r 3, resides with M. R. Bliss, aged 76. 
Pike Sabin C, r 20. 10 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 137. 
Pitkin Daniel B., carriage repairer, h and lot. 
Pitkin Edwin W., r 4, 12 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer, leases of J. B. Pike 

130. 
PITKIN ELI S., civil engineer and surveyor, farmer 30, wood lot 30, sugar 

orchard and tillage land 25, served in Co. C, 13th Vt. Vols. ^ 

PITKIN LEVI W., r 31, I full blood Jersey bull, 27 full blood and grade 

Jersey cows, 11 head young cattle, 6 horses, 900 sugar trees, 500 apple 

trees, farmer 235. 
PITKIN OZIAS C, r 7, 15 head cattle, 700 sugar trees, farmer no. 
PITKIN WILLIAM W., (Plainfield) off r 36, carpenter, 10 head cattle, 

farmer 50. 
Potter Lyman, (Plainfield) r 48, farmer 15. 
Potter Orrin B., (Piaitifield) r 40, resides with W. A. Martin. 
Pratt Calvin, (Plainfield) r 50, resident. 

Pratt Hannah, (Plainfield) r 50 n 49, resides with John Bolles. 
Pratt Orrin A., (Plainfield) r 53, farmer 100. 
PRESTON CHARLES I., architect and builder, h and lot, served in Co. 

G, 2d Vt. Vols. 
Preston Cora E., bds. Marshfield House. 
Preston Henry C, r 9, carpenter and farmer 34. 
Preston William, r 9, resides with Henry C. 

PUTNAM A. FRANKLIN, retired merchant, bds. with William Parks. 
Quimby N. Proctor, off r 20, 300 sugar trees, farmer 57. 
Rand True W., laborer, h and lot. 
Roberts Mervin, r 12, 400 sugar trees, farmer 150. 
Robinson Caroline E., resident, h and lot. 
Robinson Charles H., boot and shoemaker. 
Robinson Christopher, r 22, carpenter, h and 1^ acres. 
Rushlow John, (Plainfield) r 35, farmer 10. 
Sanborn J. Freeman, carpenter, h and lot. 
Sanborn John D., r 24, 200 sugar trees, farmer 165. 
Sanders James E., r 12, mill man. 
Sanford Franklin E., r 21, farmer. 



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Savery Jefferson T., (Plainfield) r 50, farmer 40. 

Sawyer Chester, r 9, 16 head cattle, 600 sugar trees, farmer 125. 

Sellers William, job teamster, bds. Marshfield House. 

Severance John L., carpenter and joiner, h and lot. 

Shepard Alvah M., shoemaker, h Main. 

Shepard Charles E., boot and shoemaker. 

Shepard Frank, (Plainfield) r 49, farmer 13. 

Smith Coridan D., tinsmith and stove dealer. 

Smith Daniel, owns farm on r 3, h and lot. 

Smith Hannah M., r 16, resides with Orin H., aged 76. 

SMITH ORIN H., r 16, road commissioner, 10 cows, 8 head other cattle, 

1,500 sugar trees, 200 apple trees, farmer 115. 
Smith VV. Henry H., r 21, 10 cows, 200 sugar trees, farmer 135. 
Snow Emily F. Mrs., housekeeper for Mrs. Joanna Lamberton. 
SPENCER ABBIE A., (Plainfield) off r 35, (Mrs. George) owns with George 

farm 75. 
SPENCER ASA, r 15, resides with Eri V. 
SPENCER AUSTIN, off r 22, 800 sugar trees, farmer 34. 
Spencer Edson L., r 15, farmer with Eri V. 

Spencer Eri V., r 15. 14 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
SPENCER GEORGE, (Plainfield) off r 35, 12 cows, 6 head young cattle, S 

horses, 400 sugar trees, farmer 130, and owns with Abbie A. farm 75. 
Spencer Ira D., (Plainfield) r 48, farmer. 
Spencer Oliver H., farmer. 

Spencer Robert, r 12, resident, pensioner of the late war. 
Spencer Tyler B., boot closer. 
Spicer Alexander, (Plainfield) off r 35, laborer. 
Spicer David, (Plainfield) off r 48, farmer 80. 
Spofford Aaron P., r 22, 250 sugar trees, farmer 75, aged 75. 
St. Clair Finette Mrs., resident, h and lot. 
ST. CYR GEORGE, (Plainfield) r 35, board sawyer, has worked for H. S. 

Laird 16 years. 
Stearns Melissa Mrs., resident, h and lot. 
Sulham Josiah W., r 22, section hand M. & W. R. R. R. 
Swann J. Lewis, stone mason. 
Sylvester Harriet, resident, h and lot. 
Tanner Fred, r 13, farmer 120. 

Tanner George E., laborer, bds. with C. 1. Preston. 
Tanner Prudence, r 24, owns farm 17. 
THOMAS EDWIN A., (Ned) manuf. of harnesses, carriage trimmer, and 

dealer in harnesses, robes, blankets, whips and horse furnishing goods, 

Main. 
TOWN GEORGE M., physician and surgeon, farmer 37. 
TOWNE LUCRETIA B., (Plainfield) r 34, widow of Albert P., 20 head 

cattle, 550 sugar trees, farm (A. P. Towne's estate) 240, and in Wood- 
bury pasture land 200. 
TOWNSEND FRANK L., (Plainfield) off r 36, farmer with George A. 
TOWNSEND GEORGE A., (Plainfield) off r 36, 11 cows, 11 head young 

cattle, 4 horses, 200 sugar trees, farmer 160. 
TOWNSEND HERMAN F., (Plainfield) r 41, carpenter, 5 grade Jersey 

cows, TOO sugar trees, farmer 25. 
TOWNSEND LEE T., (Plainfield) r 41, farmer, resides with Herman F. 
Trow Loren D., r 25, 12 head cattle, farmer 180. 

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Trow Mehitable Mrs., r 25, resides with Loren D. 
Tucker Amasa C, off r 2, farmer 52. 

Tucker Frank, (Plainfield) ofif r 34, farmer for S. D. HoUister. 
Tucker Mark A., (PlamfieLl) r 45, teamster for D. M. Perkins. 
Underbill Louise, r 24, resides with J. D. Sanborn. 
Wells Eleanor E. Mrs., owns farm in Calais, bds. with Recta O. Hall. 
Wheeler Charlie P., (Plainfield) r 46^, farmer, resides with Peter. 
Wheeler Eben, off r 12, farmer for C. H. Heath, of Montpelier, loo. 
Wheeler George B., r i, 15 head cattle, 1,500 sugar trees, farmer no. 
Wheeler Oscar J., (Plainfield) r 52, farmer, leases of J. A. Wing, of Mont- 
pelier, 300. 
Wheeler Peter, (Plainfield) r 46^^, 17 head cattle, farmer 118. 
WHEELER WILLIE P., (Plainfield) r 46^, farmer with Peter. 
Whitcher Perley F., r 3, 700 sugar trees, farmer 97. 
WHITCOMB A. OSGOOD, (Plainfield) r 32, 4 cows, 35 sheep, 675 sugar 

trees, farmer 85. 
Whitcomb Eri P., (Plainfield) off r 32, farmer for W. M. Austin, 
White Frank, job teamster, and farmer io|. 
Whitehill James S., blacksmith and jobber. 
Whitney James C, r .24, foreman for L. T. Kinney. 
Whitney Moses M., r 3, 24 head cattle, 700 sugar trees, farmer, leases of D, 

Smith, on shares, 150. 
Willis Harriet, (Plainfield) off r 31, resides with F. B. Cahill. 
Winch Alden U., painter. 
Winch Ira W., r 24, farmer i^. 
Winter Gardner P., r 21, farmer with Ira W. 
Winter Ira W.,r 21, 46 head cattle, 900 sugar trees, farmer 175. 
WOOD CHESTER J., (Plainfield) r 38 cor. 37, architect and builder, plans 

drawn and furnished on application. 
WOOD THEODORE, (Plainfield) r 38 cor. 37, 23 head cattle, 4 horses, 

farmer 100, wood and pasture land 200. 
Woodcock Ira B., r 11, farmer with Thirza. 
Woodcock Rhoda Mrs., r 3, owns farm 17. 
Woodcock Thirza Mrs., r 11, owns farm 105. 
Woodward Loomis, carriage repairer, and farmer 40. 
WOOSTER FRANCIS, (G. & F. Wooster) h Main. 
WOOSTER G. & ¥., (George and Francis) dealers in dry goods, groceries, 

ready-made clothing, hats, caj-s, boots, shoes, carpets, millinery, crockery, 

hardware, glass, paints, oils, varnishes, etc., Main. 
WOOSTER GEORGE, (G. & F. Wooster) postmaster, h Main. 
WOOSTER J. STEPHEN, r 30, 12 cows, 13 head other cattle, 400 sugar 

trees, farmer 130. 
Wyman Mary L., r 20, 7 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, farm 60. 



TOWN OF MIDDLESEX. 



99 



MIDDLESEX. 

(For explanations^ etc., see page 3, part second.) 

(Postoffice address is Middlesex, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Alden Alva, (Montpelier) r i, farmer, son of Sylvester. 

Alden Otis H., (Montpelier) r 47, farmer 52. 

Alden Ralph, r i, farmer, son of Sylvester O. 

Alden Sylvester O., (Montpelier) r i, farmer about too. 

Alexander George H., r 36, 700 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 220. 

Andrews Frank E., laborer. 

Arbuckle W. Kazen, r 29, laborer. 

Arbuckle Joseph, r 28, farmer about 50. 

BADGER HENRY E., r 26, lumberman, dealer in live stock, 400 sugar 

trees, 11 cows, and farmer 150, 
Bailey Charles H., r 44, laborer. 
Baker Thomas H., r 30, laborer. 
Barnett Chester, r 35, farmer 75. 
Barney Milo R. Rev., pastor M. E. church. 
Barton Edward D., (Montpelier) r 18, 1,000 sugar trees, 10 covrs, farmer, 

leases of Homer Heaton, of Montpelier, 100. 
Bean Edward L., r 40, laborer. 
Bingham Burton S., r 30, farmer 25, 
Blodgett Jackson O., (Putnamsville) r i, laborer, 
Boutwell Oscar P., r 40, laborer. 
Brown Harmon P., (Putnamsville) r 7, teamster. 
Bruce Jesse L.. (Putnamsville) r 11, farmer 75. 
Bruce Lucius M., r 27, 400 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 200. 
Buck Sanmel, farmer 11. 
Buck William H., (Putnamsville) r 7, resident. 
Buzzell Benjamin R., lumber surveyor. 
Cadman Joseph, (Montpelier) r 5, farmer. 
CAMERON ANDREW J., shoemaker, and farmer i. 
Cameron James, r 40, lumberman, owns timberland 70. 
Cameron Lester M., r 22 cor. 23, 9 cows, farmer 100. 
Carpenter Hannah F., r 43, widow of Don P. 
Carpenter Huldah, widow of Morse. 

Carr Adelbert E., (Montpelier) r 31, farmer, son of Henry O. 
Carr Eugene VV., (Montpelier) r 34, farmer. 
Carr Henry O., (Montpelier) r 31, 10 cows, farmer 175. 
Carr Isaac B., (Montpelier) r 34, farmer 85. 
Carr Jed W., (Montpelier) r 33, farmer 20. 
Casey Bertie, r 43, section hand. 
CHAMBERLAIN J. BURT, r 28, 1,100 sugar trees, 20 cows, farmer 

225, served in Co. B, 13th Vt. Vols. 
Chandler Luther M., r 26, son of Martin L. 
Chandler Martin L., r 26, (Chandler & Kirkland). 
Chandler & Kirkland, r 26, (Martin L. C. and Charles K.) 20 cows, props. 

stock horse " Tatersell, Jr.," and farmers about 350. 



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Chapin Asa, r 15, farmer 60. [Deceased.] 

CHAPIN HINKLEY B.,r 23 cor. 24, gardener and farmer, son of William. 

CHAPIN WILLIAM, r 23 cor. 24, member state board of agriculture, state 

senator, 1,000 sugar trees, 16 cows, and farmer 1,085. 
CHAPIN WILLIAM A., r 23 cor. 24, supt. of schools, farmer, son of 

William. 
Chapman H., (Montpelier) r 31, farmer 75. 
Chapman Willis O., r 31, son of L. O. 

CHASE ALMON,' (Montpelier) r 31, (Almon Chase & Son). 
CHASE ALMON & SON, (Montpelier) r 32 cor. 34, (Elsworth F.) i,ooa 

sugar trees, i 2 cows, farmers 200. 
Chase Azro B., (Montpelier) r 21, farmer 60. 

CHASE ELSWORTH F., (Montpelier) r 32 cor. 34, (Almon Chase & Son). 
Chase Ezekiel H., (Montpelier) r 33, farmer 48. 

Chase George S., r 30, 8 cows, farmer 73, and leases of William Hudson 107. 
Colby Edward W., (Montpelier) r 2, farmer 30. 
Colby George L., (Montpelier) r 2, farmer 50. 
Colby Thomas S., (Montpelier) r 2 ccr. 10, farmer 70. 
Comier Alfred, (Montpelier) off r 32, farmer 80. 
Cornier Lewis, (Montpelier) off r 32, farmer. 
Comstock Hiram W., r 30, lumberman, 300 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer with 

Mrs. Emily L. Judson 200. 
Conlan Peter, laborer. 

Crane Albert C, (Montpelier) r 18, teamster and farmer 3. 
Cronan Michael, section hand. 
Cullen Edward, r 43, section hand. 

CULVER DANIEL R.. (Montpelier)) r 17, ist selectman, farmer 175. 
CULVER ORUS B., (Montpelier) r 17, farmer, son of Daniel R. 
Culver William, (Putnamsville) r 7, teamster. 
Culver William A , (Putnamsville) r 7, emp. C. C. Putnam & Son. 
Cummings Edward W., (Montpelier) r 8, theological student. 
Cummings Eunice, r 40, widow of Joel. 
Cummings William H., (Montpelier) r 8, student. 
Cummings William O , (Montpelier) r 8, 19 cows, farmer 200. 
Dailey Putnam W., (Montpelier) r 20, farmer 130. 
Daniels Burt W., r 25, farmer, son of Sylvanus. 
Daniels Edward H., r 25, farmer, son of Sylvanus. 
Daniels Julius H., r 29, 600 sugar trees, 30 cows, farmer, leases of^Benjamin 

Barrett, of Waterbury, about 180. 
DANIELS SYLVANUS, r 25, 600 sugar trees, 20 cows, tarmer 150. 
Daniels William A., r 22 cor. 23, cooper. 
Darling Andrew J., r 44, 29 cows, farmer 300. 
Darling Lucius A., (Putnamsville) r 18, farmer 9. 

Denison Adorno, prop, grist and planing-mill, re-sawing, planing, turn:ng,'etc. 
DENSMORE ERVING E., r 24. farmer, son of Issachar R. . ..^ 

DENSMORE ISSACHAR R., r 24, 500 sugar trees, 19 cows, farmer 240. 
DILLON JOHN W., (Putnamsville) r 7, postmaster, justice of the peace, 
clerk and book-keeper for C. C. Putnam & Son, stock grower and farmer 

in Calais 250. 
Donahue Michael. (Montpelier) r 21, farmer 52. 
Dow Frank, r 41, laborer. 

DUDLEY CARL H., (MontpeUer) r 34, 20 cows, farmer 375. 
DUTTON ORLO, postmaster, dealer in groceries, tobacco, cigars, station- 
ery, glassware, etc., h and lot. 



TOWN OF MIDDLESEX. 



Edgerly Horace, (Putnamsville) r i8, laborer. 

Edgerly Norris A., (Putnamsville) off r i8, farmer. 

Edgerly Parker D., bridge builder. 

ELLIS IRA, (Montpelier) r 5, farmer 50. 

Emery Arthur, (Putnamsville) laborer. 

FISHER ALVINA R., (Mrs. Noah) prop. Washington House and livery 

stable, Main cor. Railroad. 
Fisher Noah, bds. Washington House. 
Fitzgerald Edward A., (Montpelier) r 17, farmer 145. 

Fitzgerald Joseph, (Montpelier) r 35, farmer 90. 

Fitzgerald Joseph M., (Montpelier) r 35, laborer. 

Fitzgerald William, (Montpelier) r 35, farmer, son of Joseph. 

Flanders A. E., (Putnamsville) laborer. 

FLINT J. D. & L. A., (Montpelier) r 3, 500 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmers no. 

FLINT JESSE, (Montpelier) r 5, (Jesse Fhnt & Son). 

FLINT JESSE & SON, (Montpelier) r 5, (John P.) breeders of Jersey cattle, 
stock growers, 18 cows, farmers 230. 

FLINT JOHN D., (Montpelier) r 3, (J. D. &: L. A. FUnt). 

FLINT JOHN P., (Montpelier) r 5, (Jesse Flint & Son). 

FLINT LE ROY A., ( Montpelier) r 3, (J. D. & L. A Flint) sec'y of Vermont 
State Grange, dealer in produce, and agent for Vermont Farm Ma- 
chine Co. 

Francis Edgar A., (Montpelier) r 18, carpenter and joiner. 

Gary I. W., (Montpelier) r 17, laborer. 

■Gauthers Freeman, (Montpelier) r 46^, lumberman. 

Gearen Hyson, r 43, section boss. 

George Asa, (Montpelier) r 8, farmer 40, 

George Frank J., (Putnamsville) r 3, farmer about 30. 

Gilman Charles F., (Montpelier) r 45 cor. 46, 22 cows, farmer, leases of C. C. 
Eaton, of Montpelier, 200. 

Gould Jerome, (Putnamsville) r 7, laborer. 

Gould Marcus, (Montpelier) r 17, farmer 50. 

Gould Otis S., (Montpelier) r 17, farmer with Marcus. 

Graves Charles C, r 28, 350 sugar trees, 9 cows, farmer 125. 

Graves Rawson S , r 28, retired farmer. 

Guare John, r 12, farmer 95. « 

Hale Edgar N., (Montpelier) r 13, farmer 100. 

Hale George O., (Montpelier) r 32, justice of the peace, lister, 10 cows, and 
farmer 120. 

Hale Simeon R., (Montpelier) r 32, retired farmer. 

Hall George G., (Putnamsville) r 7, laborer. 

Hamblett Almeda, widow of Martin. 

Hamblett Newell C, wheelwright. 

Hammond Ulysses H., r 43, teamster. 

Harris Henry M., (Putnamsville) r 7, sawyer. 

Hasbrook Josiah, (Montpelier) r 12, farmer 200. 

Heath Christopher, (Putnamsville) r 7, emp. C. C. Putnam & Son. 

Herbert John, r 41, farmer 85, and leases of David Ward 180. 

Herbert Martin, laborer. 

Herbert Michael, r 41, laborer. 

Herbert Thomas, r 43, laborer. 

Herrick David, (Montpelier) r 15, retired farmer. 

Herrick George S., (Montpelier) r 15, farmer 112. 



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Herrick Nathaniel K., r 43, general merchant, and dealer in flour, feed, grain 

and salt, farmer 475. 
Hill Eri, (Putnamsville) off r 18, farmer 75. 
Hill George B., (Montpelier) r 47, son of Jonathan F. 
Hill Herbert, r 43, laborer. 

Hill Jonathan F., (Montpelier) r 47, 13 cows, farmer 125. 
Hill Joseph B., painter. 

Hill Torry W., (Putnamsville) r 15, farmer, leases of Lewis Wiggins, of North- 
field, 74. 
Hill Willis D., (Montpelier) r 47, farmer, son of Jonathan F. 
Hills Edward L., r 43, son of Justin B. 
HILLS JUSTIN B., r 43, wheelwright, manuf. of wagons, general repair 

shop, and farmer 20. 
Hilton Estes W., (Montpelier) r 31, farmer 47. 
Hobert John Q., r 40, breeder of Lambert horses, 17 cows, 400 sugar trees^ 

farmer 138, and in Moretown 140. 
Holden Bell, resident. 
Holden Hannah, widow of Moses. 
Holden Horace, r 48, laborer. 
HOLDEN JAMES H., general merchant, owns 100 acres timberland, farm 

20, and Village Hotel. 
Holden J. Harry, theological student. 
Holden William A., druggist. 
HOLT ALONZO E., (Montpelier) r ^s, farmer 5, and leases of Ezekiel 85. 

[Removed to Berlin.] 
Holt Carlos F. H., r 43, laborer. 
Holt Ezekiel, (Montpelier) r ^^, 8 cows, farmer 85. 
Holt Jared H., (Putnamsville) r 11, farmer, leases of C. H. Willey 195. 
HOWARD SEAVER, justice of the peace, agent for Vermont Mutual and 

Union Fire Insurance Companies, and for H. H. Babcock Buggy Co., of 

Watertown, N. Y. 
HUDSON WILLIAM, prop. Village Hotel and livery, 250 sugar trees, 100 

apple trees, 10 cows, and farm 107. 
Hunt Charles L., (Putnamsville) r 6, 14 cows, farmer 160. 
Hurlburt Eben S., (Putnamsville) r 7, laborer. 
JACKMAN MARTIN W., general blacksmith, and farmer 25. [Removed 

to Waterbury.] 
Jewett Allen P., r 39, farmer 80. 
Jewett Fred A., r 39, farmer, 
Jones Albert R., (Putnamsville) r 7, laborer. 
Jones Dudley B., (Montpelier) r 9, farmer 75. 
Judge Edward, (Montpelier) r 13, farmer 5. 
Judson Emily L., r 30, widow of Henry. 
Kent Melvin P., (Putnamsville) r 7, carpenter and joiner. 
Keyes Amasa, (Putnamsville) off r 18, farmer 75. 
Keyes Edward, (Montpelier) r 15, farmer 60. 
Kibbey Nathaniel C, (Montpelier) r 34, farmer 3^. 
Kingsbury Daniel, emp. in grist-mill. 
Kingsbury George W., sash and blind maker. 
Kirkland Charles, r 26, (Chandler & Kirkland). 
Kirkland John, Sr., r 26, farmer 70, and owns with John, Jr., 250. 
KIRKLAND JOHN, Jr., r 26, 400 sugar trees, 14 cows, and farmer, owns 

with John, Sr., 250. 



TOWN OF MIDDLESEX. IO5 



Knapp Luke W. L., (Montpelier) r 44 cor. 35, 20 cows, farmer 300. 

Knapp RoUand, r 43, carpenter and joiner. 

Labaron Frank, (Putnamsville) r 7, laborer. 

Ladd Emeline, r 43, widow of Almon A. 

Ladd George H., r 24, town representative, 300 sugar trees, 11 cows, farmer 
100. 

Lawrence Frank S., (Montpelier) r 5, laborer. 

Lawrence George S., (Montpelier) r 5, farmer 103. 

Lawrence Stillman C, (Putnamsville) laborer. 

Leland Herbert C, r 28, son of Otis C. 

Leland Jarville C., resident. 

Leland Terry, r 2S, 200 sugar trees, 7 cows, farmer 120. 

LELAND OTIS C, r 28, farmer 60. 

Leland Rufus, r 45, prop, boarding-house. 

Leno Joseph, (Montpelier) r 33, farmer, leases of Barney, of Mont- 
pelier. 

Leonard Alonzo R., (Montpelier) r 11, farmer 400. 

Leonard Charles A., (Montpelier) r 11, farmer, son of Alonzo R. 

Leonard John R., general blacksmith. 

Lewis Buvt A., r 29, laborer. 

Lewis Charles J., r 37, 15 cows, farmer 175. 

Lewis George, r 37, farmer, son of William H. 

Lewis Lathrop, (Putnamsville) r 7, 12 cows, farmer 225. 

Lewis Sally, r 37, widow of George H. 

Lewis William H., r 37, farmer 50. 

Long Myron G., r 28, carpenter, 300 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 130. 

Long Samuel, r 42, farmer 34. 

Lunderville Charles H., (Montpelier) laborer. 

Lunderville Lewis, (Montpelier) r 10, laborer. 

Mackin John, off r 39, farmer. 

Maguire O. E., section hand. 

Mahany Jeremiah, (Montpelier) r 21, 15 cows, farmer 140. 

Martin Charles H., (MontpeHer) r 10, 12 cows, farmer 140, and timberland 
200. 

Maxham Arthur, (Montpelier) r 16 cor. 8, farmer, son of John W. 

Maxham Benjamin F., (MontpeHer) r 16 cor. 17, 250 sugar trees, 7 cows, 
farmer 75. 

MAXHAM JOHN W., (Montpelier) r 16 cor. 8, 400 sugar trees, 10 cows, 
farmer 100. 

Maxham Luther, (Montpelier) r 5, farmer i, and leases of Zeba Smith 40. 

Maxham Myron C.. (Montpelier) r 16 cor. 18, farmer. 

Maxham William H. H., (MontpeHer) r 16 cor. 17, farmer with Benjamm 

F. 75- 
McElrov Arloa Miss, resident. 
McELROY FRANKLIN M., C. V. R. R. freight, ticket and express 

agent, and telegraph operator, farmer 7. 
McELROY HENRY L., r 37 cor. 38, 15 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 120. 
McELROY WILLIAM B., town clerk and treasurer, 300 sugar trees, 15 

cows, farmer 1 23. 
McMurphy Cornelius, carpenter and joiner. 
McNamara Daniel, r 12, telegraph operator. 
McNamara John F., r 12, farmer 150. 
Mead Alexis, resident. 



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Mee John, r z^, farmer about 150. 

Merrill Charles S., (Putnamsville) off r 18, laborer. 

Miles Gilbert T., resident. 

Miles Jerry, r 28, laborer. 

Miles Myron W., r 42, justice of the peace, farmer 100. 

Miles Nancy J., r 41, widow of George P., farmer 175. 

Miles Portus J., r 30, retired farmer. 

Minott Addison P., (Montpelier) r 17. 10 cows, farmer 128. 

MONTAGU GEORGE. (Montpelier) r 46, (R. D. & G. Montagu). 

MONTAGU R. D. & G., (Montpelier) r 46, lumbermen, 13 cows, stock 

growers, and farmers 200. 
MONTAGU RUFUS D., (Montpelier) r 46, (R. D. & G. Montagu). 
Montague Clarrisa W., (Montpelier) r 9, widow of William, farmer 30. 
Montague William H., (Montpelier) r 9, engineer. 
Moore Abbot A., farmer 35. [Deceased.] 
Moriarty Margaret, r 12, widow of Michael, farmer 150. 
NELSON ALZERNON S., (Montpelier) r 46 cor. 48, 20 cows, farmer 204. 
NELSON DANIEL D„ (Montpelier) r 47, lumberman, 15 cows, 

farmer 325. 
Newhall Art M., r 41, (Newhall Brothers.) 

Newhall Brothers, r 41, (Will M. and Art M.) 20 cows, farmers 300. 
Newhall Will M., r 41, (Newhall Brothers). 
Nichols Edward M., (Montpelier) r 46, 10 cows, farmer 125. 
NICHOLS HENRY W., r 25, 3d selectman, road commissioner, pound 

keeper and fence viewer, 300 sugar trees, 9 cows, and farmer 150. 
Patterson Burt, (Montpelier) r i, farmer, son of George A. 
Patterson George A., (Montpelier) r i, farmer 15. 
Pearson Prentiss, r 40, farmer. 
Pembroke Daniel, r 13, farmer 87. 

Pembroke James, r 13, thresher and farmer, son of Daniel. 
Pembroke Martin, r 13, thresher and farmer, son of Daniel. 
Pender Lawrence, r 40, farmer, son of Patrick. 
Pender Patrick, r 40, farmer about 75. 
Phelps Henry, r 36, laborer. 

Pierson Prentice F., r 40, farmer 2^, and in Waterbury about 5. 
Pike Charles W., farmer 85. 
Pike William J., r 39, farmer 85. 

Portall James, (Montpelier) r 33, farmer, son of John. 
Portall John, (Montpelier) r 33, farmer 80. 
Powers Frank, (Montpelier) sawyer for O. H. Richardson. 
Price Michael, r 38, 11 cows, farmer about 30. 
Price Morty K., r 38. farmer. 
Price Thomas E., r 38, farmer. 

Putnam Augustus W., (Putnamsville) r 7, farmer 12. 
PUTNAM C. C. & SON, (Putnamsville) r 7, (Christopher C, Jr.,) general 

merchants, props, of saw and planing-mill, manufs. of spruce and hard 

wood lumber, flooring, sheathing, etc, farmers 100, timberland in Calais 

50, in Worcester about 4,000, and in Elmore, Orleans Co., about 100. 
PUTNAM CHRISTOPHER C, (Putnamsville) r 7, (C. C. Putnam & 

Son). 
PUTNAM CHRISTOPHER C, Jr., (Putnamsville) r 7, (C. C. Putnam & 

Son). 
Putnam George H., (Putnamsville) r 7, farmer, son of Jacob. 



TOWN OF MIDDLESEX. 



Putnam Jacob, (Putnamsville) r 7, 16 cows, farmer 175. 

Quinn Timothy, (Montpelier) r 3, laborer. 

Rhoades Henry, laborer. 

Rich Frank, widow of Amos, resides with Horace Steele. 

RICHARDSON CHARLES C, r 44, farmer 7, and with Norris Wright 175. 

Richardson Fred A., (Montpelier) r 31, farmer 75. 

RICHARDSON O. H., lumber raanuf , resides in Montpelier. 

Richardson W. Fred, r 2, laborer. 

Richardson Zela, retired physician. 

Roberts James D., r 40, prop, saw-mill, farmer i. 

Robinson Joseph H., r 35, farmer 90. 

Root George, (Montpelier) r 4, farmer 100. 

Root Webster H., (Montpelier) r 2, farmer about 100. 

Sawyer Charles H., r 43, commercial traveler. 

Sawyer Don P., farmer 20. 

Sawyer Gardner, r 32, 13 cows, and farmer 150. 

Sawyer Hiram A., r 22, farmer 200. 

Sawyer Orvis A., (Montpelier) off r 19, farmer ii8. 

SCOTT WILLIAM L., r 42, 500 sugar trees, 13 cows, and farmer 114. 

Sessions David, r 14, laborer. 

Sherman George, retired farmer. 

Silloway Charles, r 3?, 300 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 160. 

SILLOWAY MOSES, r 38, 700 sugar trees, 13 cows, and farmer 200. 

SILLOWAY ORA F., r 38, farmer, son of Moses. 

Slatteray Michael. (Montpelier) r 3, resident. 

Smith Daniel, (Montpelier) r 46, laborer. 

Smith Frank, (Montpelier) r 46, laborer. 

Smith Fred L., (Montpelier) r 46, laborer. 

Smith Mills G., (Montpelier) r 17, resident. 

Smith Roswell, r 35, farmer. 

Smith William P., (Montpelier) r 46, laborer. 

Smith Zeba, (Montpelier) r 5, farmer 40. 

Steele Horace, tinsmith. 

Steele Jacob C. resident. 

Steinberge George W., r 43, cooper, and farmer, leases of the A. A. Ladd 
estate 45 . 

Stiles Enos, farmer about 10. 

Stone Charles H., r 23, farmer about 75. 

Suple James, r 15, farmer 100. 

Swift Levi, r 37, fruit grower, 13 cows, farmer 75. 

Taplin Heman J., r 44, 9 cows, farmer 130. 

Tarbox David W., (Montpelier) r 5, farmer 150. 

TAYLOR CHESTER, (Montpelier) r 18, 7 cows, farmer 85. 

Taylor David B., (Montpelier) r 9, farmer 50. 

Tavlor George F., (Montpelier) r 3, farmer about 100. 

Taylor Willie A., (Montpelier) r 18, stonecutter. 

Thayer James, (Montpelier) r 18, farmer 4. 

Turner Fred A., r 43, laborer. 

TURNEY HENRY P., general blacksmith, horseshoer and jobber, manuf. 
of a superior quality of hoof ointment, farmer, leases of H. H. Long, 
of Waterbury, 14. [Removed to Lincoln, Addison Co.] 

Vaughn Alma R., r 28, widow of Volney V., farmer 140. 

VILLAGE HOTEL, William Hudson, prop., livery connected. 



Io6 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



Walling Ransom, (Putnamsville) r 6, laborer. 

Ward Chester L., agent for H. A. Keir's water heater. 

WARD DAVID, 2d selectman, farmer 225. 

Ward Frank A., r 43, farmer 53. 

Warren Albert L., (Montpelier) r 45, farmer 120. 

Warren Asa, r 36, resident. 

Warren Ben G., r 36, farmer 3^. 

WARREN GEORGE A., (Montpelier) r 48, 20 cows, farmer 175. 

WARREN RUFUS W., (Montpelier) r 48, justice of the peace, 25 cows, 

farmer 200. 
WASHINGTON HOUSE, A. R. Fisher, prop., livery connected. 
Weir John, marble worker and dealer. 
Welch Herbert P., (Montpelier) r 47 cor. ;^^, farmer 67. 
Wellington George W., retired farmer. 
WELLS LORENZO R., r 22, town agent, justice of the peace, 250 sugar 

trees, 6 cows, farmer 60. 
White Lucian, r 36, 600 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 150. 
Whitney Elijah, (Putnamsville) r 7, 17 cows, farmer 300. 
Whitney Frank P., (Putnamsville) r 18, lumberman. 
Whitney George M., (Putnamsville) r 7, breeder of Jersey cattle, reg., la 

cows, farmer 105. 
WIGGINS CHARLES C, (Montpelier) r 17, 400 sugar trees, 11 cows,. 

farmer 140 
Wiggins Orville R., (Montpelier) r 17, 12 cows, farmer 130. 
Willey Charles H., (Montpelier) r 11, farmer 300. 
Willey George W., (Montpelier) r 10, farmer 72. 
Williams E. Dana, retired farmer. 
Wilson Albert H., (Montpelier) r 18, farmer 60. 
WRIGHT NORRIS, r 44, with C. C. Richardson 15 cows, stock grower,^ 

breeder of Chester white swine, farmer 175. 
Wyth Hollis N., shoemaker. 



MONTPELIER. 

fJ^or explatiaiions, etc.. see page t^., part secotid.) 

(Postoffice address is Montpelier, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Abaire Frank, plumber, emp. John W. Peck, h 12 Spring. 

Abaire George, plumber, emp. John W. Peck, h 14 Spring. 

Abaire Henry, laborer, bds. Spring. 

ACME WATCH KEY CO., (George T. Neill and Elgin J. Gale) manufs. 

of the Acme automatic dust-proof watch key, rear Main. 
Adams Anson, carpenter, bds. 9 Court. 
Adams Frank A., salesman for William E., h i;o State. 
Adams Fred M., manager Pavilion Hotel, bds. do. 
ADAMS JOHN Q., prop. Pavilion livery, boarding, hack and sale stables, 

h 126 State. 



TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 107 



Adams William E., dealer in clothing, hats, caps, furs and furnishing goods^ 

60 State, h 62 do. 
Agency of the Public Grain and Stock Exchange, 18 Broadway, New York 

city, stocks, bonds, grain and provisions bought and sold for cash or on 

margins, F. E. Spaulding, manager, State. 
Ainsworth Alonzo M., r i, lumber teamster for C. C. Putman «Sr Son. 
Ainsworth Charles C, butcher, emp. O. D. Scribner, h 39 Berlin st. 
Ainsworth Chester, retired blacksmith, bds. 18 Pearl. 
Ainsworth Daniel, distiller of essential oils, h Coffee House. 
AINSWORTH GEORGE W., clairvoyant physician, soldier in Co. I. nth 

Vt. Vols., h 5 Fuller. 
Alain Caroline Miss, printer, emp. The Watchman, h and lot 5 Cross. 
Alain Frank, laborer, 10 Court. 
Alain Joseph, retired printer, aged 77, h 5 Cross. 
Aldrich Edward H., dealer in boots, shoes and rubbers, Union block, 2a 

State, bds. Riverside. 

Alexander , widow of Freeman, pastry cook. 

Alexander Addie, widow of Hiland, dressmaker, h 38 S. Main. 

Alexander Ambrose J., carpenter, contractor and builder, h 3 Wilder. 

Alexander Charles H., printer, emp. Union Card Co., h 38 Main. 

Alexander Clark, teamster, h 6 Cross. 

Alexander Frank, carpenter, bds. 4 Miles Court. 

Alexander George E., clerk for C. H. Ferrin, h 242 Main. 

Alexander Jabez, carpenter, h 4 Miles Court. 

Alexander Levi C, job teamster, h 230 Main. 

Alexander Neb. A., carpenter, emp. Ambrose J., bds. 3 Wilder. 

Allard Telesphore, custom blacksmith, rear of Barrows & Peck's, Main, h 

144 Elm. 
Allen Arthur, manuf. of and wholesale and retail dealer in cigars, 38 State,. 

h do. 
Allen Arthur, Jr., cigarmaker, emp. of Arthur, Sr., bds. 38 State. 
Allen James, cigarmaker, emp. of Arthur, Sr., h 9 Summer. 
Allen William D., clerk for Marvin & Sherburne, bds. 37 Barre st. 
Almon George, electrician, bds. 8 Mechanic. 
Almon John, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 8 Mechanic. 
Almon Joseph E., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 8 Mechanic. 
Almon Margaret J., widow of Joseph, resident, h 8 Mechanic. 
American Express Co., H. W. Drew, manager, C. V. R. R. depot. 
Ance Andrew, stonecutter, h 31 School. 

ANDERSON JOHN B., millwright, emp. Lane Mfg. Co.. h 140 Elm. 
ANDERSON JOHN B. Mrs., resident, h 140 Pearl. 
Andrus A. Charles, carpenter, bds. 15 E. State. 
Angier Joel N., clerk for Tohn V. Brooks, bds. 8 Baldwin. 
ARGUS AND PATRIOT, Hiram Atkins, editor and prop., issued every 

Wednesday, 112 Main. 
Atkins George, business manager Argus and Patriot, h 11 Vine. 
ATKINS HIRAM, editor and prop. Argus and Patriot, ]oh printer and 

supt. of construction of U. S. postoffice and court-house for Montpelier,. 

112 Main, h 122 Elm. 
Atkins Kate, resident, 122 Elm. 
Aubin John, carpenter, h 114 Main. 
Babcock Jerry V., dealer in drugs and medicines, and toilet goods, 9 State, 

h 25 E. Liberty. 



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Bacon Ann Miss, tailoress, emp. Woolson Bros., h 30 E. State. 

Bacon John, retired miller, h 30 E. State. 

Badord Peter, justice of the peace and blacksmith. Elm, h 140 State. 

Badord Peter A., blacksmith, emp. of Peter, bds 140 State. 

Bagley Cyrus R., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 2 Cross cor. Franklin. 

Bagley William J., electrician, bds. Montpelier House. 

Bailey Burnside B., speculator, bds. 140 Main. 

Bailey Charles A., physician and surgeon, Willard block, h 43 E. State. 

BAILEY E. W. & CO., (L. D. Taft) props, of grist-mill, wholesale and re- 
tail dealers in flour, grai.o, meal and feed, 94 Main. 

BAILEY EDWARD W., (E. W. Bailey & Co.) miller. 

Bailey Ella Miss, resides 114 Elm. 

Bailey Harriet, widow of I. Warren, resident, h 114 Elm. 

BAILEY OLIVE E., widow of Charles W., resides 140 Main. 

Bailey Percy, coachman, emp. B. F. Fifield, bds. 118 State. 

Bailey Sarah L., widow of Martin V., tailoress, emp. Woolson Bros., h 20 
Arsenal ave. 

Bailey Thomas W., conductor C. V. R. R., h 31 E. State. 

Baker Edward, general mechanic, h 23 Summer. 

Baker Jabez, molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 23 Summer. 

Baker Jabez Mrs., straw worker on hats and bonnets, prop. 5 and 10 cent 
counter, and dealer in house plants, h 23 Summer. 

Baldwin Charles H., jeweler, emp. A. G. Stone, bds. 2 Spring. 

Ballard Smith S., head clerk C. V. R. R., Montpelier station, h i Terrace. 

BANCROFT CHARLES De F., justice of the peace, lister, tinsmith, 
emp. Barrows & Peck, h 64 Barre st. 

Bancroft Elmer E., farmer with his father, Enos H. 

Bancroft Enos H., farmer. 

Bancroft Frederick W., teacher of vocal music, h 166 Main. 

Bancroft Henry R., clerk, emp. M. & W. R. R. R., h 8 First ave. 

Bancroft Juliaette C, widow of Arthur D., h 18 Liberty. 

Bancroft Margaret W., widow of Carlos. 

Bard George VV., carpenter, bds. 61 Elm. 

Bard Richard, laborer, h 61 Elm. 

Barington Harry B., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 142 Elm. 

Barnes Alonzo, retired, h 121 Elm. 

Barnes Christopher O., carpenter and joiner, h 4 Prospect. 

Barnes Mary Miss, dressmaker, owns h and lot 4 Prospect. 

Barney Joseph, blacksmith, bds. 65 Elm. 

Barney Lewis, (Lewis Barney & Son) h 257 Main. 

Barney Lewis & Son, (Philip) general blacksmiths, rear 51 Main. 

Barney Philip, (Lewis Barney & Son) bds. 257 Main. 

Barnurd Charles A., commercial traveler for Devereaux & Meserve, of Bos- 
ton, h 133 State. 

Barrows Nellie, resident, h 102 Elm. 

Barrows Thomas C, (Barrows & Peck) h 102 Elm. 

Barrows & Peck, (Thomas C. B. and George A. P.) tin plate workers, plumb- 
ers, aid deilersin agricultural implements and mechanics' tools, general 
hardware and stoves, 64 Main. 

Barton David, retired farmer, residence Wrightsville. 

Bascom Frank H., druggist, dealer in tobacco, cigars, and homeopathic reme- 
dies, 25 State, h 134 do. 

Batchelder Justus L., clerk for A. D. Farwell, bds. do. 



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Beach Theodore J., granite cutter, h Berlin st. 

Bean Daniel J., stonecutter, bds. 32 School. 

Bell Joseph M., butcher, h 45 Elm. 

Bemis Luther P., meat cook at Pavilion Hotel, bds. do. 

Benjamin Benjamin, dry goods peddler, bds. Montpelier House. 

Benjamin R. Plummer, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 8 Cross. 

Bennett Caroline M.. widow of Daniel K., h 23 Barre st. 

Bennett Charles M., lawyer, postoffice block, h 23 Barre st. 

BENNETT GEORGE H., buildmg mover, owns Hillside boarding-house 
and farm 15, h Hillside, 9 Court. 

Bennett Stephen, retired, aged 84, h 185 Main. 

Berry William C, assistant treas. M. & \V. R. R. R., h 8 Loomis. 

Best Charles A., dealer in millinery, fancy goods, and material for art needle 
work and stamping, 54 State, bds. Hotel Kempton. 
] Best Hattie, resident, h 52 Barre st. 

Best William, speculator, h 52 Barre st. 

Best William H., express agent from Newport to Boston, h 169 Main. 

Bigelow Walter J , student, bds. 11 Arsenal ave. 

Birtel John, emp. Colby Wringer Co., Elm cor. Court. 

Bisbee Arthur B., physician and surgeon, h 165 Main. 

BISHOP EELWELL A. Rev., A. M., principal Vermont Methodist seminary 
and Female college, and professor of moral and natural science, h 7 
' Arsenal ave. 

' Bixby Clementine L, widow of Freeman, h 27 Loomis. 
I Bixby H. Roger, dealer in drugs, paints and oils, 10 State, h 147 do. 
' Bixby Levi H., teller Montpelier National bank, bds. 27 Loomis. 

Bixby Lola A., teacher, bds. 9 Arsenal. 

Blackall J. Richard, tinman, emp. Barrows & Peck, h 27 E. State. 
( Blackwell Edward D., cashier Montpelier National bank, treas. Standard 
j Light and Power Co., and notary public, h 152 Main. 

I Blackwell Edward R., formerly civil engineer, clerk for Sabin Machine Co., 
I bds. 152 Main. 

I Blair George, foreman Argus and Patriot ■punixng office, h 63 Berlin st. 
i Blake Alfred E., reed and rattan worker, bds. 59 Main. 
I Blake Joseph, teamster, h 5 Kinsman place. 
I Blakely Collins, druggist, 3 State, h r i Winter. 
( Blakely Edward E., life insurance agent, bds. 11 Winter. 
] Blanchard Asa, prop, opera house, and dealer in coal, h 21 Barre st. 
. Blanchard Azel N., photographer, Walton's block, 15 Slate, h 23 Terrace. 
j Blanchard Fred, (successor to Blanchard Bros.) dealer in heavy and builders' 
( hardware, iron, steel, and agricultural implements, 66 Main, h 26 Liberty. 

i Blanchard George L., clerk, emp. Fred Blanchard. bds. 21 Barre st. 
Blanchard Herman E,, clerk Pavilion Hotel, bds. do. 
Blanchard Inez, photograph finisher, bds. 23 Terrace. 
^ Blanchard Ivis, photograph finisher, bds. 23 Terrace. 
j Blanchard William, tinsmith, emp. Barrows & Peck, h 59 Elm. 
I Blanchard Winslow S., farmer 15, h Wooster Branch road. 

iBlanpied David S., professor of music in Vermont Methodist seminary, h i 
Arsenal ave. 
Bliss Augustus A., book-keeper, emp. W. W. Park, bds. 100 State. 
I Bliss Elmer E., emp. F. B. Miller, h Berlin st. 
^ Bliss S. Newell, resident, h 85 E. State. 

(Boardman Harland S., M. D., homeo. physician and surgeon, 56 State, h 
I. S3 do. 



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Bolton George W., compositor, em p. The Watchman^ h 21 E. State. 

Bombriant Eugene G., emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 9 North. 

Bosquette Joseph, tanner, emp. Pecks & Cummins, h 131 Elm. 

Bosworth Samuel H. O., dealer in butter, cheese and maple sugar, farm at 

Berlin Corners 120, pasture and timber lands 75, h 19 Loomis. 
Boutwell Harry S., breeder of Auctioneer horses and dealer in fine horses, h 

143 Main. 
Boutwell James M , engineer, emp. M. & W. R. R. R., h 145 Main. 
Bowen Lucinda Mrs., h 167 Main. 
Bowers Alice M., seamstress, bds. 136 State. 
Bowers H. Arthur, (R. C. Bowers Granite Co.) bds. 10 Pearl. 
Bowers Henry A., laborer, bds. 136 State. 

BOWERS JAMES A., locomotive engineer C. V. R. R.,h 136 State. 
Bowers R. C. Granite Co., incorporated January 3, i888; R. C. Bowers, 

pres.; Fred E. Smith, vice-pres.; F. L. Eaton, treas.; H.A. Bowers, sec'y ; 

importers of and wholesale dealers in granite, marble and statuary work. 
Bowers Riley C, pres. R. C. Bowers Granite Co., h 10 Pearl. 
Bowman Herbert A., dealer in fish, fruit, canned goods and vegetables, h 4 

Cedar. 
BOYCE GEORGE O., r 5, breeder of pure blood Lambert and Wilkes 

horses, 27 head, prop, celebrated stock horses "Abraham," "Incentive" 

and " Hampton." 
Boyce Laura B., r 5, (Mrs. G. O.) correspondent of Argus and Patriot, 

Watchman and Mirror and Parmer. 
Bradford Oscar V., druggist, manager of Capital drug store, Dennis Lane, 

prop., 63 Main, h 4 Cedar. 
Brainard George, retired merchant, h 6 Liberty. 
Braman Wilbur F., retired merchant, h 118 Elm cor. Winter. 
Breen John, teamster, h 21 Elm. 

Brewer F. Huber, clerk for Daniel F. Long, bds. 38 Main. 
Brewer R. Malvina Mrs., compositor I'n The Watchman office, h 38 S. Main. 
Briggs William A., policy clerk for National Life Insurance Co., h 128 State. 
Britain Phebe L., widow of Samuel, seamstress, h 18 Spring. 
Britton Frank A., painter, h 1 1 North. 
BROCK JAMES W,, director Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Co., h 

138 Main. 
Brockway Harriet N., widow, h 2 North. 
Brooks A. Walter, painter, h 48 E. State. 
Brooks John V., dealer in agricultural implements, builders' hardware, and 

tools, paints, oils, doors, sash and blinds, 15 State, h S Baldwin. 
Brooks Lynn B., clerk, emp. W. W. Park, h 28 E. State. 
BROWN A. C. «Si: SON, (Joseph G.) fire, life and accident insurance agents. 

Main cor. State ; Barre office, Granite block. 
Brown Adeliza E., widow of J. Lyman, h 39 Barre st. 
Brown Albert H., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 83 E. State. 
BROWN ANDREW C, (A. C. Brown & Son) prop, and manager tele- 
phone exchange for Washington and Lamoille counties, Main cor. State, 

h 24 Summer. 
Brown David, tanner, h 28 St. Paul. 
Brown Edward W., printer, h 11 Franklin. 
Brown Francis, laborer, h 24 St. Paul. 
Brown Francis, Jr., silver plater, bds. 24 St. Paul. 
Brown Frank W., laborer, h 14 Court. 



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Brown Fred, laborer, h 14 Court. 

BROWN GEORGE O., carpenter and builder, foreman of construction of 

the U. S. court-house and postoffice building. 
Brown Harvey W., letter carrier, h 142 Elm. 

Brown Herbert, teamster, emp. C. C. Putnam & Son, h Wrightsville. 
Brown John D., custom shoemaker, 7 Lane place, h do. 
Brown Joseph, laborer, h 123 Elm. 

BROWN JOSEPH G., (A. C. Brown & Son) bds. 24 Summer. 
Bruce Arthur H., hostler, emp. J. Q. Adams, bds. 9 Court. 
Bruce Jefferson, blacksmith, rear French block, h 48 Main. 
Bryant James G., laborer, bds. 32 Main. 

Bugbee Clara P., widow of Abel H., h 2 Hopkins block, 12 Spring. 
Bugbee Clarence, painter, h 2 Hopkins block, 12 Spring. 
BUGBEE ELMER W., 25 cows, dealer in milk, and farmer 208. 
Bullock Calvin L., shoemaker, h 8 Winter. 
Bunnell Robert R., retired, h 2 Spring. 
Burbank Mary A. L., widow of Silas, h 153 Main. 
Burgen Hannah, widow of Stephen, resident, h 10 N. Franklin. 
Burgen John, molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 10 N. Franklin. 
Burgen Patrick, laborer, bds. 10 N. Franklin. 

Burgen Stephen, stonecutter, emp. Kelleher Bros., bds. 10 N. Franklin. 
Burges Charles, resident, 15 Court. 
Burke Catherme, widow of John, h 14 N. Franklin. 
Burke Edward, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 127 Elm. 
Burke Thomas, laborer, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 14 N. P'ranklin. 
Burnham Andrew J., retired farmer, h 40 E. Liberty. 
Burnham Elisha K., retired farmer, bds. 96 State. 
Burnham Harvey L., laborer, bds. 94 State. 
Burnham Lewis Mrs., widow, bds. Hotel Kempton. 
Burnham Myron F., supt. gas works, h go State. 
Burpee James H., traveling salesman, h 15 Winter. 
BUSWELL CHARLES F., (Union Card Co.) bds. 25 E. State. 
Buswell Laura A., widow of George M., prop, boarding-house, 25 E. State. 
Butler George D., dealer in groceries, eggs, butter and cheese, 36 Main, h 

and 4 acres Middlesex road. 
Butterfly EHza Miss, dressmaker, emp. Mrs. H. C. Davis, bds. 26 St. Paul. 
Butterfly Francis, truckman, h 26 St. Paul. 
Butterfly Fred, stonecutter, h 32 St. Paul. 
Butterfly George, carpenter, h 5 Lane place. 
Butterfly Henry, laborer, bds. 26 St. Paul. 
Butterfly Loren F., truckman, emp. Francis, h 26 St. Paul. 
Buzzell George C, night baggage master C. V. R. R., bds. Union House. 
Cameron Frank C, teamster, bds. 137 Main. 
Camp Dian K., prop, boarding-house, 29 School. 
Camp Emma, prop, boarding-house, 29 School. 

Camp Erastus S., prop. Camp block, farm and woodland 75, h 4 School. 
Camp Fanny A., prop, boarding-house, 29 School. 
Camp Harriet H., prop, boarding-house, 29 School. 
Camp Prudence, widow of L. G., resident, h 29 School. 
Camp Sarah A., widow of Zebina C, bds. 147 State. 
Camp Sarah C, widow, h 16 Spring. 

Campbell Alexander, 25 cows, milk dealer and farmer, h Cummins. 
Campbell Alexander, Jr., bds. Cummins. 



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Campbell George, farmer with his father, Alexander, Sr. 

Campbell Henry, tanner, enip. Keith Bros., bds. Cummins. 

Campbell Rosalia E. Mrs., washing and ironing, h 9 Lane place. 

Campbell Umphrey, prop, billiard hall, 80 State, h 57 Elm. 

Campbell William, tailor, emp. Woolson Bros., bds. Hillside 

Canning Henry, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 125 Elm. 

Canning James, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 19 Franklin. 

Canning William C, blacksmith, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 3 N. Franklin. 

CAPITAL GRANITE CO.,THE,(Thomas Eagan and Timothy McQueeney) 

manufs. of and dealers in all kinds of Barre granite, monumental and 

statuary work a specialty, Barre st. 
Carey Daniel C, justice of the peace and stonecutter, bds. 39 Barre st. 
Carleton Frederick P., clerk in probate office, bds. 128 Elm. 
CARLETON HIRAM, lawyer, judge of probate for Washington district, 

court-house, h 128 Elm. 
Carleton Margaret F., widow of Alfred L.. resident, h 136 Elm. 
Carpenter Joseph W., laborer, bds. 25 E. State. 
Carr Sidney D., r 7, farm laborer, owns h and i acre. 
Carroll Edwin, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co.. bds. 9 St. Paul. 
Carroll Francis, plumber, emp. P. L Lyons, bds. 2 Barre st. 
Carroll John C, stonecutter, bds. Union House. 
Carter Betsey H., widow of Henry, bds. 99 State. 
Carter Charles H., retired, aged 70, h r6o Main. 

Carver Frank W., foreman of Merrill Russell's granite shops, h Hyde block. 
Cashan Henry, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 27 Franklin. 
Cassavaint Thomas L., gardener, h 5 Hillside. 
Catie Eli, carpenter and joiner, h 51 Elm. 
Catie Eli, jr., wheelwright, t Elm, h 51 do. 

CATIE ELI A , wheelwright with his father, EH, Sr., bds. 51 Elm. 
Caustic John W., printer, emp. IVatchman office, bds. 9 Court. 
Cayhue George, building mover, h 9 Franklin. 
Cayhue John, granite polisher, bds. 201 Mam. 
Cayhue Tuffield, laborer, h 201 Main. 
Cayhue William, stonecutter, h 203 Main. 
Celley James M. D., farmer in E. MontpeUer 80, h 3 North. 
Chamberhn Clara A. H., widow of George G., housekeeper, 6 Franklin. 
Chamberlin Daniel, laborer for George Brainard, bds. 6 Liberty. 
Chamberlin Philura A., nurse, bds. 20 Loomis. 
CHANDLER CHARLES E., M. D., physician and surgeon. Main cor. State, 

bds. 139 Main. 
CHANDLER CHARLES M., M. D., physician and surgeon. Main cor. 

State, h 139 Main. 
Chapie J. Edwin, section hand M. & W. R. R. R., h 5 Fisher place. 
Chapman Fred, miller, emp. E. W. Bailey & Co., h 38 E. State. 
Chapman Herbert, agent for C. J. Gleason, bds. 128 State. 
Chapman Willis O., clerk for C. G. Downing, bds. 32 Main. 
Chase Edmund H., off r 3, farmer 30. 

Chase Ida E., book-keeper for Johnson & Colton, bds. 4 Charles. 
Chase Myron F., agent Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., of Hartford, 

Conn., Willard block, Main. 
Chase Stillman, dealer in fine horses, h 8 Park ave. 
Cheney Edson O., clerk for H. C. Webster, bds. 32 School. 
Chennette PhiUias, carpenter, h 44 North. 



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Chiquett Uder, tanner, h 40 North. 

CLARK ALFRED, dental surgeon, teeth extracted without pain by a new 
method, 24 Main, h do. 

Clark Almon L., retired, h 8 First ave. 

Clark Charles VV., carpenter, h 39 Barre st. 

CLARK DAYTON P., first constable and collector, house painter, paper 
hanger and calciminer, employs from 6 to 1 2 men, Willard block, h 25 
Summer. 

Clark Tames D., book-binder, 38 State, h 2 Barre st. 

Clark John W., grower of hay, farmer 225, woodland 75, h 161 State. 

Clark Osman D., justice of the peace, and assistant sec'y National Life Insur- 
ance Co., h 113 Elm. 

Clark Septimus, foreman for Pecks & Cummins, bds. 9 Cummins. 

Clark Wealthy, widow of Chester, bds. 118 Elm. 

Clark William H , r 7, farmer, resides with W. C. Walker. [Died Feb. 
29, 1888.] 

Clarke Louie A. Miss, daughter of Dayton P., teacher, bds. 25 Summer. 

Cleaves Mary J. Miss, resides 140 State. 

Cleaves Sarah R., widow of Charles R., resident, h 140 State. 

Clogston Joseph D., retired, renter of tenements, and owns farm in Brook- 
field, Orange Co., h 157 Main. 

CLOGSTON O. CURTIS, raanuf. of and dealer in lumber, h BerUn st. 

Clough , h 30 Loomis. 

Cobb Flora, widow of Henry, resident, h 10 Vine. 

Cobb Henry, clerk for D. S. Wheatley, bds. 10 Vine. 

Cochrane William H., book-keeper, emp. National Life Insurance Co., bds. 
4 Summer. 

Coffin James B., molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 40 E. Liberty. 

Coffrin Henry E., painter, h 205 Main. 

Coffrin James F., teamster, h Wrightsville. 

Colby George W., painter and paper hanger, h 52 Barre st. 

Colby Stephen R., conductor C. V. R. R., h 29 Court. 

Colby Wringer Co., Hon. Fred E. Smith, pres.; W. H. Cowell, treas.; 
manufs. of Colby improved wringers, and dealers in laundry and house- 
hold specialties, Berlin st. 

Collins Charles F., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 3 Vine. 

Colt J. George, laborer, h 22 First ave. 

Colton Henry C., (Johnson & Colton) h 4 First ave. 

Constine Frank, laborer, h 3 Swazey place. 

Cook Flora E. Mrs., bds. 165 Main. 

Cooley William A., r i, molder. 

Copeland Osbert J., connected with Excelsior Granite Co., of Montpelier, h 
36 Barre st. 

Copp Viola Mrs., h 51 Barre st. 

Corry Frank M., dealer in fish and oysters, fruits and vegetables, 128 Main, 
h 130 do. 

Corry Mary, widow of Patrick, h 32 St. Paul. 

Corry Thomas H., printer, emp. The Watchman office, h 50 E. Liberty. 

Corse Seth W., photographer and crayon artist, Pratt block, 38 State, h 22 
Vine. 

Cowell William H., treas. Colby Wringer Co., h 5 Pearl. 

Cowen Thomas, laborer, h 232 Main. 
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Cox Nellie Miss, stenographer and typewriter for Senter & Kemp, bds. 

Hotel Kempton. 
Cram Ellen Miss, owns h and lot 22 Ridge. 
Cram Erastus, carpenter, h 22 Ridge. 
Crapo Israel, mason, h 15 N. Franklin. 
Crapo Peter, laborer, bds. 15 N. Franklin. 
Crapo Peter, Jr., mason, h 24 Court. 
Cree Luther, retired, h 27 Barre st. 
CROSS C. H. & SON, (L. Bart) manufs. of all kinds of crackers, bread, 

cakes, and confectionery, wholesale and retail dealers in cigars and nuts, 

10 1 Main. 
CROSS CHARLES H., (C. H. Cross & Son) trustee Vermont seminary, 

and owns 12 tenements, h s,6 E. State. 
Cross Hiram B., manuf. and dealer in granite, near M. & W. R. R. R. depot, 

h 17 Hubbard. 
CROSS L. BART, (C. H. Cross & Son) (D. A. Guptil & Co.) trustee Mont- 

pelier Savings Bank and Trust Co., chief engineer fire department, prop. 

Cross block. Elm St., containing 6 tenements, h 39 School. 
Cross Luther B., watchmaker, 97 Elm, h do. 
Cross Oscar N., inventor and manuf. of a dry air refrigerator, 56 E. State, 

bds. do. 
Cross Polly M., widow of Luther, resident, aged 90, h 97 Elm. 
Cullen James C, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 21 Bailey ave. 
CuUen Richard, hostler, h 2 Barre st. 

Cummings Charles, reporter for T/ie Watchman, bds. 18 Barre st. 
Cummins Albert O., (Pecks & Cummins) h 54 Arsenal ave. 
Cummins Harvey, 7 cows and farmer no. 
Curran James E., general agent New England Life Insurance Co., h 28 E, 

Liberty. 
Currier E. Ransom, janitor at Methodist seminary, bds. 11 Arsenal ave. 
Currier Henry, teamster, bds. 137 Main. 
Currier John Rev., superanuated M. E. clergyman, aged 83, resides with his 

daughter, Mrs. P. H. Hinkley, 45 Arsenal ave. 
Curtis Henry J., janitor for Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co. 
Cushing Henry, laborer, h i Swazey place. 

CUSHMAN CHARLES M., musician and instructor of bands, h 54 Elm. 
Cutler Harry M., teller First National Bank of Montpelier, bds. 44 Barre st. 
Cutler Marcus M., selectman, and dealer in fine horses, h 44 Barre st. 
Daley Benjamin, truckman, h 137 Main. 
Daley Leon E., clerk, bds. 134 Elm. 
Daley Putnam, r 5, farmer, owns farm in Middlesex. 
Dana Hannah M. Miss, resident, h 56 Elm. 
Dancause Henry, blacksmith, emp. T Allard, bds. 140 State. 
Darling Albert, laborer, h 2 Dudley place. 
Darling Arthur J., melter, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 13 St. Paul. 
Davis Charles J., nickel plater, h 6 School. 
Davis Harriet C. Mrs., dressmaker, 67 Main, h do. 
Davis Langdon J., contractor and job teamster, h 36 North. 
Davis Nathaniel, manuf. of refrigerators, h 59 Barre st. 
DAWLEY FRANK R., (Wheelock & Dawley) h 3 Berhn st. 
Deavitt Thomas J., attorney at law, master m chancery, notary public, and 

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DeBoer Joseph A., principal Washington County Grammar and Union 
school, h 24 Vine. 

Decker Jacob VV., stonecutter, h 104 Main. 

DeColaines Juan, prop, saloon, 72 State, h 156 Elm. 

Deering John K., farm laborer for G. O. Bo} ce. 

Deering William F., laborer, h 18 Hubbard. 

DeLottinville Francis X., prop. PaviHon House barber shop, h 42 Court. 

Demeritt Charles E., night policeman, h 9 Vine. 

Demeritt Emerson, laborer, bds. g Vine. 

Demeritt John, gunsmith, h 104 Main. 

Deming Henry H., retired merchant, h 93 State. 

Denio Moses, laborer, h 114 Main. 

DENNY GEORGE B. B., merchant tailor, 14 State, h 26 Barre st. 

Desaulnier Calaxtie, currier, emp. Pecks & Cummins, h 85 Elm. 

Desaulnier Emma, dressmaker, emp. Mrs. H. C. Davis, h 85 Elm. 

Desoleau Charles, barber, 24 State, bds. 9 N. Franklin. 

Devine Hugh, laborer, bds. 175 Mam. 

Devine John, gardener, h 209 Main. 

Dewey Charles, pres. National Life Insurance Co., and vice-pres. First Na- 
tional Bank of Montpelier, h 135 State. 

Dewey D. & Son, (Frank D.) dealers in stoves, tin and glassware, kitchen 
furnishings, etc., 104 State. 

DEWEY DENNISON, (D. Dewey & Sen) h 24 E. Liberty. 

Dewey Edward, vice-pres. and actuary of the National Life Insurance Co., h 
116 State. 

DEWEY FRANK D., (D. Dewey & Son) h 37 School. 

Dewey Nancy W. Mrs., widow of Simeon, resident, h 40 Arsenal ave. 

Dewey Orville, job teamster and dealer in wood, h 104 E. State. 

Dewey Peter G., dealer in groceries and country produce, 3 School, h 5 do. 

Dewey Sarah A., widow of William, resident, h 3 First ave. 

Dewey Theodore G., ensign in the U. S. navy, bds. 116 State. 

Dewey Thomas, clerk for National Life Insurance Co., bds. ti6 State. 

Dewey William T., clerk Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., h 120 State. 

Dewing Harry G., reporter for Arsons and Patriot, h 16 E. State. 

Dewing John A., shoemaker, 51 Main, h 38 do. 

DIXON DANIEL W., formerly editor of T/ie Watchman, bds. Pavilion. 

Doby Edward, mason, h 18 Court. 

Doby Oliver, emp. C. H. Cross & Son, h 3 Fisher place. 

DODGE CHARLES A., r 5, laborer. 

Dodge Eleazer E., carpenter, emp. George Gurnsey, h 202 Main. 

Dodge Fred E., r r. carpenter and farmer 13. 

DODGE OILMAN B., custom shoemaker, 107 Main, h do. 

Dodge Harriet B., widow of Theodore A., resident, h 18 Spring. 

Dodge Joel, r r, 5 cows, farmer 60, and in Middlesex 100. 

Dodge Richard, painter, h 93 E. State. 

Dodge Samuel, r 5, laborer. 

Dodge William, horse trainer, bds. 107 Main. 

Doeg Luther P., blacksmith, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 197 Main. 

Donahue Frank E., lawyer, h 9 Court. 

Donahue Katie Miss, dressmaker, h 9 Court. 

Donovan John P., broker, loans negotiated on personal property, dealer in 
organs, sewing machines, and general supplies, 59 Main, h 188 do. 

Doten Chester, fireman C. V. R. R., h 7 Main. 



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Doten Frank, laborer, h 56 Main. 
Doten Leonard H., farm laborer. 
Downing Clinton G., town liquor agent, and dealer in groceries and fruit, 

also prop, livery stable, rear of French block, 48 Main, bds. do. 
Doyle Bennett J., r i, manuf. of shingles. 
Drew Henry W., agent American Express Co., and local manager Western 

Union Telegraph Co., C. V. R. R. depot, h 6 Winter. 
Dudley Charles C, house and carriage painter, glazier and paper hanger, 25 

Elm, h 12 Vine. 
DUDLEY D. WILLARD, deputy sheriff and jailor, prop, livery, feed and 

boarding stable, E. State, h jail building, 20 Elm. 
Duke Levi G., emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 184 Main. 
Dumas Joseph, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 127 Elm. 
Dumas Julia, widow of Joseph, resident, 3 Court. 
Dunham Dennis C, carpenter and joiner, bds. 32 School. 
Dunwoodie M. Jennie Mrs., resident, h 204 Main. 
Duplessis Frank W., laborer, h 30 Elm. 
Durant J. M., widow of Luther L., h i 94 Main. 

EAGAN THOMAS, manager Capital Granite Co., bds. Montpelier House. 
Eagan William, granite cutter, emp. Merrill Russell, h Northfield st., BerHn. 
Eaton Arthur G., bowk-keeper First National Bank of MontpeHer, bds. 4 

Charles. 
E.\TON CALEB C, 23 cows, farmer 275, h 5 Terrace. 
EATON FRED L., cashier First National Bank of Montpelier, h 6 Barre st. 
Eddy Benjamin F., Stewart Vermont Methodist seminary boarding-house, 

h 9 Arsenal ave. 
Edgerly Asa W., fireman, h 13 First ave. 

Edgtrton Edward H., law student with S. C. Shurtlefif, bds. 32 Main. 
Edwards Thomas, (Edwards & White) h i Guernsey ave. 
Edwards & White, (Thomas E.) manufs. of and dealers in granite, 79 Barre. 
Eggleston Ellen M. Mrs., resident, h 121 Elm. 
Ellis Jabez W., retired merchant, director First National Bank of Montpelier 

and Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., owns and rents 3 farms o[ 550 

acres, h 22 Barre st. 
Ellis Mary L , widow, bds. 151 Main. 
Emerson George, tinsmith, 5 Kinsman place. 
Emery Frank B., clerk for his father, John C , bds. 20 Elm. 
Emery Helen Mrs., matron South boarding-house, Vermont Methodist sem- 
inary, h 5 Arsenal. 
Emery John C. dealer in carpets, wall paper, crockery, china, glassware, 

lamps and chandeliers, 48 State, h 15 Spring. [Died December 27, 1888.] 
Emery John W., clerk for his father, John C, h 15 Spring. 
Emmons Frederick, truckman, h 41 Court. 
Emmons John, teamster, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 199 Main. 
Emmons Ji^hn, ]r., teamster, owns h and lot. 
English Pile Remedy Co , (G. H. Smiley and F. H. Whitney, of Worcester) 

props, and manufs. of the great English pile remedy, 29 State. 
ERWIN JAMES A, tanner, emp. Pecks & Cummins, h 9 Cummins. 
Evans Charles G., hair-dresser, bds. 24 Elm. 
Evans John E., clerk, emp. C. B. Roberts, h 24 Elm. 
Evans W. Austin, painter, h i West. 

Everett Bridget Miss, dressmaker, 14 French block, 38 S. Main. 
Ewing James, mason, bds. 9 Court. 



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Ewing John, stone mason and farmer lo, h 4 North. 

Ewing John, Jr., stone mason, h 32 North. 

Ewing William, laborer, h 4 North. 

Fales H. Marshall, dealer in glassware and notions, 19 State, h 11 do. 

Fallon Ed. J., painter, bds. 2 Cross. 

Farwell Arthur D., dealer in ready-made clothing, hats, caps, furs, gents' fur- 
nishing goods, trunks and bags, 75 Main cor. E. State, h 10 Liberty. 

Farwell John G., station agent M. & W. R. R. R., dealer in wood and baled 
hay, h 99 State. 

Faulkner Francis, stonecutter, 61 Barre st. 

Fay Alland G., (Heath & Fay) lawyer, h 61 Barre st. 

Felt Frank E., clerk in saloon, h 34 Barre st. 

Felt George M., silver plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, h 24 S. Main. 

Ferguson Marcella, widow, resides with Mrs. N. S. Sprague, 14 Barre st. 

Ferrin Albert W.,treas. Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Co., 26 Summer. 

Ferrin Charles H., dealer m groceries and meats, 89 Main, h 20 Vine. 

Ferrin Whitman G., retired lawyer, pres. Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 
and trustee Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Co., h 26 Summer. 

Ferris J. Arthur, stonecutter and farmer. 

Ferris Sarah Mrs., owns farm. 

FIELD CHARLES C, master mechanic, emp. M. & W. R. R. R., h 4 
Putnam. 

Field Dan G., manager billiard room Pavilion Hotel, h 32 E. State. 

Field James, barber, bds. 17 Court. 

Fifield Benjamin F., att'y at law, 3 Union block, h 118 State. 

Fifield George W., stone polisher, h 8 Putnam. 

Fifield Henry E., farmer, agent for his father. Orange, bds. Montpelier House. 

Fifield Orange, retired dealer in live stock, and merchant, owns several farms 
in Orange, Orange Co., h 10 State. 

Fifield Sarah, resides 107 State. 

Finn James C, r 3, 10 cows, 200 sugar trees, and farmer 90. 

Finn Margaret, domestic 27 School. 

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONTPELIER, capital $250,000 ; sur- 
plus $50,000; John A. Page, pres.; Fred L. Eaton, cashier; 4r State. 

Fisher Joseph, retired manuf., h 21 Loomis. 

Fisher O, Merrill, commercial traveler, h i r State. 

Fisher Theodore, carpenter, h 7 Franklin. 

Fisk Amy B. Miss, Kindergartner and preparatory trainer of teachers, 149 
Main, h 17 Hubbard. 

Fisk Hattie C, (Misses Fisk) h 17 Hubbard. 

Fisk Mary E., (Misses Fisk) h 17 Hubbard. 

Fisk Misses, (Mary E. and Hattie C.) milliners and dealers in fancy goods, 
27 State. 

Fitzgerald George, laborer, h 14 Spring. 

Fitzgibbons Thomas, laborer, bds. 13 Franklin. 

Fitzgibbons William, laborer, h 13 Franklin. 

Flanders Juhn P., commercial traveler, emp. Hiram Whittington, of Boston, 
h 30 E. Liberty. 

Flanders S. A., widow of Alpheus, h 27 Court. 

Flood Terrence, laborer, h 140 State. 

Forbush Orlando P., dentist, 12 State, h 98 Elm. 

Fort Emma Miss, dressmaker, 9 Summer, bds. do. 

Foster Charles O., molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 2 Cross cor. Franklin. 



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FOSTER JOEL, civil engineer and supt. Montpelier village water works, 58 

Main, bds. 18 Barre st. 
Foster William W., brakeman, h 15 Court. 

Fowler Marcus D., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 176 Main. 
Fox George VV., carpenter and joiner, h 46 Main. 
Freeman E. L., widow of Stephen, h 8 Loomis. 
Freeman Harvey F., carpenter, and owns real estate, bds. 30 Ridge. 
French James G. Mrs., resident, bds. 120 State. 
Friend Loren, baker, emp. C. H. Cross & Son, h 69 Elm. 
Frink Fred W., porter, emp. Pavilion Hotel, bds. do. 
Frink Norman W., traveling salesman, h ig Arsenal ave. 
Frost Jennie G. Mrs., prop. Hillside boarding-house with Nancy R. Loughrey, 

9 Court. 
FULLER CHARLES H., (D. L. Fuller & Son) quartermaster of Vermont 

state mihtia, h 30 Loomis. 
FULLER D. L. & SON, (Charles H.) wholesale and retail dealers in hard- 
ware, cordage, glass, paints, doors, sash, blinds, agricultural implements 
and fertilizers, Main cor. E. State. 
FULLER DAVID L., (D. L. Fuller & Son) manuf. of the Sanborn churn 

and butter worker, h 150 Main. 
Fuller Ed. E., molder, 3 School. 
FuUerton Henry, prop, boarding-house, 18 Barre st. 
FuUerton James K., general agent Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., bds. 

18 Barre st. 
Gabree John W., painter, bds. 9 Court. 

Gacero Charles, laborer, h 30 Elm. 

Galaise Antoine, painter, h 9 Franklin. 

Galaise Joseph, carriage painter, emp. D. A. Guptil & Co., h 196 Main. 

GALE ELGIN J., (Acme Watch Key Co.) h 19 Barre st. 

GaUison Charles B., farmer and manager for C. T. Sabin. 

Gambol M. A. Miss, seamstress, bds. 14 First ave. 

Gardener John, cook Montpelier House, bds. do. 

Gautier Napoleon, farm 12, and engineer Pavilion House, h rear do. 

Gautier Peter, mason, h 6 Jay. 

Gee Edmund, harnessmaker, emp. C. C. Pierce, bds. 28 E. State. 

Geer Charles, fish dealer, 23 Main, h 57 do. 

George Abby, r i, widow of Rufus L., owns h and lot. 

George Charles A., stonecutter, bds. 5 St. Paul. 

George Joseph, blacksmith, emp. in Barre, h 13 St. Paul. 

George Obadiah E., r 5, retired farmer. 

Gero George, tin peddler, 38 North. 

Gilbert John H., r 5, nickel plater and farmer, leases of Clark Alexander. 

Gilbert Norman W., dentist, h 85 E. State. 

Giiman Edwin H., horse trainer for the turf, h 70 Barre st. 

Oilman James F., portrait and landscape painter, studio Union block, bds. 
128 State. 

Giiman Marcus D, historian and retired business man, h i Baldwin. [Died 
Jan. 5, 1889.] 

Girad Louis, sawyer, emp. E. E. Graham, 6 Cayhue place. 

Girard John, laborer, h 17 St. Paul. 

Girard Joseph G., barber, emp. Oghtney Jangraw, bds. 28 Elm cor. Court. 

GISBORNE THOMAS, manuf. of moldings, dealer in rough and dressed 
lumber, Berlin St., h 27 Bailey ave. 



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Gleason Carlisle J., lawyer, treas. American Investment Co., of Boston, owns 

Riverside, i 28 State, bds. do. 
GLEASON HERBERT C, (L. P. Gleason & Co.) (Gleason & Co.) bds. 

128 State. 
GLE.A.SON L. P. & CO., (Herbert C. Gleason) dealers in dry and fancy 

goods, 27 and 31 State. 
GLEASON LOUIS P., (L. P. Gleason & Co.) (Gleason & Co.) h 12 

Barre st. 
GLEASON & CO., (Louis P. and Herbert C. Gleason) undertakers, manufs. 

and dealers in all kinds of furniture, E. State cor. Main. 
Glinney Alexander, stonecutter, bds. 59 Barre st. 
Glinney John, saloon keeper. Main, h 31 Court. 
Glinney Nellie Miss, dressmaker and milliner, bds. 31 Court. 
Glinney Patrick, section hand, h 5 North. 
Glynn John, molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h i Vine. 
Glynn Patrick F., section boss C. V. R. R., h 26 Court. 
Glysson A.J. Mrs., dressmaker, h 21 St. Paul. 
Glysson Andrew J., saloon keeper, 3 Main, h 21 St. Paul. 
Glysson Emily, widow of Dr. Thomas, h 57 Main. 
Goodenough J. EH, clerk in postoffice, h 98 Elm. 
Goodnature Louis, stone mason, h 179 Main. 

Goodrich Heman W., carpenter, contractor and builder, h 18 Winter. 
Goodwin Abbie, widow of Major S., h 21 First ave. 
Goodwin Lucius S., carpenter, bds. 1 1 First ave. 
Goodwin William R., printer, h 21 First ave. 
Goodwin William W., carpenter and joiner, h 11 First ave, 
Gordon George, hostler, emp. Truman R.. bds. 32 Main. 
Gordon Oilman, r i, machinist, emp. M. Wright & Son. 
Gordon J. William, bridge builder, emp. B. & L. R. R., h 8 Ridge. 
GORDON TRUMAN R., attorney at law, master in chancery, prop, livery 

and boarding stable, Willard block, cor. Mam and E. State, bds. 32 

Main. 
Gorman Michael C, stonecutter, bds. 132 Main. 
Goss Aaron W.. painter, bds. 9 Court. 
GOSS GEORGE M., carpenter, bds. 68 E. State. 
Gould Carrie, widow of John E., h 26 Bailey ave. 
Gould Fred, r i, laborer. 

Gould Gustavus, carpenter and joiner, resides Wright's Mills. 
Gould Joseph, carpenter and joiner, resides Wright's Mills. 
Gould Moses W., truckman and wood dealer, h 26 Bailey ave. 
Gould Wilbur F., butcher, resides Wright's Mills. 
Gourley George N., molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., 16 Winter. 
Graham Edmund E., manuf., shipper and dealer in all kinds of northern 

lumber, handles 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 feet annually, 41 Hubbard cor. 

Liberty, h do. 
Graham Ellen Miss, stenographer for her father, Edmund E. 
Graham Frank E., manuf. of chair stock and house furnishing goods, bds. 41 

Hubbard cor. Liberty. 
Grandfield Nellie A. Miss, dressmaker, emp. Mrs. H. C, Davis, bds. 61 Elm. 
Grant Alonzo B., blacksmith, emyx L^ne Mfg. Co., h 3 Fuller cor. Liberty. 
Gravelin Francis, stone mason, h 25 St. Paul. 

GraveHn Napoleon, silver plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, bds. 39 Court. 
Gravelin Paulina, widow of John, h 43 Court. 



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Gray Charles K., off r 3, breeder of fine horses, Auctioneer stock, and farmer, 

leases of James Ward, of Barre, 18. 
GRAY DAVID R., r 3, retired farmer, aged 79, born in town. 
Gray Fred L., painter, h 2 Barre st. 
Gray Ira R., farm laborer, emp. C T. Sabin. 
Gray Merton E., printer, bds. 2 Barre st. 

Gray Walter E., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 132 Main. 
GREEN ALBERT A, r i, blacksmith. 

Green Croydon B., clerk for L. P. Gleason & Co., bds. 2 Spring. 
Green Joseph H., teamster, emp. D. L. Fuller & Son, h 175 Main. 
Green Lester H., drug clerk, h 17 State. 
Greenwood Louis, retired farmer, h 75 Elm. 
Grout Emma J., clerk for A. J. Howe. bds. 32 Main. 
Grout Frank E., breeder of full blood Jersey cattle, 31 cows, farmer, leases 

of Col. E. P. Jewett 200. 
Grout George G, justice of the peace and farmer, leases of E. P. Jewett. 
Guernsey Charles W., foreman Lane Mfg. Co., h 35 Loomis. 
Guernsey Edwin M., supt. Lane Mfg. Co's shops, h 13 Vine. 
Gunnison Eri S., pensioner, h 53 Main. 

GUPTIL D. A. & CO., (L. Bart Cross) props, of the Golden Fleece, Main. 
GUPTIL DANIEL A., (D. A. Guptil & Co.) dealer in carriages and sleighs, 
and carriage and sign painting, 2 Hazen place, off Main, h 34 E. State. 
Gurnsey Eliza V. Miss, resident, h 50 E. State. 

Gurnsey George H., architect, contractor and builder, 68 E. State, h do. 
Gurnsey Mary A. Miss, artist and teacher of oil painting, resides 68 E. State. 
Gurnsey Sophronia, widow of Madison C, 18 Cross. 

Guyer Joseph, laborer, h 3 Kinsman place. 

Hackett George C, molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 40 E. Liberty. 

HALE CHARLES M., r 7, 100 sugar trees, 30 cows, 5 horses, i pair fine 
oxen, 13 head young cattle, farmer 200, and farm in Berlin 90. 

Hale John Emery, r 5, farmer 73, in Worcester 160, in Berlin 50, in Middle- 
sex 100, and pasture land 80. 

Hall Francis, shoemaker, rear 124 Main, h do. 

Hall Frank M., upholsterer, emp. S. S. Towner & Son, h 45 Court. 

Hall Marvin J., carpenter, h 3 Charles. 

Hall Timothy F., stonecutter, bds. 6 Charles. 

Hammond Howell F., printer, foreman Watchman job office, bds. 49 Elm. 

Hanafor<l Randall, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 79 Elm. 

Hanaford Willis, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 6 Mechanic. 

Hardigan John, stone mason, bds. 5 Swazey place. 

Hargin Lovina S., widow of Robert, h 30 Court. 

Hargin Robert J., receiving and forwarding clerk C. V. R. R., h 15 Court. 

Harlow Alonzo C, photographer, 21 State, h 36 E. Liberty. 

Harlow Will E., book-keeper for E. W. Bailey & Co., bds. 80 State. 

Harpan Joseph W., r 5, tanner, emp. Pecks & Cummins. 

Harran Charles, carpenter, h 41 Loomis. 

Harran Dorothy, widow of Curtis, aged 85, h 41 Loomis. 

Harran James, laborer, h 41 Loomis. 

Harrington Katie E., dressmaker, bds. 29 Court. 

Harris Alfred D., machinist, emp Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 2 Spring. 

Harris Orvis G, emp. H. M. Whitcomb, bds. 49 E. State. 

Hartwell Amos P., silver plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, h 17 First ave. 

Hartwell Hopy, widow of William, aged So, h loi E. State. 



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Harvey Orlando W., laborer, h 6 Whittier. 

Haskins Jerry, stone polisher, bds. 2 Court. 

Hastings Fred K., painter, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 14 Vine. 

Hatch Fred, sawyer, emp. E. E. Graham, h 18 Hubbard. 

Hatch J. Mrs., nurse, h 2 Barre st. 

Hatch Matilda A., widow of Gardner D., dressmaker, h 33 C«mrt. 

Hathaway Charles H., carpenter, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 27 Court. 

Hattie James, blacksmith, emp. T. AUard, bds. 144 Elm. 

Hawley Willis C, r 5, stationary engineer, emp. W. H. Lombard. 

Hayden Charles P., gardener, h 5 Taplin place. 

Havden Frank A., clerk, emp. C. H. Cross & Son, bds. 32 Main. 

HAYDEN FREEMAN R., baggage master C. V. R. R. depot, h 43 Barre st. 

Hayford Sylvester C, pastor Universalist church of East Montpelier, h 89 E. 
State. 

Hays Fred A., stonecutter, bds. 64 Barre st. 

Hayward Herbert A., professional nurse and prop, boarding-house, 4 Loomis. 

HEATH CHARLES H., (Heath & Fay) lawyer, notary pubHc, trustee of 
the state library. Main, h 49 Barre st. 

Heath Charles J., farm laborer, bds. Middlesex road. 

Heath & Fay, (Charles H. H. and AUard G. F.) lawyers, 56 Main. 

Heaton Charles H., selectman, clerk for Homer W., h 143 State. 

Heaton Homer W., lawyer, pres.^ Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Co., 
farm 200, also owns and leases several farms, 12 State, h 143 do. 

Heaton James S., resides 143 State. 

Hernon Peter, stonecutter, bds. 59 Barre st. 

Herrick Will H., book-keeper, emp. D. L. Fuller & Son, h 12 Liberty. 

Hibbard Amy P. Mrs., prop, boarding-house, 5 Si. Paul. 

Hill Howard F. Rev., rector of Christ church (Episcopal) and town supt. 
of schools, rectory 64 State. 

HILL JOHN W., r 7, 8 cows, farmer, manages farm for Homer W. Hea- 
ton J 85. 

Hillery Fred, professor in Methodist seminary, h 11 Arsenal ave. 

Hillside Boarding House, Mrs. Jennie G. Frost and Nancy R. Loughrey, 
props., 9 Court. 

Hinkley Pringle H., justice of the peace, insurance agent and trustee Ver- 
mont Methodist seminary and Female college, h 45 Arsenal ave. 

Hodgdon Andrew, messenger, emp. Montpelier National bank, h 37 School. 

Holden George E., law student with Heath & Fay, bds. 32 Main. 

Holden Willard, postal clerk on M. & W. R. R. R., h 20 Summer cor. 
Winter. 

Holmes Dora B, teacher, bds. 16 North. 

Holmes Edwin C, clerk for L. P. Gleason & Co., bds. Hotel Kempton. 

Holmes Henry C, butcher, and dealer in fresh and salt meats, poultry and 
vegetables, 108 Main, h 16 North. 

Holmes P. A., widow of Edwin C, bds. 8 Elm. 

Holmes VVesley, laborer, h 30 Terrace. 

Holt Carlos F., laborer, h 26 E. State. 

Holt James P., ornamental painter, emp. Montpelier Carriage Co., h 38 S. 
Main. 

Homes Edwin W., laborer, bds. 30 Terrace. 

Hopkins Ellen .Mrs., h 104 Main. 

Hopkins Enos E., teamster, emp. E. W. Bailey & Co., bds. 94 Main. 

Hopkins Hermon D , retired express agent, h 5 Baldwin. 



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Hopkins Herraon D., Jr., associated press reporter, bds. 5 Baldwin. 
Hopkins Homer C, carpenter, contractor and builder, h Hopkins block, 

Spring. 
Hornbrook William, butcher, and dealer in all kinds of fresh and salt meats, 

and vegetables, 126 Main, h 47 E. State. 
Home John, clerk for A. J. Howe, bds. no Elm. 
Hotel Kempton, Horace W. Kempton, prop., 58 State. 
Houghton James C, treas. National Life Insurance Co., h 29 Barre st. 
Houghton Julia M., teacher, bds. 35 School. 

Houghton William S., machinist, emp. Charles Sabin, h ;^S S. Main. 
Howard Herbert R., stonecutter, bds. 39 Barre st. 
Howe Andrew J., dealer in dry goods, 22 State, h 11 Loomis. 
HOWE STORRS L., station agent C. V. R. R. for 30 consecutive years, h 

7 Baldwin. 
Howes George Hon., resident, h 8 Elm. 
Howland James M., r 12, carpenter and joiner, farmer 5. 
Hoyt Albert B., stonecutter, h 18 Cross. 
Hoyt Franklin, carpenter and builder, h 14 Ridge. 
Hoyt Sarah, compositor, bds. 14 Ridge. 
Hubbard Edwin, farmer, h 84 Barre st. 
Hubbard Erastus, retired merchant, prop, water works, dealer in village lots, 

farmer 100, 12 Union block, h 156 Main. 
Hubbard George S., retired blacksmith, bds. i Fuller. 
Hubbard Gustavus S., bds. Montpelier House. 
HUBBARD JOHN E.,prop. Hubbard water works, manager for his father, 

Erastus, in sale of real estate, building lots, houses, and renting tene- 
ments. Union block, 26 State, h 156 Main. 
Hubbard William E., farmer, h 84 Barre st. 
Hunt Frank J., horse trader and laborer, h 7 Cemetery. 
HUNT GEORGE E., dental surgeon, room 6 Union block. State, h 2 

Spring. 
HUNT WILLIAM H., prop, livery, sale and boarding stable, dealer in 

horses, clapboards, eave-troughs, and lumber, owns 5 tenement houses, 

189 Main, h do. 
Huntington Albert W., baggage master M. & W. R. R. R., h 10 Main. 
Huntington Florence, widow of Charles, dressmaker, Clogston block, h 15 

St. Paul. 
Huntington Lewis B., (Huntington & Son) h 35 School. 
Huntington Wilder P., (Huntington & Son) h 5 State. 
Huntington & Son, (Lewis B. and Wilder F.) props, of an eating house, and 

dealers in fruit, cigars and confectionery, 5 and 7 State. 
Hurley Mary, compositor JVatc/imati office, 65 Elm. 
HUSE HIRAM A. Hon., (Pitkin & Huse) state librarian and justice of 

the peace, h 3 Baldwin. 
HUSE HUBERT E., clerk, bds. 5 St. Paul. 
HUTCHINS EDWIN F., carpenter and builder, h 66 Barre st. 
Hutchinson Rufus M., retired, resides with W. E. Adams, 62 State. 
Hyde Edward D., wholesale and retail dealer in flour, lime, cement, iron, 

steel, nails, and blacksmiths' supplies, 11 and 13 Main, h 23 Loomis. 
IRISH ED. M., overseer of the poor, Montpelier House. 
Irish Noble, clerk Montpelier House, bds. do. 
Jackman George C, r 5, farm laborer. 
Jackson William, confectioner, h 17 E. State. 



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Jacobs George J., laborer, bds. 8 Park ave. 

Jacobs Joseph, laborer, h 6 School. 

JANGRAW ALEXANDER, dealer in choice family groceries. West India 

goods, tobacco and cigars, ii6 Main, h do. 
Jangraw Frank, blacksmith, h 7 Cross. 
Jangraw Oghtney, barber, 36 State, h 32 Loomis. 
Jerome Joseph W.. molder, erap. Lane Mfg. Co., h 2ir Main. 
Jerome Peter, molder, h 14 North. 
Jerrolds John, laborer, h 42 Court. 
Jerry Joseph, laborer, h Court. 
JEVVETT ELISHA P. Col., busmess man and farmer, aged 87 h ic7 

State. ^' 

JOHNSON EDWARD P., (Johnson & Colton) h i Park ave. 
Johnson Edwin P., printer, emp. Union Card Co., h 4 School. 
Johnson Squire, laborer, h 219 Main. 
JOHNSON & COLTON, (Edward P. J. and Henry C. C.) gold, silver, 

nickel and brass platers, manufs. of and wholesale dealers in saddlery 

hardware, employ 30 hands, 109 Main. 
Johonnott Martha Miss, resides 106 Elm. 
Johonnott A. & F., (Fred, of Burlington) manufs. of and dealers in leather 

n M. & W. R. R. R. depot. 
Johonnott Albert, (A. & F. Johonnott) h 18 Loomis. 
Johonnott Arthur P., clerk for A. & F., h 18 Loomis. 
Jones Alonzo K.,r i, pensioner of the late war, aged 84. 
Jones Bridget, widow of James, h 9 Bailey ave. 
JONES CARRIE E. Mrs., stamping and dealer in stamping outfits, h 16 

Barre st. 
Jones Charles D., farm laborer, h Branch road. 
Jones Charles F., clerk for G. W. Wing, bds. 145 State. 
Jones John E., printer, bds. 9 Bailey ave. 

Jones Lorenzo, locomotive engineer, bds. 42 E. State. • 

Jones Robert C, stonecutter, bds. 6 Witt place. 
Jones Stanley, nickel plater, bds. 104 Main. 
JONES WILLIAM ARTHUR, printer, h 16 Barre st. 
Jordan Ephraim W., grower of small fruit and farmer 12, h 45 Terrace. 
Kanally James J., freight conductor C. V. R. R., bds. Montpelier House. 
Kane Patrick, section hand C. V. R. R., h 47 Court. 
Keegan Thomas J., nickel plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, h 25 E. State. 
Keeler Achsah F., widow of Andrew J., tailoress, emp. Woolson Bros., h 103 

Main. 
Keith Alonzo T., clerk for C. H. Shipman, bds. 5 Court. 
Kelleher Michael, (T. J. Kelleher & Co.) h 35 Court. 
Kelleher T. J. & Co., (Michael Kelleher) manufs. of and dealers in Barre 

granite monuments, tablets, and general cemetery work, E. Main. 
Keileher Timothy J., (T. J. Kelleher & Co.) bds. 5 St. Paul. 
Kellogg Fred B., student, bds. 157 State. 
Kellogg Perrin T., law student, bds. 32 Main. 

Kelton John A., justice of the peace, and prop. Union House, 132 Main, 
Kelton Samuel S. Hon., retired farmer, formerly engaged in settling estates, 

aged 77, h 108 Elm. 
KEMP DEAN G., M. D., physician and surgeon, 79 Main, h 141 do. 
KEMP HARLAN W., (Senter& Kemp) treas. Union Mutual Fire Insurance 
Co., h 30 School. 



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Kempton Horace W., prop. Hotel Kempton, and dealer in ice, h 58 State. 

Kendall John W., patternmaker, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 15 Vine. 

Kennedy Patrick R., emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 5 St. Paul. 

Kenney George M., baker, 223 Main. 

Kent Ezekiel, retired farmer, and prop. Kent block, bds. 121 Elm. 

Kent Herbert O., clerk for George D. Butler, hi; Berlin st. 

Kent James M., teacher of penmanship in Vermont Methodist seminary. 

Kerin Daniel P., carpenter, bds. 3 Wilder place. 

Kibby George W., miller, emp. E. W. Bailey &i Co., rooms 2 Barre st. 

Kibby Warren P., miller, emp. E. W. Bailey & Co., h 94 Main. 

Kimball Benjamin, slater, h 19 St. Paul. 

Kimball Charles, laborer, Court. 

Kimball Sumner, manuf. of and dealer in granite, prop, granite quarries, em- 
ploys from 20 to 40 men, works in Barre, h 100 Elm. 

Kindonner Duffy, laborer, h 6 Wheeler place. 

Kindonner Michael, laborer, bds. 6 Wheeler place. 

King Carroll C, lawyer, bds. 15 Loomis. 

King Clark, ist selectman, dealer in butter and retired farmer, h 15 Loomis. 

King M. C. Mrs., widow, bds. 29 School. 

King Philip, farm laborer, h 15 Main. 

Kinney Alice E., teacher, h loi E. State. 

Kinney Erminia F., widow of George F., h loi E. State. 

Kinniston Leon H., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds 4 Cedar. 

Kinsmore Lydia, widow of John A., resides 36 Barre st. 

Knapp D. Tryon, resident, h 9 Liberty cor. St. Paul. 

Knapp Fanny E. Miss, book-keeper for Acme Watch Key Co., resides 9 
Liberty 

Knapp George A., clerk in postoffice, bds. 9 Liberty. 

Knapp Julius P., carpenter and builder, h 68 Barre st. 

Krooner George W., tailor, emp. George B. B. Denny, bds. 17 State. 

Labouchere Antoine, laborer, h 248 Main. 

Labouchere Francis, laborer, h 154 Elm. 

Labouchere Jenza F., emp. D. Dewey & Son, bds. 154 Elm. 

Labshire Joseph, laborer, h i 23 Elm. 

LaCasse Paul, molder, h 59 Elm. 

Ladd Louise R., widow of John N., tailoress, emp. Woolson Bros., h 3 Elm 
cor. Court. 

Ladd Martha, widow of Ezra, nurse, h 26 E. State. 

Lafortaine Corliss, nickle plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, h 225 Main. 

Lafortaine James, laborer, h 229 Main. 

Laird Fred J., law student with S. C. Shurtlefif, bds. Hotel Kempton. 

Laird W. E. Mrs., dressmaker, h 28 E. State. 

Laird Wesley E., patentee of common-sense boot drier, machinist, emp. 
U. S. Clothes Pin Co., h 28 E. State. 

Lake Sarah, widow, h 22 Hubbard. 

Lamb William J., mason, h 114 Main. 

Lamora Joseph, stone mason, h 16 Hubbard. 

Lamora Kate, v/idow of Albert, h 179 Main. 

Lance John B., homeo. physician and surgeon, 11 Union block, h 112 Elm. 

Lane Albert D., machinist, h 136 Elm. 

LANE DENNIS, pres. Lane Mfg. Co., manuf. of and dealer in lumber, farmer 
150, timberlands 2,000, h 126 Elm cor. Vine. [Died March 29, 1888.] 

Lane George L., foreman molder for Lane Mfg. Co., h 32 Summer. 



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LANE MANUFACTURING CO., incorporated in 1872; capital stock 

$[ 20,000; Dennis Lane, pres.; Gen. P. P. Pitkin, vice-pres.; C. P. 

Pitkin, sec'y and treas.; office 25 Franklin, shops Franklin cor. Mechanic. 
LANGDON JAMES R, pres. Montpelier National bank, h 147 Main. 
Lanier Annos, tanner, emp. Pecks & Cummins, h 189 Elm. 
Lanier Raphael, emp. Sabin Machine Co., h Ellis block, 27 State. 
Lanier Raphael Mrs., dressmaker, 27 State. 

Laviolette Marshall, printer, emp. Arsons a7id Pairiof o^cq, bds. 32 St. Paul. 
Lawrence Artemas B., r 9, farmer, manages for J. C. Emery 12 cows and. 

farm 85. 
Lawrence Edward, r 9, farmer 35. 
Lawrence Fred H., r 9, laborer. 

Lawrence Herbert E , yard master M. & VV. R. R. R., h Northfield st. 
Lawrence Horc'ce, farmer about 50. 
Lawrence Solon, prop. Riverside House, 128 State. 
Lawson Norman C, stonecutter, owns h and 4 acres. 
Lawson Willie E., tool sharpener, bds. Middlesex road. 
Leach Charles J., hostler for J. Q. Adams, bds. 6 Witt place. 
Learned W. H. Mrs., clerk, emp. D. W. Temple & Co., bds. 73 Main. 
Learned Walter H., (D. W. Temple & Co.) bds. 73 Main. 
Lease John, dealer in harnesses, saddles, whips, trunks, valises, etc., 55 Main^. 

h 20 Hubbard. 
Lebel Joseph, carpenter and cabinet-maker, h 20 First ave. 
Ledden Patrick J., tailor, emp. Woolson Bros., h 40 E. State. 
Leland Mary A., widow of James, resides 35 Birre st. 
Leland Mary A. Mrs., dressmaker, 100 Main, h do. 
Leland Mary E., bds. 35 Barre st. 
Leslie Francis, blacksmith, Elm, h 4 Jay. 
Leslie George W., teller Montpalier NAtijnil bmk aad notary public, h 32: 

E. Liberty. 
Leviolette Delia, widow of Eugene, h 4 Miles Court. 
Lewis William C, public weigher, blacksmith and farmer, 25 Main, h do. 
L'Heureux Ernest, printer for Argi/s a)id Patriot, h 57 Basin st. 
Lillie Robert B., painter, h 46 Elm. 
Limoges Charles, barber, h 13 St. Paul. 
Lindsley George V., laborer, h 7 Putnam. 
Lindsley Oscar, emp. William Hornbrook, bds. 7 Putnam. 
Lindsley Vernon, stonecutter, h 59 Barre st. 
Linet John, laborer for W. H. Lombard. 
LIVINGSTON JOSIAH O. Maj., attorney at law, 20 grade Jersey cows,. 

farmer 175, North Branch road; entered the Union army June 9, 1862, 

as lieut. ot Co. I, 9th Vt. Vols.; mustered in as regimental adjutant in 

June, 1863; captain of Co. G, October, 1864. 
Livingstone Charles A., student, bds. 1 1 Arsenal ave. 
Locklin A. VV. & Co., (John A. Locklin) props, restaurant, 68 Main. 
Locklin Arthur W., (A. W. Locklin & Co.) h 16 1 Main. 
Locklin Charles W., prop. Capital cafe, 34 S. Main, bds. 32 Main. 
LOCKLIN ERASTUS M., grocer and saloon, 50 S. Main, bds. 12 State. 
Locklin Hiram W., retired, aged 82, bds. 161 Main. 
Locklin John A., (A. W. Locklin & Co.) h 161 Main. 

LOMBARD LEON H., prop. Vendome restaurant, 30 State, h 49 E. State. 
LOMBARD WILLIAM H.,r 5, manuf. of and dealer in hard and soft soap, 

dealer in ashes, bones, tallow and grease, grower of hay for market,. 

farmer 133. 



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Long Abraham, dealer in boots, shoes and rubbers, 21 State, h 6 Park ave. 
LONG DANIEL F., prop. Phinney book store, dealer in books, periodicals, 

stationery, fancy goods, artists' materials, gold pens and spectacles a spe- 
cialty, 32 State, h 6 Park ave. 
Loomis Betsey Miss, resident, bds. 19 Bailey ave. 
Loomis Horatio S., dealer in foreign and domestic dry goods, 100 Main, h 

148 do. 
Loomis Lucy Miss, resident, bds. 19 Bailey ave. 
Loomis Wealthy, resides 35 Birre st. 

Lord William, lawyer and justice of the peace, h 71 Elm. 
Loughrey Nancy R., prop. Hillside boarding-house with Mrs. Jennie G. Frost, 

9 Court. 
Lowe Charles F., teller Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Co., bds. 22 

Hubbard. 
LOWE HARRY, manuf. of saddlery specialties, and breeder of and dealer 

in trotting horses, h 22 Hubbard. 
Lowe Henry, retired, bds. 136 Main. 
Lucas James A., agent for Singer sewing machines, 26 State, bds. Montpelier 

House. 
LUCIA JOEL H. Gen., justice of the peace, attorney at law, master in 

chancery, and notary public, postoffice block, h 129 State cor. Western 

ave. 
Luke Edvvard, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 132 Main. 
Luke Samuel, painter, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 21 Franklin. 
Lull Charles H., teamster, resides 9 First ave. 
Lull Henry C, stonecutter, emp. Smith & Weston, h 9 First ave. 
Lusha Frank, carpenter, h 3 Charles. 
Lynch Thomas F., ston3cutter, bds. 73 Elm. 

Lyon Charles M., r 5, grower of small fruits, gardener and farmer 6. 
* LYONS PATRICK L., plumber, gas and steam fitter, and dealer in 

plumbers' supplies, 5 Elm, h 5 Tremont. 
Mack James, laborer, h 21 North. 

Mack John, molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 5 St. Paul. 
Macomber Job E., M. D., physician and surgeon, room 9 Union block, State, 

h 14 Loomis. 
Macomber Mary E., assistant librarian, bds. 14 Loomis. 
Magoon Edgar C, r i, machinist, emp. M. Wright & Son. 
Mahoney Elizabeth Miss, resides 38 S. Main. 

Mahoney James F., law student with Hon. Charles W. Porter, bds. 6 Baldwin. 
Mahoney Kate, organist St. Augustine's church, bds. 26 Court. 
Mahoney Mary, widow of Sylvester, h 26 Court. 
Mahoney Thomas, U. S. mail agent, h 36 Main. 
Malone Michael, tailor, emp. Woolson Bros., h 112 Elm. 
Maney Thomas, laborer, h 5 Swazey place. 

Mansfield Willie H., emp. U. S. Clothes Pin Co., h 10 Pitkin place. 
Marble Calvin B., painter, h 74 State. 
Marcotte Peter, teamster, h 183 Elm. 
Marin Frank, h 32 Main. 
Marion Ramie, laborer, h 3 Lane place. 
Marron Charles W., prop, billiard and pool rooms, dealer in cigars, tobacco, 

and confectionery, 44 S. Main, bds. 23 Barre st. 
Martin John, laborer, h 8 Terrace. 
Marvin Horace G., (Marvin & Wilson) h 100 E. State. 



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MARVIN MORTON, general produce dealer, breeder of pure blood Devon 
cattle, reg., farmer 23, in Berlin 20 cows and farm 140, and commis- 
sioner of Montpelier water works, h 100 E. State. 

Marvin Thomas, (Marvin & Sherburne) lister, treasurer and trustee of Ver- 
mont Methodist seminary and Female college, h 37 Barre st. 

Marvin Thomas C. retired farmer, aged 88, bds. 100 E. State. 

MARVIN & SHERBURNE, (Thomas M. and Frank A. S.) dealers in gro- 
ceries, farm produce, crockery and glassware, French block, 42 Main. 

Marvin & Wilson, (Horace G. M. and Charles E. VV.) dealers in boots, shoes 
and rubbers, 20 State; branch store, Averill block, Barre. 

Mason William P., machinist, emp. Colby Wringer Co., h 27 Barre st. 

Matthews Henry S., candymaker for C. H. Cross & Son, bds. 32 Main. 

Matthieu Dammian, blacksmith, Elm, h 14 North. 

Matthieu Joseph, mason, h 257 Main. 

Mayhue Horace C, stonecutter, h 203 Main. 

Mayo David, carriagemaker and repairer, 29 Elm, h 185 Main. 

McAllister George W., janitor Montpelier and Washington County Grammar 
school and Church of The Messiah, h 10 Loomis. 

McCaffery Terrence, night watchman, emp. Pavilion Hotel, bds. do. [Killed 
by the elevator, Sept. 29, 1 888.1 

McCarthy John, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 175 Main. 

McClure Frank H., carpenter, bds. 32 Barre st. 

McClure William F., dealer in groceries, and furnishing and fancy goods, 
102 Main, h 32 Barre st. 

McCLUSKEY CHARLES A., silver plater, soldier in Co. C, Ransom Guards, 
3 years and 3 months, and in Co. F, 8th Vt. Frontier Cavalry, 6 months, 
h 13 Cross. 

McCormack Jerry, helper, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 39 Loomis. 

McCormick George, stonecutter, bds. 34 Barre st. 

McCormick H. Patrick, stonecutter, h 22 Court. 

McCrellis Ellen Miss, h 67 Elm. 

McCune Fred J., clerk, emp. D. W. Temple & Co., bds. 25 Barre st. 

McDonald James, stonecutter, h 59 Barre st. 

McDonald John F., baker, emp. C. H. Cross & Son, h 77 Elm. 

McDonald William E., nickel plater, h 54 North. 

McGee John, laborer, h 73 Elm. 

McGill Charles P., clerk for J. C. Emery, bds. do. 

McGill Charles P., stonecutter, bds. 16 Liberty. 

McGlaflin Charles, laborer, one-legged veteran, h 133 Elm. 

McGorry , h 121 Elm. 

Mclvers Donald, stonecutter and tool sharpener, bds. 34 Barre st. 

McKinna Bernard A., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., soldier, h 5 N. 
Franklin. 

McLeod Anna Miss, tailoress, emp. Woolson Bros., bds. 112 Elm. 

McMahan Patrick, night watchman Lane Mfg. Co., 233 Main. 

McMurphy Frank, emp. Dr. J. M. Templeton, bds. do. 

McQUEENEY TIMOTHY J., (Capital Granite Co.) stonecutter, h 3 
Charles. 

Mead Belle Miss, music teacher, bds. 28 Loomis. 

Mead Clara L. Miss, daughter of the late A. A. Mead, resides 28 Loomis. 

Mead Frank L., carpenter, proD. Walling's boarding-house, 32 School cor. 
St. Paul. 



128 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



Mead Mary C, (Mrs. Frank L.) manager VValling's boarding-house, 32 

School cor. St. Paul. 
Meader Charles C, traveling agent, bds. 132 Main. 
Mears Betsey A., widow of Horace B., h 16 Spring. 
Medler James, sexton St. Augustine's church, bds. 1 1 N. Franklin. 
Medler Mary, widow of Patrick, resident, h 1 1 N. Franklin. 
Medler Peter B., printer, emp. Argus and Fairioi o^ce, bds. 11 N. Franklin. 
Mee Charles, laborer, bds. 34 Loomis. 
Mee John C, butcher, emp. H. Holmes, h 34 Loomis. 
Mee Luke, fish dealer, h 241 Main. 

Meinecke G. W. Miss, milliner. Opera House block, bds. 14 Barre st. 
Mero Edward H., hostler for T. R. Gordon, bds. 38 Main. 
Merrick John VV., section foreman C. V. R. R., h 140 State. 
Merrill Charlotte H. Miss, residence 159 State. 
Merrill Mary A. Miss, residence 159 State. 
Merrill Timothy R., town clerk and ex-judge of probate, court-house, h 92 

Elm. 
Merrill Timothy R., Jr., musician and director of Montpelier military band, h 

go Elm. 
Miller Charles A., painter, bds. 118 Main. 

Miller Clara E.. book-binder, emp. M. W. Wheelock. h 118 Main. 
MH^LER FRANK B., butcher and dealer in all kinds of fresh and salt 

meats, poultry and vegetables, 79 Main, h 87 E. State. 
Miller John, letter carrier, served on board the U. S. ship Alaska, h 4 E. 

Mechanic. 
Miller Maiy, widow of John, h 118 Main. 
Miller William, dealer in groceries, tobacco, cigars and oysters, 120 Main, h. 

118 do. 
Mills Horace, carpenter and builder, h 14 Vine. 
Mile George, butcher, bds. 12 E. State. 
Milo Godfrey, laborer, h 12 E. State. 
Minnett Joseph, laborer, h 114 Main. 
Mitchell element^ laborer, bds. 132 Main. 
Mitchell Peter, clerk for H. S. Loomis, bds. 104 Main. 
Mitiguy Felix, student, bds. 11 Arsenal ave. 
Montpelier Gas Light Co., established in 1856; capital stock $30,000 ; 

George W. Scott, pres.; E. R. Skinner, treas.; Main. 
MONTPELIER HOUSE, George Wheeler, prop., free hack to and from 

depot, 100 State. 
Montpelier National Bank, organized under state laws in 1824; chartered as 

a national bank in 1865; capital $250,000: surplus $80,000; James R. 

Langdon, pres.; Edward D. Black well, cashier ; 13 State. 
Montpelier Public Library Association, 5,000 volumes, open Wednesdays 

and Saturdays, afternoon and evening, and Monday evenings from Oct. 

I to April I, Miss Mary Willard, librarian, Blanchard Opera House 

block. 
MONTPELIER SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST CO., chartered 1870; 

capital $50,000; Homer W. Heaton, pres.; James W. Brock, vice-pres.; 

Albert W. Ferrin, treas.; 16 State. ' •-"^"J 

Montpelier Slate Co., capital $40,000; C. T. Sabin, pres. and treas., manufs. 

of roofing, etc., Barre st. 
Montpelier Steam Laundry, H. M. Whitcomb, prop., 31 Elm. 



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Montpelier Telephone Exchange, A. C. Brown, prop, and manager, Main cor. 
State. 

MONTPELIER VILLAGE WATER WORKS, supply water for domestic 
purposes, fires and motive power, M. Marvin, A. C. Cummings, John 
W. Peck, Joel Foster and A. J. Sibley, trustees; Joel Foster, supt., 58 
Main. 

Moody Dexter, retired baggage master, h 7 Bailey ave. 

Mooney John, general blacksmith, 29 Elm, h 65 do. 

Mooney John W., mail carrier, bds. 65 Elm. 

Moore Henry, off r 6, tanner, emp. Pecks & Cummins. 

Moore Herbert B., emp. U. S. Clothes Pin Co., bds. 29 E. State. 

Moore Solon E., patentee and manuf. of U. S. clothes pins, h 29 E. State. 

Morairity John, farmer, h and 4 acres and farm in Berlin, h 189 State. 

Morairity Thomas, dealer in boots, shoes and rubbers, i School cor. Elm, h 
28 Court. 

Morey Edward C, A. M., professor of Latin and Greek in Vermont Confer- 
ence seminary, bds. 9 Arsenal ave. 

Morrow John V., truckman, h 30 Rid^e. 

Morrow Patrick, laborer, h 15 Arsenal ave. 

Morrow Sarah, widow of Abraham P., h 169 Main. 

Morse Edwin R., road master M. & W. R. R. R., h 5 Barre st. 

Morse Everett A., laborer, bds. 192 Main. 

Morse Frederick W., postmaster, general freight and passenger agent M. & 
W. R. R. R., h 58 State, 

Morse George E., conductor M. & W. R. R. R., h 12 Hubbard. 

MORSE JOSEPH B., foreman for Johnson & Colton, h 5 First ave. 

Moulton Isaac R., commercial traveler, emp. Wheeler, Conant & Blodgett, of 
Boston, h 154 Main. 

Munder William C, advertising agent, bds. Pavilion House. 

Murphy Robert, stonecutter, bds. 9 Court. 

Murphy William, carpenter, h 34 Barre st. • 

Murry Mary, widow of Patrick, h 18 Court. 

Nailer Felix, laborer, bds. 5 Fisher place. 

Naphine James, farm laborer, 

Naphine Peter Mrs., washer and ironer, h 65 Elm. 

Nason Herbert, medical student with Dr. H. S. Boardman, bds. 153 State. 

NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., incorporated in 1848 ; commenced 
business in 1850 ; Charles Dewey, pres.; Edward Dewey, vice-pres.; 
J. C. Houghton, treas.; George W. Reed, sec'y ; 114 State. 

Neenan John, stonecutter, bds. 3 Charles. 

NEILL GEORGE T., (Acme Watch Key Co.) h 12 State. 

Nelson Daniel D., owns farm in Middlesex, h 15 Terrace. 

Nelson Fred W., laborer, emp. at state house, h 38 Loomis. 

Nelson William T., hostler for E. W. Dudley, bds. 20 Elm. 

Nestor Marcus, laborer, h 7 N. Franklin. 

Nestor John, hostler Union House, bds. do. 

Neveaux Serafin, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 23 Franklin. 

Neveux George R , nickel plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, bds. 9 Court. 

Newby Joseph, peddler, h 7 Cemetery. 

Newcornb Amanda T., widow of Hon. Luther, department pres. of the 
Woman's Relief Corps of Vermont, resides 94 Elm. 

Newcomb Stephen T., director and stockholder United States Clothes Pin- 
Co., h 94 Elm. 
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130 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



Newton George J., janitor, bds. 9 Arsenal ave. 

Newton George N., sawyer, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., Berlin st. 

Newton H. M. Mrs., widow, bds. 98 Elm. 

Newton John Q , machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 16 Ridge. 

Newton Richard H., dentist, i Hubbard block, h 84 Elm. 

Newton VVilliam M., student, bds. 11 Arsenal ave. 

Nichols Dudley C , clerk for E. D. Hyde, h 51 Barre st. 

Nichols George L., dealer in ready-made clothing, hats, caps, furnishing 
goods, trunks and valises, 69 Main, h 7 Winter. 

Niles Albert E., clerk for L. P. Gleason & Co., bds. 8 Winter. 

Norris Melissa L. Mrs., prop, boarding-house, 32 Main. 

NORTON ANDREW S., job teamster, h 24 Arsenal ave. 

Noyes Storrs T., dealer in carriages and sleighs, and repairing, rear Main, h 
104 Barre st. 

Noyes \V. Wallace, carpenter, h 29 St. Paul. 

Noyes William, carpenter, h 31 St. Paul. 

Nutt Edwin A., r 12, farmer, manager for his father, Henry. 

Nutt Henry, r 12, 125 grade Shropshire and Merino sheep, farmer 150, 
aged 80. 

O'Grady John, custom shoemaker, 10 E. State, h do. 

O'Grady Michael, resident, bds. 5 N. Franklin. 

O'Grady Michael E., farm laborer for E. Hubbard, h 152 Elm. 

O'Grady Michael J., laborer, h 152 Elm. 

O'Neill Edmund, plumber and gas fitter, emp. P. L. Lyons, bds. 28 Elm. 

O'Neil James, stonecutter, bds. 9 Court. 

O'Neil "William E., plumber, emp. J. W. Peck, bds. 28 Elm, 

Ordway Edward A., emp. B. P. Young, h 46 E. State. 

Ord^vay Walter M , commercial traveler, h 9 Winter. 

Ormsbee Sarah, resident, h 167 Main. 

Osgood Ellen C, widow of Douglas, resident, h 14 First ave. 

Osier John M., spring bed maker, bds. 5 Jay. 

Osier Sarah C. widow of James, h 5 Jay. 

O'SuUivan William J., rector St. Augustine's church, parsonage 51 Court, 

Oviatt Laura F. Mrs., carpetmaker, h 88 Elm. 

Owen Amariah A., r i, carpenter and joiner, owns h and lot Wright's Mills. 

Page Charles, engineer M, & W. R. R. R , bds. 10 Vine. 

PAGE JOHN A. Hon , pres. First National bank, h 94 State. 

Paine Grovner B., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., and owns saw and grist- 
mill on Branch road, h 104 Main. 

Pape Jacob W., tool sharpener, bds. 6r Barre st. 

Park Warren W., dealer in groceries, flour and country produce, butter and 
cheese a specialty, 71 Main, h 9 Loomis. 

Parkhurst Daniel L., dyer, 14 Spring. 

Parks Albert, clerk for Marvin & Sherburne, bds. 32 Main. 

PARMENTER GEORGE W., wholesale and retail dealer in ice, and dealer 
in butter and maple sugar, 6 State, h 190 Elm. 

Paro Frank, barber, h 6 Cayhue place. 

Paro Gilbert, brakeman M. & W. R. R. R., h 33 Barre st. 

Paro Joseph, laborer, h 6 Jay. 

Paro Joseph, Jr., laborer, h 6 Jay. * 

Parrizo E. J., speculator, h 9 Court. 

Parry William T., stonecutter, h 6 Witt place. 

Pattee Elmer E., clerk, bds. 20 Main. 



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Pattee Weston A., emp. of C. T. Sabin, 20 Main. 

Patterson Hannah H. Miss, prop, boarding-house, 31 E. State. 

Patterson Mar)', compositor Watchman office, h 3 i E. State. 

Paul Chandler W., r 5, farmer 4. 

Paul Nancy M., r 5, widow of William, owns farm 4. 

PAVILION HOTEL, J. S. Viles, prop., first-class in all its appointments, 

telephone and good livery connected, 113 State. 
Pearce Emma, book-binder, emp. M. W. Wheelock, bds. 10 Cross. 
Peck Alonzo D., emp. M. & W. R. R. R., h 6 Frankhn. 
Peck Charles N., tanner, 6 North. 

Peck Frank W., tanner, emp. Pecks & Cummins, bds 6 North. 
Peck Fred L., printer, emp. Argus and Patriot, bds. 6 North. 
Peck George A., (Barrows & Peck) h 115 Elm. 
Peck John Q. A., retired tanner, h 4 Franklin. 
PECK JOHN W., plumber and gas fitter, dealer in iron pipe, fittings and 

plumbing goods, 58 Main, h 21 Vine. 
Peck Leslie F., printer, h 67 Elm. 

PECK. MARY B., widow of James S., resident, h 99 State. 
Peck Norman C, painter, glazier and paper hanger, h 24 Barr2 st. 
Peck Roswell K., (Pecks & Cummins) justice of the peace, h 106 Elm. 
Peck William N., (Pecks & Cummins) prop, creamery, 35 cows, farm 175, h 

21 Hubbard cor. First ave. 
Pecks & Cummins, (William N. and Roswell K. P., and Albert O. C.) manufs. 

of harness, collars, wax, upper and card leather, dealers in leather and 

findings, 60 Main, tannery Cummins. 
Pecor Charles, laborer, h 6 Wheeler place. 
Pecor Herbert, laborer, bds. 10 Court. 
Pecor Joseph, laborer, h 10 Court. 
Pecor Peter, laborer, bds. 10 Court. 
Pembroke Margaret, widow, h 182 Main. 

Pembroke Michael, machinist, emp. Wright's mills, h 182 Main. 
Pembroke Thomas B., laborer, h 182 Main. 

Penniman Henry, locomotive engineer M. & W. R. R. R., bds. 21 Hubbard. 
Percival Thornhill, horticulturist, rear Episcopal church, bds. 58 State. 
Perkins Elkins C, r 12, carpenter and farmer 75. 
Perkins Jonathan, r 12, carpenter and builder, farmer 15. 
Perkins Ransom H., r 5, laborer, emp. W. H. Lombard. 
Perrin Charles E., farmer and wool buyer, owns land in BerHn, h 12 Loomis. 
Perry Fred H., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 17 Pearl. 
Persons Levi A , farmer, h 6r Barre st. 
Peterson William, laborer, one-legged soldier, h 22 Court. 
Phelps John D., teamster, bds. 23 School. 
PHELPS WILLIAM PERCY, stenographer for Lane Mfg. Co., h 38 E. 

Liberty. 
Phillips Charles F., traveling salesman, emp. R. C. Bowers Granite Co., bds. 

Montpelier House. 
Phillips Charles N., watchmaker and jeweler, manager of jewelry business 

for estate of A. A. Mead, 28 State, h 54 E. State. 
Phinney Jennie Miss, clerk for Daniel F. Long, bds. 4 Spring. 
Phinney Mary, teacher of vocal music, bds. 4 Spring. 
Phinney Truman C, sergeant at arms 18 consecutive years, h 4 Spring. 
Pierce Adaline A., widow of Levi F., resides 27 Loomis. 



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Pierce Clarence C, manuf. of and dealer in harnesses and horse furnishings 

goods, no Main, h ig8 do. 
PIERCE HIRAM M., coal dealer, one-armed veteran of the late war, served 

in Co. B, loth Vt. Vols., h 7 Summer. 
Pierce Ira F,, laborer, h 10 Cross. 

Pierce Irena B , widow of Benjamin H., resident, h 9 North. 
Pierce John L., clerk for Johnson & Colton, bds. 27 Loomis. 
Pierce Sollie A., porter Montpelier House, bds. do. 
Pitkin Clarence H , (Pitkin & Huse) lawyer. 
PITKIN CARROI-L P., representative, sec'y and treas. Lane Mfg. Co., h 

144 Main. 
Pitkin Frank I , assistant treas. Lane Mfg. Co.,h 157 Main. 
Pitkin Fred E, r 5, i3 cows, 10 head other cattle, and farmer 125. 
PITKIN PERLEY P. Gen., pres. Lane Mfg. Co., director First National 

bank and National Life Insurance Co., h 146 Main. 
Pitkin Ruth A., widow of William L., resides 4 Pitkin Court. 
Pitkin & Huse, (Clarence H. P. and Hiram A. H.) lawyers, postoffice blocks 

State. 
Plaisted Edgell, draughtsman, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 6 Cross. 
POLAND JOSEPH, retired editor and publisher, h 27 School. 
Poland [osephine Mrs., resident, h 17 Baldwin. 
PORTER CHARLES VV. Hon., sec'y of state, and lawyer, postoffice- 

block, h 4 Western ave. 
Pratt A. F. Co., The, Antoine F. Pratt, prop., manuf. of Pratt's great French- 
hair tonic, patented Jan. 24, 1888, 52 State. 
Pratt Felix, barber and hair-dresser, 52 Main, h 24 Elm. 
Pratt Catherine M., widow of William C, h 137 Main. 

Pratt Frank, pressman, emp. Woolson Bros., h 174 Main. 

Pratt Jerome J., carriage painter and billposter, h 62 Birre St. 

Pratt Mary E. Miss, dressmaker, h 137 Main. 

Provost Clement, baker, h 20 Court. 

Provost Elon E., teamster, h 183 Main. 

Prue John, laborer, 201 Main. 

Puffer Frank H., agent New York Life Insurance Co., bds. 100 Elm. 

Putnam Charles B., printer, bds. 20 Arsenal ave. 

Putnam Diana, widow of Dr. Sumner, h 165 Main. 

PUTNAM ENOCH D., retired merchant, h 20 Arsenal ave. 

Putney Elwin, hack driver, h 47 Elm. 

Putney Willard, laborer, h on Clay hill. 

Quinn Peter F., painter, bds. 4 Barre st. 

Ramsdell Abbie M., tailoress, emp. Woolson Bros., bds. ig E. State. 

Ramsdell Charles C, foreman IVatc/unan office, bds. 19 E. State. 

Ramsdell Lucy A. Mrs., compositor, emp. T/ie IVafc/wian, bds. 19 E. State, 

Rand Eugene F., transportation master M. & W. R. R. R., h 43 Barre st. 

Randall James F., painter, h 19 First ave. 

Ranney T. Taylor, clerk for George E. Taplin, h 46 Barre st. 

REDFIELD T. P., widow of Judge Timothy P., h 149 State. 

Reed Benjamin J., granite polisher Pioneer mills, Berlin st., h 57 Main. 

Reed Cassius H., teamster for E. ^V. Bailey & Co., h 234 Main. 

Reed Emily E , widow of Hon. Charles, h 129 State. 

Reed Fred, laborer, h 206 Main. 

Reed George W,, sec'y National Life Insurance Co., and county treasurer^ 
h 131 State. 



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Richards George S., manuf. of whetstones, Pioneer shops, h 104 Main. 

Richardson Edward P., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h ;^;^ School. 

Richardson George, janitor state house, h 82 Elm. 

RICHARDSON ORVILLE H., manuf. of coarse lumber and clapboards in 
Moretown, and farmer in VVaitsfield 125, h 31 Barre st. 

Ridout Benjamin F., retired farmer, h 15 Arsenal ave. 

Ridout Ellen Mrs., matron North boarding-house, Vermont Methodist semi- 
nary, h 15 Arsenal. 

Riker Francis, resides with George L. Nichols, 7 Winter. 

Riker Loraine Mrs., widow of Isaac, aged 89, 7 Summer. 

Riker Rufus R., draper and tailor, aged 83, h 50 State. 

Ripley George VV., mason, contractor and builder, h 41 Arsenal ave. 

Rivers Caroline Miss, dressmaker, h 141 Elm. 

Rivers Caroline Mrs., seamstress, h 141 Elm. 

Rivers J., widow of Antoine, h 141 Elm. 

Rivers J. Paul, machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 9 Court. 

Rivers John H., carpenter, bds. 20 Main. 

Rivers Kate Miss, h 79 Elm, 

Rivers Lillie, seamstress, bds. 5 Franklin. 

Rivers Martha, widow of Paul, aged 98, h 23 St. Paul. 

Rivers Peter, molder, h 3 Franklin. 

Rivers William, stonecutter, bds. 3 Franklin. 

Riverside House, Solon Lawrence, prop., 128 State. 

Robbins Isaac L., pressman, h 22 Hubbard. 

Roberts Charles L., canvasser, h 55 Elm. 

ROBERTS CLARK B., dealer in groceries, cigars and tobacco, 2 School 
cor. Elm, bds. Montpelier House. 

Roberts Edward J., stonecutter, bds. 15 Baldwin. 

Roberts Edwin C, stonecutter, bds. 15 Baldwm. 

Roberts George, laborer, h 5 Bailey ave. 

Roberts Harry W., (P. Roberts & Son) h 15 Baldwin. 

Roberts Ned J., printer, emp. Union Card Co., bds. 55 Elm. 

Roberts P. & Son, (Harry W.) manufs. of and dealers in all kinds of monu- 
mental cemetery granite work, curbing, posts, etc., Taylor. 

Roberts Philip, (P. Roberts & Son) owns farm in Middlesex 100, h 15 
Baldwin. 

Robinson Abin H., laborer, h i Fuller. 

Robinson Alvin H., emp. W. A. Stowell, h i Fuller. 

Robinson Amos B., emp. J- W. Brock, bds. 138 Main. 

Robinson Charles F., architect, foreman of construction for M. & W. R. R. 
R., bds. 28 Summer. 

Robinson F'.dna, widow, 38 Main. 

Robinson George S. Capt., car builder, emp. M. & W. R. R. R., h 28 Summer. 

Robinson Guerdon, mason, h 189 Main. 

Robinson Jacob, saloon clerk and stone mason, h 15 E. State. 

Rodney Lewi'^ Mrs., widow, h 225 Main. 

Roleau Curtis E., printer, bds. 11 Cross. 

Roleau Edmund A., manuf. of and dealer in harnesses, 124^^ Main, h ir 
Cross. 

Rolfe George H., drug clerk, emp. H. R. Bixby, bds. 2 Spring. 

Rollins Ellis, teamster, h 30 Terrace. 

ROPES ARTHUR, editor T/ie Watchman and publisher Vermont Chronicle. 

Rourk James, wood worker, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 15 Franklin. 



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Rourk James J., tanner, emp. Pecks & Cummins, h 121 Elm. 

Rourk Patrick, laborer, h 5 Mechanic. 

Rowe Felix, laborer, bds. 28 Elm. 

Rowell Charles F., teamster, h 235 Main. 

Rowell I. Henry P., resident, h 10 St. Paul. 

Rowell John C, engineer, emp. M. & W. R. R. R., h 7 Main. 

Roy Lewis, laborer, bds. 69 Elm. 

Rublee Eliza B. Miss, resident, h 173 Main. 

Russell Alonzo H., printer, h 22 Liberty. 

Russell Fred, laborer, bds. 62 State. 

Russell Herbert E,, compositor Argus and Patriot o'i^o.^, bds. 121 Elm. 

Russell Marble, painter, bds. 14 Spring. 

RUSSELL MERRILL, manuf. and dealer in all kinds of Barre granite 
work, monuments and statues a specialty, near C. V. R. R. depot, h 11 
Baldwin. 

Ryan Edward, farm laborer for H. W. Heaton. 

Ryan Mary Mrs., housekeeper 8 Mechanic. 

Ryle Dennis, stonecutter, bds. 34 Barre st. 

Ryle Michael H., stonecutter, bds. 34 Barre st. 

SABIN CHARLES T., sec'y and treas. Sabin Machine Co., vice pres. and 
director Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., pres. and treas. Montpe- 
lier Slate Co., director of National Life Insurance Co., 22 grade Jersey 
cows, and farmer 125. [Died Dec. 24, rSSS ] 

Sabin James T., sec'y Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co.,h 23 Bailey ave. 

Sabin Machine Co, George Cook, pres.; C. T. Sabin, treas.; manufs. of 
organ and piano springs, Sabin's lever, boss and crown door springs, 
double-acting spring hinges, and Glynn's patent candy machines, Ber- 
lin St. 

Salinas Eugenia Mrs., seamstress, h 3 School. 

Sanders Charles, laborer, bds. 8 Putnam. 

Sanders Charles A., carpenter, h 117 Elm. 

Sanders Elmer E., butcher, emp C. S. Whittier, h i Ridge. 

Sanders George, laborer, bds. 36 Loomis. 

Sanders Henry M., laborer, h 36 I.,oomis. 

Sanderson William K., treas. U. S. Clothes Pin Co., h 50 Elm. 

Sargent Walter C, granite cutter, Barre St., h 96 Elm. 

Sawyer A. George, laborer, h Berlin st. 

Sawyer George, stone polisher, h 2 Court. 

Sawyer John M.. blacksmith, emp. M. & W. R. R. R., h 107 Main, 

Sawyer Myron G., fireman M. &. W. R. R. R., bds. 107 Main. 

Scott Daniel, r 5. emp. Pecks & Cummins. 

Scott Elmer G., laborer for S. H. O. Bosworth, h 23 E. Liberty. 

Scott George W., retired merchant, aged 79, h 11 Loomis. 

Scovill Martha P., widow of Edwin N , resident, h 47 Arsenal. 

Scribner Bart S., off r 3, 6 cows, and farmer 65. 

Scribner Benjamin F., carpenter, aged 72, h 186 Main. 

Scribner Eben. (Pioneer Works) aged 82, h 174 Main. 

SCRIBNER GEORGE E., (George M. Scribner & Son) bds. 21 Main. 

SCRIBNER GEORGE M., (George M. Scribner & Son) h 19 Main. 

SCRIBNER GEORGE M. & SON, (George E.) dealers in tin and hollow 
ware, stoves, etc., 21 Main. 

Scribner Horace H., teacher piano and organ, and organist Episcopal churchy 
h 186 Main. 



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Scribner Lillian M. Miss, dressmaker, bds. iS Spring. 

Scribner Martha L. Mrs., seamstress, h i8 Spring. 

Scribner Melvin W., salesman for Henry C. Holmes, h 28 Court. 

Scribner Oscar D., curer of and dealer in sugar-cured dried beef and hams, 

also p<irk, lard and sausages, cor. Main and State, h 169 Main. 
Scribner Polly Mrs, milliner, 174 Main, h do. 
Seaver Charles, cook, emp. Pavilion Hotel, bds. do. 

SExWER EDWIN N., stationary engineer, emp. Pavilion Hotel, bds. do. 
Seaver Elijah, retired, aged 80, h 8 Putnam. 
SEAVER JOHN R., district agent Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., 

12 State, h 4 Charles. 
SEAVER LATHAM T., r 7, breeder of full blood Cheshire swine and 

grade Jersey cattle, farmer 25, soldier in Co. B, 13th, and in Co. C, 15th 

Vt. Cav. 
Seguin Charles, tanner, emp. Pecks & Cummins, h 150 Elm. 
Seguin Frank, tanner, emp. Pecks & Cun)mins, h 38 North 
Selinas A. M. Mrs., 31 Elm. 

Selinas Charles W., carriage trimmer, h 3 School. 
SENTER JOHN H., (Senter & Kemp) National bank examiner, sec'y 

Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co., U. S. Circuit Court commissioner, 

h ID Winter cor. Summer. 
SENTER & KEMP, (John H. S. and Harlan W. K.) lawyers, fire, life and 

accident insurance and Remington typewriter agents, law reporters for 

Supreme Court of Vermont for Atlantic Reporter, Langdon block, 47 

State. 
Severance Albert J., painter, h 4 Tremont. 
Severance Henry E., emp. G. W. Parmenter, h 12 Cummins. 
Severance John W., printer, emp. WaicJunan office, h 23 State. 
Shaddock Charles, teamster, emp. L J. Davis, bds. do. 
Shafter Elvira, widow, aged go, h 157 State. 

Shambo Aughtney, truckman, dealer in coal and wood, h 183 Masn. 
Shanley John, poUsher, emp. Johnson & Colton, bds. 2 Fuller. 
Shanley Mary Mrs., h 2 Fuller. 
Shatney Francis, laborer, 9 N. Franklin. 
Shatney Francis, Jr., laborer, h 4 Fuller. 
Shattuck Edgar A., stonecutter, bds. Union House. 
Shay William A., pressman Argus and Patriot office, bds. 5 St. Paul. 
Shedd Lorenzo W., agent Kansas Loan and Trust Co., bds. 128 State. 
Shepard Burt M., clerk for A. Long, bds. 6 Barre st. 
Shepard George C. Mrs., widow, owns the homestead. Main cor. School. 
SHERBURN JOEL O., pastor Trinity M. E. church, parsonage 162 Main. 
Sherburne Frank A.. (Marvin & Sherburne) h 3 First ave. 
Shipman Charles H., dealer in boots, shoes and rubbers, 106 Main, h 5 

Court. 
Shorey Alphonse Mrs., widow, h 199 Main. 
Shorey Alphonzo, blacksmith, h 45 Court. 
Shurtlefif Stephen C, att'y at law, master in chancery, and notary public, 12 

State, h 172 Main. 
Sibley Andrew J., deputy collector of internal revenue for Vermont, 1 r 

State, bds. Pavilion. 
Silloway Joseph B., carpenter, h 12 First ave. 
Silloway Milo, laborer, bds. 26 E. State. 
Silver Charles E , delivery clerk, emp. W. W. Park, h 2 Northfteld st. 



136 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



Simpson James, stonecutter, bds. 39 Barre st. 

Skinner Charles W., watchmaker, dealer in clocks, watches, jewelry, fancy 
goods, silver and plated ware, and toys, 8 State, h 1 1 do. 

Skinner Eliab R., jobber in foreign, domestic, fancy and staple goods, 
watches, jewelry, hosiery, underv\'ear, and small wares, 90 State, h 92 do. 

Slade Sarah S. Miss, prop, variety store, 59 Main, h do. 

Slattary John, r t, farmer 10. 

Slattery Anna and Mary, domestics and own a farm, 138 Main. 

Slattery Joseph, laborer. 

Slattery Patrick, emp. E. P. Jewett, bds. 157 State. 

SLAV TON HERMON E., prop, news room, dealer in books, stationery, 
etc., 15 State, h 11 Summer. 

SLAYTON VERNON L., clerk for Hermon E., h 61 Berlin st. 

Sloan Benjamin B , clerk for F. H. Bascom, bds. 12 St. Paul. 

Sloan Erigar P., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 137 Elm. 

Slocum Ward A., law student with Heath & Fay, and commission merchant, 
42 Main, bds. 32 do. 

Smilie George H , (Enghsh Pile Remedy Co.) commercial traveler, bds. 22 
Loomis 

SMILIE MELVILLE E , county clerk, justice of the peace, and lawyer, 
h 122 State. 

Smith x\lbert E., clerk in Argus and Patriot office, bds. 38 E. State. 

Smith Albert E., laborer, bds. 43 Elm. 

Smith Albert E., brakeman C. V. R. R., bds. 38 E. State. 

Smith Alma, widow of George, h 23 St. Paul. 

Smith Andrew J., carpenter, h 2 Fuller. 

Smith Carlos S., curer of and dealer in dried beef and hams, farmer 10, 9 
Barre st., h do. 

SMITH CHARLES A., (Weston & Smith) h 55 Barre st. 

Smith Charles .\., 2d, printer, emp. Argi/s and Patriot office, bds. 38 E. 
State. 

Smith Charles R., electrician, emp. Standard Electric Light Co., h 2 North. 

Smith Charles S. Rev.. Cong, clergyman, sec'y Vermont Domestic Mission- 
ary society, and editor Vermont Chronicle, h 20 Bailey ave. 

Smith Eddy D , r 13, painter, emp. D. P. Clark. 

Smith Edward L., teacher, bds. 9 Barre st. 

Smith Eugene A., laborer, h 66 Barre st. 

Smith Frank E., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 120 Elm. 

SMITH FRED E. Col., pres. Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and Col- 
by Wringer Co., and vice-pres. R. C. B :)wers Granite Co., h 3 Spring. 

Smith Henry C, barber and hair-dresser, 46 State, and saloon 120 Main, h 
17 Court. 

Smith Henry C, tinsmith, emp. D. Dewey & Son, bds. 34 School. 

Smith Henry D., silver plater, bds. 14 Loomis. 

Smith Henry L. E., hotel clerk at White Mountains, h 23 St. Paul. 

Smith Hiram S , truckman, h 6 St. Paul. 

Smith J. Gregory, deliverer for American Express Co., h 4 St. Paul. 

Smith James M., (Smith, Whitcomb & Cook) h 164 Main. 

Smith Lewis, laborer, h 6r Elm. 

Smith Lillian J. Miss., daughter of Carlos L., teacher, bds. 9 Barre st. 

Smith Nye L.. printer, emp. Argus and Patriot o?hct, h 38 E. State. 

Smith P. G. Mrs., widow of Peter G , h 17 Court. 

Smith Samuel, off r 13, 7 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 130. 



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Smith Silas S., bridge builder, h i8 Hubbard. 

SMITH STEPHEN B., manuf. of and dealer in reed and rattan chairs, child- 
ren's carriages and furniture, 76 State, h 4 Northfield St., Berlin. 

Smith Thomas C, carpenter and lather, h 43 Elm. 

Smith William D., clerk for E. W. Bailey & Co., h i Guernsey ave. 

Smith Willie D., 30 cows, milk dealer, and farmer about 200. 

Snow Bert S., hack driver. 

Snow Frank, stonecutter, h 20 Main. 

Snow Fred E., stonecutter, emp. T. Kelleher & Co., bds. 24 Main. 

Snow George H., laborer, h 117 F^lm. 

Snow Henry J., breeder of Wyandotte fowls, farmer 2, h 177 Elm. 

Snow Ira, sexton Green Mount cemetery, h State opp. cemetery. 

Snow Ira Mrs., dressmaker, h opp. cemetery. 

Snow Lucy, widow of Barnabas H., h 24 Barre st. 

Somerville Samuel, granite cutter, h 20 Ridge. 

Sortwell Charles, resident, bds. Montpelier House. 

Sowles Wilder H., foreman M. & W. R. R. R., h off Main. 

SPARROW ALBERT S., h 100 State. 

Spaulding Fred E., manager stock exchange, 17 State, h 121 Elm. 

Spellicy James, resident, h 37 Court. 

Spellicy John B., molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. 37 Court. 

Sprague Nancy S , widow of Wooster, h 14 Barre st. 

Stacy Betsey, widow of George, washer and ironer, h 18 Hubbard. 

Stafford Thomas, stonecutter, bds. 39 Barre st. 

Standard Light and Power Mfg. Co., The, C. P. Pitkin, pres. ; E. D. Black- 
well, treas.; manufs. of electric lights, 13 State. 

STANDISH FRED A., manuf. of cigars, 42 State, bds. 61 J Main. 

Standish Phylura A. Mrs., dealer in millinery and ladies' fancy goods, 40 
State, h 6ii Main. 

STANDISH WILLIAM O. butcher, and dealer in all kinds of fresh and 
salt meats, poultry, eggs and vegetables, 95 Main, h 61 do. 

Staples Harriet, dressmaker. 223 Main. 

Starkey Patrick F., r i, blacksmith, emp. in Barre. 

Sterling Joseph S , resident, h 12 St. Paul. 

Sterling Martha E. Mrs., prop, boarding-house, 12 St. Paul. 

Sterling Walter H., upholsterer, bds. i 2 St. Paul. 

Stevens Fred R., prop restaurant, 40 Main, h 38 do. 

Stevens Henry M., off r 5, farm laborer. 

Stevens Lucinda, widow of Dr. lohn, of Newbury, Orange Co., aged 90, h 108 
Elm. 

Stickney Charles A., carpenter and joiner, h 4 Stickney. 

Stimpson Mary E., teacher, bds. 7 First ave. 

Stimson Ashbel A., patentee, h 7 First ave. 

Stimson Lizzie M., dressmaker, h 7 First ave. 

St. John Abraham, resident, h 42 North. 

St. Michael's Parochial School, Miss Honora Eigan, principal, off Court. 

Stone Arthur G., dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and silverware, cor. Main 
and State, h 23 Vine. 

Stone Frank J., butcher, emp. W. O. Standish, bds. 25 State. 

Stone John, saddler, emp. John Lease, h 9 Northfield st. 

Stone John F., retired Cong, clergyman, aged 8-|, h 164 Main. 

Stone Lucius C, batcher, emp. VV. O. Standish, bds. 61 Main. 

Stone Margaret, teacher, 164 Main. 



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Stone Minnie, housekeeper 164 Main. ' 

Stowell William A., h 17 Barre st. 

Strathers James C, painter, bds. 61 Main. 

Stratton George O., clerk Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., h 6 Summer, 

Stratton Susan H., widow of Nathaniel, cakemaker, h 6 Summer. 

Straw Heman, steel worker for Sabin Machine Co., h 89 E. State. 

Sturtevant Mortimer, nickel plater, emp. Johnson & Colton. 

Sulham Lizzie B. Mrs., restaurant cook, h 9 E. State. 

Sumner Moses S., retired carpenter, bds. 20 Main. 

Swasey John W., carpenter, h 12 Court. 

Sweeney Daniel, laborer, bds. 75 Elm. 

Sweeney Dennis J., stonecutter, bds. 39 Loomis. 

Sweet Andrew A., formerly county sheriff, aged go, h 25 School. 

Sweet Elizabeth F., teacher, h 25 School. 

Sweet Mary, widow of Michael, h 196 Main. 

Sweet Rebecca, (Mrs. Andrew) resident, aged 91, h 25 School. 

Sylvester Bradford, printer Watchman office, h 2 1 First ave. 

Tabor George, farm laborer for Charles M. Hale. 

TABOR NATHANIEL C, r 13 cor. 14, road commissioner, 500 sugar trees,^ 

breeder of full blood Jersey cattle, reg., and fine horses, 1 5 cows, 60 sheep, 

farmer 140. 
Taft Dennison. retired dealer, h 147 Main. 
TAFT LUCIUS D., (E. W. Bailey & Co.) h 151 Main. 
Talbot Henry H., barber, 124 Main, h do. 
Tanner Lathrop L , mason, h 20 Pearl. 
Taplin Caroline, widow of H. Nelson, 124 State. 
Taplin George E., dealer in dry and fancy goods, 2 State, h 132 do. 
Taplin Horatio N., vice-pres. and tres. Vermont Mutual Insurance Co., h 

124 State. 
Taplin Wesley E., clerk for H. C. Webster, bds. 105 Elm. 
Taylor Burt L., reporter for Argus and Patriot, bds. Montpelier House. 
Temple D. W. & Co., (Walter H. Learned) dealers in dry and fancy goods. 

77 Main. 
Temple Dexter \N., (D. W. Temple & Co.) h 25 Barre st. 
Templeton Carrie W., resident, h 37 Loomis. 

Templeton Hiram E., M. D., physician and surgeon, 37 Loomis, h do. 
TEMPLETON JAMES M., M. D., physician and surgeon, 20 Loomis cor. 

Liberty, h do. 
Templeton Oscar, farmer in Calais, h Clay hill. 
Templeton Smith J., farmer 10, h Clay hill. 
Tewksbury Lee C, clerk Union House, bds. do. 
Thayer Edwin, farm laborer, bds. Wrightsville. 
Thayer Francis M., stone mason, h 8 Whittier. 
Thayer John, r i, laborer. 

Thayer Lemira, r i, widow of James E., dressmaker, resides Wright's Mills. 
Thayer Selden W., r i, laborer, resides Wright's Mills. 
Thayer William E., farm laborer, Wrightsville. 
Thtiriault Paul, job teamster, h 5 Franklin. 
THOMAS STEPHEN Gen., pres. U. S. Clothes Pin Co., entered the Union 

army as colonel of the 8th Vt.Vols., November 12, 1861, and was mus- 
tered out in August, 1865, as brig. -gen., h 94 Elm. 
Thompson Etta, compositor lVaic/i7nafi o^ce, 20 YAvn. 
Thraser Fred, laborer, bds. 128 State. 



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Thurston Ruth, widow of John B., resident, h 23 Barre st. 

Town Clinton E., farmer, h 57 Main. 

Town Frank H., r 12, farmer with his father, Henry, 

Town Tra S., retired jeweler, bds. 56 Main. 

Town Samuel L., r 12, retired wheelwright, farmer 35. 

Towne Birnard. r 9, mason. 

Towne Edwin H., cutter, emp. VVoolson Bros., bds. Montpelier House. 

Towne Henry S., r 12, breeder of Hambletonian trotting horses, and full 

blood Shropshire sheep, prop, stock horses, "Auctioneer," and " Engineer," 

son of "Auctioneer,'' farmer 240. 
Towner Edward E., (S. S. Towner & Son) h Northfield St., Berlin. 
Towner S. S. & Son. (Edward E.) undertakers, dealers in furniture, wall paper, 

window shades and picture frames, Golden Fleece, Main. 
Towner Sewell S., (S. S. Towner & Son) 150 apple trees, breeder of Jersey 

cattle, reg., American cattle club book, and farm 45, h Northfield St., 

Berlin. 
Tromblee Addie, teacher, bds. 13 Summer. 
Tromblee Harriet D., teacher, bds. 13 Summer. 
Tromblee Nellie, music teacher, bds. 13 Summer. 
Trembly George, molder, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 13 Summer. 
Trombly Mary E. Miss, clerk for George E Taplin, bds. 13 Summer. 
Trow Nancy B. Mrs., widow of Preston, resides 13 Baldwin. 
Trow Nettie M., resident, bds. 13 Baldwin. 
Truax A. B. Rev., presiding elder M. E. church, h Arsenal ave. 
Trulan Alfred G.. telegraph operator, bds. 7 Barre st. 
Turner E. L., widow, h 14 Cedar. 

Turner James M., painter, emp. Dayton P. Clark, h 4 Cedar. 
Tuttle John L., deputy sheriff and street commissioner, h 9 Baldwin. 
Twing Mary A. Miss, resident, bds. 148 Main. 
Tyler B. O., widow of Buckley, h 8 Liberty. 

Tyler Charles R., nickel plater, emp Joiinson &Colton,h 8 Liberty. 
UNION CARD CO., Charles F. Buswell. prop., book and job printers, and 

jobbers in and manufs. of plain and fancy cards of all descriptions, 30 

Main. 
Union House, John A. Kelton, prop., free hack to and from all trains, 132 

Main cor. School. 
UNION MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO., organized July 28, 1875; 

Whitman G. Ferrin, pres.; Hon. Charles H. Heath, vice-pres.; John H. 

Senter. sec'y; Harlan VV. Kemp, treis.; 47 State. 
United States Clothes Pin Co., Stephen Thomas, pres.; S. T. Newcomb, 

vice-pres.; William K. Sanderson, sec'y and treas. ; manufs. of clothes 

pins. Main. 
Upham M. Annette Miss, h 139 State. 

Vail Amanda C, widow of Solon J. Y., bds. 25 E. Liberty. 
Vail Oscar ]., retired, ex treas. Vermont Mutual Insurance Co., h 93 State. 
Vail W. E. Mrs., clerk for L. P. Gleason & Co., bds Hotel Kempton. 
Vail William E., clerk, bds. 58 State. 
VERMONT CHRONICLE, Rev. Charles S. Smith, editor; Arthur Ropes, 

publisher ; organ of the Cong, churches of Vermont, issued every Friday, 

Main. 
VERMONT METHODIST SEMINARY AND FE.MALE COLLEGE, 

Rev. J. D. Beman, pres.; Rev. E. A. Bishop, principal; i to 17 Arsenal. 



140 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



VERMONT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO., organized March 28, 
1828; Fred E. Smith, pres ; H. N. Taplin, vice-pres.; James T. Sabin, 
sec'y ; H. N. Taplin, treas.; 114 State. 

Vermont State Historical Society, Hon. H. A. Huse, librarian, state house. 

Vermont State Library, Hon. H. A. Huse, librarian, state house. 

Viles George A., clerk Pavilion Hotel, bds. do. 

VILES JESSE S,, prop. PaviHon Hotel, T13 State. 

Volholm H. Julias, artistic upholsterer, emp. Gleason & Co., h 10 First ave. 

Voodry John, resident, h 40 Court. 

Wade George L., saloon keeper, 40 Main, bds. 132 do. 

Wakefield Christopher C, carpenter, h 2 Barre st. 

Wakefield Lewis C, veterinary surgeon, bds. 41 Arsenal ave. 

Wakefield William H., farmer 33. 

Walbridge . h 16 Hubbard. 

Walker WiUard C, r 7, 200 sugar trees, 30 cows, and farmer 230. 

Wallen Adelbert E , blacksmith, emp. M. & W. R. R. R., h over railroad 
depot. 

Walling C. M., widow of Charles, bds. 32 School. 

Walton EUakim P., retired editor and publisher, aged 76, h 6 Elm. 

Walton Elizi Mrs., dressmaker, h 3 Court. 

Walton George B., commercial traveler for Blanchard & Durkee, of Boston, 
h ro4 Elm. 

Walton S. M., widow of Simnel M., h 104 Elm. 

Washburn Charles H., painter, bds. 67 Main. 

Washburn Ira A., clerk, emp. C. G. Downing, h 22 Biiley ave. 

Washburne Henry W., tinsmith and plumber, emp. F. Blanchard, h 19 St. 
Paul. 

Washburne Justus W. F., clerk for Vermont Miituil Fire Insurance Co., h 
124 Elm. 

Wason Mary, widow, h 22 Hubbard. 

WATCHMAN PUBLISHING CO , THE, props, and pubhshers of Vermont 
Watchniiin, The Vermont Chronicle and The New Hampshire Journal, 
and book, pamphlet and commercial printers, Arthur Ropes, manager, 
and editor of The Watchman ; Rev. C. S. Smith, editor of The Chroni- 
cle ; and J. T. Perry, of Exeter, N. H., editor of The Neu' Hampshire 
Journal, 52 and 54 Main. 

WATERMAN J. F. Mrs , teacher of piano and organ, organist of Trinity 
M. E. church, h 16 First ave. 

WATERMAN JULIUS F., dealer in pianos and organs, h 16 First Ave. 

Watson Kite Mrs., resides with her mother, Mrs. Lucy Snow, 24 Barre st. 

Webber Henry, stonecutter, 64 Barre st. 

Webster Henry C. dealer in dry goods, notions, fancy goods, crockery and 
glassware, 18 State, h 105 Elm. 

Weeks William W., shoemaker, h 193 Main. 

Welch Harvey L., clerk for L. P. Gleason & Co., bds. 28 E. State. 

Wells Mary L., widow of Samuel, h to Loorais. 

WESTON WILLIAM R., (Weston & Smith) marble dealer, h 16 Liberty. 

WESTON & SMITH, (William R W. and Charles A. S ) (successors to H. 
Cobb) manufs. of and dealers in cemetery work of every description, 
from all kinds of marble and granite, 22 Main. 

Wheat Fletcher D., prop, of laundry, 53 Main, h do. 

Wheatley Daniel S., dealer in dry goods and ladies' fancy goods, 29 State, 
h 1 10 Elm. 



TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 141 



Wheeler Dennis, farm laborer for Horace Lawrence. 

Wheeler Eli, farm laborer for J. C. Emery. 

WHEELER GEORGE, prop. Montpelier House, loo State. 

Wheeler Herbeit W., machinist, h 24 North. 

Wheeler Hosea L., teamster and dealer in wood, h 7 Main. 

Wheeler Sylvester f., laborer, h i Fisher Court. 

WHEELOCK. HERBERT R., (VVheelock & Dawley) h 55 BerHn st. 

Wheelock Martin W., book binder, paper-ruler, blank book and paper box 

ma.iuf , also agent for manilla and colored patent paper boxes, Willard 

block. Main, h 49 Berlin side. 
WHEELOCK & D.WVLEY, (Herbert R. W. and Frank R. U.) book and 

job printers, picture frame manufs , gun and locksmiths, dealers in sport- 

mg goods, etc., 26 Main. 
Whelan Robert M., locomotive engineer, emp. C. V. R. R. for 20 consec- 
utive years, h 6 Baldwin. 
Whitcomb Charles E.. r 12, 4 grade Jersey cows, farmer 60. 
Whitcomb H. M., prop. Montpelier steam laundry, h 2 Barre st. 
White (ieorge E., (Edwards, White & Co ) bds. 59 Barre st. 
White George N., laborer, h 3 Hopkins block, Spring. 
Whitney Frank, r i, lumberman and laborer, owns timberland in Middlesex, 

Wright's Mills. 
Whitney George H., painter, bds. 5 St. Paul. 
Whitney Himan T., dentist, 32 S. Main, h do. 
Whitney Martin A., farm laborer for Willie D. Smith. 
Whitney Maud E., clerk in postoftice, bds. 32 Main. 
WHITNEY ROBERT H., carpenter, h 18 Ridge. 
Whittier (Clarence S., butcher, and dealer in meats and provisions, 6 State, h 

141 Main. 
Whittier S. C, widow of R. Harvey, resident, h 2;^ School. 
Wilder George H., music teacher, h 28 Barre St. 
Wilder George W., dealer in pianos, organs and musical instruments, and 

books and stationery, 83 Main cor. E. State, h 10 Hubbard. 
VVilkins George L., dealer in horses, and life insurance agent, h 42 Arsenal. 
Wilkins John S., life insurance agent, h 42 Arsenal. 
Willard John T., carpenter, h 3 Cross. 
Wiliard Mary, librarian Montpelier library, bds. 19 State. 
Wn.LETT GEORGE \V., laundryman, emp. Mrs. A. M. Selinas, h '9 

Franklin. 
Willey Algernon S., retired fanner, owns h and lot 19 Bailev ave. 
Willey Henry S., stationary engineer, emp. Electric Light Co., h 117 Elm. 
Williams Andrew A., undertaker, emp. Gleason & Co., h 33 School. 
Williams John D., stonecutter, bds. i Guernsey ave. 
Williams John J., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 5 Vine. 
Willis Grace Mrs., resident, bds. 8 Liberty. 
Wilson Charles E., (Marvin & Wilson) bds. 100 E. State. 
Wilson George R., stonecutter, bds. 26 Bailey ave. 
Wing Frank B., painter, h 7 Main. 
WING GEORGE W., lawyer, justice of the peace, and notary public. Union 

block, h 145 State. 
Wing George W. Mrs., ex-money order clerk in postoffice, h 145 Main. 
WING JOHN G , att'y at law, master in chancery, notary public and grand 

juror, 4 State cor. Main, h 27 Court. 



142 TOWN OF MONTPELIER. 



Wing Joseph A., lawyer, farming lands about 800, 4 State cor. Main, h 171 
Main. 

Winn Harvey B., hostler, emp. D. W. Dudley, bds. 20 Elm 

Winslow Frank E., traveling salesman for C. H. Cross & Son, bds. 82 Elm. 

Wise Frank R., hostler for D. W. Dudley, h r [ E State. 

Witt Lenora E., manuf. of ladies' hair work, 6 Witt place. 

Wood Charles L, carpenter, bds. 138 State. 

Wood Frank G., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., bds. g Court. 

Wood Joseph G., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 200 Main. 

Wood Louis, blacksmith, emp. in Barre, h 178 Main. 

WOOD MARSHALL G., machinist, emp. Lane Mfg. Co., h 27 Frankhn. 

Wood Theodore, farm laborer for W. H. Lombard. 

Wood Thomas L., assistant state librarian, bds. Montpelier House. 

Woodard William B., carpenter, emp. James Crossett, bds. 5 St. Paul. 

Woodward Frederick H., painter, bds. 233 Main, 

WOOLSON BROS., (S. C, Woolson, prop.) established in 1856 ; tailors, 
"Garments made as they should be." Union block, 26 State. 

WOOLSON SABIN C, (Woolson Bros.) tailor, h 5 Winter. 

Wright Edward N., armorer state of Vermont 21 consecutive years, soldier 
in Co. F, 2d Vt. Vols., supt. of forage department at headquarters un- 
der Gen. P. P. Pitkin, h 5 Prospect. 

Wright Fannie, boxmaker. emp. M. W. Wheelock, bds. 18 First ave. 

WRIGHT J. EDWARD Rev., pastor Church of The Messiah, h 19 Bald- 
win. 

Wright M. A., widow of Samuel, h 18 First ave. 

WRIGHT M. & SON, (Prentice C.) machinists, manufs. of M. Wright's 
polishing machine for all kinds of stone, props, iron foundry, saw-mill, 
planing and dressing-mill, manufs. of wood working machinery, and 
farmers 100. 

Wright Martha A., widow of Samuel, resident, h \S First ave. 

WRIGHT MEDAD, r r, (M. Wright & Son). 

WRIGHT PRENTICE C, r i, (M. Wright & Son). 

Wright William H., r i, laborer. 

Yatter Joseph, shoemaker, 1 2 E. State, h do. 

Yatter Kate, widow of William, bds 139 State. 

Yeatter Henry L., barber, emp. O. Jangraw, bds. 114 Main. 

Yeatter John, whitewasher, h 114 Main. 

YOUNG BARD P.. prop, livery, boarding and sale stable, and dealer in 
carriages and sleighs, rear Montpelier House, h 74 State. 

Young Edward, 8 Court. 

Young Eliza Miss, tailoress, h 34 St. Paul. 

Young Harry A., nickel plater, emp. Johnson & Colton, h 34 St. Paul. 

Young James J-, stone mason, h 34 St. Paul. 

Young May H. Mrs., compositor in TAe Watchman office, bds. B 
block, 20 S. Main. 

Young W. Augustus, h 14 Barre st. 



TOWN OF MORETOWN. 143 



MORKTO^A^N. 

(For explanations, etc., see page 3, part second.) 

(Postoffice address is Moretown, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Aldrich Naahum G., (Middlesex) ofif r 7, farmer 80. 

Aldrich William A., (Middlesex) off r 7, farmer 7, son of Naahum G. 

ALLEN & VAN DEUSEN, (E A. A., of Warren, and Homer G. Van D.) 

manufs. of ash dowels, turned chair stock, etc. 
Andrews Alhenan, r 39, farmer i^. 

Andrews Ira, (Montpelier) r 22, prop, saw-mill, and farmer 200. 
Andrews John S., (Montpelier) r 22, farmer 85. 
Ashley Charles D., r 17, farmer, leases of Dexter 96. 
Ashley Dexter, r 17, farm 96. 
Avery Benjamin, mason. Main. 
Bagley Charles L., r 18, farmer 98. 
Bates Jacob W., clerk for G. M. Fletcher, Main. 
BELDING DAVID, r 39, farmer ri2. 
Belding Erank I., r 39, farmer, son of David. 
Berno Edwin, (Gouldsville) r 42, farmer 75. 
Berno Frank, ofif r 36, farmer, leases of Nathan Spaulding, of Burlington, 

about 200. 
Berno Fred, (Gouldsville) r 41, farmer about 160. 
Berno Nolber, (Gouldsville) olT r 40, farmer 80. 
Bisbee Elijah W., r 38, 1,500 sugar trees, 20 cows, farmer 230. 
Bisbee John C, r 38, farmer, son of Elijah W. 
Boutwell Betsey, (Montpelier) r 22, farm 12. 
Boyce Levi, laborer, h Main. 

Brown Charlie J., (Montpelier) r 32, (Joseph M. Brown & Son). 
Brown Joseph M., (Montpelier) r n, (Joseph M. Brown & Son). 
Brown Joseph M. & Son, (Montpelier) r 33, (Charlie J.) props, saw-mill and 

planing-tnill, farmers 100, and timber lot 4^0. 
Brownson Augustus C, (Middlesex) r 11, carpenter and joiner, 15 cows, 

farmer 220. 
Bruce Duane O., r 39, 1,000 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 155, and in Fay- 

ston 27^. 
Bruce Omri S., laborer, h Main. 

Bulkeley Frank, r 38, 16 cows, farmer, leases of Harry about 300. 
Bulkeley George, assistant town clerk. 
Bulkeley George VV., r 38, stock dealer, and farmer 65. 
BULKELEY HARRY, r 17, town agent, farmer 900, and in Illinois and 

Iowa 300. 
Callahan Patrick, off r 23, farmer about 100. 
Cannon Matthias, (Gouldsville) r 44, farmer about 100. 
Carigan John, (Montpelier) r 34, farmer 140. 
Carleton George S., (Waterbury) r 3, farmer r20. 
Carroll John, (Northfield) r 41, farmer about 100. 
Casey Thomas, (Middlesex) r 8, carpenter and selectman, 200 sugar trees, 

7 cows, farmer 84. 



144 TOWN OF MORETOWN. 



Cassian Michael, (Gouldsville) r 43, farmer 200. 

CENTRAL HOUSE, B. N. & D. S. Phillips, props., livery connected. 

CHAPMAN GEORGE S., (MontpeHer) r ^^, with his son Perley A., prop, 
saw-mill, farmer about 80. 

CHAPMAN PERLEY A., (Montpelier) r ^^, farmer, son of George S. 

Chase Wyram, (Middlesex) r 13, 10 cows, farmer 150. 

Chatterton Vern, (Gouldsville) r 42, farmer 79. 

Child Abner C, r ig, 400 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 120. 

CHILD HENRY F., r 24 cor. 25, carpenter and joiner, h and lot. 

Child Leon A, r 26 cor. 18, lister and farmer, son of Roswell. 

Child Merril R., r 26 cor. 18, farmer, son of Roswell. 

Child Roswell, r 26 cor. 18, grand juror, 25 cows, farmer 300. 

Child Udin P., r 26 cor. 18, supt. of schools and farmer, son of Roswell. 

Church Henry, r 28, laborer. 

Clark Ai, (Gouldsville) r 40, cooper and farmer 85. 

Clark Ezra, r 38, sawyer. 

Collins Daniel, (Middlesex) r 7, farmer 75. 

Converse Joseph R.. (Middlesex) r 10, 20 cow^s, and farmer. 

Converse Julius, (Middlesex) r ir, farmer, son of Joseph R. 

Conway Michael, r 15, farmer 100. 

Cook John, (Montpelier) r 22, farmer about 150. 

Cook John, Jr., (Montpelier) r 2r, farmer.. 

Costello Michael, r 36, farmer about 60. 

Crane Peter, (Montpelier) r i r, 25 cows, farmer about 400. 

Dale Charles H., r 37, manager of grist-mill for H. O. Ward, farmer about 2. 

Daniels Frank, (Montpelier) r ^;^, laborer. 

Davis John C, off r 15, farmer 100. 

D.AVIS JULIUS D , minuf. of and dealer in tinware, and dealer in stoves 
and general hardware. 

Davis Myron C, general blacksmith, Main. 

Delary Eleazer, (Gouldsville) off r 42, farmer. 

Densmore Uriah S., (Middlesex) off r 8, farmer, leases of Patrick Kerrine, of 
Waterbury, about 200. 

Donly Michael, (Northfield) r 41, farmer about 100. 

Eagan John, off r 14, farmer, leases of C. R. McElroy 257. 

EATON O. G. & CO., (O. M.) dealers in stoves, tinware, glassware, hard- 
wate. ready-mixed paints and agricultural implements, Main. [Removed 
to VVaitsfield.] 

EATON OSCAR G., (O. G. Eaton & Co.) Main. [Removed to VVaitsfield.] 

Edgerly John S., (Middlesex) r g, farmer with Betsey Smith 15. 

Egan John W., r 29, selectman. 

Evans Frank, traveling salesman. 

Evans George C, 20 cows, 1,500 sugar trees, farmer 174, Main. 

Evans Goin B., customs officer at Richford, Franklin Co. 

Farnham John, (Middlesex) r 18, farmer about 150. 

Farrar Henry, (Middlesex) r 3, 12 cows, farmer about 130. 

Farrell Patrick, ( Montpelier j r 34, farmer go. 

Fielders Minor M., r 24, farmer, leases of Alt'red Smith, of Huntington, Chit- 
tenden county, 250. 

Flanagan John S., off r 36, farmer with Timothy VV. 

Flanagan Julia, widow of William, Main. 

Flanagan Timothy W., off r 36, 1,200 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 200. 

Flanigan John, r 37, farm laborer. 



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Fletcher George M., postmaster, general merchant and farmer loo, Main. 

Flinn James, r i6, farmer 55. 

Flinn Luke (VVaterbury) r 6, farmer about 60. 

Foley Catherine, off r 17, widow of Thomas, farmer 100. 

Foley Will E., off r 17, farmer. 

Foran Michael, resident, off Main. 

Foster Calvin W., r 15. 

FOSTER CHARLES A., (Middlesex) r 3, 15 cows, farmer 130 

Foster Edwin A., (Middlesex) r 19, farmer 175. 

Foster Henry VV., r 15, farmer, son of Calvin W. 

Freeman Charles H., r 27, farmer 30. 

Freeman Denison F., farmer, h Main. 

Freeman Melvin L., general blacksmith and repairer, Main. 

French Carlos W., (VVaterbury) r i, laborer. 

Gillett Martin A., (Parker & Gillett) Main. 

Goodwin James, r 6, 24 cows, farmer about 200. 

(roodwin William H., r 6, farmer 50, and in Duxbury 50. 

Goss Aaron, off r 36, farmer 175. 

Goss Philip, rig, farmer 150. 

Grandfield Mortimer J., (VVaterbury) r 6, 25 cows, farmer 250. 

Grandfield Thomas R.. (Waterbury) r 6, 25 cows, farmer 250. 

Griffith Franklin D., r 27, farmer 65. 

Hackett James, (Montpelier) r 22, farmer about 50. 

Harrington Leonard, resident, Main. 

Harrington Oscar A., carpenter, joiner, millwright and painter. Main. 

Hart Jerome P., (Waterbury) r 3, farmer no. 

Haseltine Ebenezer, (VVaterbury) r 3, 8 cows, farmer 140. 

Haseltine Holden E., (Waterbury) r 3, farmer with Ebenezer. 

Haseltine W^alter, (VVaterbury) r 3, carpenter and farmer 45. 

Haselton Albert H., (Waterbury) r 3, carpenter and joiner, 10 cows, farmer 

I, and leases of William Deavitt, of Waterbury, 130. 
Hastings Sidney B., (Middlesex) r £o, farmer 23. 
Hathaway Charles J., r 25, farmer 120. 
Hathaway Frank L , farmer with Hiram 80, Main. 
Hathaway Hiram, farmer with Frank L. 80. 
HAYLETT JAMES, town clerk and representative, homeo. physician and 

surgeon, Main. 
HEATH EPHRAIM A., att'y and counselor at law, pension and claim 

agent, Main. 
Heath Laura, (Waterbury) r 6, widow of Moses B. 
Heaton Horace, (VVaterbury) r r, mason. 
Hedges Ezekiel, (Gouldsville) r 42, farmer 10. 
Hennesey Bartholomew, r 16, 1,000 sugar trees, 300 apple trees, breeder of 

Hambletonian and Lambert horses, 6 cows, farmer t6o. 
HERIMAN JAMES, r 27, manager H. O. Ward's box factory. 
Hill Irvin W., r 27, codper and farmer 10. 
Hill Irving, emp. C. A. Stevens. 
Hill Wilbur, emp. C. A. Stevens. 
Hill William, r 27, cooper. 

Hodge Cassius C, (Middlesex) r 10, 10 cows, farmer go. 
Holden Horace, (Middlesex) r 7, emp. B. Barrett cS: Son, of Waterbury. 
Holden Rufus C., (Middlesex) r 7, 7 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 120. 
HOLT DAVTD C, r 27, surveyor, 8 cows, farmer 80. 
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146 TOWN OF MORETOWN. 



Holt Lester A., r 27, student, son of David C. 

Holt Orrin C, r 27, dealer in horses, farmer no. 

Honan John, (Middlesex) off r 13, 12 cows, 900 sugar trees, farmer about 160. 

Honan John F., (Middlesex) off r 13, farmer. 

Howes Frank A., r 24, 400 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 128. 

HOWES GEORGE, r 26, farmer 15. 

Hutchins Solomon, r 17, 15 cows, farmer 200. 

JOSLYN EUGENE E., carpenter and joiner, farmer 30, Main. 

Kelley James, (Montpelier) r 23, farmer. 

Kerrin Austin, (Middlesex) r 12, farmer 60. 

Kew Charles E., watch and clock repairer. Main. 

Kew James, laborer, Main. 

Keyes Chancey, (Montpelier) r 33, farmer. 

Keyes Frank F., (Montpelier) farmer. 

Keyes Samuel, (Montpelier) r 33, farmer 25. 

Keyes Sylvanus, (Montpelier) r 32, farmer 80. 

Knapp Joseph H., (Middlesex) r 10, 400 sugar trees, 25 cows, farmer about 

275- 

Kough John, (Montpelier) off r 30, farmer. 

Laferty James, r 26, farmer. 

Lagasse Lewis, (Waterbury) r 6, farmer, leases of G. E. Moody about 135; 

Lanphere Walter, town treasurer, and farmer, Main. 

Lee James, r 36, farmer about 100. 

Lee Peter, r 36, farmer. 

Leland Rufus, (Middlesex) r 10, farmer, son of William. 

Leland William, (Middlesex) r 10, farmer 50. 

Long John S., (Middlesex) r 13, farmer 200. 

Lovejoy Albert E., (Lovejoy & Towle) farmer 6, Main. 

Lovejoy &: Towle, (Albert E. L. and Philo T.) undertakers and carriage- 
makers, Main. 

Lynch Jane H., (Montpelier) r 34, widow of Michael, farmer 140. 

Lynch John, (Montpelier) r 34, farmer on the estate of Patrick 214. 

Lynch Timothy M., (Montpelier) r 34, farmer. 

Mackin James, (Middlesex) r 5, 15 cows, farmer, leases of Clesson R. Mc- 
Elroy 300. 

Marron Thomas, (Waterbury) r 6, farmer 50. 

Marshall Alzina, r 39, widow of Nathaniel R., farm 3. 

Mayo Barnabas, r 24, 600 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer 250. 

McCarty Catherine, r 36, farm 75. 

McCarty Charles, r 36, 10 cows, farmer 75. 

McCarty Thomas W., r 36, farmer with Charles. 

McDonnal William, r 25, farmer 12. 

McElroy Clesson R., (Middlesex) r 13, farmer 900. 

McNaulty Ann, (Montpelier) off r 31, widow of Hugh. 

McNaulty Edward, (Montpelier) r 31, laborer. 

Mead George H., (Middlesex) r 12, farmer 130. 

Mead Harriet, (Middlesex) r 14, widow of Benjamin F. 

Mead Silas O., (Middlesex) r 10, wheelwright, farmer 130. 

Mins Thomas, (Waterbury) r 3, farmer 5. 

Morris John, (Gouldsville) r 42, farmer 100. 

Moulton Stedman D., r 28, shoemaker and dealer in hides. 

Murphy Andrew, (Montpelier) r ^;i, farmer, leases of William B. McElroy, of 
Middlesex, about 150. 



TOWN OF MORETOWN. 147 



Murphy Johanna, off r 36, widow of Timothy, farmer about 75. 

Murphy Joseph, off r 36, farmer. 

Murphy Lawrence, off r 36, farmer. 

MURRAY ANDREW, r 17, breeder of Durham cattle and Hambletonian 

horses, 30 cows, farmer 425. 
MURRAY FRED H., r 17, farmer, son of Andrew. 
MURRAY GEORGE E., r 17, grand juror and farmer, son of Andrew. 
MURRAY JOHN B., r 17, constable and farmer, son of Andrew. 
MURRAY WILL D., r 17, farmer, son of Andrew. 
Naylor Charles D., (Middlesex) r 9, resident. 
Nerney Michael, r 37, 20 cows, farmer about 200. 
Nerney Thomas, r 37, farmer, son of Michael. 
Newell Oliver, (Montpelier) r ^;^, farmer about 30. 
Newhall Charlie S., (Middlesex) r 10, farmer 30. 
Newhall Joseph, (Middlesex) r 10, prop, saw and cider-mill, farmer 80, and 

in Stowe, Lamoille county, 260. 
Nichols John D., (Waterbury) r 3, farmer, leases of Freeman Hadley of 

Plainf\eld, N. H., 120. 
O'Neil John, (Middlesex) r 12, farmer, son of William. 
O'Neil VViUiam, (Middlesex) r 12, farmer 200. 
PALMER JONATHAN H., (Middlesex) r 14, breeder of ^Durham cattle, 

13 cows, farmer 222. 
Parker Freeman, (Parker & Gillett) ist selectman, farmer 75, Main. 
Parker George F., farmer, son of Freeman, Main. 
Parker & Gillett, (Freeman P. and Martin A. G.) props, saw and planing- 

mill, manufs. of coarse lumber, shingles, etc., turning, planing and jig 

sawing, Main. 
PHILLIPS B. N. & D. S., props. Central House and Hvery. 
PHILLIPS BERTRAM N., (B. N. & D. S. Phillips) farmer in Duxbury 130. 
PHILLIPS DOW S., (B. N. & D. S. Phillips) clerk, h Main. 
Pierce Alvin M., r ^8, 7 cows, farmer 160. 
Pierce Edward A., r38, teacher and farmer, son of Alvin M. 
Pierce Lewis S., laborer. Main. 
Poor Maria Miss, (Waterbury) r 1, resident. 
Powers Amelia, (Middlesex) r 8, widow of Isaac, farmer 10. 
Prentiss Austin G., r 17. deputy sheriff, farmer 48. 
Prentiss Mary E., widow of A. A., farmer about 50, Main. 
Provost L. L. J., (Waterbury) r 3, physician. 
Reed Liba, (Middlesex) off r 10, farmer 65. 
Reynolds James, (Waterbury) r 6, farmer about 75. 

Rhodes , (Montpelier) r 22, laborer. 

Rice Joel, (Waterbury) r i, resident. 

Rich David, (Gouldsville) r 44. 

Rich Silas, (Gcjuldsville) off r 42, farmer 30. 

ROBINSON I. D. & SON, (N. Bertie) props, saw and grist-mill, manufs. 

of coarse lumber, shingles and chair stock, Robinson & Son's combined 

roller, seeder and harrow, wheelbarrows, wagon jacks, etc., patentees and 

manufs. of Vermont hand grass seed sower, and patent adjustable sap 

yokes, farmers 2, Main. 
ROBINSON ISAAC D., (I. D. Robinson & Son) h Main. 
ROBINSON N. BERTIE, (I. D. Robinson & Son) h Main. 
Royce William H., r 19, 8 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 120. 
Royce William J., r 19, farmer, son of William H. 



148 TOWN OF MORETOWN. 



Russell William, (Middlesex) r 13, sawyer, 250 sugar trees, farmer 65. 

Ryan James, Jr., (Gouldsville) r 44, son of James, farmer 140. 

Sawyer Frank H., r 17, farmer, son of Russell. 

Sawyer Joseph H., manuf. of and dealer in harnesses and horse furnishing 

goods, Main. 
Sawyer Plumea (Mrs. Frank H.) dressmaker, Main. 
Sawyer Russell, r 17, 12 cows, farmer 84. 
Sawyer William, farmer 50. 
Seaver Silas H., r 25. laborer. 
Shautell Lewis, (Middlesex) r 13, farmer 8. 
Sheplee Wilbur W., (VVaterbury) r 3, 12 cows, farmer 120. 
SHONNIO CHANCY S., (Waterbury) r 14, farmer in Duxbury 2. 
Shonnio Gardner, (Middlesex) r 8, farmer. 
Silloway David C, (Montpelier) r 22, carpenter. 
Silver William, (Montpelier) r 22, farmer about 40. 
Sleeper Andrew, (Montpelier) off r 34, farmer 130. 
Sleeper Benton, (Gouldsville) r 44, farmer 80. 
Sleeper Gilman, (Northfield) r 40, farmer 300. 
Sleeper Gilman G., 800 sugar trees, farmer 150. 
Sleeper James O., (Northfield) r 40, farmer. 
Sleeper Squire, (Gouldsville) r 44, farmer about 120. 
Smith Betsey Miss, (Middlesex) r 9, farmer with John Sedgerly 15. 
Smith Frank E., (Gouldsville) r 35, farmer. 

Smith Lucius P., (Northfield) r 42, farmer, leases of William 80. 
Smith William, (Northfield) r 41, farmer 300. 

Somers Frank W., (Middlesex) r 13, 10 cows, 800 sugar trees, farmer 150. 
Somerville Thomas, laborer, Main. 

Spaulding Christopher, r 37, 12 cows, 1,400 sugar trees, farmer about 150. 
Spaulding Franklin E., general blacksmith, Main. 
Spear Martin R., r 37, farmer 2. 
STEVENS CHARLES A., r 17 cor. 15, prop, butter tub factory, saw and 

cider-mill, manuf. of coarse lumber, butter tubs, stone, boat or drag plank, 

and cider, farmer 5. 
Stewart Curtis S., (Waterbury) r 6, 10 cows, farmer 108. 
Stewart John, (Middlesex) r 14, farmer, leases of Henry Murray 150. 
Strong Luana Miss, resident. Main. 
Son Charlie, r 35, farmer 30. 

Taplin George A., (Middlesex) r 11, farmer, son of Hartwell L. 
Taplin Hartwell L., (Middlesex) r ri, 20 cows, farmer 360. 
Taylor Mary, widow of Michael, Main. 
Thomas Ernest, r 24, farmer 3. 
Thomas Ernest S., r 24, carpenter and farmer i^. 
Thomas Franklin B., r 14, farmer 100. 

THOMAS JESSE E., (Middlesex) r 11, farmer, son of Norman H. 
THOMAS NORMAN H., (Middlesex) r 1 1, stone mason, 5 cows, farmer 75 
Thornton George A., carpenter and joiner, farmer 3, Main. 
Towle Jessie J.^ crayon artist. Main. 
Towle John C., carpenter and joiner, farmer 20, Main. 
Towle Philo, (Lovejoy & Towle) h Main. 
Town Emery, (Middlesex) r 3, carpenter, and farmer 60. 
Town Henry B., (Middlesex) r 3, farmer with Emery. 
Travers James, off r 13, farmer, leases of Clesson R. McElroy 160. 
Travers John, (Waterbury) r 2, laborer. 



TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 149 



Travers Robert, (Waterbury) r 5, farmer 40. 

Tubbs Andrew J., teamster, Main. 

VAN DEUSEN HOMER G., [Allen & VanDeusen). 

Ward Hiram O., (Waterbury) r 37, prop, grist-mill and box factory, dealer in 

flour and feed, resides in Duxbury. 
Ward Thomas, r 35, farmer with William. 
Ward Willjam, r 35, farmer 142. 
Warren Asa, (Middlesex) r g, laborer. 

Warren Ellen M., (Montpelier) r 20, widow of Lorenzo, farmer 38. 
Welch Dennis, (Gouldsville) r 43, farmer 16. 
Wells Robert, (Gouldsville) r 42, farmer 2. 
Whittlesey Calvin B., off r 15, carpenter. 
Wilcox Launes, general merchant, Main. 
Willey Albert, (Montpelier) r 33, farmer 28. 
Willey Jesse W, (Montpelier) r 30, farmer, leases of Abijah Herring, of 

Massachusetts. 
Willey Joseph, (Montpelier) r 33, farmer 30. 
Willey Nelson, (Montpelier) r 32, farmer 75. 
Willey Orvis, (Montpelier) r 22, laborer. 
Willey Ralph, r 17, farmer, leases of Solomon Hutchins 150. 
Willey William H., (Montpelier) r 33, laborer. 
Winters Thomas, (^Montpelier) off r 34, farmer no. 
Wright Samuel, (Middlesex) resident, aged 87. 



NORTHFIELD. 

(For explanations, etc., see page t^, part second.) 

(Postoffice address is Northfield, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Abbott Frankhn L., blacksmith and laborer, h Pleasant. 

Abbott George W., farmer 75. 

Abbott Josiah L., undertaker, dealer in coffins, etc., 8 Paine block, h Central. 

Abbott Lemira A. Miss, carpet weaver, h Union. 

Abbott Lydia, widow of Lucius H., aged 86, h Union. 

Adams Caleb, emp. C. V. R. R., bds. Pleasant. 

Adams Carrie L., widow of Charles, nurse, h Union. 

Adams David B., (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen-mill, h and lot. 

Adams Frank, laborer. 

Adams George W., farmer 5. 

Adams John P., farmer 68. 

Adams Olive C, tailoress for J. H. Talbot & Co., bds. Main. 

Adams Pamelia, r 30, resides with A. J. Loveland. 

Adams Romalia, widow of Loren, h Cross. 

Adams Roswell, laborer. 

Adams William C, laborer. 

Ahern EUeft, (S. Northfield) r 42, widow of William, owns farm. 

Ahem Kate, (S. Northfield) r 42, farm 70. 



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Aldrich Charles W., r 8, lumberman, 6 cows, 7 head other cattle, 5 horses, 

200 sugar trees, farmer 80, timberland 150. 
Aldrich Eunice H., r 8 n 9, widow of Artemas, resident, aged 70. 
Aldrich George W., r 8, retired farmer, with Charles W. 
Allen Chloe Miss, (Gouldsville) resides with William. 
Allen Diantha, widow, h Elm. 
Allen Jesse K., stonecutter, h Vine. 

Allen John W., (Gouldsville) off r 3 n railroad, farmer 75. 
ALLEN M. C. Miss, (Gouldsville) weaver. 
ALLEN WILLIAM H., (Gouldsville) off r 3, retired farmer, aged 83; 

resides on the farm settled by his father, Ithamar, in 1803. 
Amidon George, laborer. 

Amidon Lucinda M., r 25, (Mrs. Marshall) owns farm 15, and woodland 40. 
Amsden Charles J., farmer, leases of W. C. Briggs 200. 
Amsden Fred E., r 16, laborer. 

Amsden Mary H., r 16, widow of R. Marcellus, h and 5 acres. 
Andrews Abial F., (Gouldsville) 2d selectman, dealer in dry goods, crockery, 

glassware, boots, shoes, provisions, groceries, etc. 
Andrews Charles E., jeweler, dealer in clocks, watches and jewelry, Emerson 

block, h off Main. 
Andrews David F., (Gouldsville) supt. of J. W. Gould's woolen-mill. 
Andrews George L., (Gouldsville) foreman spinner in woolen-mill, bds. with 

David F. 
ANDREWS GILBERT R., r 33, agent for Pillsbury's flour, prop, grist and 
saw- mill, wheelwright and blacksmith shop, lumber manuf., dealer in 
watches, apiarist 20 colonies, farmer 87, timberland in Waitsfield 221, 
and occupies Simond's estate 45. 
Andrews Lucina, resident, h Elm. 
Andrews Richard, retired farmer, aged 91, owns h and 2 acres Main. 

[Deceased.] 
Andrews Robert, (Gouldsville) retired factory overseer. 
Andrews Samuel P., r iS, farmer 75, aged 73. 
Annis George N., r 9, peddler, h and lot. 
Austin Adelbert, laborer. 
Austin George, laborer, h Wall cor. Pleasant. 
Austin Julius T., carpenter and joiner, owns farm in Hancock, Addison Co., 

10, h Central. 
Austin Martha, widow of Chester R., h Elm. 
Averill David T., insurance agent, h and 2 acres Highland ave. 
Averill Edward, brakeman, bds. Center. 

Averill George S., passenger conductor C. V. R. R., h Central. 
Averill Henry, r 25, 7 cows, 14 Shropshire sheep, 300 sugar trees, farmer 125. 
Averill John S., baggage master C. V. R. R., h and lot Center. 
Averill Roland, retired blacksmith, aged 74, h Main. 
Avery George, r 15, son of Lewis W. 

AVERY HOTEL, L. W. Avery, prop., livery connected. Main. 
Averv Israel, r 15, resident. 

AVERY LEWIS W., r 15, breeder of Hambletonian, Mambrino, American 
Star, Lambert and Draco Prince horses, 13 head, Plymouth Rock fowls, 
prop. Avery Hotel and livery, farm 53. 
Avery Lydia A. Mrs., resident, h Slate ave. 
Bacon Frank E., formerly of Bacon & Houston, h School. 
Badger Angle E., teacher, graduate of Northfield High school, bds. Vine. 



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Badger Ellen E., teacher 42 terms, bds. with Mrs. Sarah A. Williams. 

Badger George K., fireman C. V. R. R., bds. Vine. 

BADGER L. MALANCIE, widow of Charlton R., resident, h Vine. 

Bailey George H., (S. Northfield) r 44, farmer. 

Baker Abbie, widow of Willis F., h Central. 

Baker Joseph, (S. Northfield) miller. 

Balch Alma A. Miss, resident, h Cross. 

BALCH ZILPHA, (Gouldsville) widow of William D., resident, aged 72, h 

and lot. 
Bancroft Charles A., customs house officer, h Central. 
Bard Mary E. Mrs., (Gouldsville) weaver in woolen-mill, bds. with F. L. 

Hutchins. 
Barker Hopson, farmer, leases of Lucretia Guild 17, h Center. 
Barnett Burt G., farmer for F. Kimball, and owns in Moretown farm 68. 
Barry David, section hand, h n Railroad. 
BATES GILBERT C, car inspector and repairer C. V. R. R., h Cross cor. 

School. 
Bates Louisa M., widow of Orin, resides with Gilbert C, aged 71. 
Battles Edward B., laborer, Center. 
Bayer Mariette E., widow of Joseph, h and lot at the Center, n corporation 

line. 
Bean H. Irving, son of Henry D. 

Bean Henry D., machinist, millwright and engineer, h off Pearl. 
Bean William R., carriage and sign painter, East, h Vine. 
Beard Charles F., machinist, h Water. 

Beard Ira Rev., superannuated M. E. clergyman, h School, 
BELKNAP PERLEY, retired founder and machine manuf., owns foundry, 

machine shop, factory, and 100 acres, in Moretown 100, and h and 15 

acres in Berlin, aged 8r, h N. Main. 
BELL ALEXANDER, pensioner, served in ist Vt. Cav., and in Co. K, 4th 

Vt. Vols., through the war, aged 70, h Wall. 
Bell John J., (Gouldsville) r 3, farmer, leases of H. W. Thresher 65. 
Bellinger Lyle F., professor of civil engineering and architecture in Norwich 

university. 
BEMIS JEREMIAH W. Rev., M. E. clergyman 41 years, retired, h and lot 

Slate ave. 
Benedict Charles M., (Gouldsville) carpenter and joiner, served in Co. F, 5th 

N. Y. Vols., 3 years. 
Benson Charles, r 20, (William & Charles Benson). 
Benson William, r 20, (William & Charles Benson). 
Benson William & Charles, r 20, farmers 195. 
Bereau Isadore, laborer. 
BERRY JEREMIAH, (Gouldsville) manuf. of fire kindlers, disabled soldier, 

served in Go's A and B, 69th N.Y.Vols., and had right shoulder shattered 

at Spottsylvania. 
Bixby Gertrude L., widow of John O., canvasser, bds. Vine. 
Blake Bert E., r 9, laborer. 
Blake Asahel, r 9, pensioner, h and lot. 
Blake Charles F., r 9, retired farmer 5, aged 75. 
Blake Fred A., r 9, farmer, h and 2 acres. 
Blake Ruel, r 9, farmer, occupies 2 acres. 
Blake William A., village trustee, dealer in groceries, provisions, candies, 

cigars, etc., Eagle block, h Central. 



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Bliss Lucinda, widow of George, resident, h Summer. 

Blodgett Hiram A., freiglit conductor C. V. R. R., h North. 

Blodgett O. Frank^ off r 9, farmer 50. 

Blood Mary Mrs., resident, h Central. 

Blood William, laborer, h Wall. 

Boardman Angustus, (S. Northfield) r 43, farmer 50. 

Boardman David, farmer 100. 

Boardman David A., r 23, 25 head cattle, 50 sheep, 300 sugar trees, 200 

apple trees, farmer 190. 
Boland Maurice, laborer, aged 70, h Pleasant. 
Booth Ernest V., teacher, bds. School 

Booth Isaac P. Rev., pastor Universalist church, supt. of schools and prin- 
cipal of graded school, h School. 
Bowman Sarah P., resides with Sylvester. 
Bowman Sylvester, r 8, farmer 150. 
BOYNTON LAURA A., widow of Capt. WiUiam H., resident, h Vine n 

Railroad. 
Boynton William M., brakeman C. V. R. R., resides with Mrs. L. A. 
BRADFORD PHILANDER D., A. M., Ph. D.. physician and surgeon, 

aged 75, professor of anatomy and physiology in Norwich university, has 

practiced in Northfield since 1854, and served as surgeon of the 5th Vt. 

Vols., h Vine. 
Braley Ellen M., widow of George, h Water cor. Wall. 
Braman Dewilt C., (Gouldsville) shoemaker. 
Brelivet J. Rev., pastor St. John's Roman Catholic church, h Vine. 
Briggs Charles H., fireman C. V. R. R., h Vine. 
Briggs Gertrude L, teacher, bds. Center. 
Briggs Harvey N., r 28 n 59, 6 cows, farmer, owns with Lucy 160, and in 

Roxbury 50. 
Briggs Horace B., farmer 7^, h at the Center. 
Briggs Lucy Miss, r 28 n 29, resides with Harvey N. 
Briggs Nellie H., teacher, bds. Center. 

Briggs Warren C, (S. Northfield) general blacksmith, farm 115. 
Brigham Eftie F., (Roxbury) off r ;^;^, dressmaker. 
BRIGHAM GEORGE \V., (Roxbury) r 33 n3o, apiarist 42 colonies, Italian 

bees, and farmer with William B, 
BRIGHAM WILLIAM B., (Roxbury) r 33 n 30, 5 head cattle, 200 sugar 

trees, farmer 80. 
Brill Charles C, A. M.. supt. and professor of chemistry, physics and natural 

sciences at Norwich university, bds. Northfield House. 
Brooks James P., r 21, farmer with T. S. 
BROOKS JOSIAH P., mechanic, emp. C. H. Newell, served in Co. F, 

1 2th Vt. Vols., owns h and i acre and 40 fruit trees Pleasant. 
Brooks T. Spencer, r 21, formerly merchant, 14 head cattle, about 68 sheep, 

600 sugar trees, farmer 200. 
Brooks T. Spencer, Jr., laborer. 

Brown Albert Harleigh, (Gouldsville) harnessmaker, h, shop and lot. 
Brown Alice M., teacher, bds with Denison. 

Brown Cyrus, retired manuf. and lawyer, aged 76, h Summer cor. Pleasant. 
Brown Denison, retired farmer, owns farm in Williamstown, Orange Co., 300, 

h Main. 
Brown Ellen L., teacher, bds. with Denison. 
Brown Fannie A., teacher, bds. with Denison. 



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Brown Francis H., laborer. 

Brown Halsey R., (Smith & Brown) director Northfield National bank, re- 
tired merchant, h and g acres Main. 

Brown Herbert H., farm laborer. 

Brown Lucina, resident, bds. Main. 

Brown R. E., farmer, leases of W. D. Plastridge 400. 

Brunell Frank, section hand C. V. R. R.,h off N. Main. 

Buck Arthur C, (Berlin) r 13, farmer with Bradley. 

Buck Bradley, (Berlin) r 13, 12 cows, 15 head other cattle, 2,000 sugartrees, 
farmer 200, aged 73. 

Buck Henry H., r 24 cor. 20, laborer. 

Buck James H., (Berlin) r 13, farmer with Bradley. 

Bugbee Harriet, widow of Alanson, h Main. 

Burdoe Lillian L., (Gouldsville) carder in woolen factory, bds. atButterfield's. 

Burdoe Peter, r 18, stone mason and farmer 80. 

Burke Ellen, widow of John, h n Railroad. 

Burnham Ann M., (S. Northfield) r 44, widow of Aaron M., resides with Mrs. 
D. H. Shaw. 

Burnham Harris, (Gouldsville) farmer 90. 

Bush Peter, laborer, h N. Main. 

Bush Truman L., r 8, farmer for Mrs. E. Peabody. 

Butterfield Ellen B., (Gouldsville) widow of Edwin, resides with John R. 

Butterfield George D., (Roxbury) r 32, fireman C. V. R. R. R. 

Butterfield James, (Roxbury) r 32 n 33, emp. railroad, and farmer, leases farm 
of George 5. 

BUTTERFIELD JOHN R., (Gouldsville) finisher in woolen factory. 

Butterfield Miriam (Roxbury) r 32 n 33, widow of James, aged 83, pensioner 
of the War of 1812. 

Butterfield Miriam H. Miss, (Roxbury) r 32, resident. 

Butterfield Ruth H., (Gouldsville) (Mrs. J. R.) prop, boarding-house. 

Buzzell Charles M., r 5, farmer about no. 

Buzzell James M., locomotive engineer C. V. R. R., h Traverse. 

Cady George W., blacksmith, h North. 

Cady J. Calvin, retired farmer, bank director, and owns 75 acres land, h 
Vine. 

Cady Joseph C, (Gouldsville) retired locomotive engineer and farmer 22. 

Cady Leonard, emp. C. V. R. R., h and lot Elm. 

Campbell Eugene E., night agent at R. R. station, bds. Central. 

Cannan Patrick, laborer, h Summer. 

Cannan Patrick VV.^ laborer, h Pleasant. 

Carey Mary, h Main. 

Carpenter Betsey, widow of Heman, h School. 

Carpenter Eugene, r 8, 6 cows, farmer 100. 

Carpenter Frank N., barber and hair-dresser, dealer in cigars and prop, of bil- 
liard hall. Eagle block, h Union. 

Carpenter Philura, widow of Roswell, aged 74, resides with A. Pearsons. 

Carroll Edwin R., h School. 

Case Alfred L., brick mason and plasterer, h Pearl. 

Case Ida A., dressmaker, bds. Pearl. 

CASS GEORGE W., (Gouldsville) finisher in woolen factory. 

Cass Theophilus G., (Gouldsville) retired stone mason, aged 83, owns 10 acres 
land. 



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Catlin Edward H., ist lieut. 2d. Art., U. S. A., and professor military science 

at Norwich university, h Slate ave. 
CHANDLER CHARLES W., (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen-mill, h and 

lot ; born in Strafiford, Orange Co., in 1846. 
CHASE ALBERT C, violinist, carriagemaker, manuf. of carriages and 

sleighs to order, hearse building a specialty. East opp. depot, h Pearl. 
Chase Alfred O, wheelwright and painter. Main, h Prospect. 
Chase Frank W., r 31 cor. 22, farmer with C. A. Tracy. 
Churchill Charles, r 4, son of Henry P. 
Churchill Henry P., r 4, farmer 100. 

Claflin William H. H., carpenter, contractor and builder, h North. 
Claggett Clifton, retired physician, aged 83, h at the Center. 
Claggett William Clayton, formerly dry goods dealer in Montreal, owns farm 

10, h at the Center. 
Clancy Alice B., tailoress, bds. Pleasant. 
Clancy Thomas P., resident, aged 73, h Pleasant. 
Clapp Samuel C, r 8, farmer, leases of J. M. Emerson 53. 
Clark Alden L., off r 8, farmer about 100. 
Clark George W., truckman, h Main. 
CLARK ISRAEL B., (Gouldsville) resident, h and lot, served in Co. H, nth 

Vt. Vols., three years, and lost a limb at Winchester. 
Clark John, (Gouldsville) r 3, farmer 75. 
Clark Oren B., (Gouldsville) retired farmer, aged 82. 
Clark Royal W., off r 39, selectman, justice of the peace and farmer 150. 
Clough Ellen L., r 2, housekeeper. 
Clough Henry A., r 2, farmer with Henry H. 
Clough Henry H., r 2 n town line, aged 72, farmer 104. 
Clough M. James, dealer in lumber, wood and live stock, farm in Roxbury 

300, h Main. 
Clurey John, r 16, resident, aged 75, h and 10 acres. 
Cobleigh Addie E., (S. Northfield) teacher. 
Cobleigh Martin, (S. Northfieldj manuf. of sash, doors and bUnds, h, shop and 

3 acres. 
COBUR>f BENJAMIN F., house painter, served in Co. K, 7th, and Co. C, 

ist Vt. Cav., h Pleasant cor. Wall. 
Coburn James M., (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen factory. 
Coburn Washington, house painter and paper hanger, aged 71, h Summer 

opp. Pleasant. 
Coburn William H., laborer, bds. with B. F. 
Cochrane Edmund W., (Gouldsville) jeweler by trade, disabled veteran, h 

and lot. 
Cochrane Stephen, retired tailor, aged 87, h Center. 
COFRIN CHARLES H., expressman and truckman, n freight depot, h 

Pleasant. 
COFRIN GEORGE R., r 26, farmer with D. W. Hadley, and owns 14 acres. 
Cofrin James R., farmer, h Center. 

Colby Elhanan W., blacksmith and horseshoer. East, h and 2 acres Vine. 
Colby Sarah A., widow of Jonathan E., resident, h and lot Center. 
Collins Bartholomew, section foreman C. V. R. R., h n Railroad. 
Collins James, emp. C. V. R. R. 

ColUns Michael, (S. Northfield) r 42, 8 cows, farmer 100. 
Connell Barney, laborer, h North. 
Connell James, emp. C. V. R. R., h North. 



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Connell Jane B,, (Mrs. Bernard) h North Branch. 

Converse Addie B., widow of B. Clark, resident, h Slate ave. 

Conway John, section hand C. V. R. R., h n Railroad. 

Cook Arthur C, r ^^^, carpenter. 

Cook Charles H., r 33I, laborer. 

Cook David A., (Gouldsville) r 3, carpenter and joiner, h and lot in Barre, 

bds. with L. Rich. 
COOK FREDERICK N., (Gouldsville) foreman finisher in woolen factory, 

leader of Northfield cornet band. 
Cook Julia, (Gouldsville) widow of William, weaver in woolen factory. 
Cook Ogilvia S., r t^^^, stone mason and farmer 50. 
Corbelle Frank, farmer 150. 
Corcoran Michael, (Gouldsville) farmer 150. 
Cotter John, erap. railroad. 

Cotter William, conductor of butter train C. V. R. R., h Union. 
Crane George H., pres. Northfield Savings bank, and dealer in dry goods, 

Central block, h Main. 
Crane Lizzie S., saleslady for George H., bds. Main. 
Crawford George L , r 29, 8 cows, farmer 116. 
■Crawford Sarah, widow of John G., owns h and lot at the Center, aged 77, 

resides with George L. 
Cressy Lydia A.. (Gouldsville) r 3, weaver, aged 64. 
Cressy Pardon B., (Gouldsville) r 3, farmer 4. 
Cressy Sophronia L., (Gouldsville) r 3, carpet weaver. 

Crocker Louisa M., widow of Amasa, owns with Laura Kelsey h and 11 acres. 
Cross Albert S., (Gouldsville) 6 cows, farmer 160. 
Cross Ernest L., (Gouldsville) farmer with Albert S. 
Cross Herbert N., (Gouldsville) student at Norwich university, bds. with 

Albert S. 
Culver Chandler T.. r 5, farmer, leases of E. Porter 225. 
Culver Henry A., (Roxbury) r 32 n 31, farmer 25. 
Currier Ira P., laborer. 
Curtis Mary M., (Mrs. S. H.) dressmaker. 

Curtis Simeon H., yard foreman and car repairer C. V. R. R., h Cross. 
Cushman Will F., commercial traveler, h Central. 
Cutler Aaron P., mechanic, h Union. 
CUTLER HARVEY M., r 9 n 8, prop, saw-mill, manuf. of rough and 

dressed lumber and shingles, practical millwright and carpenter, h and 

7 acres, served in ist Vt. Bat. nearly 3 years. 
Cutler Laura A., (Mrs. F. H. Dwight) resident, h Traverse. 
Cutting Harvey I., lumber manuf, h Main cor. Slate ave. 
Dana James M., retired printer, aged 75, h N. Main. 
Dane Jane S., widow of John M., resident, h Vine n Railroad. 
DAVENPORT EDWIN, r 27, farmer 18, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols., 

3 years. [Deceased.] 
Davenport George E., r 27, farmer, and emp. railroad, son of Edwin. 
Davenport H. C, farm laborer. 
Davenport Spencer T., r 27, farmer. 

Davis Charles M., student in Boston University Law school, son of John P. 
Davis Frank, (Gouldsville) second hand in woolen factory, bds. at Butter- 
field's. 
Davis Harriet N., widow of Horace A., resident, h Pearl cor. Vine. 
Davis Horace VV., bridge carpenter C. V. R. R., h Union cor. Traverse. 



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Davis John C, brick mason, h Pleasant. 

Davis John P., trustee of pubHc money, general merchant, dealer in farm 
implements and fertilizers, agent for Buckeye mowers, Thomas & Bullard 
tedders, Tiger, Royal, National and Taylor No. 4 hay rakes, Kemp 
manure spreaders, etc., owns farm 10, in Roxbury timberland 22, in 
Brookfield, Orange Co., farm 130, h at the Center. 

Davis Joseph R., blacksmith, carriage ironer and repairer. East, h and lot 
School. 

Davis Lucinda, r 33^^ cor. 30, widow of Serel C. 

Davis Orris O , town grand juror, deputy sheriff, physician and surgeon, 
gra<iuate Dartmouth Medical college, class of '64, breeder of and dealer 
in fine horses, owns farm 400, h Vine. 

Davis Pascal P., r 15, laborer, h and lot. 

Davis William M., supt. of Northfield Aqueduct Co., farmer, h Pearl. 

Denison Catharine, (Mrs. J. J.) owns pasture land 15. 

Denison Jerome J., r 15, job teamster, and farmer 12. 

Denny Addison O., clerk for Andrew E. 

Denny Andrew E., dealer in groceries and hardware, general manager of 
Northfield Black Slate Co., Central block, h Main. 

DENNY BURTON A., (S. Northfield) r 38, (George Denny & Son). 

DENNY CHAUNCEY, retired merchant, h Prospect cor. Highland ave. 

Denny David, (S. Northfield) r 38, farmer, h and lot. 

DENNY FARM, (S. Northfield) r 38 n 37, George Denny & Son, props., 
350 acres. 

DENNY GEORGE, (S. Northfield) r 38 n 37, (George Denny & Son) lister, 
agent for Ferguson & Hopkins's water heater, owns farm in Williams- 
town, Orange Co., 100. 

Denny George H., (S. Northfield) blacksmith, wheelwright, carpenter, and 
farmer, owns on r 38 farm 30. 

DENNY GEORGE & SON, (S. Northfield) r 38 n 37, (Burton A.) 
breeder of high grade Jersey cattle, 37 head, r8 cows, 30 sheep, 7 
horses, 7 pure Berkshire swine, 500 sugar trees, props. Denny farm 
250, settled by David Denny about 1793. 

Denny Henry S., (S. Northfield) r 38, graduate Norwich university. 

Denny Homer, r 27, 20 grade Jersey cows, 14 head young cattle, 500 sugar 
trees, farmer 220. 

DENNY JOSEPH, retired farmer, 130 sheep, 40 head cattle, owns 180 off 
r 9, 120 on r 27, 100 off r 26, in Roxbury 140, owns one-half of Cen- 
tral block, h and lot on Central St., resides Slate ave. 

Derby Dan M., r 45, farmer with Marvin 158. 

Derby Marvin, r 45, 12 grade Holstein cows, 10 head young cattle, farmer 
with Dan M. 158. 

Derey Joseph, r 5 n 2, carpenter, aged 85. 

Dewey Erastus K., (S. Northfield) retired farmer, aged 80, h and lot. 

Dewey Roswell, express messenger White River Junction to St. Albans, h Main. 

Doheny James, emp. C. V. R. R., h and lot King. 

Dolan Margaret, widow of James, resident, h King. 

Dolan Patrick, emp. C. V. R. R., h King. 

DOLE CHARLES, town representative for 17 years, professor of political 
economy and history in Norwich university, general agent for Northern 
Vermont and New Hampshire for Bowker's fertilizers, 15 grade Jersey 
cows, 6 head other cattle, 400 sugar trees, 400 fruit trees, i^ acres of 
strawberries, one-half acre of black raspberries, h and 5 acres at the 
Center, woodland 11, and leases of Mrs. C. S. farm 190. 



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Dole French M., off r 26, 8 cows, breeder of horses, 6 head, farmer about 100. 
Dole George M., r 26, brick mason and plasterer, resides with Samuel. 
DOLE JASON E., r 28 n 26, mason and plasterer, 8 cows, 4 head young 

cattle, 350 sugar trees, 200 apple trees, farmer 165 
Dole Samuel, r 26, 500 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Donahue Jeremiah C, r 11, farmer 100. 
Donahue John, resident, aged over 70, h Summer. 
Donahue Roger, r 20 cor. 23, farmer 130. 
Donahue Timothy, farmer, aged about 70, h Summer. 
Dooley Agnes M., organist St. John's church, bds. Water. 
Dooley Ellen, widow of Martin, h and lot Water. 
Doty Andrew, farmer, h and lot. 
Downing Arthur E., barber and dealer in guns, over Nichols's drug store, h 

Central. 
DOWNING FRED B., crayon artist, and dealer in antique clocks with 

William P., h Center. 
Downing William P., retired merchant and dealer in antique clocks, h and 

lot Center. 
Doyle John, brakeman C. V. R. R., h King. 
Doyle Morgan, laborer, h n railroad, off N. Main. 
Duggan Jeremiah, r 6, farmer v.'ith John 225. 

Duggan John, r 6, farmer with Jeremiah 125, in Waitsfield woodland 100. 
Duggan Patrick, r 6, 17 cows, 13 head young cattle, farmer 200. 
Duke Charles S., barber with A. E. Downing, bds. Pleasant. 
Dumas John P., (Gouldsville) finisher in woolen-mill, bds. with L. Green- 
wood. 
Dunsmoor Arthur W., r 30 n 23, farmer with Walter H. 
Dunsmoor Edwin R., off r 23, farmer 100. 

Dunsmoor H. Hazen, (Gouldsville) railroad conductor, h and i^ acres. 
Dunsmoor Hiram, (Gouldsville) farmer 32. 
DUNSMOOR WALTER H., r 30 n 23, 12 cattle, 4 horses, 400 sugar trees, 

50 apple trees, farmer 30, and 80 on r 22. 
Dunsmoor Willard F., r 21, farmer 88. 
Dunsmoor Willie E., r 23 cor. 22, lister, district collector, 6 cows, 50 sheep, 

5 Morgan and Hambletonian horses, 250 sugar trees, 300 apple trees, 

farmer 160. 
Duphany Seelim, (S. Northfield) farmer 200. 
Durkee S. P., retired, h Main. 
DUTTON CHARLES H., (Gouldsville) finisher in woolen factory, owns in 

Berlin farm 100, served in 3d Vt. Bat. 
Dutton Fred W., (Dutton & Richmond) h Main. 
Dutton & Richmond, (Fred W. D. and Carlos S. R.) dealers in dry goods, 

ladies' garments and shawls, groceries, boots, shoes, jewelry, silverware, 

flour, feed, etc.. Central block. 
Dyke Frederick C, r 22, farmer, leases of Mrs. Levina A. 60. 
DYKE LEVINA A., r 22, widow of Daniel D., owns farm 90. 
Dyke Samuel J., r 22, farmer with Levina A. 
Eastman Frank J., carpenter, h Cross. 
EASTMAN RHODOLPHUS T., wheelwright, served in Co. C, 15th Vt. 

Vols., h and shop at the Center. 
Eaton Henry K., (Gouldsville) farmer about 10. 
Eaton Herbert J., (Gouldsville) clerk for A. F. Andrews. 
Eaton Maria M., (Gouldsville) (Mrs. H. K.) dressmaker. 



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EDGERTON C. D., notary public, att'y at law and real estate agent, h 
Main. 

Edgerton Charles A., vice-pres. Northfield National bank, h Main. 

Edgerton Charles A., Jr., cashier Northfield National bank, notary public, 
agent Northwestern Life Insurance Co., of Milwaukee, VVis., h Main. 

Edgerton Orvis D., general merchant, owns farms 100, Union block. 

Edgerton William, laborer, bds. Summer. 

Edwards George K., r 24, 7 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 82. 

Edwards Lucia M., widow of Gideon, resident, h Main. 

Egerton Emily L., (Mrs. Joseph K.) assistant town clerk, h Main. 

EGERTON JOSEPH K., notary public, town auditor, town clerk, dealer in 
wool, life, fire and accident insurance agent, sec'y Masonic Relief Asso- 
ciation of Vermont, sec'y of Odd Fellows' Relief Association, sec'y 
Northfield Improvement Co., and pres. Elm wood Cemetery Association, 
dealer in wood, owns in Stockbridge, VVindsorCo., 20 acres land. Main, 
h do. 

Eggleston Lavina F. Miss, seamstress, h Union. 

Elliott Thomas, r 33^, 20 head cattle, 50 sheep, farmer 100. 

Elliott Thomas W., r 33^, farmer with Thomas. 

Emerson George H., r 36, farmer 196. 

Emerson James M , tinsmith and farmer 50, bds with S. King. 

Emerson Samuel O., r 9, cooper and farmer 12. 

Evans James, janitor Norwich university, h Central. 

Evans Oscar A., emp. G. W. Tillotson, bds. Main. 

FARNH AM NELSON, farmer, served in Co. D, 12th Vt. Vols., h Union. 

Farnsworth Calvin, r 26 cor. 18, 10 grade Jersey cows, dealer in live stock, 
farmer 1 14. 

Farrar Lyman F., agent for proprietary medicines, h Vine. 

FELCH WALLACE, r 6 n 7, 12 cows, 20 head other cattle, 50 sheep, 5 
horses^ farmer 275, served in Co. C, 15th Vt. Vols. 

Ferris Henry, night baggageman C. V. R. R. station, h Central cor. South. 

Field Dana D., cooper, h and lot Elm. 

FIELD MOSES L., r i, manuf. of and dealer in Palmer horse hoes, 8a 
sheep, 200 sugar trees, farmer 230. 

FIELD WALDO S., r i, son of Moses L. 

Field Wesley O., r i, poultry grower for J. Beals-, of N. Ashburnham, Mass. 

Finn David, off r 2, resident. 

FISHER GEORGE H., (S. Northfield)r 44n 38, carriagemaker and manuf. 
of shingles, general jobber, owns shoo, h and 15 acres, commissary ser- 
geant of Co. F, N. E. G. 

Fisk Etta, (S. Northfield) farmer 200. 

Fisk Frances L., r 23, widow of Elliot C, farm 200, resides with D. A. Board- 
man. 

Fisk George M.. att'y at law, owns slate quarries 250 acres, timberland in 
Granville. Addison Co., 100, in Moretown 50, and owns Northfield 
Hotel, h Main. [Deceased.] 

Fisk Jane E., widow of George M., resident, h Main. 

Fisk Keziah, widow of Samuel, aged 90, resides with F. S. Newton. 

Fisk Martha A., teacher and compositor, bds. Vine. 

Fisk William J., r 5, farmer 80. 

Flanders Jacob, aged 75, resident, h Elm. 

Fletcher James C, prop. Northfield House, livery and billiard room con- 
nected. Main. 



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Flood Nicholas, section hand C. V. R. R., h n Railroad. 
Ford Arzo B., ofif r 5. farm laborer tor Amos Plastridge. 
Ford Fremont R., (Gouldsville) wool sorter at factory, bds. at Butterfield's. 
Forsyth W. J., laborer. 

Foster Ann M., widow of Lorenzo D., dealer in ladies' fancy goods. Cen- 
tral, h do. 
Foster L. D., laborer, bds. Main. 

Fowler Charles F., (Berlin) r 12, farmer, leases of Joel Simonds. 
Friend Frank, quarryman, h and lot King. 
Frost Willard VV., resident, h Central cor. South. 
Fuller Emeline B., widow of Alexander, h Water. 
Garvey William, farmer 50. 
Gay Joseph, blacksmith m Barre, h N. Main. 
GEORGE DAVID A., (S. Northfield) r 46 n 43, 8 cows, 5 head other cattle, 

300 sugar trees, farmer 180, aged 72. [Deceased.] * 

George Edward, (S. Northfield) farmer, h and lot. 
George Henry M., (S. Northfield) r 43, blacksmith, and prop, stock horse 

"Catell." 
GEORGE VERNIE P., (S. Northfield) r 46, farmer with David A. 
GERRY E. & CO., (Rev. Elbridgc G., of West Randolph, Orange Co., and 

Frank W. Sault) publishers and props. Northfield News, and job printers. 
Giffin Richard J., veteran soldier, served in Co. D, r3th Vt. Vols., h N. 

Main. 
Giffin R. W., laborer, bds. Main. 
Gilbert Peter, r 11, farmer about 140. 

Gilchrist Marcia E., (Marcia E. Gilchrist & Co.) widow of L. D., h Main. 
Gilchrist Marcia E. & Co., dealers in millinery and fancy goods. 
Gillespie Robert^ (Gouldsville) r 3 n R. R., repairer at woolen-mill, owns 

farm about 20. 
Glennon Thomas, (Gouldsville) farmer. 
Glennon Timothy, farm laborer. 
Glidden Erwin G., r 19, son of G. F., engineer. 
GLIDDEN GEORGE F., r 19 n 20, prop, steam saw mill, manuf. of rough 

and dressed lumber, shingles and clapboards, owns 28 acres land, and 

the Hiot Glidden farm 80. 
Glidden Herbert S., r 40 cor. 41, 16 cows, 90 sheep, farmer, leases the 

Moses Robinson farm 350. 
Gokey Charles C, blacksmith, Main, h and lot East. 
Gokey William H., emp. C. V. R. R., h Pleasant. 
Gold Corydon B., harnessmaker. and dealer in harnesses, whips, blankets, 

and horse furnishing goods, Stevens block n depot, h Wall. 
Gold Frank W., r 27, prop, of Dog River Valley fair grounds, supt. of Dog 

River Valley Fair Association, 500 sugar trees, 25 head cattle, 17 grade 

Jersey cows, farmer with William 250, and in Roxbury 25. 
Gold Joseph, r 35, aged 70, farmer 40. 
Gold William, r 27, aged 80, farmer with Frank W. 250, and in Roxbury 

100 
Gorman Patrick, slate quarryman, h n Railroad. 

Gosley Frank, general blacksmith. Main cor. Water, h Vine cor. Main. 
GOULD J. & SON, (Gouldsville) (Joseph, deceased, and Joseph W. Gould) 

props, woolen-mills and manufs. of white flannels, own 12 tenements 

and 50 acres land. 
GOULD JOSEPH W., (Gouldsville) (J. Gould & Son). 



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Gourley Genevieve Miss, h Traverse cor. School. 

Gourley Mary J. Miss, h Traverse cor. School. 

Grandfield Andrew, (Gouldsville) r 4, farmer 80. 

Grandfield Andrew, Jr., (Gouldsville) farmer. 

Grandfield Charles, (Gouldsville) emp. C. V. R. R. 

Grandfield William R., off r 30, farmer about no. 

GRANT EDWIN O., (Gouldsville) railroader and quarryman, bds. with 

L. Greenwood. 
Grant Norah, (Gouldsville) widow of Osamus, resident, h and lot. 
Graves Charles T., retired commercial traveler, h Summer. 
Graves John, book canvasser, aged 73, h Center. 
Greaney Jeremiah, clerk, bds. Northfield House. 
GREEN JOHN S., book-keeper and machinist, 10 cows, on r 36 farm 160, 

served 3 years in Co. B, 4th Vt. Vols. 
GREENWOOD JOHN L., (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen factory, bds. 

with C. H. Dutton. 
Greenwood Lewis, (Gouldsville) blacksmith and horseshoer ; born in St. 

Gregoire, Canada, in 1826, married Alma Rivers in November, 1858. 
GREENWOOD WILLIE G., (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen-mill,' bds. 

with Lewis. 
GREGG ELIZA J., widow of Robert M., resident, h and lot Summer cor. 

Pleasant. 
Gregg Frances A. Miss, resides with Mrs. E. J. 
Grow Solon P., shoemaker, Central block, h Vine. 
Guild Dan, r 15, 20 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer 90. 
HADLEY DAVID W., r 26, 9 cows, 7 head other cattle, 25 sheep, 200 

sugar trees, 200 fruit trees, farmer 210 ; born on his present farm in 1808. 
Ham Freeman, bridge carpenter C. V. R. R., bds. Pleasant. 
Hannon Michael, emp. C. V. R. R. 
Hardy H. Briggs, farmer, leases of H. H. Walling 30 pure and grade Holstein 

cows, 43 head of cattle and farm 300, h N. Main. 
Harrigan Timothy, section hand C. V. R. R., h and lot East. 
Harrington Julia, widow of Maurice, h Railroad. 
Harrington John, emp. C. V. R. R. 

Harris Frank I., general jobbing machinist, Paine factory, h North. 
HARRIS L. PAGE, manuf. of rough and dressed lumber, prop, grist-mill 

and dealer in grain and feed, Paine factory, h North. 
Hartwell Albert C, (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen factory. 
Harwood Clara E., teacher, bds. Union. 

Harwood Lewis C, (Gouldsville) night watchman in woolen factory. 
Harwood Samuel, laborer, h Union. 

Hassam Ferdinand, r 30 n 33, farmer with Mrs. Louisa 150. 
Hassam Louisa, r 30 n ;^^, widow of Lewis, resident, owns with Ferdinand 

farm 150. 
Hassam Nelson, r 9, carpenter and builder, owns in Roxbury farm 80. 
Hassett Divid, railroad man in the West, h Main. 
Hatch Stillman A., butcher, h North. 

Hathaway Mary, (Gouldsville) widow of Adoniram C, aged 71, h and lot. 
Hayden Chauncy L., r 14, 86 sheep, 4 horses, 150 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
HAZELTON JAMES H., agent for Morgan odorless cooker, butcher and 

farmer 70, h off Highland n slate quarry. 
Hazen William S. Rev., pastor Northfield Cong, church, pres. Northfield 

Library Association, h Main cor. Prospect. 



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Heath John, (Gouldsville) farmer 36. 

Hedges Elijah, laborer, h Center. 

Hedges James B., off r 5, carpenter, mason, and farmer 100. 

Hedges Marshall, farmer, h Union. 

Hendee Rosalyn, widow of George W., h School. 

HENRY ADDIE E., r 42, daughter of John. 

Henry John, r 42, 9 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 160. 

Hildreth Samuel M., (Roxbury) off r 32. farmer, aged 72. 

HILDRETH T. B. RANSOM, (Roxbury) off r 33, 7 cows, 8 head young 
cattle, farmer about 170, and timber lot in Roxbury. 

Hill Albert M., r 5, farmer 44. 

Hill Nathaniel, r 6, 40 head cattle, 45 sheep, Chester white swine, farmer 
about 400. 

Hill Rosina M. Mrs., r 5, resident, owns farm 5. 

Hitchcock Alonzo, superannuated M. E. clergyman, aged 74, h Central. 

HITT JESSE M., A. M., principal Northfield graded and High school, and 
sec'y Vermont State Teachers' Association, h Pearl. [Removed to. 
Boston, Mass.] 

Hodgdon John D., (S. Northfield) resident. 

Hodgdon Kent, laborer, h Pearl. 

Hogan Henry, (Gouldsville) wool scourer in factory. 

Hogan John, (Gouldsville) laborer. 

Hogan Michael, (Gouldsville) aged 86, resides with Henry. 

Hogan Stephen, r i n 6, farmer 80. 

Holden William W., (S. Northfield) r 15, town agent, breeder of high grade 
Jersey cattle, 20 head, 10 cows, 325 sugar trees, farmer 125 including 
slate quarry. 

Holdsworth Ellen, widow of William, h North. 

Holland Dennis, r 11, 7 cows, farmer 90. 

Holland John, emp. C. V. R. R. 

Holland John W., farm laborer. 

Holland Timothy, r 14, 20 head cattle, 90 sheep, 1,000 sugar trees, 

farmer 300. 
Holt David P., shoemaker, Union block, h Union. 
Holt Fred L., fireman C. V. R. R., h Traverse. 
Holton Albert W., farmer with Ira A. 
Holton Charles L., r 8, 9 cows and farmer 100. 
Holton Clara G., teacher. 
Holton Ira A., r 4 n 9, 20 cows, farmer 300. 
Holton William H., r 8, 12 cows, farmer 100. 
HOPKINS JOHN G., off r 9, farmer 120. 

Hopkins Marshall, retired farmer, aged 72, h and 2^ acres Center. 
HOPKINS MARY, (Mrs. John G.) 

Hornbrook John, (Gouldsville) r 3 n railroad, prop, saw-mill. 
Houghton Eunice E., widow of Jason D., resident, h Union. 
Houghton Julius, clerk for J. M. Temple, bds. Union. 
Houghton Louise M., teacher, bds. Union. 
Houston Aaron B., prop, boarding-house, Wall cor. Water. 
Houston Calvin J., r 5, farmer. 
Houston Charles H., r 5, farmer. 

HOUSTON FERDINAND J., manuf. of wire mattresses and spring beds, 
prop, grist and plaoing-miU, dealer in all kinds of feed, Eagle block, h 
n depot. 
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Houston Francis P., r 8, farmer. 

Houston Laura M., r 5, widow of Oscar A. 

Houston Nathaniel M., r 8, bds. with George K. Edwards. 

Houston T. Jefferson, carpenter, aged 71, h Union cor. Traverse. 

Howard Cyrus, resident, aged 71, h Elm. 

Howe Asa, professor of engineering and field work, owns woodland 5, graduate 

of Dartmouth Medical college, class of 1845, aged 72, h Center. 
HOWE ELHANAN W., (F. L. Howe & Co.) deputy sheriff, h Vine. 
HOWE F. L. & CO., (Elhanan W. Howe) manufs. and dealers in foreign 
and American marble monuments, headstones, urns, tablets, fonts, posts, 
borders, also Scotch and American granite monuments, borders, etc., 
Main. 
HOWE FRANK L., (F. L. Howe & Co.) h Vine. 
Howe T. Emmons, carpenter, h Central. 
Howes Augustus A., r 41, farmer over 300, partly in WiUiamstown, Orange 

Co. 
Howes Edward H., r 41, 12 cows, 3,000 sugar trees, prop, saw-mill, farmer 

320. 
Howes Maria M., dressmaker, h Main. 

HOWES RALPH W., r 41, student and farmer with Edward H. 
Howes Seymour, r 39, laborer for W. D. Tyler. 
Hughes Thomas O., slate quarryman, h Main. 
Hunt Edgar W.. farmer, bds. Summer. 
Hunt Frank, laborer. 
Hunt Frank W., farmer, bds. Summer. 
Hunt Nancy A., widow of Byron R., resident, h Summer. 
Huntley Erastus, dealer in novelties, paper hangings, etc., Main, h Slate ave. 

cor. Highland. 
Huntley Newcomb, dealer in stoves, tinware, copper, glass and wooden ware, 

Paine block, h Central. 
Hurley Alwilda Perno, (Mrs. John H.) teacher of penmanship and drawing, 

h and lot Vine. 
HURLEY C. FRANK, manager telephone office, dealer in flour, grain, feed, 

boots, shoes, groceries, patent medicines, etc., Northfield Falls. 
Hurley C. W., (Gouldsville) farmer 39. 

Hurley Cornelius C, clerk for C. Frank, bds. with Mrs. Daniel. 
Hurley Cornelius W., (Gouldsville) r 4 n 3, fireman C. V. R. R. 
Hurley Dan E., (Gouldsville). 
Hurley Daniel, (Gouldsville) roadmaster Mexican Central R. R., stationed 

at City of Mexico, h and lot. 
Hurley John H., marble and granite worker, h Vine. 
Hurley Mary, (Gouldsville) widow of John. 

Hurley Mary L., widow of Cornelius, h n railroad, Northfield Falls. 
Hutchins Fred L., (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen-mill. 
Hutchins Lewis S , (Gouldsville) postmaster, bds. with S. F. Thompson. 
Hutchinson A. Jackson, r 22, farmer 85. 
Ingalls C. H., (Gouldsville). 
Ingalls Edward, house painter, h Pearl. 
Ingalls L. D., (Gouldsville). 

Irish George N., r 15, physician and surgeon, h Central. 
Jabut Adolphus, laborer, h King. 
Jenks I. Newton, owns farms 150, h Main cor. South. 



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JEROME NETTIE, widow of John, who served in Co. B, loth, and Co. K, 
17th Vt. Vols., 2 3 ears, and died March 3. 1885, h and lot Pleasant. 

Johnson Augustine K., farmer 18, h Center. 

Johnson Daniel, physician and surgeon, graduate of Dartmouth college, 
class of '78, and Medical department, class of '81, Paine block, Pleas- 
ant, h do. 

Johnson Fayette F., supt. C. V. R. R. water works, h Central. 

Johnson James N., master in chancery, and attorney at law. Central block, 
h Central. 

Johnson John B., professor of mathematics in Norwich university, h Main. 

Johnson Rodney M., marble polisher, h Slate ave. 

Johnston James P , grocer and fishmonger, Union block, h Union. 

Johnston M. J., peddler, h Union. 

JONES EDWIN K., (S. Northfield) trustee Northfield Savings bank, pres. 
Masonic Relief Association of Vermont, retired merchant, 27 years in 
trade at S. Northfield, prop, carding-mill, owns 50 acres land, h and 25 
acres. 

Jones Fred A., (S. Northfield) postmaster, general merchant, and dealer m 
farm machinery, fertilizers, etc. 

Jones Henry, justice of the peace, 28 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, 200 fruit 
trees, farmer 600, h at the Center. 

JONES HENRY A., lister, breeder of Lambert horses, prop, of registered 
stallion "Sherman Lambert," No. 3986, owns farms and timberland 
200, h at the Center. 

Jones James, laborer, h Summer. 

Jones John W., (Jones & Jones) slatecutter, h and lot Prospect. 

Jones Lyman D., (Gouldsville) ofif r 10, 15 cows, 200 sugar trees, farmer 150. 

Jones Newell D., (Gouldsville) farmer with Lyman D. 

Jones William, farm laborer. 

Jones Wiliiam B., (Jones & Jones) quarrvman. bds. Main. 

Jones William H., bridge carpenter C. V. R R , h Pleasant. 

Jones William P., slatecutter, h Elm. 

Jones & Jones, (John W. and William B. ) lessees of Adams's slate quarry. 

Joyce William C, railroad engineer, and emp. L. P. Harris, h Main cor. 
Water. 

Judd Simon F.. dealer in groceries and West India goods, Emerson block, h 
Main. 

KATHAN CHARLES, r 39, 8 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer 150. 

Kathan Isaac, r 39, farmer, bds. with Charles. 

Kathan Levi, laborer, h Center. 

Kelley Edwin P., r 9, carpenter and farmer about 32. 

Kelley Patrick, farmer, leases of O. O. Davis 65, h n slate quarry, oft" High- 
land ave. 

Kelley William, farmer 5, aged 72. 

Kennedy Richard, r 9, section man C. V. R. R. 

Kent Bashie H., widow of John A., owns 20 acres land, h Slate ave. 

Kent Inez M., teacher, bds. Union. 

Kent Sanford H., town liquor agent, farmer, h Vine. 

Kenyon Helen M., assistant postmaster, bds. Main. 

Kenyon Henry L., postmaster, served in Co. F, 1st Vt., Co. C, 14th Vt., and 
Co. E, 5th Vt. Vols., h Main. 

Keyes Caroline M., widow of Harvey R., aged 84, h and lot Main. 



164 TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 



Kidder William J. Rev., superannuated M, E. clergyman, aged 78, h and lot 

Main. 
KIMBALL C. SUMNER, prop, meat market, dealer in fresh and salt meats, 

salt fish, fruits and vegetables, under Metcalf block, bds. School. 
Kimball Edson A., dealer in poultry and live stock, shipper of potatoes, h 

Main. 
Kimball Francis S., drover and farmer, h head of School. 
Kimball Genevieve F., r 8, (Mrs. William E.) resides with S. C. Clapp. 
Kimball Helen F., widow of Charles P., resident, h Central. 
KIMBALL SHERMAN, with C. S., h School. 
Kimball William E., r 29, laborer. 
King Daniel P., r 3, laborer. 

King George, off r 29, 7 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
King Moses, end of r 26, stock grower and farmer 120. 
King Nathaniel, (S. Northfield) r 43, 8 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 125. 
King Samuel D., laborer, h Union. 
Kingman Elvira, widow of Freeman, h Central. 
Kingston John, r 11, farmer with John, Jr. 
Kingston John, Jr., r 11, 12 cows, farmer 175. 
Kingston William, (S. Northfield) r 39, farmer 114. 
Kinsley Michael, r 11, 7 cows, farmer 114. 
Kinsley Thomas, r 11, farmer with his son Michael. 
Knapp Luther, blacksmith, h Pleasant. 
Lacoy Frank, laborer, h King. 

Ladd Alpa, (Goaldsville) widow of Jonathan T., aged 78. 
Ladd George W., farmer, h Central. 
Lafley Henry, laborer, h and lot East. 
LaForest George, farm laborer. 
Lamb Fred E., cadet. 

Lane Moses, retired farmer 10, aged 79. h Main. 
Langdon Anna C, music teacher, bds. Slate ave. 
Latham Almon, r 30, retired carpenter and farmer about 40. 
Latham Eh, r 24, formerly carpenter, farmer 16, aged 70. 
Lawton Alphonso H., r 33^ cor. 30, farmer with Willis D. 
Lawton Edgar E., r 33 cor. 30, laborer. 

LAWTON WILLIS D., r 33^ cor. 30, carpenter and farmer 98. 
LEAVITT SALLY, r 5 n 4, widow of Michael W., who served in the 

War of 1812, resident, aged 94. 
Lee Margaret, widow of Michael, h Water. 
Legier Edward, laborer. 

Legier John B., off r 25, farmer, leases of C. S. Richmond 125. 
Legier William, laborer. 

Lesser Caroline M. Miss, resident, bds. Pearl. 
Lesser Mary A., widow of Joseph, resident, aged 85, h Pearl. 
Lincoln Erie B., (S. Northfield) r 14, farmer. 
Line William, instructor in meteorology and military signaling in Norwich 

university, h Central. 
Locklin David M., (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen factory. 
LockUn HoUis A. L., (Gouldsville) quarryman. 
LOCKLIN LUVIA M., (Gouldsville) widow of Myron A.,", who served in 

Co. I, nth Vt. Vols., and died at Burhngton hospital of^wounds. 
Locklin Morris W., spinner in woolen factory, h Cemetery. 



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LOOMIS EDMUND A., (Berlin) r 12 cor. 13, apiarist ro colonies, and 

farmer with William H. 
Loomis Isadora A., (Berlin) r 13, widow of George B., resides with Bradley 

Buck. 
Loomis Jennie E., (Berlin) daughter of William H. 
Loomis Josie, (Berlin) r 12 cor. 13, (Mrs. Edmund A.) 
LOOMIS WILLIAM H., (Berlin) r 12 cor. 13, 18 cows, 9 head other cattle, 

30 sheep, 500 sugar trees, farmer 300. 
Loveland Andrew J., r 30, 6 cows, 16 head cattle, 200 apple trees, 300 sugar 

trees, farmer 171. 
Loveland Edd. L., farmer with Francis M. 
Loveland Francis M., off r 9, farmer, leases of O O. Davis 200, and owns 

farm 81. 
Loveland Josiah S., carpenter and builder, h Cross. 
Lunge Peter, farm laborer. 

Lyman David S., sexton Elmvvood cemetery, h Vine cor. Cross. 
Lynch John, emp. C. V. R. R. 
Lynch Pvlichael, r i, 45 sheep, 8 cows, farmer 200. 
MacGillivray Allan, off r 9, carpenter, and farmer 30. 
Madden Joseph, section hand C. V. R. R., h King. 
Malampy Patrick, emp. C. V. R. R. 
Marble Arthur O., painter, h Pearl. 
MARBLE JOSEPH D., (Gouldsville) spring bed raanuf., owns in Fayston 

70 acres, h and i acre at Northfield Falls, served in Co. D, 7th Wis. 

Vols., and lost a leg at the battle of Gainsville. 
Marsden Fred, (Gouldsville) emp. in woolen factory. 
Marsden George L., (Gouldsville) cloth-dresser in woolen factory. 
Marsden John, (Gouldsville) foreman of weaving room in woolen factory. 
Marsh Charlotte E., (S. Northfield) resident, seamstress. 
Marsh George A., r 43, farmer 60. 
Marsh Isabel A., (S. Northfield) r 43, (Mrs. George A.) owns in Brookfield, 

Orange Co., farm 44. 
Marsh Lovina Mrs., (S. Northfield) r ^^, resides with E. A. Reed, farm 50. 
Marsh M. Scott, machinist, h Cross cor. School. 
Marsh Oliver A., (S. Northfield) lumberman. 
Martin Frank J., assistant county clerk, h Main. 
Martin George A., (Gouldsville) laborer. 
Martin Heman A., farmer, h and lot Prospect. 
MARTIN NEWTON, (Gouldsville) 20 head cattle, 95 sheep, farmer 125, in 

Barre 1,400 sugar trees, farm 200, in Berlin farm 200, and in Sherburne, 

Rutland Co., 350, owns store and 3 houses in Gouldsville. 
Maxham Edwin A., truckman, h Water. 
Maxham Galen C, r 15, dealer and shipper of poultry, butter and produce, 

owns pasture land 23, served 2 years in the Mexican war in Co. D, 9th 

Regt. U. S. Inf. 
Maynard Amelia C, resident, h Main. 

Mayo George C, r 29 n 33^, 6 cows, 200 sugar trees, aged 75, farmer 140. 
MAYO WILLIAM B., homeo. physician and surgeon, town representative 

1884-88, h Main. 
McAulifife John, farmer with William. 

McAuliffe William, off r 6 opp. 7, 8 cows, 15 head other cattle, farmer 155. 
McCarthy Elizabeth, r 16, widow of Timothy, h and lot. 
McCarty Felix E., r 16, freight conductor C. V. R. R. 



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McCarty Jerry, r i6, section hand C. V. R. R. 
McCarty Charles, car tracer for C. V. R. R., h Main cor. Elm. 
McCarty Charles, 2d, emp. C. V. R. R., bds. Railroad. 
McCarty Daniel, conductor C. V. R. R., h Slate ave. 
McCarty Jeremiah, emp. C. V. R. R., h Railroad. 
McCarty John, resident, aged 84, h n Railroad. 
McCarty John, 2d, emp. C. V. R. R. 
McCarty Thomas, emp. C. V. R. R., h Railroad. 

I^IcClearn Matthew, (Northfield, and Boston, Mass.) analytical physician, resi- 
dent, h Slate ave., office 206 Tremontst., Boston. 
McGrath Daniel, owns h and lot Railroad. 
McGrath John, section foreman C. V. R. R., h Railroad. 
Mcintosh Reuben M., photographer, stereoscopic views a specialty, dealer 

in and manuf. of picture frames, Mcintosh block, h Central. 
McNamara Patrick, r 28, farmer 160. 

Mead Frank S., wheelwright and painter, Union n Main, h Central. 
Mehuron Horace, r 20 cor. 19, 10 cows, 40 sheep, farmer 160. 
MELVILLE MARTHA W., (Gouldsville) r 3, resident, widow of Hugh, 

who served in Co. K, ist R. I. Vols., and was killed in the first battle of 

Bull Run. 
Metcalf Martha J., widow of Aaron D., resident, h Union. 
Miles Edmund, farmer, h Pleasant. 
Miller Carlos E., r 8, farmer. 

Miller Charlie M., r 8, farmer, owns with Oscar O. 75. 
Miller Emma L., widow of Charles, h Lower Main. 
Miller George H., r 9 cor. 8, farmer 100. 
Miller Joseph, quarryman, h King. 
MILLER OSCAR O., r 8, justice of the peace, 6 horses, farmer 135, and 

with Charlie M. 75. 
Miller Russell H., r 9 cor. 8, farmer with George H., aged 74. 
MINOTT A. A. Dr., dentist, all kinds of dental work a specialty, over Dr. 

Nichols's drug store, h North. 
Montague Henry W., (Gouldsville) lumberman. 
Morfit Betsey, r 33^, owns farm 45, aged 75. 
Moriarty Frank J., clerk in Dr. Nichols's drug store, bds. Water. 
Moriarty John, slate quarryman, h and lot Water. 
Moriarty Patrick, resident, aged 85, bds. Water. 
Morris House, W. H. Morris, prop., livery connected, Central. 
Morris Peter, laborer, h Pleasant. 

Morris William H., prop. Morris House and livery stable. Central. 
Morse Albert Alonzo, milk dealer, 15 grade Jersey and Holstein cows, 260 

sugar trees, leases of I. N. Jenks farm about 100, owns h and lot in 

Waterbury. 
Morse Daniel J., clerk for C. Denny & Co., bds. Water. 
Morse James, r 27 n 35, breeder of pure Lambert horses, 4 head, 8 grade 

Jersey cows, farmer 100, and in Roxbury 40. 
Moseley John L., prop, meat market, Main, h School. 
MOULTON ANDREW J., (Gouldsville) r 3I, teamster for J. W. Gould, 

and farmer 35, served in Co. F, T2th Vt. Vols. 
Nelson Curtis W., r 29, manuf. of turned butter tubs, owns h, shop and lot. 
NEWELL CHARLES H.. manuf. of fork, hoe and broom handles, and 

chair stock, Paine factory, h Union. 
Newton Charles W., r 21, farmer 270. 



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Newton Franklin S., carpenter and joiner, h School cor. Traverse. 

Nichols George, M. D., pres. Northfield National bank, director of Clyde 

Banking Co., of Clyde, Kansas, and prop, drug store, Central block, h 

Main. 
Nichols Willie E., ticket, express, and telephone agent, baggage master and 

telegraph operator at railroad station, h Vine. 
Northfield Aqueduct Co., W. M. Davis, supt. 

Northfield House, James C. Fletcher, prop., livery connected, Main. 
Northfield Improvement Co., John L. Moseley, pres. ; Edwin K. Jones, treas. ; 

J. K. Egerton, sec'y. 
Northfield National Bank, George Nichols, pres. ; C. A. Edgerton, vice-pres. ; 

C. A. Edgerton, Jr., cashier. Depot block. 
NORTHFIELD NEWS, E Gerry & Co., publishers and props., newspaper 

and job printing office, Main. 
Northfield Savings Bank, George H. Crane, pres. ; J. C. B. Thayer, treas. ; 

established 1869, Central square. 
Norwich University, military, scientific and classical school. Col. Charles H. 

Lewis, LL. D., of New York, pres.; Hon. George Nichols, acting pres.; 

P. D. Bradford, A. M., sec'y, south end of Central st. 
O'Brien Robert, emp. C. V. R. R. 
O'Connell James, quarryman, h Water. 
O'Day Jeremiah, farmer with Patrick. 
O'Day Patrick, r 11, 8 cows, farmer about 100. 
O'Grady John, laborer, bds. Vine. 
O'Grady Michael, r 11, 8 cows, farmer 1 13. 

O'Grady Thomas E., tailor for J. H. Talbot & Co., bds. Railroad. 
O'Grady Thomas, switchman C. V. R. R., h n Railroad. 
O'Grady Thomas, 2d, r 11, farmer with Michael. 
O'Neill Jeremiah, r 11, aged 70, 7 cows, farmer 125. 
O'Neill Timothy, r ir, farmer with Jeremiah. 
Orcutt Frank L., r 40, farmer with Stephen P. 
Orcutt Jasper H., road commissioner, h Main cor. Slate ave. 
Orcutt Stephen P., (S. Northfield) r 40, 15 head cattle, 600 sugar trees, 700 

apple trees, farmer 200. 
Ordway Charles, off r 29, aged about 75, resides with Will W. 
Ordway Will W., off r 29, 500 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Page Frank, farm laborer. 

PAINE ELLEN, widow of Robert, resident, h King. 
PAINE HANNAH Miss, weaver at Franklin Falls, N. H., daughter of 

Robert, h King. 
Paine Lucia A. Mrs., h and lot Main. 
Paine Nellie, housekeeper, h King. 
Parish Elisha, r 5 n 4, farmer. 
PARISH ELIZABETH J., r 5 n 4, widow of Philander, resident, aged 70, 

occupies 4 acres owned by Edna A. 
Parker Fred. (S. Northfield) off r 29, farmer 119. 

Parker William, (Gouldsville) r 4, retired farmer and teamster, aged 82. 
Patrick Alexander H., (Gouldsville) dresser in woolen-mill. 
Patrick John, (Gouldsville) weaver, second hand in woolen factory, h and 

10 acres. 
Patrick John W., (Gouldsville) weaver, son of John. 
Patterson Charles, hostler Northfield House. 
Patterson Thomas C, shoemaker, n depot, h Main. 



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Peabody Emeline, r 8, widow of James, owns farm 45. 

Peake George W., teamster, bds. Summer. 

Pearsons Amasa, switchman C. V. R. R., h Central. 

PEARSONS BETSEY ANN Miss, daughter of Leonard. 

PEARSONS LEONARD, stone mason and shoemaker, served in Co. I, 
nth Vt. Vols., h North. 

Pearsons Lucretia A., (Gouldsville) widow of Arthur, owns farm 9. 

PERKINS CHARLES H., chemist and pharmacist, manuf. and dealer in 
essences, etc., at retail, also practical grafter, h Cherry ave. 

PERKINS HIRAM H., (Berlin) r 14, carpenter and joiner, served in Co. 
E, 4th Vt. Vols., about 3 years. 

Perrin Thomas V., farmer with P. Belknap, owns mill in Berlin. 

PERVIER CHARLES L., r 9. student at law, teacher and carpenter. 

PERVIER ETTA F. Mrs., resident. 

Pervier William M., r 9, carpenter and joiner, breeder of pure Oxforddown 
sheep. 

Pierce Charles H., clerk for E. G., bds. Central. 

Pierce Elbridge G., dealer in groceries. Union block, h Central. 

Pike Angie, ladies' hair worker, resides with J. E. Dole. 

Pingree Mary E., widow of Moses O., h Main. 

PLASTRIDGE AMOS, farmer, owns 4 farms of 360 acres, 5 houses in vil- 
lage, and in Moretown farm 180, h Vine cor. North. 

Plastridge John, retired farmer, h Union. 

Plastridge Waldo S.. r 2, farmer. 

Plastridge Wallace A., r 4, farmer 150. 

Plastridge Walter J., r 2 cor. 1,10 cows, 10 head grade Holstein cattle, 8 
horses, farmer 235. 

Plastridge Willard C, r 9, farm 400. 

Plastridge Waldo S., farm J50. 

PLASTRIDGE WILLIAM D.,r 2, 25 grade Holstein cows, 14 head young 
cattle, 4 oxen, 300 sugar trees, farmer 335, and woodland in More- 
town 115. 

PLUMLEY FRANK, chairman of trustees of Northfield graded and High 
school, and chairman of village trustees, notary public, master in chan- 
cery, and att'y at law. Central block, h Pleasant. 

Plumley William, h Pleasant. 

Pollard Mary E., (Gouldsville) widow, resident. 

Poole Hyman V. R., job printer, h Union. 

Poole William L.. r 9, farmer, h and lot. 

POOR L. BAILEY, (S. Northfield) r 46, 7 cows, 4 horses, 300 sugar trees, 
farmer 140. 

Pope Edmund, retired farmer, owns 60 acres in Brookfield, Orange Co., 
aged 77. 

PORTER EDWIN, physician and surgeon, examining surgeon for life in- 
surance, dealer in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, fancy goods, tobacco, 
and cigars, owns farms 260, in Roxbury 200, in Moretown 40, and 6 
houses in Northfield village. Central block, h Central. 

Potter Joseph, farm laborer. 

PRATT EMMA C, r 23, (Mrs. Jackson J.) housekeeper for W. E. Duns- 
moor. 

PRATT GEORGE S., dealer in fine boots, shoes, arctics, rubbers, rubber 
boots, etc., for gentlemen's wear, with C. E. Reed, i Eagle block. 

Pratt Horace Rev., retired Cong, clergyman, h Union cor. Cross. 



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Pratt Mary E., compositor in News office, bds. Utiion. 

Preston Alonzo A., retired farmer, owns 5 acres, dwelling, store and 4 tene- 
ment houses. Union cor. Water, h Central. 
Preston Frank A., overseer of the poor and tax collector, h Central. 
Preston Oscar F., prop, of Northfield restaurant, and dealer in cigars, tobacco, 

etc., under Central block, h King. 
Prior W. S., cadet. 
Putney Lyman L., (S. Northfield) r 40, 7 cows, 12 head other cattle, 4 horses, 

200 apple trees, 300 sugar trees, farmer, occupies 150 acres owned by 

his son Edwin L. 
QUIMBY CHARLES E., (Gouldsville) passenger conductor C. V. R. R. 

19 years, breeder of pure White Leghorn, Light Brahma, Wyandotte, 

Silver Spangled, Hamburg, Silver Gray, Dorking and Plymouth Rock 

fowls, 100 head. 
Ralph Mary A., r 33:^ cor. 30, widow of David M., aged 73. 
Randall Fanny G., widow of Col. Francis V., h and lot Center. 
Randall George C, retired locomotive engineer, farm 17, h Water n Railroad. 
RANDALL PHIL S., student at law. graduate of Norwich university, class 

of '8fi. Center. 
REED AI M., (S. Northfield) r [5, 2 pure Jersey cows, 30 sheep, farmer, 

servedin Co. K, 7th Vt. Vols., i year, is O. M. of W. H. Boynton Post, 

G. A. R. 
Reed Charles C, farmer ic. 
REED CHARLES E., dealer in ready-made clothing and gents' furnishing 

goods, boots and shoes, i Eagle block, h Pleasant. 
Reed Elijah A., (S. Northfield) r 43, 8 head cattle, 200 sugar trees, farmer 90. 
Reed Freeman, r 27 n 15, farmer 2^, aged 76. 
Reed George D., (Berlin) r 14, laborer. 
Reed Herbert E., upholsterer, h and lot Central. 
Reed Mary M., widow of George M., tailoress, h Main. 
Reed Salma, (Berlin) r 14, widow of Thomas, owns farm 20. 
Relation Frank C, (S. Northfield) r 37 n 15, laborer. 
Rice A. K., off r 24, farmer 280. 
Rice Herbert B., fireman C. V. R. R., bds. Vine. 
Rice Joseph C, milk dealer, 30 cows, 64 head cattle, 40 sheep, 8 horses, 

farmer 600, and in Roxbury 250, h Vine. 
Rice Norman J., fireman C. V. R. R., bds. Vine. 

Rice Titus, r 31 cor. 22, retired farmer, aged 90, resides with C. A. Tracy. 
Rice Willard A., r 30, 8 head cattle, farmer 121. 
RICH ALDEN, (Gouldsville) farmer 50, h and lot in the village. 
Rich Alden Mrs. , (Gouldsville) dressmaker. 
Rich C. L., farm laborer. 
Rich Elmer W., mason, bds. Summer. 

RICH EMILY B., widow of Loyal C, resident, h Summer. 
Rich Eugenia and Anna, (Gouldsville) residents, h and lot. 
Rich Hollis L., (Gouldsville) carpenter and builder, farmer 21, served in Co. 

D, 2d Vt. Vols , over 3 years. 
Rich Jay, farm laborer. 

Rich Luther, (Gouldsville) r 3, carpenter and joiner, farmer 9. 
Rich Wealtha, (Gouldsville) widow of George, bds. with H. Church. 
Richardson Joseph B., carpenter and joiner, h Union cor. Pearl. 
Richmond Carlos S., (Dutton & Richmond) farm 125, h IMain. 



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Richmond Sophia K., widow of Samuel U., resident, owns with Carlos S. 

farm 125, h Main. 
Robbins Helen M. Mrs., resident, h Vine. 
Roberts Fanny E., (Roxbury) off r ^;^, widow of David C, aged 70, resides 

with F. H. 
ROBERTS FRANCIS H., (Roxbury) off r 33, 6 cows, 150 sugar trees, 

farmer 85. 
Robinson Jane, widow of Moses, owns farm 180, and pasture land 160, h 

Central. 
Rock Louis, blacksmith, h Pearl. 
ROGERS EUGENE VV., r 27, served in Co. E, 8th, and Co. E, 13th Vt. 

Vols., 3 years, leases h of F. W. Gold. 
Rogers Jeremiah, (Gouldsville) botanical physician, resides with Mrs. L. A. 

Pearsons. 
Rood Charles H., commercial traveler, bds. Center. 
Royce Albert H., (Gouldsville) laborer. 
Royce Lorette, (Gouldsville) widow of Elijah, h and lot. 
Rumrill M. B., farmer. 
Rumrill Winslow W., millwright, h North. 

Russ Hiram E., r 33, teamster and sawyer for G. R. Andrews. 
Russell Annis W., widow of Titus H., aged 77, h Elm. 
Russell Charles F., brick mason and plasterer, h Pleasant. 
Russell Polly D. Miss, dressmaker, h Elm. 
Russell William T., railroad bridge builder, h Elm. 
RYAN EDMOND, (Gouldsville) 10 cows, 25 head other cattle, 400 sugar 

trees, farmer 149. 
Ryan Edmond H.. (Gouldsville) student and farmer. 
Ryan James W., (Gouldsville) farmer with Edmond H. 
Ryan John, slater, h King. 

Ryan Maurice W., emp. in woolen factory, h Cemetery. 
Ryan Simon T., (Gouldsville) teacher and farmer. 

Sanborn Eben G., dealer in coal, shoes and West India goods, depot build- 
ing, h Central. 
Sanborn George C , notary public, clerk in Dr. Nichols's drug store, h Cen- 
tral. 
Sault Frank W., (E. Garry & Co.) business manager Northfield Neivs, bds. 

Central. 
Savage Sarah A., widow of Norman, resident. 
SAWYER CHARLES D., manuf. and dealer in marble monumental work,. 

Main, h do. 
Sawyer Fred K., (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen factory. 
Searles Charles, laborer. 
Severance J. Franklin, clerk for Dr. E. Porter, owns two houses and lots, h 

School cor. Cross. 
Severance Rhoda H., widow of Elijah, resident, h School cor. Cross. 
Shaw Aurin R., assistant in chemical laboratory and assistant U. S. signal' 

service observer, bds. Main. 
Shaw Charlotte S., (S. Northfield) r 44, widow of Alonzo, aged 72, resides on 

the Alonzo Shaw estate 92 acres. 
Shaw Demis H., (S. Northfield) r 44, widow of Ansel, owns farm about 20, 

resident, aged 81. 
Shaw Edward I., (S. Northfield) r 44, 7 cows, farmer on the Alonzo Shaw 

estate 92. 



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Shaw Ethan A., cadet. 

Shaw William A., graduate Norwich university. 

Shaw William O., (S. Northfield) r 44, farmer 117. 

Sheehan John F., emp. C. V. R. R. 

Sheldon Betsey P., widow of iMartin, h Slate cor. Highland ave. 

Sheldon Edola J., dressmaker, organist at M. E. church, bds. Slate ave. 

Shepard Wilbur E., clerk for C. Denny & Co., bds. Main. 

Sherman Phceba, resident, h Cross. 

Shontell Esther, widow of Augustus, h King. 

Shontell Leon, molder, h King. 

Shontell Mary M., (S. Northfield) r 44, widow of Leander, housekeeper, h 

King. 
SHORTRIDGE JOSFIUA B., manuf. of doors, sash, blinds and building 

finish, and general jobber, Paine factory, h Main cor. Water. 
Silsby Eben M., carpenter, aged 72, h Wall. 
Silsby Richard C, mechanic, h School. 
Silver John Q., tanner and farmer, h and lot Center. 
Silver Robert A., quarryman, h Center. 

Simonds Caroline P., r 33, widow of Asa S., resides with G. R. Andrews. 
Simonds Cornelius, cook and weaver, h East. 
SIMONDS JOEL, retired Christian preacher, farmer 225, and in Roxbury 

17, aged 70, h Center. 
Simons Martin W., (S. Northfield) farmer. 
SIMONS OLIVE F., (Gouldsville) widow of Marvin, resident, aged 82, 

owns farm 30. 
Simons Rufus, (S. Northfield) farmer, h and lot. 
Sinclair Zeniah M., widow of Asa C, resident, h Traverse. 
Slack James F., (Roxbury) r 33, resident. 
Slack William H. H., (Roxbury) r i;}, farmer with Alice M. 45, and in 

Washington, Orange Co., about 100. 
Slade Thomas, (S. Northfield) prop, grist-mill. 
Slade William, (S. Northfield) retired farmer, h and 20 acres. 
SMALLEY FREDERICK U., (Gouldsville) freight brakeman C. V. R. R., 

owns farm about 6. 
Smalley Mary C, (Gouldsville) widow of Azro L., resides with F. L. 

Hutchins. 
Smith Ai O., blacksmith at the Center, h Main. 
Smith Daniel B., r 25, farmer. 
Smith Edson D., h Pleasant. 
Smith Elizabeth Porter, widow of Dr. Bradley J., resident, owns farm 40, h 

Center. 
Smith Elkanah K., (Smith & Brown) tanner, h and 3 acres Main. 
Smith Fayette S., engineer C. V. R. R., bds. Vine. 
Smith Henry E., dealer in groceries, Union cor. Water, h Union. 
Smith Joel, (Roxbury) r 32, resides with J. W. WiHiams. 
Smith "juha S., (Gouldsville) widow of Aaron, weaver. 
SMITH LIZZIE C, (Mrs. M. G.) 
Smith Maria D. C, widow of Levi, nurse, h Wall. 
SMITH MARSHALL G., off" r 9, farmer. 
Smith Mary A., r 25, widow of Gilbert O. 

Smith Mary D., widow of Dr. Horace S., resides with D. Brown. 
SMITH MINNIE E., milliner, dealer m millinery and fancy goods, post- 

ofifice block, bds. Central. 



172 TOWN OF NORTHFIELD. 



Smith A. Orton, r 36, leases of E. K. Jones carding-mill. 

Smith Samuel, retired farmer, aged 83, h North Branch. 

Smith Vernon W., r 35 n Harlow bridge, general blacksmith, h and lot. 

Smith William H., n Harlow bridge, retired blacksmith, aged 75, farmer 

about 90. 
Smith Willie F., r 25, farmer. 

Smith & Brown, (Elkanah K. S. and H. R. B.) props, of tannery, Main. 
Snow Duran, (Gouldsville) r 3, farmer 38. 
Snow James D., harnessmaker and dealer in whips, robes and blankets, 12 

Paine block, h School. 
Snow Orpah M., widow of Otis, resident, h Pearl. 
Soper Edward L., h Central. 
Soper Eliza, widow, aged 82, h Pearl cor. School. 
SPAULDING ALFRED F., manuf. of force pumps, angular and upright 

drills, and general jobbing machinist, shop in old Paine factory, served 

as color bearer in Co. C, 15 Vt. Vols., h Central. 
Spaulding Hannah R.. widow of Lovewell, resident, h Central. 
Spaulding Lizzie I., artist, bds. Central. 
SPEARIN WILLIAM W., r sih farmer 17, served r year in Co. G, 6th 

Vt. Vols. 
Spillane Cornelius, farmer with Michael. 
Spillane Dennis, off r 6, son of Michael. 
Spillane Lawrence, r 5, farmer 37. 
Spillane Michael, off r 6 opp. 7, 10 cows, 24 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, 

farmer 350. 
Spillane Patrick, off r 2, farmer 150. 
Spillane Patrick, Jr., off r 2, farmer with Patrick, Sr. 
Spinney Lucy M., widow of James S., resident, h Water cor. Union. 
Stack John R., engineer C. V. R. R., h Central. 
Staples Orson A., (Roxbury) r 23, farmer with Solon P. 
Staples Solon P., (Roxbury) r 23, 10 cows, stock grower, 500 sugar trees, 200 

fruit trees, farmer 200, and in Roxbury 75. 
Stebbins Edwin S , resident, owns farm in Berlin, h Union cor. Cross. 
Stebbins Orson F., engineer C. V. R. R. 30 years, h North. 
Steele Clarence W., dental student. 
STEELE FREDERICK W., practical horse trainer, and farmer, served in 

Co. F, 1 2th Vt. Vols., h Center. 
Steele S. Warren, tin and coppersmith, dealer in stoves and hollow ware, 

glass, britannia, and wooden ware, lead pipe, etc., farm 15, 13 and 14 Paine 

block, h School. 
Stevens Albert, resident, aged 86, h Central. 
Stevens Delia A., widow of William N. 
Stevens Emeline B., widow of Caleb B., resident, h Vine. 
Stevens William W., (S. Northfield) r 37, manuf. of wood seat chairs and 

settees. 
Stevenson Margaret, (Gouldsville) widow of James, resident, aged 76. 
Stickney William O., (Berlin) r 14, 6 cows, farmer 100. 
Stone Edward R., retired stage driver, bds. Pearl. 

STONE ELLA F., (Mrs. Stephen H.) home in Almena, Norton Co., Kan. 
STONE WILLIAM, notary public, resident, disabled soldier, served in Co. 

C, 15th Vt. Vols, and 3d Vt. Bat., h Pearl. 
Stratton Melinda M., (S. Northfield) nurse, h and lot. 
Stratton Ortive, resident, aged 80, h Center. 



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Strong Philinda, widow of Asa, h Main. 

Sturtevant Origen M , (Gouldsville) r 3, farmer 30. 

Sullivan Joanna, widow of John, h Water. 

Sullivan Michael, slate worker, h and lot Center. 

Sylvester Amanda, widow of Seneca, h North Branch. 

Talbot J. H. & Co., (N. M. Draper, of West Randolph, Orange Co.) mer- 
chant tailors and sewing machine agents, Central. 

Talbot James H., (J. H. Talbot & Co.) h Water cor. Wall. 

Tashro Charles, (Roxbury)otf r 32, farmer, leases of John Bracket about 45. 

Temple John M., dealer in crockery, glassware, groceries, provisions, confec- 
tionery, tobacco and gunpowder, Metcalf block, h over Savings bank. 

Terrill W. E., cadet, bds. Central. 

Thayer Eber H., r 15, buyer and shipper of potatoes, butter, poultry, etc.,^ 
agent for the Walter A. Wood mowers and horse rakes, farmer 10. 

Thayer J. Carey B., treas. Northfield Savings bank, and village and district 
treas., h Central. 

Thayer Joseph, r 9, peddler, h and lot. 

Thomas Lydia Mrs., canvasser, bds. Union. 

Thompson Eliza, (Gouldsville) widow of James. 

Thompson Elwin E., printer, h Pearl. 

Thompson Eugene C, r 26, farmer, leases of C. Dole 15 cows, 400 sugar 
trees, and farm 140. 

Thompson John H., (Gouldsville) weaver in woolen factory. 

Thompson Moses L., r 8, farmer too. 

Thompson Robert, (Gouldsville) carder, second hand in woolen factory. 

Thompson Samuel F., (Gouldsville) carpenter and joiner, contractor and 
builder. 

Thresher Fred L., (Gouldsville) spinner in woolen factory. 

Thresher George, (Gouldsville) farmer, h and lot. 

Thresher Horace W., (Gouldsville) farmer 100, in Moretown 50, served in 
Co. I, nth Vt. Vols., 3 years. 

Thresher Lewis B., (Gouldsville) lalDorer. 

Thresher S. Hugh, truckman, bds. with WiUiam M. Davis. 

Thurston Ell O., notary public, dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, silver 
plated ware and optical goods, repairing and cleaning, Huntley block, h 
Cross. 

Tilden Charles B., agent for Warrior mowers, reapers, wheel harrows, horse 
rakes, and cultivators, 500 sugar trees, off r 29 farmer 160, h Main. 

TILLOTSON GEORGE W., manuf. of TiUotson's improved full gallon 
square syrup can, dealer in tin, copper, sheet iron, hollow and wooden 
ware, stoves, ranges, pumps, lead pipe, etc., under Eagle block, bds. 
Pearl. 

Townson Frank O., slate worker, h Union. 

Townson Fred E., slate worker, bds. Union. 

Townson Joseph W., stationary engineer, h Union. 

TRACY CHARLES A., r 31 cor. 22, 3d selectman, 10 cows, 48 sheep, 200 
apple trees, 600 sugar trees, farmer 200. 

Tyler Daniel, farmer 272, h and lot Main cor. Elm. 

Tyler Frank R., farmer. 

Tyler Nelson W., farmer. 

TYLER Wn^SON D., r 39, 15 cows, 8 head other cattle, 150 apple trees, 
600 sugar trees, farmer 450. 

Veo Edward, laborer, h King, 



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Veo Elie, laborer, h King. 

Veo Joseph, (S. Northfield) r 14. farmer, leases of Michael Grant 60. 

Wakefield Frances, tailoress for J. H. Talbot & Co., bds. Central. 

Wakefield Frank L., rig, farmer, son of Luther. 

Wakefield Joanna A., tailoress for J. H. Talbot & Co., h Central. 

Wakefield Luther, r 19, farmer 20. 

Wakefield Oa L., r 19, farmer, son of Luther. 

Wardner Mary E., (Roxbury) off r 33, widow of Amos. 

Wardner Ruth M., widow of Joseph F., resident, h Pleasant cor. Wall. 

Warriner Washington L., (S. Northfield) r 46 n 42, 200 sugar trees, farmer 
60, aged 53. 

Waterman George R., r ;^^-^, blacksmith, and farmer 65, served in Co. K, 
7th Vt. Vols., 3 years. 

Webb Alfred H. Rev., pastor M. E. church, h Main. 

Webster Arathusa B., (Gouldsville) widow of Benoni, resident, aged 77, h 
and lot. 

Webster Lucius C, farmer, bds. Center, 

Wheeler Edgar F., (Gouldsville) farmer, owns in Berlin timberland 50. 

Wheeler Nathan, (Gouldsville) farmer, aged 76. 

White Charles A., carpenter and upholsterer, h and lot Central. 

White Edward, h and lot King. 

White Edwin P., commercial traveler, h Central. 

White Homer Rev., pastor St. Mary's Episcopal church, and chaplain Nor- 
wich university, h Central. 

Whitmarsh Charles N., job printer, and dealer in stationery and fancy goods, 
News block, h School. 

Whitmarsh Wilson O., agent for pianos and organs for A. L. Bailey, of Bur- 
lington, h Main opp. Vine. 

WHITTAKER IRA F., off r 30, retired farmer aged 70, resides with Luther 
C, served in Co. C, 15th, and Co. I, nth Vt. Vols. [Deceased.] 

Whittaker Luther C, off r 30, 17 head cattle, 3 horses, 100 apple trees, 500 
sugar trees, farmer 200. 

WIGGINS LEWIS W., (Gouldsville) lumberman, farmer, owns in Middle- 
sex 72. 

Wiley Edward N., truckman, bds. Vine. 

Wiley Fielder C , (Roxbury) r 32, miller and sawyer for G. R. Andrews, resides 
with J. W. Williams. 

Wiley Harvey S., resident, aged 73, h Central. 

Wiley Malinda, (Roxbury) r 32, widow of James, resident, aged 77. 

Wiley Theodore A., station agent for C. V. R. R. 2 years and ticket agent 8 
years, h Main. 

Wiley W. Myron, (Roxbury) r 32, farmer 60. 

Wiley Walter J.. (Roxbury) r 32, farmer 30. 

Wiley William G., (Roxbury) r 32, 200 sugar trees, farmer 150. [Deceased.] 

Wilfore AUie, (Berlin) r 14, farmer, leases of Warren Lawrence 100. 

Willey Emma L., (Gouldsville) widow of Fred J., resident. 

Willey Frank, laborer. 

Willey Frank A., laborer. 

Willey John, carpenter and builder, h Water. 

Willey Louisa E., (Gouldsville) widow of William W., resident, h and lot. 

WILLIAMS ALICE P., r 8, carpet and linen weaver, resides with Mrs. E. 
Peabody. 

Williams Alonzo L., r 28 n 25, farmer. 



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Williams Elisha D., 115, retired railroad blacksmith, and farmer 17. 

Williams Erwin A., (Roxbury) teamster for G. R. Andrews. 

Williams Joseph, (Roxbury) r 32, farmer. 

Williams Joseph A., laborer. 

WILLIAMS JOSIAH W., (Roxbury) r 32, 60 grade Merino sheep, 140 

sugar trees, farmer 100, aged 70. 
Williams Sarah A., widow of Abel S., resident, h Vine. 

Williams Simon C, stone mason and contractor, owns 2 houses and 3 acres. 
Wilmot Jane J., widow of Alonzo, h and lot Water. 

Wilmot Jennie J., dealer in millinery and fancy goods. Union block, h Water. 
Wilson W. Harvey, invalid, h and lot Center. 
Winch Elijah, retired farmer, aged 72, h and lot Center. 
WINCH JOHN H., physician and surgeon, graduate of Medical department 

University of Vermont 1880, Central, h do. 
Winch Louisa, widow of Joel, resident, h Main. 
Winch Lydia, r 36, widow of William, resident, aged 72. 
Winch Ozro P., carpenter and joiner, h and lot Center. 
Winch Samuel W., r ^6, farmer 100. 

Winter Mahitable, (Gouldsville) (Mrs. Nathaniel T.) farm 25. 
Winters Christopher, (Gouldsville) notion peddler and farmer 5, aged 75. 
Woodbury Nathan K., carpenter, h Union. 

Woodbury William S., barber with Frank Carpenter, h North Branch. 
Wooster Daniel B,, justice of the peace, patentee and manuf. of Wooster's 

perfection dairy apparatus, h Union. 
Wooster Mamie H.. teacher, bds. Union. 
WRIGHT CHARLES H., dealer in New Home sewing machines, breeder 

of Daniel Lambert horses, reg., h School cor. Pearl. 
Wright Edgar E., cadet, bds. School cor. Pearl. 
Wright Francis, (S. Northfield) constable, collector, carpenter and builder, 

h and lot. 
Wright Lyman, machinist and farmer 45, h Union. 
Yarrington Laura, (Gouldsville) widow of Horace, resident, h and lot. 
Yaw Joseph, r g, farmer. 



PLAINFIELD. 

(/^or explanations, etc.. see page Zi P^''^ second.) 
(Postoffice address is I'lainficld, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis-) 

Alvord Lucella Mrs., resides with Joseph Bartlett. 

Bailey Joseph E., laborer, h School. 

BALDWIN LEVI C, r 39, sawyer and farmer 79. 

Bancroft Charles, r 6, 18 head cattle, 6oo sugar trees, farmer 135. 

Bancroft Charlie, r 15, laborer. 

Bancroft Horace H., r 10, 18 head cattle, 900 sugar trees, farmer 100. 

Bancroft Willard, r 6, farmer with Charles. 

Bartlett Chauncy, retired farmer, h and 10 acres. 



176 TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 



BARTLETT EDWARD J., r 19, ist selectman, 27 head cattle, 15 sheep, 7 

horses, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer no, and in Marshfield pasture land no. 
Bartlett Henry F., r 29, 60 sheep, 350 sugar trees, farmer for Ira Stone. 
BARTLETT JOSEPH, r 31^, 10 grade Devon and Durham cows, 13 head 

other cattle, 140 sheep, 800 sugar trees, farmer 254. 
BARTLETT SOLOMON, r 19, 10 grade Jersey cows, 11 head young cattle, 

800 sugar trees, farmer 114 
Bartlett Thomas P., constable and collector, owns h and 3 acres. 
BARTLETT TRUMAN H., r 12, breeder of horses, 20 grade Jersey cows, 

1,000 sugar trees, farmer 150. 
Bartlett Wilbur E., farmer and horse trainer, h Water. 
Bartlett William C, farmer 7, aged 74. 
BATCHELDER A. J. & BROTHERS, (Alpheus J., L. Cheney and Erastus) 

marketmen, and dealers in fresh and salt meats of all kinds, hides, 

pelts, etc., Main. 
Batchelder Aldro A., r 26, 22 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 85, and in 

Orange, Orange Co., pasture land 60. 
BATCHELDER ALONZO M., r 26, 14 sheep, 550 sugar trees, farmer 60. 
BATCHELDER ALPHEUS J., (A. J. Batchelder & Brothers) butcher and 

meat dealer, h Main. 
BATCHELDER ARCH M., (J. M. Batchelder & Son) h Main. 
Batchelder Augustus N., r 30, 34 head cattle, 700 sugar trees, farmer 300. 
Batchelder Daniel, r 11, 250 sugar trees, farmer 75, aged 70. 
Batchelder E. Bridgman, r 10, 15 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 140. 
Batchelder E. Terusha, resides with Augustus N. 
BATCHELDER ERASTUS, (A. J. Batchelder & Brothers) r 34, 7 cows, 

17 head young stock. 600 sugar trees, farmer 100, wood and pasture 

land 202, owns tenement in Plainfield village. 
Batchelder Eugenia R.. widow of Lee I., dressmaker, Main. 
Batchelder Florence Miss, (Barre) r 24, housekeeper for Jay M. 
BATCHELDER FRANK F., (Plainfield or Barre) r 22 cor. 10, 18 grade 

Jersey cows, farmer ie;o. 
Batchelder Henry W., r 25 cor. 27, 17 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, farmer 74. 
Batchelder Ira, carpenter and builder, farmer 8. 
BATCHELDER J. M. & SON, (Arch M.) manufs. of and dealers in chair 

stock, hard and soft wood lumber, shingles, and children's carriage stock, 

and groceries. Main. 
BATCHELDER JAMES M., (J. M. Batchelder & Son) prop, village water 

works, h Main. 
BATCHELDER JAY M., (Barre) r 24, (O. B. & J. M. Batchelder, of 

Barre) contractor and farmer. 
BATCHELDER L. CHENEY, (Plainfield or Barre) r 22 cor. 24, (A. J. 

Batchelder & Brothers) resides with Frank F. 
Batchelder Orrin C, off" r 12, 24 head cattle, 450 sugar trees, farmer 75. 
BATCHELDER SEWELL A., contractor and builder. 
BATCHELDER WHEELER J., (Batchelder & Foss) h and lot. 
BATCHELDER & FOSS, (Wheeler J. B. and John A. F.) dealers in dry 

goods, groceries, hardware, paints, oils and varnishes, and agents for 

White sewing machine. 
Bemis Clinton D., r 33, farmer 100. 
Bemis Seneca S., off r 33, 250 sugar trees, farmer 60. 
Benjamin Buzzell B., r 35, farmer 80. 
Benjamin Joseph S., r 35, farmer 50. 



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177 



Bill Joel, resident, served in the late war two years. 

Bolles George W., engineer, h and lot. 

Bruffee Fred H., blacksmith, horseshoer and jobber, h Water. 

Camp Henry W., r 32, prop, hay press, 8 head cattle, 700 sugar trees^ 

farmer 160. 
CHAMBERLAIN BERTHA E. Miss, r 34, teacher of music and school 

teacher, bds. with Jeremy S. 
Chamberlain Jeremy S., r 34, 10 grade Jersey cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 

1 10. 
Chamberlain Polly N. Mrs., resident, h School. 
Chase Myra A. Mrs., r 37, resident. 
Clark Edna H., resident. 
Clark Jane H., resident. 
CLARK NATHANIEL M., r 20, 18 cows, 7 head young cattle, 1,000 sugar 

trees, farmer 170, and in E. Montpelier 215. 
COLBY EDWARD J., r 11, 10 grade Jersey cows, 8 head young cattle, 

600 sugar trees, farmer 80. 
Colby Eunice, r 32, widow of Moses, resides with H. W. Camp. 
Colby Frederick L., r 38, farmer with Moses. 
COLBY MOSES, r 38, 8 cows, 5 head young cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 

1 10. 
Cole George W., r 34, 8 head cattle, farmer, leases of A. Martin 128. 
Comstock Charles E., r 26, 6 cows, 200 sugar trees, farmer 80. 
Corliss Susan Mrs., resides with J. H. Martin, aged 88. 
Cree Eugene C, farmer, h High. 
Cree Orrin W., r 4, farmer in Marshfield 80. 
Cree Samuel, r 4, farmer 7, aged 79. 
CUTLER HERMAN E., representative, ist selectman, prop. Plainfield 

grist-mill, wholesale and retail dealer in flour, meal, feed, grain and 

grass seed, farmer 6, Main, h do. 
Cutting Harrison C, station agent M. &. W. R. R. R. 
DEWEY H. H. & CO., dealers in dry goods, groceries, clothing, boots and 

shoes, hardware, paints, oils and crockery. Main. 
DEWEY HERMAN H., (H. H. Dewey & Co.) resides in Marshfield, h 

School. 
DIX ORVILLE VV., r 20, 12 cows, 15 head young cattle, 11 sheep, 500 

sugar trees, farmer 158. 
Douglass Arthur J., carriagemaker and repairer. Water, h Masonic. 
DOVV LESTER K., (Hoyt & Dow) bds. with A. f. Batchelder, served in 

Co. B, t3th Vt. Vols. 
Downing Lucius A., r 40, 12 cows, 2,000 sugar trees, farmer 250. 
Duke Edward V., r 3, carpenter and joiner. 

DWINELL FRANK A., pres. of The Farmers' Trust Co., of Fargo, Da- 
kota, with eastern office in Union block, Montpelier, h School. 
Emerson Andrew, shoemaker, aged 68, Main, h do. 
Everett Julia A., r 36, resides with Ervin Nye, aged 82. 
Farnsworth Charles H. Rev., pastor M. E. church, parsonage High. 
Fitzgerald Edmond, r 4, section foreman M. cS; W. R. R. R., h and 8 acres. 
Fitzgerald Frank, section hand M. &: W. R. R. R., bds. with Edmond. 
Fortney LeRoy F., Universalist clergyman. 
FOSS ADDISON E., r 27, school teacher, 40 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, 

owns with Mrs. Judith M. farm 150. 
Foss John A., (Batchelder & Foss). 
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178 TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 



Foss Judith M. Mrs., 127, owns with Addison E. farm 150. 

Foster Abigail Mrs., resident, aged 74. 

Foster Clark J., laborer. 

Fowler John W., r 3, blacksmith and stone mason. 

Frederiksen Hans, laborer. 

FREEMAN EDMUND, r 28, 15 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 100; 

lives on farm settled and cleared by his father in 1792. 
Freeman Will F., r 28, farmer with Edmund. 
GALE BURTON, farmer with Sullivan B. 
Gale Laura Miss, teacher, bds. with Sullivan B. 
GALE SULLIVAN B., retired tanner, and farmer about 100. 
Gallup Alanson, r 20, resides with Hoyt R., aged 78. 
Gallup Aurilla, r 28, housekeeper for Willard Harris. 
Gallup Hoyt R., r 20, 15 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer no. 
GIBSON THOMAS R., r 14, 15 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 70, 

served in Co. I, ist Vt. Cav., 2 years, and was several times wounded ; 

at battle of Cedar Creek one limb was shattered by a shell which passed 

through his horse and killed the man next to him. 
Gladding Elias K., farmer 3, aged 75. 
Glidden Clarence E., presses and deals in hay, h Masonic. 
Glidden Orville C, r 12, farmer. 

Gove Natt B., contractor, builder and jobber, rear of postofifice. 
GRAY WESLEY A., r 8, 15 head cattle, 4 horses, 100 sugar trees, farmer 

100, and in " The Gore " wood and pasture land 100. 
GREELEY AMBROSE N., stone mason, h High. 
Greeley Gertrude L., teacher, bds. with Ambrose N. 
Gunnison Arouet, resident, owns on r 30 farm 160. 
Hamblet Edward J., r 32, 500 sugar trees, farmer 40, served in the regular 

army 4 years. 
Hamel Moses, sawyer. 
HAMEL NELSON, prop, livery and feed stable, restaurant, grocery, and 

pool room. Main. 
Hancock Ruby Mrs., resident. 
Harris John C, sawyer, h and lot. 
Harris Willard, r 28, retired farmer. 
Heath Martha C. Mrs., off r 4, farm 130. 
Hilton Ida L., r 10, lives with John D. 
Hilton John D., r 10, farmer 20. 

HOOKER JAMES H., r 4, 12 cows, 600 sugar trees, farmer 123. 
Hooker Lorenzo K., r 23, 22 cows, 15 head young cattle, 2,000 sugar trees, 

farmer, leases with stock of Nathan Skinner 85. 
HOYT EUGENE C, (O. L. & E. C. Hoyt) pension agent and notary pub- 
lic, h High. 
Hoyt Franklin G., (Hoyt & Dow) h Water. 

HOYT O. L. & E. C, attorneys at law, and fire insurance agents. Main. 
HOYT ORMAN L., (O. L. & E. C. Hoyt) notary public, h High. 
HOYT & DOW, (Franklin G. H. and Lester K. D.) house, carriage and 

sign painters, paper hangers and glaziers. 
Huntoon George R., r 5, 16 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 80. 
Huntoon WiUiam B., r 4, 20 grade Jersey cows, 15 head young cattle, 1,000 

sugar trees, farmer 174. 
Hurlburt Joseph S., r 32^, farmer 5. 



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179 



Hutchins^ Edwin T., r 30. 25 head cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer, leases of 

A. Gunnison 160. 
Hutchins Leonard E., r 3, laborer. 
Keith Almon, teamster, h High. 

Kellogg Clement P., r 31, 10 cows, 350 sugar trees, farmer 40. 
Keniston Henry A., laborer. 
Keniston Lucy J., resident, h School. 
Kidder George D., postmaster, and dealer in butter, cheese, eggs, maple 

sugar, and potatoes, h Main. 
Kidder Marv, widow of Ezra, resident. 
KINNEY FRED P., farmer with Mrs. Mahala P. 
Kinney J. Royal, farmer with Mrs. Mahala P. 
Kinney Mahala P., off r 29, widow of Charles H., 12 pure blood and grade 

Jersey cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 176. 
Kinney Newcomb, off r 14, farmer 150. 
Kinney W. Henry, resident, h Main. 

KISER HARVEY O., blacksmith, served 2^ years in Co. A, 8th Vt. Inf. 
Knapp Lucius L., blacksmith, h and lot. 

Ladd Jacob P., r 37, 60 head stock, 300 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Ladd Melissa I., (Mrs. Jacob P.) owns pasturage and woodland 75. 
Ladd Merton D., r 37, student, lives with Jacob P. 
Laird H. S. & Son, (Plainfield) (Harry L.) props, steam saw and planing-mill, 

manufs. of chair stock, and dealers in hard and soft wood lumber, m 

Harris Gore. 
Laird Harry L., (Plainfield) (H. S. Laird & Son) in Harris Gore. 
LAIRD HENRY S., (H. S Laird & Son). See Marshfield. 
Lamberton Arthur L., r ;^^, farmer, leases of Clinton Bcmis roo. 
Lamberton Weslev. r 35, 6 head cattle, 450 sugar trees, farmer 85. 
Lampson Daniel F., resident, bds. with N. E. Shorey. 
Lane Arthur N., board sawyer, h Main. 
Lane Herbert E., r 14 cor. 4, farmer with Joseph. 
Lane Joseph, r 14, foreman for Lane Brothers, of Lanesboro, 600 sugar trees, 

farmer 200. 
LAZELLE WILLIAM F., M. D., physician and surgeon, Main, h do. 
Leavitt George C , stationary engineer, h High. 
Leazer Buzzell C, teamster, h High. 
Lombard Charles C, job teamster, h and lot. 
Lombard Nathaniel C., cabinet-maker, h School. 
Lombard Viola S., dressmaker. High. 
Longe Lewis W. , mill man and owns 40 acres of land. 
LUPIEN LEWIS, farmer 13, served in Co. D, 2d Vl. Vols., and Co. K, ist 

Vt. Cav., 3 years. 
Mack Alvira L., r 4, resident, h and lot, and on r 32 h and 4 acres. 
Mansfield John, carpenter, h Water. 
MARSH BURRIDGE D., r 6, farmer 11. 
Marsh Willie D., r 6, agent and farmer, with Burridge D. 
Marshall Dudley N., r 15, 400 sugar trees, farmer 90. 
Martin Albe F., r 33, 16 head cattle, 600 sugar trees, farmer 300. 
Martin James H., house painter, aged 70, h School. 
Martin K. Alice, r 2, school teacher, bds. with Willard S. 
Martin Lee, r 14, farmer 65. 
MARTIN WILLARD S. Hon., r 2 cor. i, 18 Durham cows, 60 head other 

cattle, 31 sheep, 500 sugar trees, farmer 290. in E. Montpelier pasture 

land 50, and in Marshfield pasture and woodland 120. 



l8o TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 



Maxfield Edwin B., laborer, h School. 

McCRILLIS C. EDWARD, dealer in Metcalf s fire-proof paint, agent Con- 
necticut Life Insurance Co , of Hartford, Conn., owns in Hardwick,. 
Caledonia Co., farm io8, h Main. 

McCrillis Erasmus D., r 34, agent and farmer. 

Merrill Ira, r 35, farmer 3. 

Moore Belle E., r ;^^, teacher, bds. with Lyman M. 

Moore Henry R., farmer 5. 

Moore Hiram G., r 17, 20 head cattle, farmer 70. 

Moore Lyman M., r ^;^, 400 sugar trees, farmer 75. 

Moore Theron, r 33, farmer with Lyman M. 

Morse Charles, r 15, farmer 30. 

Morse Nelson, miller, h Water. 

Moses Daniel W., watchmaker and jeweler, and dealer in watches, clocks^ 
and jewelry. Main, h High. 

Norcross Duron J., off r 14, 23 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 115. 

NUTTING GEORGE F., prop. Plainfield House, and livery, feed and sale 
stable, free carriage to all trains, and telephone connection, leases of 
A. C. Slayton. 

Nye Archie K., laborer. 

Nye Edward E., r 36, farmer with Ervin. 

NYE ERVIN, r 36, farmer 22, served in Co. A, 4th Vt. Vols. 

Nye William H., r 11, farmer for H. A. Skinner. 

Page Arthur J., r 32J, farmer with Seth F. 

PAGE BUSHROD P., r 321, farmer with Seth F. 

PAGE DAN I., r ir, 12 pure blood and grade Jersey cows, 10 head young 
cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 100. 

Page Edwin W., blacksmith with Walter B. 

Page Emma R , resides with Ira F. 

Page Hannah M., resides with F. Perrin. 

PAGE IRA F., retired merchant, aged 72, h and lot. 

Page Josie M., resides with Ira F. 

Page Mary E., r 13, housekeeper for Nathaniel C. 

Page Nathaniel C, r 13, retired harnessmaker, farmer 75, aged 70. 

Page Seth F., r32^, 9 cows, 500 sugar trees, farmer 93. 

PAGE WALTER B., blacksmith and jobber, h School. 

Palmer Nahum, tinsmith, bds. Main. 

PARKER ANDREW, r 13, 6 head cattle, mason and farmer 85. 

Parker Charlie L., r 13, lives with Andrew. 

Parker Mary E., r 13, lives with Andrew. 

Parks Charles B., band sawyer, h High. 

PARKS CON P., laborer, h School, 

PARKS H. ALWIN, lumber marker, bds. with Con P. 

PARKS HARRY S , band sawyer, bds. with Con P. 

Pearsons John L., r 32, resident, aged 79. 

PEARSOiNS LEROY J., r 32, carpenter and joiner. 

Pearsons Mary E., r 32, farm 18. 

Perkins David, r 37, lister, 10 head cattle, 500 sugar trees, farmer 100. 

Perkins Dolly K., r 37, resident, aged 78. 

Perkins Emory F., r 37, 7 head cattle, 350 sugar trees, farmer i3o. 

PERKINS IRA E., r 37, farmer with Emory >. 

Perkins Lydia K., r 37, resident, h and 9 acres, aged 70. 

Perkins Walter E., cooper, h Main. 



TOWN OF PLAINFIELD. 



PERRIN FRED, town clerk and treasurer, dealer in dry goods, groceries, 

flour, wall paper, boots and shoes, Main, h do. 
Perry Attezerah L., r 29, resides with Daniel A. 
Perry Courtland E., r 33, farmer and mechanic. 

Perry Daniel A., r 29, 8 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 174, aged 76. 
Perry Edwin, off r 29, laborer for Mrs. M. P. Kinney. 

Perry H. Quincy, r 19, 8 cows, 14 head young cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer 54. 
PERRY THERON C, r 29, farmer with Daniel A. 
Perry VVillard M., r ti, bds. with Daniel Batchelder. 

PLAINFIELD HOUSE, George F. Nutting, prop., good livery connected. 
REED CLARK S., off r 3, farmer, served in Co. D, 12th Vt. Inf. 
Reed Delia C, with Mrs. R., milliner. 

REED R. Mrs., dressmaker, and dealer in millinery and fancy goods. 
Reed Roswell, resident, served in Co. D, r2th Vt. Vols. 
Reedy Laura D. Mrs., seamstress, h School. 
Richardson Roxa D. Mrs., widow of J. M., dealer in stoves, plated ware, tin 

and glass, Main, h do. 
Robinson Ira D., r 15, 6 cows, 200 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Rogers James W., off r 10, farmer 40. 

Ryan John, r 3, dealer in agricultural implements and fertilizers, farmer 17. 
SANBORN NELSON J., mechanic, farmer 7, h Water, 
Sanborn Orin, butcher and farmer, h School. 
Scott Alson, r 34, resides with S. S. Smith, aged 72. 
Scott Harriet Mrs., resident, h School. 
Seaver Loring B , r 3, 27 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, farmer, leases, with 

stock, on shares of Dr. D. B. Smith 150. 
Sherburne Joel, r 17, 400 sugar trees, farmer 73. 
Sherburne Lydia, r 17, resides with Joel. 

Shorey Fred, r 19, 20 head cattle, 800 sugar trees, farmer 150. 
Shorey John J , laborer. 

Shorey Josepn, resident, served in Co. F, 2d Vt. Vols. 
Shorey Nelson E., job teamster, h Main. 
SKINNER EZEKIEL, r 10, veterinary surgeon, stock grower and dealer, 

20 registered and grade Jersey cows, farmer 57, served in Co. G, 4th 

Vt. Vols. 
Skinner Hartwell A., r 11, 12 registered and grade Jersey cows, farmer 60. 
SKINNER NATHAN, r 10 cor. 23, 17 head cattle, "farmer 85. 
Skinner William, cooper, aged 78, h Main. 
SLAYTON ALONZO C owns Plainfield House and livery. 
SMITH DUDLEY B., M. D., physician and surgeon, 800 sugar trees, 15 

cows, breeder of horses, farm 130. 
Smith Smilie S., r 34, 2d selectman, 11 grade Jersey cows, 8 head young 

cattle, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer no. 
Snow Albert E., druggist, and dealer in fruits, confectionery, school books, 

stationery and fancy goods. 
Spaulding Lovewell, carpenter and apiarist 32 colonies, ItaHan and hybrids. 
Spencer Anna L., teacher, bds. with Mary E. 
Spencer Emily H.. Hves with Euthecia C. 
SPENCER EUTHECIA C, r 10, widow of Stephen, 20 head cattle, 1,000 

sugar trees, farm 200. 
SPENCER GARDNfER M., r 10, farmer with Euthecia C. 
Spencer Mary E. Mrs., resident, h High. 
St. John Clement, harnessmaker, h School. 



1 82 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



STONE IRA, resident, owns farm 70, aged 75. 

Swinnerton William T. Rev., pastor Cong, church. 

Tarbell Miranda Stone Mrs., resides with Ira Stone. 

Taylor Ambrose V., 14 cows, 16 head other stock, 500 sugar trees, farmer 

190. 
TILLO TSON OLIN L., prop, butter tub factory, h Water. 
TOWNSEND NATHANIEL, r 17, 15 head cattle, 300 sugar trees, farmer 

70; lives on the farm settled by his father about 1820. 
Vincent Mary Stone Mrs., resides with Ira Stone. 
WELLS ERNEST C, dealer in teas, coffees, spices, extracts, tobacco, 

cigars, patent medicines, fruit, canned goods, stationery, oysters, etc., b 

School. 
Wells J. Birt, jobber, farmer 20, h School. 
Wheat George, barber, h High. 
Wheeler Caroline Mrs., r 14, resident, farm 10. 
Wheeler Edgar, r 1 4, farmer. 
Whitcher George, clerk, h Main. 
White Judson, r 35, resident, aged 73. 
Willis Silas E., lumber sawyer. Water. 
Wood Randall B., r 4, laborer. 
Woodcock Carlton A., 15 head cattle, 200 sugar trees, farmer, leases of 

Mrs. Martha Heath 130. 
WORTHEN SILAS, r 38, 10 cows, 15 head young cattle, 300 sugar trees, 

farmer 150, and owns in Orange, Orange county, farm 40. 
YAW EMERALD E., book agent, h Masonic. 
Young Winfield S., runs meat cart for A. J. Batchelder, h Main. 



ROXBURY. 



( For explanations, etc., see page t^, part secotid.) 

(Postoffice address is Ro.xbury, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

ALBIN JOHN, r 13, 7 head cattle, farmer 65. 

Aldrich Thomas, r i, laborer. 

Annis Chester D., (E. Braintree, Orange Co.) r 48, farmer 41. 

Averill Heman C, r 7, 7 cows, farmer 116. 

Baird John, r 13, it head cattle, farmer 120. 

Bannister John, (Northfield) r 19, 100 apple trees, 11 head cattle, 80 sheep, 

farmer 195. 
Bashaw William, r 22, laborer. 

Bates Joseph, (Northfield) r 19, retired farmer, aged 70. 
BEAN ALBERT M., general blacksmith. Main, h do. 
Bell Antoine, r 13, 6 head cattle, farmer 25. 
Bell Moses, r 42, laborer. 

Bennett Charles, (E. Roxbury)r 33 cor. 35, laborer. 
Bennett Izett A. Mrs., (E. Roxbury) r 33 cor. 35, dealer in groceries, h and 

lot. 



TOWN OF ROXBURY. 183: 



Blake Charles, r 44, farmer 90. 

Blanchard Luther, (E. Roxbury) r 33 cor. 35, poultry dealer and laborer. 

Blanchard Lydia A. Mrs., (E. Roxbury) r 33 cor. 35, farmer 60. 

Bowman Eben E., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 36, 700 sugar trees, 150 apple 
trees, 9 Jersey cows, 69 head young cattle, 81 sheep, 17 horses, farmer 
190, and leases of Peck & Clark, of Brookfield, Orange Co., 400. 

BOYCE AZRO J., (E. Roxbury) r 34, butcher, runs meat'^cart to Northfield, 
Brookfield and Roxbury, 3 cows, farmer 85. 

Boyce John E., (Rrookfield, Orange Co.) r 55, 500 sugar trees, 20 head cattle^ 
farmer 150. 

Boyce Mary, (E. Roxbury) r 33, widow of Henry S. , aged 83. 

Boyce Orza, (E. Roxbury) off r 33, 6 cows, farmer 100. 

BOYCE WILLIAM K., (Northfield) r 29^, 8 head cattle, farmer no. 

BRACKETT CLINTON E., r 11, 100 apple trees, 5 head cattle, 4 horses^ 
farmer 115. 

Briggs Charles C, r 3 cor. 2, farmer 18. 

BROWN CHESTER, (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 49, 300 sugar trees, 38 
sheep, farmer 130, served in Co. D, 2d Vt. Vols. 

Bruce Andrew, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 

Bruce Eli, (Northfield) r 30, laborer. 

Bruce Loran E., r i, laborer. 

Bruce Warren D., (Northfield) r 30, 17 head cattle, farmer, leases of Lewis 
Chatfield, of Berlin, 130. 

Bryant Frank M., porter Summit House. 

Buck Dvvight L., (E. Roxbury) r 35, postmaster, carpenter^ joiner, wheel- 
wright, and farm. 51. 

BURNHAM EDWIN P., lumber dealer, owns saw-mill on r 40, and 90 
acres land on r i, h and lot Main. 

Burnham James K., off r 44, 200 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, 7 grade Jer- 
sey cows, farmer 100. 

BUTTERFIELD STEPHEN G., station and express agent C. V. R. R., h 
Main. 

Cady Nathan W., (Northfield) r 19, 150 apple trees, farmer 115. 

CADY WILLIS H., r 40, foreman in E. P. Burnham 's clapboard-mill. 

Chadburn Alfred, r 42, laborer. 

Chadburn Edwin, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 

CHAFFEE MARSHALL J., r 24, 300 sugar trees, farmer 200. 

Chase Melvin E., baggage master and switchman C. V. R. R., h Main. 

Chatterton Ann, (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 36, widow of J. V., farmer 75. 

Chatterton Willie, (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 36, laborer. 

Clough Moses J., r 49, farmer 200, resides in Northfield. 

COBURN ANSON, r 18, 2 cows, 2 horses, farmer 45, served in Co. I, nth 
Vt. Vols. 

Colburn R. Clark, r 45, farmer 160. 

Conway Michael J., r 12, farmer 100. 

Cram Emery P., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 49, 9 cows, 2 full blood Jersey bulls, 
500 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, farmer 150. 

Cram Fred E., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 49, farmer 35. 

Cram Loren D., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 49, 400 sugar trees, farmer 150. 

Cram Monroe F., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 49, sheep shearer, and apiarist 
60 colonies. 

Cram Wesley O., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 49, farmer with Loren D. 

Crimmins John, r 38, section hand. 



184 TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



CROSIER FRED S., laborer, and machinist, emp. J. G. Hall, bds. Main. 

CROSIER WILLARD H., foreman for J. G. Hall, bds. Summit House. 

Cross Martin V. B., r i r, farmer 70, 

Cushing Edward, r 11, 9 head cattle, farmer 75. 

Darling Edmond, r 10, retired farmer, aged 78. 

Darling Elijah C, (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 36, retired farmer, aged 76. 

Dickerson Willis, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 

Dickinson Burton, laborer, h Main. 

DICKINSON CHARLES L , r 16, prop, livery stable, lumber and wood 

dealer, 6 horses, farmer 15. 
Duphaney Joseph, (E. Roxbury) r 33, farmer 50. 
Duphaney Scelam, (E. Roxbury) 7 cows, 50 sheep, farmer 100. 
Eaton George W., retired farmer, h Main. 
Eaton Sarah O., h and lot Main. 
EDDIE MAMIE Miss, r f, teacher. 
Eddy Joseph B., r i, stone mason in Barre. 
EDWARDS WILBUR F., r 22 cor. 24, 200 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, 8 

grade Jersey cows, 8 head young cattle, farmer 75. 
Ellis Calvin, r 17, farmer 70. 
Ellis Charles L., r 21, 9 cows, 14 head young cattle, 400 sugar trees, 100 

apple trees, farmer 225. 
Ellis Charles L., r 15, section hand C. V. R. R. 
Ellis Elmer E., r 21, teacher and farmer. 
Ellis Hira G., r 10, breeder of fowls and dealer in eggs, 100 hens, farmer 

116. 
Ellis Laura A., r 24, widow of David, b and lot. 
Ellis Sylvester, r 26, farmer 100. 
Erskine Fred L., r 2, laborer. 

Erskine George M., r 4, 10 head cattle, farmer 80. 
Ferris John, r 3, 300 sugar trees, 6 cows, farmer 150, aged 93. 
Ferry Hiram S., r 50, farmer 117. 
Fisk Charles A., r 27, freight conductor C. V. R. R. from Northfield to 

Windsor. 
Fisk Charles B., r 27, farmer 13. 
FISK IRA H., homeo. physician and surgeon, and town representative, h 

Main. 
Fitts Wilber D., night telegraph operator, h Main. 
Fhn George T., telegraph operator, bds. Summit House. 
Flint Ashel, r 41, retired farmer, aged 75. 

Flint Charles H., (E. Roxbury) r 36, farmer with H. A. Thayre. 
Flint Clark, r 41, 2d selectman, too apple trees, 20 head cattle, farmer 225. 
FLINT JOHN Q., foreman in A. W. Tewksbury's steam saw-mill, h Main. 
Flint Orin A., r 25, 7 cows, 2 yoke oxen, farmer 200. 
Flint Phineas, r 25, retired farmer, aged 72. 
Foss George F., (E. Roxbury) r ;^;^, laborer, h and lot. 
Freeman Henry, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 
Freeman Jonas, (E. Roxbury) r 33, laborer, h and lot. 
French George, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 
FRINK WILLIAM L., teamster for A. W. Tewksbury, h Main. 

Goodrich , r 39^, farmer, leases of Dr. I. H. Fisk 57. 

Goodrich Charles, r 42, laborer. 

Goss George W., jeweler, and dealer in clocks, watches, etc., night watch- 
man in A. W. Tewksbury's steam saw-mill, h Main. 



TOWN OF ROXBURY. 1 85 

Grant Michael, r 52, 10 head cattle, farmer loo. 

Gray Lewis, served in Co. M, 8th N. Y. Cav., h Main. 

Hall Tames G., r 10, manuf. of watchmakers' tools. 

HALL MURRY J., laborer for A. W. Tewksbury, bds. off Main. 

Hall William, r 2, farm laborer. 

Hanlin Patrick, section boss, h Main. 

Hanlon Martin, clerk for Tilden & Son, bds. Summit House. 

Harper Robert, (Northfield) r 29^, 10 head cattle, farmer 145. 

Hill Edward, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 

Hill Freedom, r 27, shoemaker. 

Hine Bernard J., clerk for D. L. Nichols, bds. Main. 

How Eda C, r 22 cor. 24. 

HOWARD HENRY C, pastor Cong church, bds. Main. 

Howe Asa E.. (E. Roxbury) r 33, house painter. 

Howe David B., r 22, 8 grade Jersey cows, farmer 50. 

Howe Harvey A., r 24, farmer 175. 

Howe Joseph W., r 22, farm laborer for David. 

Hutchinson Sally Mrs., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 55, farmer 100, aged 80. 

Hutchinson William A., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 54 cor. 58, farmer 230. 

Jacobs Joseph, off r 42, farmer 50. 

Jacobs Richard, off r 44, laborer. 

Jennings James M., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 36, farmer 10. 

Jerd Alexander, (E. Braintree, Orange Co.) r 48, 300 sugar trees, 150 apple 
trees, 9 horses, farmer 220. 

Jerd Charles E., (E. Braintree, Orange Co.) r 48, laborer. 

Jerd Lewis A., (E. Braintree, Orange Co.) farmer 85. 

Joslin Alexander A., retired merchant, dealer in wood and lumber, farmer 
160, and in Northfield 18, h Main. 

KELLEY JAMES H., r 28, 600 sugar trees, 10 cows, 11 head other cattle, i 
yoke oxen, 2 horses, farmer 270. 

Kent Julius A., r r. farm laborer. 

KING BARNEY, r 18, laborer. 

Knowles Elsie L. Mrs., (Northfield) farmer 27. 

Knowles Franklin M.. (Northfield) r 18, laborer. 

Ladd Alphonso, (E. Roxbury) r 31,300 sugar trees, 14 grade Jersey cows, 15 
head young cattle, farmer 214. 

Ladd Andrew J., (F^. Roxbury) r 31, 300 sugar trees, 12 grade Jersey cows, 
12 head young cattle, i full blood Durham bull, 10 horses, prop, thresh- 
ing machine, farmer 214. 

Lancaster Joseph, r i, farmer 35. 

Latham Marshall, r 7, farmer 25. 

Latham Seth W., laborer, h Main. 

Lavanway Alonzo L., section hand, h Main. 

Libbey Samuel S., (Northfield) r 18 cor. 20, farmer, leases of Nelson Hassam, 
of Northfield, 80. 

Lougee Charles F., r 44, farmer 100. 

MANSFIELD MARTIN, agent for White sewing machine, painter and con- 
tractor, h Main. 

Marshall Herbert, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 

McCarty John D., r 8. 10 cows, 10 head young cattle, farmer 170. 

McKeif George. (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 

Merrill Ebenezer T., r 47, laborer. 

Merrill William, r 47, 10 head cattle, farmer 112. 



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MILLER SIDNEY N., r 15 cor. 11, wheelwright and blacksmith, h and 

6 acres. 
Minor William H., laborer, bds. Main. 
Morfitt Leland J-, (E. Roxbury) r 34, farmer 150. 
Morfitt Sylvester, (E. Roxbury) r 34, farmer 150. 
Morgan David, r 21, 11 head cattle, farmer 48. 
Morgan George, r 22, laborer, emp. E. N. Spalding. 
NEEDHAM JOHN H., r 18, laborer for Luke Tarbell. 
NICHOLS DAYTON L., dealer in dry goods, groceries, clothing, boots, 

shoes, paper hangings, drugs, medicines, paints, oils, crockery, hardware, 

glass, flour and feed, farmer 60, Main, h do. 
Orcott Clayton W., with his father, Willim B., bds. Main. 
ORCOTT ORIN W., agent for all kinds of farm machines, St. Albans 

threshers and wood sawing machinery, fire insurance and claim agent, 

h Main. 
Orcott William B., 2d selectman, lumber and wood dealer, 4 yoke oxen, 120 

sheep, farmer 120, h Main. 
ORDWAY GEORGE, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, foreman in Webb's 

saw-mill. 
Patch Roscoe, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 
Peak Narcellous W., (Northfield) r 29, 10 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Pearson Benjamin G., r 12 cor. 11, harnessmaker, farmer 4, aged 72. 
Peavev Wallace L., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 49, farmer for Mrs. E. M. 

Simonds. 
Persons Dennis. (Northfield) r 21, 10 head cattle, farmer too. 
Rand Sydney, (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 54, farmer 125. 
Rich Alonzo L., (E. Roxbury) r 33, laborer. 
Rich Carlos H., r 52, laborer. 
Rich Charles J.,r 40, mason. 

RICH SYLVANUS F., off r 15, 5 cows, 50 sheep, farmer 175. 
Richardson Alden A., r 37, farmer with his father, Samuel A. 
Richardson Avery E., r 16, ir cows, 9 head young cattle, farmer 100. 
Richardson Harrison A., r 15, farmer, leases of Mrs. S. V. Young 100. 
RICHARDSON SAMUEL A., r 37, 200 sugar trees, 4 cows, i yoke oxen, 

6 head young cattle, 15 sheep, 2 horses, farmer 120, and with his son 

Alden A. 200, served in Co. H, 6th Vt. Vols. 
RISING WILLIAM H., r i, farmer, leases of A. Williams 35. served in Co. 

H, 6th Vt. Vols. 
Roys Fred W., postmaster and telephone operator, h Main. 
Roys George A., lumberman, and dealer in coarse lumber and wood, farmer 

65, h Main. 
Roys Ira, r 10. cooper, farmer 65, aged 70. 
Russ James, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 
Sanders Eliza M., (Northfield) r 8, widow of Jonas G., farmer 400, 
Shepard Orwell W., r 40 cor. 41, 200 sugar trees, farmer 65. 
Silloway Seth P., (Northfield) r 8, retired farmer. 
Simonds Azro A., r 9, farmer 50. 
SIMONDS EUSEBIA M. Mrs., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 49, school 

teacher, has taught 68 terms, 200 sugar trees, 75 apple trees, 10 head 

cattle, farm 100. 
Simonds Wilson I., r 6, 300 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, 11 grade Jersey 

cows, 16 head young cattle, 7 horses, farmer 100. 
Sleeper Mason, r 10, farmer 100. 



TOWN OF ROXBURY. 187 



Smith Alvin F., r 9, retired farmer, aged 73. 

Smith Hiram P., carpenter and joiner, h Main. 

Smith Luville Mrs., h and lot Main. 

Smith Seth N. H., ofif r 40, 9 head cattle, farmer 50. 

Snow Frank T., retired farmer, bds. Summit House. 

Spalding Billings, retired carpenter and joiner, owns 2 village lots, h Main. 

Spaldmg Charles, r 47, stock dealer. 

Spalding Clarence, (Newport, Orleans Co.) r 47, 100 apple trees, 4 Jersey 

cows, farmer 100. 
SPALDING ERASTUS N., prop, steam saw-mill, manuf. of and dealer in 

lumber, 23 horses, 5 yoke oxen, farmer 100, and timberland 400, h Main. 
Spaldmg Oilman D., r 49, 65 sheep, farmer 100. 
Spalding Henry M., r i, farmer 120. 
Spalding Nellie I., r 49, teacher. 
Spalding Samuel O., r 49, 65 sheep, farmer 100. 
Spalding William S., postal clerk C. V. R. R., h Mam. 
Spaulding Allen, r 10, retired drover, aged 83. 
Spaulding Frank B., r 10, breeder and dealer in fine horses, prop, stock horse 

" Sterling," and farmer 6. 
Spaulding Marshall S., r 10. carpenter and joiner. 
Spaulding Melvin C, r 23, foreman in D. Tarbell's saw-mill at E. Granville, 

Addison Co., farmer 56. 
Spaulding Sylvester E. , r 10, farmer, h and 5 acres. 
Stanton David R., (Northfield) r 8, 7 cows, farmer 115. 
Stanton Samuel G., r 6, 6 cows, i yoke oxen, farmer 125. 
STANTON ZED S., att'y and counselor at law, and master in chancery, 

Main, h do. 
Steel George M., r 24 cor. 25, 13 head cattle, farmer 165. 
Steel James, (E. Roxbury) r 35, 12 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Steel James J., (E. Roxbury) r 35, laborer. 

Steel Lewis, (E. Roxbury) r 33, farmer, leases of Mrs. Lucy J. 75. 
Steel Lucy J., (E. Roxbury) r 33, widow of Henry, farmer 75. 
Stevens Lewis N., (Northfield) r 29, 7 cows, farmer 80. 
St. John Joseph, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 
Stone Levi, r 27, blacksmith. 

Summit House, Merrill E. Yerrington, prop., Main. 
TARBELL LUKE, r 15 cor. 10, lumberman, 10 horses, 5 yoke oxen, 

farmer, prop, saw-mill, and owns woodland 700. 
Terany James, r i, laborer. 

Thayre Horace A., (E. Roxbury) r 36, farmer 70. 
THAYRE IRA O., (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 36, road agent, and agent for 

the Morrisville Eureka plow, 5 cows, 12 sheep, farmer 80. 
TILDEN AI N , (Tilden & Son) town clerk and farmer 100 on r 38, h Main. 
TILDEN GEORGE A., (Tilden & Son) h Main. 
TILDEN & SON, (Ai N. and George A.) dealers in dry goods, groceries, 

crockery, clothing, hardware, glass, flour, and feed, Main. 
Tracy Foster C, r 50, 14 head cattle, 49 sheep, 500 sugar trees, farmer 140. 
Tracy Hattie E. Mrs., r 27, 10 cows, 300 sugar trees, farmer 400, h and lot. 
Tracy William, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 
VAN DEUSAN HENRY H., laborer for A. W. Tewksbury, h Main, 
VANNIER HENRY, r i, 12 head cattle, 20 sheep, farmer 170, and in 

Warren 100. 
Vannier John, r i, runs sawing machine. 



TOWN OF ROXBURY. 



Vea Alfred. (E. Roxbury) r 31, laborer. 

Wakefield Byron, (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 54, 500 sugar trees, 100 apple 

trees, 65 sheep, farmer 100. 
Wakefield Leroy, (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 57, 250 sugar trees, 50 apple 

trees, 50 sheep, farmer 100. 
Walbridge Hiram, r i cor. 4, retired farmer, owns h and 35 acres, aged 83. 
Wardner Jacob, (E. Roxbury) r 34 cor. 33, prop, saw-mill, farmer 13, and in 

Brookfield, Orange Co., 60. 
WARNER MALISSA Mrs., r 16, 5 cows, 5 head young cattle, 2 horses, 

farmer 150, owns Summit House, postoffice building, 2 acres land on r 

10, and in Northfield 65. 
Waterman Ebenezer L., r 2, retired farmer, aged 9c. 
Webster Aaron, (E. Roxbury) r 33, 200 apple trees, apiarist 11 colonies, 

poultry breeder, farmer 50. -- "■'«a 

Webster Clarence, r 8, 6 cows, farmer 85. ' ". "I," , 

WEBSTER FRANK L.. (Northfield) r 18 cor. 20, 3d selectman, 150 sugar 

trees, 6 cows, 5 head young cattle, i yoke oxen, farmer 108. 
Webster Henry W., (Northfield) r 20, farmer 70. 
Webster Willie J., (Northfield) r 18 cor. 29, laborer. 
Wellington Amos H., r 49, farm laborer. 

Wetmore Esty W., r 14, 2 yoke oxen, farmer 13, and wild land 70. 
Wheeler Alvin L., r i cor. 4, laborer. 
Wheeler James F., r i, laborer. 
Wiley Charles M., r 7, farmer with Stephen C. 
Wiley Lee, r 6, farmer with Wilson I. Simonds. 
WILEY LORAN J., engineer for A. W. Tewksbury, soldier in the late war, 

h Main. 
Wiley Phylander, off r 15, retired builder and carpenter. 
Wiley Rodney A., r 7, carpenter and joiner. 

Wiley Stephen C, r 7, 8 cows, 9 head young cattle, i yoke oxen, farmer 160. 
Wiley Tylor, r 44, farmer 27. 
Williams Alonzo C, r 4, farmer 33. 
Williams Archa, r 15, emp. A. W. Tewksbury. 
Williams Bert, r 15, laborer and music teacher. 
Williams Bert, laborer and machinist, emp. J. G. Hall. 
Williams Bessellee, (E. Granville, Addison Co.) r 51, laborer. 
WILLIAMS CHARLES W., r 15, sawyer, emp. A. W. Tewksbury, served 

in Co. D, nth Vt. Vols. 
Williams Eleazer M., r 4, laborer. 

WILLIAMS GEORGE D„ (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 58, farm laborer. 
Williams George W. , r 2, to cows, farmer 200. 
Williams Salmon, (Braintree, Orange Co.) r 58, overseer of the poor, 9 head 

cattle, 125 sheep, farmer 300. 
Williams Warren H., r 4, farmer 60. 
Woodard Amos P., r 23, 600 sugar trees, farmer 65. 
Woodard O. C, r 25, farmer 120. 

Yerrington Merrill E., prop. Summit House, leases of Malissa Warner, Main. 
York William L., r r, farmer 67. 
Young George A., ofifr 17, 6 cows, farmer 100. 
YOUNG SALLY V., off r 17, widow of Enos K., aged 77. 



TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 189 



^A^AITSFIELD. 

(For explanations, etc., see page 3, part second.) 
(Postoffice address is Waitsfield, unless otherwise desijjnated in parenthesis.) 

Ainsworth George F., clerk for G. H. Fullerton, Main. 

ALLEM CLARENCE JEAN, physician and surgeon, graduate of Medical 
department of University of Vermont, Main. 

Ashley Ira, r 28, resident. 

Ashley Stebbins J., r 28, farmer 4, owns with James H. Twigg 35. 

Atherton John B., r 28, stone mason, carpenter and joiner. 

Atkins George W., r 23, farmer. 

Baird Eddie J., son of John, Water. 

Baird Henry S., r 21, laborer. 

Baird James H., r 31, 20 cows, farmer 300. 

Baird John, farmer 16, Water. 

Baird John L., r 31, farmer, son of James H. 

Baird Samuel, r 31, farmer 65. 

Banette Roswell D., r 38, 8 cows, farmer 98. 

Barber John, (John Barber & Son) h Main. 

Barber John & Son, (Vernon L.) general blacksmiths, horseshoers, and job- 
bers, Main. 

Barber Vernon L., (John Barber & Son) h Main. 

Barnard Albert D., r 5 cor. 3, farmer, son of Don C. 

Barnard Don C, r 5 cor. 3, 1,000 sugar trees, 9 cows, farmer 100, and in 
Fayston 75. 

Barnard Orlo L., (Moretown) r 2, (R. H. & O. L. Barnard). 

Barnard R. H. & O. L., (Moretown) r 2, 600 sugar trees, 14 cows, farmers 
140, breeders of full blood Jersey cows. 

Barnard Rufus H., (Moretown) r 2, (R. H. & O. L. Barnard). 

Bates Holmes E , r 16, farmer, son of Reuben. 

Bates Reuben, r 16, 800 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 185. 

Bates William E., r 21, laborer. 

Bean Daniel J., r 7, 400 sugar trees, 6 cows, farmer 86. 

Bennett Freedom W., r 14, farmer, leases of C. A. Reed, of Boston, Mass. 

Berry Charlie J., r 44, farmer, son of Leonard C. 

Berry George A., r 43, 1,800 sugar trees, 22 cows, farmer 300. 

Berry Julius E., r 32, 1,000 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 180. 

BERRV^ LEONARD C, r 44, 1,000 sugar trees, 22 cows, farmer 300. 

Bittis Charles, r 3, farmer 17. 

BIGELOW ANDREW W., constable, prop. Waitsfield Hotel and livery 
stable, manuf. of harnesses and dealer in horse furnishing goods. Main. 

Bigelow Sarah G., widow of Charles E., h Main. 

BISBEE BURTON 1)., r 22, lister, 400 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 100. 

Blair Andrew, r 28, butcher and farmer 12. 

Boyce Dennison, r 29, farmer 22. 

BOYCE FRANK A., general merchant, Main. 

Boyce Fred D., r 29, farmer, son of Dennison. 



I go TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 



BOYCE NATHAN, r 6, dealer in clothing and gents' furnishing goods, 
farmer about 225, and in Fayston about 400. 

BUSHNELL HENRY N., r 11, school director, 700 sugar trees, 12 cows, 
farmer 200. 

Bushnell Milo A., clerk for F. A. Boyce. 

BUSHNELL PARDON, cooper, farmer 40, Water. 

CADY HENRY B., photographer. Main. 

Cady Sherman, son of Henry B., Main. 

Campbell Fannie O., widow of John S., h Main. 

Campbell Gary H., r 44, son of Henry R. 

Campbell Henry R., r 44, 300 sugar trees, 16 cows, farmer 150, and in War- 
ren 56. 

Carlton William C.,r 41, farm laborer. 

Carpenter James P., r 8, 600 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer 115. 

Chase Philander R., laborer. 

Chipman Henry H., r 2, general blacksmith, farmer 20. 

Clay Charles H., resident, h Main. 

Cutler Mary A., tailoress, h Water. 

Dale James R., boot and shoemaker, Main. 

Dale William, laborer. 

Dana Edwin H., r 33, sawyer and farmer. 

Davis Albert, r 18, laborer. 

Davis Andrew B. C , r 18, farmer. 

Davis Joseph D., laborer. 

DREW RUSSELL, r 8, (Drew & Palmer). 

DREW & PALMER, r 8, (Russell D. and Julius I. P.) breeders of Durham 
cattle and Blawk Hawk horses, props, stock horse "Fleetwood," 18 
cows, 1. 000 sugar trees, farmers 210. 

EATON ORVILLE M., notary public, town representative, job printing, 
dealer in stoves, hardware, tinware, etc., and all kinds of agricultural im- 
plements, manuf. of tin and copperware, Water, h Main. 

EATON O. G. & CO., (Charles H. Mills) manufs, of and dealers in tinware, 
dealers in stoves, hardware, cutlery and agricultural implements. 

EATON OSCAR G., (O. G. Eaton &Co.) 

Eddy Charlie F., (Moretown) r 3, dealer in country produce, 26 cows, and 
farmer. 

Fan- Joseph, r 38, farmer 75. 

Farr William A., r 8, farmer 60. 

Ferris Charles H., r 33. thresher and wood sawyer. 

Ferris James H., r 33, fanner, son of John. 

Ferris John, r 33, lumberman, 20 cows, farmer 400. 

FISHER THERESA E , r 21, widow of George W. 

FISK EDWARD A , r 7, breeder of Jersey cattle, 12 cows, 600 sugar trees, 
farmer 180. 

Fisk Elisha S., pastor Cong, church. 

Foley Michael, r 16, laborer. 

Folsom George W., (Waitsfield and Moretown) r 2, breeder of Durham 
cattle, 20 cows, farmer 200. 

Foster Betsey R.. r 28, widow of Joel. 

FULLERTON GEORGE H., dealer in groceries, provisions, flour, meal, 
salt, clothing, boots, shoes, patent medicines, etc.. Main. 

Gale Orange J., r 25, farmer about 150. 

Gleason David, carpenter and joiner, farmer 43, Water. 



TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. IQf 



GLEASON HUZZIAL, retired farmer, Main. 

Gleason Mary E., assistant postmaster. 

GLEASON RICHARDSON J., postmaster, town clerk and treasurer, dealer 
in dry goods, groceries, medicines, etc.. Main. 

Goodrich Olive G., r 19, widow of Richard K. 

Green Frank J., farmer 165, Main. 

Green Henry, r 11, farmer 45. 

GREGORY JOHN VV., attorney and counselor at law, negotiator in Western 
loans, fire and life insurance agent, Main. 

Guyett Peter, r ig, laborer. 

HADLEY MOSES E., r 8, 10 cows, farmer 80. 

Harris Jarvis C, r 19, carpenter, joiner, and harnessmaker. 

Haselton William H., r 8, 500 sugar trees, 20 cows, farmer 300. 

Hastings Elmer W., teaming and trucking. Main. 

Hastings George H., r 27, selectman, 1,200 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 170. 

HASTINGS JONATHAN H., resident, director of Waterbury National 
bank, Main. 

Hastings Yorick C. W., resident, h Main. . • 

Hawley Harry, r 31 cor. 24, retired farmer. 

Heath George R., r 2, prop, saw-mill in Lincoln, Addison Co., bds. Waits- 
field Hotel. 

Heath Oscar O., r 38, laborer. 

Hill Horace L., r 42, farmer 40. 

Hines Sarah J., r 21, widow of John. 

Holden Frank, r 3, son of Josiah. 

Holden Josiah, r 3, justice of the peace, 1,700 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 

150- 
Holley George .A., (Moretown) r 3, 2,000 sugar trees, 30 cows, farmer 226. 

Holmes Benjamin, r 16, resident. 

HOUSE EDWIN, r 29, breeder of thoroughbred Devon cattle, reg., and 

Brown Leghorn and Wyandotte fowls, 12 cows, farmer no. 
HOUSE EDWIN M., r 29, member of McLaughlin & House's orchestra, 

and farmer, son of Edwin. 
House Jason, r 29, (Jason & Nathan D. House). 
House Jason & Nathan D., r 29, breeders of thoroughbred Devon cattle, reg., 

14 cows, farmers 175. 
House Nathan D., r 29, (Jason & Nathan D. House). 

House Norton D., r 29, agent for Bowker's fertilizers, farmer, son of Nathan D. 
Howe George O.. pastor M. E. church. 
HOWE HERMON T. J., physician and surgeon, graduate of Medical 

department of University of Vermont, Main. 
Irving James, r 33, 7 cows, farmer 50. 
Johnson Edward A., r 3, farmer. 
Jones Albert C, r 21, laborer. 
Jones Charles E., r 8, agent for Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 1,000 

sugar trees, 25 cows, farmer 260. 
Jones George M., r 8, farmer, son of Charles E. 
Jones Harry, r 21, resident. 
Jones Orvis, r 21, farmer 15. 

JONES WALTER A., state senator and general merchant, Water. 
Joslin Alfred, r 13, farmer. 

Joslin Almon, r 16, overseer of the poor, 8 cows, farmer in. 
Joslin Julius J., r 28, farmer. 



192 TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 



JOSLIN ORAMEL S., r 31, breeder of Shorthorn cattle, 25 cows, farmer 

with Stephen P. 300. 
Joslin Orrin H., r 31, 12 cows, farmer 300. 
JOSLIN STEPHEN P., r 31, farmer with O. S. 300. 
Joslyn Alice W., (Mrs. W. W.) miUinery and dressmaking, Main. 
Joslyn Betsey Miss, r 27 cor. 30, resident. 
Joslyn Cassius, r 21, 12 cows, farmer 175. 
Joslyn David O.. r 19, 20 cows, farmer 200. 
JOSLYN LOUIS R., prop, of Joslyn stock farm, breeder and dealer in 

standard bred trotting horses, Holstein cattle, reg., and Berkshire swine, 

prop, of stock horses "Phil Sheridan, Jr.," No. 1426, and " Ruthford," 

No. 1683, dealer in country produce and groceries, farmer 325, Main, 
loslyn Louie VV., dealer in confectionery, stationery, fancy goods, ladies' fine 

shoes, etc., Main. 
JOSLYN MINERVA M. Miss, r 27 cor. 30, farmer with Roena L. 200. 
Joslyn Roena L. Miss, r 27 cor. 30, farmer with Minerva M. 200. 
Joslyn Wilbur W., farmer 25, Main. 
KELTY JOHN J., r 29, prop, of stage route from Waitsfield to Middlesex, 

freight carting, etc., dealer in Buffalo fertilizers, and farmer 13. 
Kneeland Abel A., r 33, 600 sugar trees, 14 cows, and farmer 140. 
Kneeland Doric A., r 33, farmer, son of Abel A. 
Kneeland Henry, r 28, laborer. 
LaBell Edward, emp. in grist-mill, Water. 
LaBell Peter, r 19, carpenter and joiner. 
Learned Joel, r 2, farmer. 
Learned Lyman M., r 2, farmer. 
Lewis Fred E., r 15, son of John G. 
Lewis George R , r 15, son of John G. 

Lewis John G., r 15, 500 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer about 200. 
Lockwood Ferd S., r 21, son of Pliny E. 
LOCKWOOD PLINY E., r 21, farmer 10. 
LONG ANDREW, r 15, (Andrew Long & Son). 
LONG ANDREW & SON, r 15, (Willard E.) 400 sugar trees, breeders of 

Durham cattle, 11 rows, farmers 220. 
Long Moses J., r 29, carpenter and joiner, 1,000 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 

130 
LONG WILLARD E., r 15, (Andrew Long & Son). 
Mahuron Ellen E., r 29, widow of Henry. 

Marshall George C, r 28, manuf. of butter and meat tubs, farm i. 
Marshall William H., r 28, barber and hair-dresser. 
Maxwell Samuel R., r 28, farmer about 6. 
Maxwell Thomas, r 40, farme" 100. 
McAllister Robert J., farm laborer. 
McAllister Sarah A., widow of Alexander. 
McAllister WESLEY G., r 29, selectman, fence viewer, 500 sugar 

trees, stock grower, 20 cows, farmer 160, and leases of Rev. H. C. Par- 
ker, of Nashua, N. H., 270. 
McAllister William, r 29, retired farmer. 
McAllister WILLIAM W., r 28, blacksmith, horseshoer, carriage 

ironer and general repair shop, farmer, leases of Joel Foster, of Mont- 

pelier, 12. 
McAUister Ziba H., r 24, painter, 10 cows, farmer, leases of B. A. Holmes, of 

Barre. 



TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 193 



McCarthy Eugene T., r 17 cor. 16, farmer with Florence 240. 

McCarthy Florence, r 17, breeder of Durham cattle and fine horses, 
20 cows, farmer with Eugene T. 240. 

McCarty Eugene, r 6, 15 cows, farmer 150. 

McCarty Eugene, Jr., r 16, 14 cows, farmer 150. 

McKinney Hugh, r ;^^, 600 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 160. 

McLaughlin John S., r 28, laborer. 

Miller Antoine, r 16, laborer. 

Miller Henry M., r 28, laborer. 

Miller Peter, r 3, laborer. 

MILLS CHARLES H., (O. G. Eaton & Co.) 

Miner Abbie Miss, resident, h Main. 

Miner Henry A., r 18, laborer. 

Mobus John, r 43, laborer. 

Moriarty Charles E., r 37, farmer, son of Michael. 

Moriarty Daniel, r 24, farmer. 

Moriarty Julius C, laborer, Main. 

Moriarty Margaret, r 18, widow of Patrick. 

Moriarty Michael, r 37, farmer about 150. 

Murray W. S., r 21, laborer. 

Neill Edward E., r 31, farmer 233. 

Neill Joseph, r 31, farmer. 

NEVVCOMB CHARLES H., r 28, carriagemaker, painter, and general 
repairer, with James S. 

NEWCOMB JAMES S., r 28, manuf. of carriages, wagons, sleighs, etc., gen- 
eral repair shop, undertaker, dealer in coffins and caskets, farmer 12. 

Nobus John, r 44, farmer 130. 

OLMSTEAD GEORGE \V., carpenter and joiner, manuf. of butter tubs, 
farmer 25, in Berlin 7, and in Williston, Chittenden Co., 4. 

Paird James, r 19, 16 cows, farmer 218. 

PALMER BROTHERS, (WiUiam and Moses A.) props, grist, saw and 
clapboard mills, manufs. of coarse lumber, clapboards, etc., dealers in 
grain, flour and feed, 1,000 sugar trees, 23 cows, stock growers, and 
farmers 260, Water. 

Palmer Byron, r 8, laborer. 

Palmer Frank L, r 8, farmer, son of Julms L 

Palmer Fred R., r 8, farmer, son of Juhus L 

Palmer John VV., r 8, farmer. 

PALMER JOSEPH, r 27, breeder of Black Hawk and Ben Franklin horses, 
600 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 400. 

PALMER JULIUS I., r 8, (Drew Sz Palmer). 

PALMER MOSES A., (Palmer Brothers) Water. 

PALMER WILLIAM, (Palmer Brothers) h Water. 

Parker Fred, r 28, prop, shingle-mill. 

Pero Frank C, (Waitsfield) r 20, carpenter and joiner. [Removed to Fays- 
ton.] 

Persons Edmund C, r 23, blacksmith, shop Main, and farmer 15. 

Poland Benjamin, r 27, farmer. 

Poland John, r 12, laborer. 

Poland Oscar A., r 29, laborer. 

POLAND THOMAS D., r 34, 12 cows, farmer 100. 

Poland Willard B., (Waitsfield) r 42, farmer. 

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194 TOWN OF WAITSFIELD. 



PRENTIS CHANDLER A., r 7, breeder of Durham cattle. 16 cows, i,oco 

sugar trees, farmer 190. 
Prentis Cheney, resident. Water. 
Prentis Edward, r 7, son of Chandler A. 
Prentis Joseph C, r 7, retired farmer. 

Ramsay Charles F., r 21, 1,000 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 165. 
Ramsey John W.^ r 21, farmer, son of Charles F. 
Richardson Albert F., r 21 cor. 23, carpenter and farmer about 100. 
RICHARDSON C. M. & M. L., r 28, manufs. of clapboards in Fayston, 

timberland 720. 
Richardson Charles W., clerk for W. A. Tones, h and 15 acres Main. 
RICHARDSON CLARENCE M., r 28, (C. M. & M. L. Richardson) 

town representative, 20 cows, farmer 160. 
Richardson Fred, r ;^;^, laborer. 
RICHARDSON MERIDEN L., r 28, (C. M. & M. L. Richardson) prop, of 

saw-mill, general merchant, farmer 4^, and in Fayston 50. 
Robinson J. Warren, r 33, laborer. 
Robinson Nathan, retired farmer, Main. 
Rolston Samuel, r 39, 9 cows, farmer 156. 
Roys Fred D., r 12, farmer 100. 
Russell Hiram, r 27, laborer. 
Russell Howland, r 27, farmer. 

RUSSELL LUTHER J., general blacksmith, Main. 
Ryle James, r 26, 9 cows, farmer about 100. 
Ryle Jerry, r 36, 12 cows, farmer 100. 
Ryle John E., r 36, son of Jerry. 
Ryle Thomas, r 24, farmer 150. [Moved away.] 
Sanders John L., r 32, 600 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Sanders Thomas, r 32, resident. 
Savage Alfred W., emp. L. R. Joslyn, Main. 
SAVAGE CHARLES E, r 31, carpenter and joiner, 8 cows, farmer, leases 

of L. D. Savage 80. 
Savage Edward M., r 23 cor. 16, farmer i." 

SAVAGE LUCIUS D., r 31. breeder of Durham cattle, farmer 80. 
Seaver Levi, r 2, sawyer for E. O. Trask. 
Shea Dennis, r 6, farmer about 200. 
Skinner Daniel H., r 31 cor. 24, farmer. 

Skinner Mary E., r 31 cor. 24, widow of Henry O., 10 cows, farmer about 200. 
Smalley Nathan B., r 28, resident. 
Smith Charles, resident, h Main. 
Smith Charles D., farmer, Main. 
Smith Lester K., r 14, farmer. 

Somerville John, r 39, 30 cows, farmer 400, and in Duxbury 130. 
Stockwell Azro D., r 7 cor. 10, 16 cows, farmer, leases of O. H. Richardson 

and O. C. Wilder 130. 
Stoddard Harlan P., r 29, farmer 30. 

Stoddard Hiram F.. r 35, 450 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 100. 
Stoddard William T., r 29, resident. 
Story Frank E.. r 7, farmer 2. 
Strong Albert W., r 28, carpenter and joiner. 
Strong Joseph H., r 19, 10 cows, farmer 95. 
Strong William M.. r 28, carpenter and joiner. 
Thompson James B., farmer. Water. 



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195 



Thompson Sarah M., teacher, Water. 

TRASK ELMER O., r 2, prop, saw-mill, manuf. of dimension and coarse 
lumber, clapboards, shingles, etc., farmer r6, timberland 1,000. 

Trask Frank W., r 2, emp. Elmer O. 

Tredo Joseph, laborer, Main. 

Turner David E., r 28, thresher and wood sawyer. 

Twigg James H., r 28, farmer with Stebbin J. Ashley 35. 

VAN DEUSEN JAMES M., homeo. physician and surgeon, Main. 

Wait Luana C, r 29, widow of William. 

WAITE HARVEY M., r 41, breeder of grade Jersey cattle and Black 
Hawk horses, 16 cows, farmer about 130. 

Waite William A., r 41, resident. 

WAITSFIELD HOTEL, Andrew W. Bigelow, prop., Main. 

WALBRIDGE GEORGE L., r 7, school director, 1,000 sugar trees, 6 cows, 
farmer 90, and in Roxbury 90. 

Wallis George W., r 8, teacher and farmer, son of Otis. 

Wallis Otis, r 8, 20 cows, farmer 185, mountain land too. 

WATERMAN JOHN, r 32, 500 sugar trees, breeder of Durham cattle, 10 
cows, farmer 150, and mountam land about 100. 

Whitcomb Abijah B., r 2S, blacksmith, and farmer 5. 

Wilder Enos E., r 2, son of Orcas C. 

Wilder George H., r 21, laborer. 

Wilder Levi O., r 2 cor. 4, farmer, son of O. C. 

WILDER ORCAS C, r 2, lister, breeder of Cotswold sheep, 1,200 sugar 
trees, 20 cows, farmer 140, in Fayston roo, in Duxbury 200, in Minne- 
sota 330, and owns with O. H. Richardson, of Montpelier, 130. 

WILDER WILLIAM F., r 2r, wheelwright, carriagemaker, carpenter and 
joiner, general repairer, farmer 5. 

Willard Annette D., (Mrs. ].,evi) dealer in millinery and fancy goods. 

Willard Levi, resident, Main. 

Wright Eli, r 29, laborer. 



WARREN. 

(For explanations, etc., see page t,, part second ) 

(T'ostoffice address is Wanxn, unless otherwise designated in parentliesis. ) 

.\insworth Leonard W., shoemaker, aged 76, h Cross. ~ 

ALLEN FRANCIS A, r 15 cor. 16, 4 cows, 2 yoke oxen, 4 horses, prop. 

clapboard-mill, also leases of E. Cardell saw-mill for custom sawing, and 

a saw-mill on r 5, farmer 140. and wild land 1,420. 
Allen Louisa E. Miss, dealer in millinery and fancy goods, h Main. 
ATKINS GEORGE A., r 42, served in Co. C, 9th Vt. Vols., 40 sheep, 8 

head cattle, 5 hor.ses, farmer 200. 
Austin Albert E., r 47, laborer. 
Austin Daniel A., r 47, prop, clapboard- mill, 7 horses, farmer 100, in (iran- 

ville, Addison Co., 600, and in Warren village 100. 



iq6 town of warren. 



Averill Wilson A., (E. Warren) r 36, 12 head cattle, farmer 100. 

Backus Lucius M., emp. H. Lyford, bds. Warren House. 

Bagley Minlfer F., r 13, carpenter and joiner. 

BAGLEY WALTER A., r 17 cor. 24, cooper, retired millwright, owns h and 

shop, served in Co. H, 2d U. S. S. S. 
*BANISTER GEORGE, blacksmith, and manuf. of slide ox yokes, cant- 
dogs and steel ox-shoes, Water, h do. [See adv.] 
Banister Sylvester, prop, grist-mill, dealer in flour, feed and grain, h Main. 
Benway Edward, r 48, 8 head cattle, farmer 250. 
Benway Edwin. (E. Warren) r 36, laborer. 
Billings Clark E., r 31, carpenter and joiner, farmer 75. 
BLAIR DAVID A., r 13, 500 sugar trees, 6 cows, 4 horses, farmer 104. 
BLAIR JAMES, (E. Warren) r 52, 10 head cattle, 13 sheep, 600 sugar trees, 

farmer 120. 
Blair Lucy A. Mrs., r 13, farmer 104. 
Blair Nathaniel S , r 31, cooper and laborer. 
BLAKE FRANK G., blacksmith, h Main. 
Blake George G., retired blacksmith, h Main. 
Bostwick Edgar, off r 6, 20 head cattle, farmer 160. 
Bradley Alson K., laborer, h Main. 
BRADLEY BROTHERS, (Mason H and Nelson C.) props, shingle and 

bobbin-mill. 
BRADLEY MASON H., (Bradley Brothers) h Main. 
BRADLEY NELSON C. (Bradley Brothers) owns woodland on Lincoln 

Mountain 80, h Main. 
BRAGG CHARLES W., (E. Warren) r 45, drover, 400 sugar trees, 30 cows, 

I yoke oxen, 4 horses, farmer 335. 
Bragg George A., traveling agent for the Vermont Watchman, h Main. 
Brigham Leander H., (E. Warren) r 20, Advent clergyman. 
Brittan Relief D., (E. Warren) off r 34, 13 head cattle, farmer 60. 
Brooks George W., (E. Warren) r 44, 50 sheep, farmer 200. 
Brown Charles R., r 30, 300 sugar trees, 23 head cattle, farmer, leases of 

E. Hanks 140. 
BROWN CLERANCE W., (E. Warren) r 20, laborer. 
Brown Henry, r 30, 400 sugar trees, farmer 1 18, 
Brown Hiram W., (E. Warren) r 44, farmer 15. 
Brown James, r 49. farmer 100. 

Brown Wells, (E. Warren) r 34, 7 cows, farmer, leases of Lydia Nichols 122. 
Brown Weliman, (E. Warren) r 2,Z-: ^arin laborer. 
Bruce C\rus, r 48, farmer loo. 
Bruce George E., shoemaker. Main, h do. 
Bruce Herbert F., laborer in tub factory, bds. Warren House. 
Bucklin Milo, r 18. 300 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer 113. 
Buzzell John H., (E. Warren) r 44, farmer jog. 
Cahee Charles E., (E. Warren) r 34, pastor VV. M. church. 
Camp George H., r 28, laborer for Mrs. A. Hanks, farmer 150. 
Cannon Mary Mrs., r 6, 12 head cattle, farmer 147. 
Cardell Daniel B., r 39, laborer. 
Cardell Edwin, constable and collector since 1861, prop, saw-mill, and farmer 

45, h Main. 
Cardell Frank L., r 39, jeweler. 
CARDELL FRED J., r 32, 4 head cattle, 4 horses, 500 sugar trees, 

farmer 70. 



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197 



CARDELL GEORGE W., retired merchant, farmer 226, in Granville, Addi- 
son Co., 480, h Main. 
Cardell James, town clerk, appointed Dec. 24, 1863, general merchant. Main, 

h do. 
Cardell John, r 39, 12 head cattle, farmer 60. 
Cardell Lewis, farmer 130, aged 86, h Cross. 
Cardell William H., clerk for James, bds. Main. 
Carpenter Frank A., carpenter and joiner, h Cross. 
Carpenter Joseph, (E. Warren) r 44, 20 head cattle, farmer 210. 
Carroll Pliny F., r 12, 22 cows, 15 head young cattle, 800 sugar trees, 150 

apple trees, farmer 270, and in Waitsfield 60. 
CASS f AMES E., r 19, foreman in P. Parker's clapboard-mill, served in Co 

A.", 8th Vt. Vols. 
CATCH APAW HENRY B., r 27, 6 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Childs Agustus F., r 9, 10 head cattle, farmer 75. 
Church Collister H., r 8, 22 head cattle, farmer 196. 
Church Emie A., r 8, teacher 

Clark Oliver L., r 39, carpenter and joiner, farmer. 
Clough Orris H., carpenter and joiner, h Cross. 
Colby Asa M., r 14, 100 apple trees, 2f head cattle, farmer 230. 
Colby George M., (E. Warren) r 36, 17 head cattle, 6 horses, farmer, leases 

of C. B. Williams 200. 
Colby Herbert A., prop, clapboard-mill in Granville, Addison Co., and owns 

woodland in Roxbury 400, h Main. 
Cook George, r 17, laborer. 

Cram Jeremiah, (E. Warren) r 20, 12 cows, farmer 100. 
Curtis George, r 33, 10 cows, farmer. 
Dana Alpheus T., r 33. farmer 60. 
DANA WESLEY E., jeweler, and dealer in watches, clocks, and plated 

ware, telephone in store, served in Co. F, 17th Vt. Vols., Main, bds. 

Warren House. 
Dickinson Norton L., (E. Warren) r 20, 400 sugar trees, 13 cows, farmer 150. 
Dimick Darwin, off r 25, farmer. 
Dimick Malcolm, off r 25, laborer. 
Divoll Clarence A., r 19, 250 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, 16 head cattle, 

farmer. 
Drew George W., general blacksmith. Main, h do. 
Drew Joseph H., (E. Warren) r 22, blacksmith and farmer 18. 
Edwards Adalbert E., (E. Warren) r 44, 12 cows, farmer 200. 
Egan Thomas E., (E. Warren) r 36, 25 head cattle, farmer 200. 
Eldridge Albert E., (E. Warren) r 36, farmer 200, wood and pasture land 550. 
ELDRIDGE EDWARD A., retired farmer 540, and owns in Granville, 

Addison Co., h and 30 acres, h Main. 
ELDRIDGE JAMES E., (E. Warren) r 23, served as captain of Co. F, 3d 

Vt. Vols., and Co. G, 24th V. R. C, was brevet-major when discharged, 

5 cows, 5 horses, farmer 52. 
F^lliott Edwin H., r 19, farm laborer. 

Elliott Joseph J., {E. Warren) r 34, 9 cows, 9 head young cattle, farmer 125. 
Elliott William, r ig, 8^o sugar trees, 25 Durham cows, 12 head young cattle, 

farmer 340. 
Fassett Orlando G.. r 34,300 sugar trees, 12 cows, 7 head young cattle, 

farmer 165. 
Fernan Frankhn W., r 15, laborer. 



198 TOWN OF WARREN. 



Foley Edward, (E. Warren) r 11, 7 cows, farmer 150. 

Ford Burnham N., r 17, 7 head cattle, farmer 75. 

Ford Charles A., general merchant, Main, h do. 

Ford Clark I , r 17, 500 sugar trees, 13 cows, 7 head young cattle, farmer 1 10. 

Freeman Edwin P., r 24, 250 sugar trees, 300 apple trees, 9 head cattle, 

farmer 36. 
Freeman Leonard W., rig, retired wood turner, poultry keeper and dealer 

in eggs, farmer 36, aged 77. 
FULLER ALLEN M., r 39, 47 head cattle, 5 horses, 1,000 sugar trees, 300 

apple trees, farmer 350. 
Fuller Elijah S., r32, 200 sugar tree-;, 26 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Geer Doncarlos C, casket, carriage and furniture manuf., Main, h do. 
Gleason John C, (£. Warren) r 20, ist selectman, 25 head cattle, farmer 196. 
Gleason John L., (E. Warren) 3d lister, farm laborer. 
Goodspead Myron R., r 2'r, carpenter and joiner, farmer 300. 
Goodspeede Elisha, (E. Warren) r 20, 15 head cattle, farmer 225. 
Goodspeede Stephen, (E. Warren) r 21, 9 cows, farmer 150. 
Gove Almond, (E. Warren) r 44, 300 sugar trees, farmer 50. 
Grandy Clarence A., r 30, 9 cows, farmer 100. 
Grandy Edward M , off r 6, 17 head cattle, farmer 170. 
GRANT FRED R., r 43, prop, and manuf. of Kittridge's liniment, served 

in Co. K, 2d Vt. Vols., farmer 47, aged 60. 
GREENE OLIN D., physician and surgeon, h Main. 
Greenslit Allen C, r 31 cor. 39, stone mason, 16 head cattle, farmer 180. 
Greenwood Jack P., (E. Warren) r 35, laborer. 
Hall Jefferson, farmer 100, h Main. 
Hammond James, r 22, retired farmer. 
Hammond William, r 22, farmer 200, 
Hanks Charles A., stone mason and laborer, h Main. 
Hartshorn Frank, (E. Warren) r 34, laborer. 
Hartshorn Henry, r 41 cor. 26, 11 head cattle, farmer 130. 
Heath Darius L., r 17, farmer, aged 69. 
HEATH EATON A., lumberman, dealer ia clapboards and shingles, owns 

timberland in Lincoln, Addison Co., 400, Main, h do. 
Heath Edgar C, r 17, 16 head cattle, farmer 130. 
HEATH LYSANDER M., prop. clapboard-miU in Granville, Addison Co., 

owns in Granville 200 acres of land, dealer in lumber, h Main. 
Heath Moses A., laborer, h Main. 
Heath Nelson E., retired shoemaker, h Mam. 
HEWETT JAMES T., off r 6, r,ooo sugar trees, 36 head cattle, farmer 160, 

and 55 on r 14. 
Hill Ardelia, r 43, farmer 20. 
Hill Samuel W., r 14, farmer 70. 
Hudson Duain D., r 24, laborer. 

Hudson Oscar W., mail carrier from Warren to Roxbury, h Main. 
Kathan Elijah, off r 6, 8 grade Durham and Jersey cows, 600 sugar trees, 

farmer 80. 
Kennedy Henry R., shoemaker, and dealer in boots, shoes and rubbers. Main, 

h Cross. 
Kingsbury Charlie E., (E. W^arren) r 46, laborer. 
Kingsbury Eddie J., (E. Warren) r 46, laborer. 
KINGSBURY EZRA, (E. Warren) r 46, 400 sugar trees, 20 head cattle, 

farmer 200, served in Co. A, 8th Vt. Vols. 



TOWN OF WARREN. 



199 



Kingsbury Georgia E., (E. Warren) r 46, teacher. 

Kingsbury Mabell E., (E. Warren) r 46, teacher. 

Kingsbury Thomas, (E. Warren) r 46, laborer. 

Kise Hiram, r 48, farmer. 

LA DUE STEPHEN C, retired tanner, h Cross. 

Lamb Alford A., (E. Warren) r 20, farmer 15. 

Lamb Frank C, (E. Warren) r 21, laborer. 

Larmy Philtus N., r 43, farmer 115. 

Long Eastman R., r 12, 125 apple trees, 7 horses, 6 Durham cows, farmer 49, 

and in Waitsfield 36. 
Long Fred M., r 30, 300 sugar trees, 1 1 head cattle, farmer 75. 
Long George J., r 27, laborer. 
Lovett James F., r 43, farmer 65. 
Lovett James H., (E. Warren) r 33, farmer 52. 
Lovett John A., r 33 cor. 38, 600 sugar trees, 8 head cattle, farmer, leases of 

Mrs. Thurston, of Montpelier. 
Lovett Royal, r 43, farmer 65. 
Lovett Royal B., r 43, farmer 7. 
Lyford Erskine W., porter Warren House. 
Lyford Hazen, r 31, farmer 27, aged 79. 
Lyford Horace W., prop. Warren House and tub factory, traveling agent for 

Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co. 
Martin Carlos, r 31, carpenter and joiner. 
Martin Charles, r 44, laborer. 
Martin George W., r 13, laborer. 
Martin Jehiel, r 48, farmer 100. 

Martin Oscar E., sawyer, carpenter and joiner, h Main. 

Martin Royal F., r 47, cooper, farmer i, and in Granville, Addison Co., 120. 
Martin William H., (E. Warren) r 36, laborer. 
Maston George, (E. Warren) r 34, retired farmer. 
Mather Betsey, h Main. 

McAllister WILLIAM v., carpenter and joiner, h Main. 
McClafiin James, (E. Warren) r 20 cor. 32, brick mason, 13 cows, 12 head 

young cattle, farmer 700. 
McL.\UGHLIN JAMES H., r 14, 7 cows, 7 head cattle, farmer, leases of 

John S. about 200. 
McLaughlin Will J., (E. Warren) r 36, mason, 18 head cattle, farmer 200. 
Miller Alanson, r 31, farmer, leases of C. E. Billings 75. 
Miller Edward W., carpenter and joiner, 22 head cattle, farm 235, h Main. 
MILLER GEORGE E., r 29, 7 head cattle, farmer, leases of Edward W. 

235- 
Miller Reuben B., r 27, 1,000 sugar trees, 26 head cattle, farmer 130, and on 

Lincoln Mountain 300. 
MINER WILLIAM A., r 17, sawyer, emp. P. Parker, farmer 30. 
Moore Christopher, r 31, retired farmer. 
Moore Foster H., r 7, 2d selectman, overseer of the poor, 300 sugar trees, 16 

grade Jersey cows, 17 head young cattle, farmer 200. 
Moore Henry H., r 14. 30 head cattle, farmer 200. 
MOORE WARNER E., r 14, laborer. 
Moore William F., r 43, farmer 96. 

MORIARTY GEORGE B., (E. Warren) r 20, laborer. 
Moriarty Peter, (Fl Warren) r 20, 25 head cattle, farmer 260. 



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Newcomb George B., (E.Warren) r 20, 200 sugar trees, 25 head cattle, farmer 

200. 
Nichols Lydia L., (E. Warren) r 34, farmer 122. 
Nichols Nahum, (E. Warren) r 34 cor. 23, farmer 46. 
Ormsbee Lewis T., retired farmer, h Main. 
Orvis Leander D., r 32, 12 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Padie Perlin, r 41, 9 head cattle, farmer 50. 
Page William, (E. Warren) r 46, retired farmer, aged 92. 
PARKER PLYNA, r 19, prop, clapboard, saw and shingle-mill, 7 horses, 

farmer 2, timberland on Lincoln Mountain 1,500, meadow land 16, 

in Waitsfield 10. 
Parker Stephen C, retired tanner, aged 74, h Main. 
Paterson John J., r 19, laborer in P. Parker's mill. 
Paterson Simuel C, r 3, 250 sugar trees, 24 head cattle, farmer 350. 
Pearsons Alonzo A., lumberman, owns timberland in Lincoln and Granville 

Addison Co., 800, h Main. 
Pearsons Azro, r 48, farmer 40. 

PEARSONS AZRO A., prop, clapboard-mill, h Main. 
Pearsons William L., sawyer, bds. Main. 
Perkins Mary E., widow of R. C , h Main. 
Perkins Rose F., teacher, h Main. 
Perkins Vernon L., laborer, h Main. 
Pierce Amos, r 4, retired farmer, aged 75. 
Pierce Fred E., r 25, 6 head cattle, farmer 60. 
Pierce Harrison F., r 25, 6 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Pierce Hiram, r 16, 3 yoke oxen, farmer 100. 
Pierce James A., clapboard sawyer, h Main. 
Pierce James E., clapboard sawyer, h Main. 
Pierce Joseph E., r 14, laborer. 

Pierce Lewis M., r 4, 1 1 head cattle, 600 sugar trees, farmer 8^. 
Pierce Thomas, retired blacksmith, h Cross. 
Pierce Warner E., r 16, laborer. 
Pierce Will A., r 4, laborer. 
Pierce William, r 18, farmer 60. 

Pike Walter T., (E. Warren) r 11, 6 cows, farmer 133. 
Poland Frank M., (E. Warren) r 7,;^ cor. 38, laborer. 
Porter Charles, r 28, farmer 50. 
Porter Harry, r 24, farmer 30. 

Pratt Jackson J., r 19, 500 sugar trees, 12 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Putnam Thomas W., r 13, 500 sugar trees, ig cows, 7 head young cattle, 

farmer 150. 
Ralph Alonzo S., r 12, laborer. 
Richardson Elwyn H., r 15, laborer. 

Richardson Judson W., r 15, 10 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Riford Philander, (E. Warren) r ;^;^, 400 sugar trees, 20 head cattle, farmer 

160. 
Robinson George H., r 27, farm laborer. 
Robinson Norman, r 13, 13 head cattle, 8 horses, 400 sugar trees, farmer 

140, and 240 on r 5. 
Robinson Obed, r 26, farmer, leases of C. A. Hanks 200. 
Royce Eugene, r 12, 15 cows, farmer 170. 
Roys Chauncey H., r 7 cor. 6, farmer 80. 
Sargent Carlos, retired blacksmith and toolmaker, bds. Main. 



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Sargent James G., 6 cows, farmer 37, h Main. 

Scotl Will A., (E. Warren) r 44, laborer. 

Severy Walter ]., (E. Warren) r 43, farmer loo. 

Shattuck Mahlon D., laborer, h Water. 

Shattuck Russell O., 8 head cattle, farmer 96, Main. 

Shaw Benjamin F., carpenter, joiner, blacksmith and painter, h Main. 

Shepherd William H., r 31, wood sawyer and tanner. 

SLAYTON EDWIN W., postmaster, town treasurer, chairman board of 

school directors, dealer in dry goods, groceries, clothing, crockery and 

glassware. Main, h do. 
Spaulding C. Augusta, r 30, widow of Pierce. 
SPAULDING CHARLES E., pension agent, retired blacksmith, served in 

Co. G, 6th Vt. Vols., Water, h do. 
Spaulding John L., r 30. teacher, farmer 100. 
Stearns Gilbert P., (E. Warren) r 35, teamster, thresher and farmer, h and 

lot. 
Sterhng Henry A., r 13 cor. 18, undertaker and dealer in caskets, farmer 10. 
Sterling Maurice S., carriagemaker, h Main. 
Sterling Beth, retired farmer, h Main. 

Stetson John W., r 47, prop, saw mill and cider-mill, farmer 250. 
Stetson Jonathan A. R., r 47, prop, saw-mill and cider-mill, farmer 250. 
Stevens Almus G., r 31, farmer 7. 
Stevens Frank C, r 17, farm laborer. 

Stevens Hiram C, r 17, 300 sugar trees, 12 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Stoddard Franklin, r 28 cor. 25, 300 sugar trees, 10 cows, 16 head young 

cattle, farmer 130. 
Stone Charles, teamster to Roxbury, h Main. 

Sullivan Thomas, (E. Warren) r 11, 13 cows, 6 horses, farmer 140. 
Sullivan William, (E. Warren) r 20, 13 cows, farmer, leases of J. Cram 100. 
Sullivan William O., (E. Warren) r 20, laborer. 
Sumner Godfrey, carpenter and joiner, h Main. 
Sumner Myrtela M., teacher, h Main. 
Thayre Eugene F., r 24, laborer. 
Thayre Leon, r 31, farmer, leases of C. Moore. 
THAYRE NATHAN, r 24, 200 sugar trees, 10 horses, i stock horse "John 

Blackstone," No. 3534, farmer 150, served in Co. H, 6th Vt. Vols. 
Thayre Will P., off r 27, farmer, leases of G. W. Cardell 80. 
Thayre William, teamster to Roxbury, h Main. 
TILLOTSON JAMES L., (E. Warren) r 20, 25 head cattle, 5 horses, 25 

sheep, farmer 202. 
Town Frank W., (E. Warren) r 44, laborer. 
TOWN HOSEA, (E. Warren) r 44, 300 sugar trees, 150 apple trees. 20 head 

cattle, 3 horses, 13 swine, farmer 139. 
Trask Caroline, (E. Warren) r 33, 11 head cattle, farmer 80. 
TUCKER JOSEPH P., r 4, 34 head cattle, 30 sheep, 4 horses, farmer 265. 
Turner Edwin M., r 7, farm laborer for his mother, Martha L. 
Turner Leslie B., harnessmaker, dealer in harnesses, blankets, whips and 

robes, Main. bds. Warren House. 
Turner Martha L., r 7, 6 cows, farmer 75. 
Van Deusen Adaline Mrs., r 19, h and lot. 

VAN DEUSEN EDGAR H , r 19, sawyer in P. Parker's clapboard-mill. 
Van Deusen Eugene C, r 19, teamster to Roxbury 
Van Deusen Hattie A. Mrs., r 19, dressmaker. 



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Van Deusen Schuyler T., (E. Warren) 15 head cattle, farmer 103, and on 

Roxbury Mountain 60. 
Vickery George F., r 29, 20 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Vradenburg Walter J., (E. Warren) r 20 cor. 35, laborer. 
Wakefield Edwin, r 30, laborer. 
Warren House, Horace W. Lyford, prop. 
Waterman Melvin J., rig, butcher, runs a cart to Roxbury, Waitsfield and 

Hancock. 
Whitcomb Justus L , (E. Warren) off r 34, 13 head cattle, farmer 60. 
Whitcomb Orvis. r 27, 7 head cattle, farmer 75. 
Whitney James P., r 12, laborer. 

WHITNEY OLIVE P., r 19, widow of Rev. Joel B., h and lot. 
Williamson Mary A. Mrs., r 17, farmer 70, h and lot. 
Williamson Thomas F., r 17, farm laborer, owns 17 acres on r 12. 
Worcester Almond, (E. Warren) r 22, retired farmer, aged 82. 
Worcester Mary E., (E. Warren) r 22, farmer, h and lot. 



^A/^ATERBURY. 

fj^or explanations, etc.. see page t„ part seeond.) 
(Postoffice address is Waterbury, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis-) 

Adams Abram S., (Waterbury Center) r 16, paper hanger, whitewasher and 
farmer. 

Adams George, (Waterbury Center) r 10, peddler, and farmer 4. 

Adams Huldah M., (Waterbury Center) (Mrs. Abram S.) r 16, h and 4 acres 
and pasture land 20. 

Adams Joseph, (Waterbury Center) r 10, wheelwright, and farmer 7. 

Adams Louis, r 29, laborer. 

Aither Edmund, laborer, h Colbyville. 

Alger L. S., (Waterbury Center) widow of Constane, leases rooms to stu- 
dents. 

Allen Achsah, (Waterbury Center) widow of Eliakim, h and 2 acres, aged 
87, h Maple. 

Ambler Orvis M., r 36, manuf. of and dealer in lumber and piano sound- 
ing boards, farmer 10. 

ARMS CURTIS N., general merchant, with Hon. William P. DiUingham 
prop, new Bank block, h Main. 

Ashley Joseph, off r 9, laborer. 

Ashley William H., dealer in groceries and provisions, Stowe, h Stowe cor. 
Railroad. 

Ather Joseph, r 39, laborer, h and i acre. 

Atherton A. Newton, retired farmer, h and lot Main. 

Atherton Albert G., dealer in window shades, wall paper and crockery, 
Stowe, h Union. 

Atherton Frank H., county sheriff", state fish commissioner, 1,000 sugar trees. 
20 grade Jersey cows, farmer 162, h Main. 



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203 



Atherton George H., undertaker, and dealer in picture frames, Stowe, h 
Union. 

Atkins Fred E., book-keeper for Atkins & Haines, bds. E. Main. 

ATKINS GEORGE W., (Atkins Sz Haines) farmer 30, h E. Main. 

ATKINS & HAINES, (George W. A. and Leander H. H.) wholesale and 
retail dealers in groceries, flour, feed, etc., i Park Row. 

Ayers Azro L., (Waterbury Center) r 9, carpenter. 

Ayers Elmer A. E., (Waterbury Center) r g, teamster. 

AYERS HANNAH, (Waterbury Center) r 9, widow of Jerry, farm 30 and 
wood lot 10. 

AYERS ORLO L., manuf. of carriages, sleighs, and general repairer, off 
Main, h do. 

Ayers Orris J., (Waturbury Center) r 26, farmer 24. 

Ayers William L., (Waterbury Center) r 26, farm laborer. 

Baker Asa W., laborer, h and lot Main. 

Banum Harley, r 34, dealer in fruit trees, 1,000 sugar trees, 15 cows, 
farmer 200. 

BARBER MARTIN C. (Waterbury Center) r 29, dealer in carriages, har- 
nesses, Buffalo fertilizers, horses and young cattle, 4 cows, farmer 55. 

BARBER RALPH J., (Waterbury Center) r 10, 600 sugar trees. 18 cows, 
farmer 186. 

Barnes William M., (Waterbury Center) farmer, h Maple. 

Barnett Henry, r 22, laborer. 

BARRETT B. & SON, props. Waterbury Hotel, 26 cows, 7 head young 
cattle, 200 hens ; in Middlesex farm 250, meadow land 30, and wood- 
land 21 ; in Moretown meadow land 12, and 125 fruit trees; in Fay- 
ston 13 cows, 4 head young cattle, 2 horses, 700 sugar trees, 150 apple 
trees, and farm ioo ; Main. 

Batchelder Forester E., (Waterbury Center) farmer 24, wood lot 7. 

Batchelder ]. S., (Batchelder & Robinson) h Main. 

BATCHELDER & ROBINSON, (J. S. B. and C. D. R.) dealers in hard- 
ware, stoves, ranges, iron, steel, tin, lead and iron pipe, Stowe. 

Bates Thomas S., dealer in patent medicines and patent rights, h Main. 

BATTLES EDWARD D., (Waterbury Center) r 25. 800 sugar trees, 22 
grade Jersey cows, farmer, leases on shares of G. E. Moody. 

Benjamin Lewis, r 29, teamster, emp. G. N. Randall. 

Bennett Emma Miss, teacher of drawing and painting at Green Mountain 
seminary. 

Bennett Joseph, (Waterbury Center) r 13, 12 cows, farmer, leases of George 
Wilkiiis, Esq., of Sto^ve, Lamoille Co., about 100. 

Blair Lewis, wood turner, emp. Frary Bros., h Main. 

BLAIS AMI, tanner, emp. C. C. Warren, h Stowe. 

Blais Joseph, carpenter, h Union. 

Blaisdell George S., r 33, 600 sugar trees, fruit grower, breeder of Morgan 
horses, farmer 100. 

BLAKELY HARTLAND D., currier, emp. C. C. Warren, h and lot Stowe, 
Mill Village. 

BLODGETT RANDALL, r 29, foreman for G. W. Randall. 

Boisselle Joseph, dealer in second-hand goods, Main, h do. 

BOKER AUGUST, manuf. of children's reed and willow carriages and 
baskets, Colbyville, h do. 

Boyce Edwin J., clerk, emp. Hiram E., bds. Stowe. 



204 TOWN OF WATERBURY. 



BOYCE HIRAM E., prop, meat market, dealer in groceries, fruit, pro- 
visions and vegetables, Randall block, h Stowe. 

Boyce Willard J., butcher, emp. Hiram E., bds. Stowe. 

Breen James, r 29, farm laborer. 

Breen John, r 29, einp. G. W. Randall, h and 2 acres. 

Breen Nicholas, teamster, emp. G. W. Randall, bds. do. 

Brink Consider W.. r 8, farmer, leases of Mrs. Maney 30. 

Brink Frederick C, r 8, farm laborer. 

BROWN ANDREW J., station and express agent C. V. R. R., wholesale 
and retail dealer in pressed hay, straw and coal, h Main. 

Brown George, r 29, blacksmith. 

BROWN HARRY D., freight clerk C. V. R. R., h Main. 

Brown John, (Waterbury Center) laborer, h and lot Maple. 

Brown John T., (Moscow, Lamoille Co.) r 4, farmer, leases of Lucius Demer- 
itt, h and lot. 

Brown Michael, laborer, emp. C. C. Warren, h n depot. 

Brown Orin E., (Waterbury Center) farmer, leases of Lucius Warren, of Stowe, 
Lamoille Co., about 80. 

Bruce Horace M., lumberman, mills in Stowe, Lamoille Co., h Main. 

Bryan Estella L. Miss, (Waterbury Center) r 16, teacher, daughter of Lo- 
renzo R. 

Bryan Julia A. R. Miss, (Waterbury Center) r 16, teacher, daughter of Lo- 
renzo R. 

Bryan Lorenzo R., (Waterbury Center) r 16, 300 sugar trees, 8 grade Jersey 
cows, 25 grade Cotswold sheep, farmer 75. 

Bryant Lorenzo, carpenter and laborer, h Main. 

Bryant Lorenzo Mrs., washer and ironer, h Main. 

Burleigh Andrew H., r 6, 400 sugar trees, farmer 62. 

Burleigh James A., dealer in butter, eggs and farm produce, farmer 20, h 
Stowe. 

Burnham George J., bottler of carbonated drinks, prop, billiard rooms, and 
barber, Park Row, h do. 

Burt Edna, (Waterbury Center) widow of Charles, owns on road 12 farm 
no, h Stowe road. 

Burt Frances O. Miss, (Waterbury Center) dressmaker, h Stowe road. 

Butler Fitzalard H., (Waterbury Center) pastor Waterbury River Free Bap- 
tist church. 

Buzzell Auretta L., (Waterbury Center) r 15, widow of George W. 

Buzzell Fred L., (Waterbury Center) r 16, laborer, h and lot. 

Buzzell George W., machinist and molder, emp. Cooley Mfg. Co. 

Caldwell Don C, manuf. of writing-desks, secretaries, picture frames and 
moldings, upholsterer and furniture repairer. Park n R. R. depot, bds. 
Waterbury Hotel. 

Callahan Timothy, retired, h Stowe. 

CAMERON J. M. Mrs., dealer in millinery and fancy goods. Main, h do. 

Cameron John, resident, h Main. 

Canerdy Alvin T., prop, livery and sale stable, Park, h do. 

Canerdy Jesse W., emp. Alvin T., bds. do. 

CANERDY MARK C, dealer in Western securities, in Iowa with Smith & 
Co. prop, stock ranch, 1,200 head of cattle, and 200 horses ; in Dakota 
100 head thoroughbred cattle, and 100 brood mares, h Main. 

Carney Jane, r 6, widow of James, 700 sugar trees, 10 cows, farm 100. 

Carpenter Caroline M., widow of John H., h and lot Main. 



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CARPENTER FRANKLIN, truckman, h and lot Main. 

Carpenter George F., 9 cows, 1,000 sugar trees, fruit grower, and farmer 
1 15, h Union. 

CARPENTER HENRY H., general blacksmith, 500 sugar trees, farmer 50, 
h S. Main. 

Carpenter William E., dealer in drugs, medicines, crockery, glassware, paints 
and oils. Main, h do. 

Carr Matthew, conductor C. V. R. R., h oft' Main. 

Carroll John, clerk for C. D. Robinson, bds. Railroad. 

Carroll John C, clerk, emp. C. D. Robinson, bds. Spring. 

Carroll Mary, widow of Patrick, h Railroad. 

Carroll William H., blacksmith and horse and ox-shoer. Main, h High. 

Chapin Charles, off r 40, 10 cows, farmer, leases of John Whitcomb, of 
Williston, Chittenden Co., about 150. 

Chase Nettie M., teacher of Greek and Latin in Green Mountain seminary. 

Chase Samuel B., (Waterbury Center) r 10, 6 cows, breeder of horses,, 
farmer 60. 

Cheney Sarah H. Mrs., (Waterbury Center) seamstress, h Maple. 

Chesley Almira Mrs., widow of John T., resident. Main. 

Chesley Edwin W., grocery clerk, bds. Main. 

Chesley Georgiana Miss, resides Main. 

Clark Charles B., (Waterbury Center) justice of the peace, overseer of the 
poor, undertaker, and farmer 40. 

CL.'VRK CURTIS M., farmer, emp. C. C. Warren, pasture and woodland 
136, h lane off Main. 

Clark Heman B , (Waterbury Center) 350 sugar trees, 7 cows, farmer 35, 
and timberland 30, h Stowe. 

Clark Willis B., teller Waterbury National bank, h Main. 

Clossey William H., r 6, 6 cows and farmer 50. 

CLOUGH CLAYTON C, (Waterbury and Montpelier) editor and prop. 
IVaierbiiry News, h 30 Loomis St., Montpelier. 

CLOUGH COLUMBUS F., lawyer, pres. village board of trustees, 80 
cows, grower of young cattle, 30 head, breeder of fine grade sheep, 5 
farms containing 649 acres. Main cor. Stowe, h Winooski. 

Coffrin Elmer, farm laborer, h Winooski. 

Coffrin Hiram, r 29, farmer, h and i acre. 

Coffrin John, carpenter and joiner, h Winooski. 

Coffrin Joshua, retired Free Baptist clergyman, h Winooski. 

Coffrin Lucretia H. Miss, tailoress, h Main. 

Coffrin Mary J., (Mrs. John.) resides Winooski. 

Coffrin Silas M., truckman, h Main. 

Colbey True B , (Waterbury Center) r 10, farmer 35. 

Colby Burnham, r 23, laborer, h and lot. 

COLBY ELIZABETH Miss, (Waterbury Center) principal Green .Mount- 
ain seminary and Minard Commercial college, teicher of French and 
Latin. 

Colby Lee, (Waterbury Center) r 18, farm laborer. 

Colby Page N., farmer 16, h Colby ville. 

COLBYVILLE MANUFACTURING CO., (Edwin A. and George E. Du- 
mas) manufs tf French octagon butter tubs and Colby's little washer, 
extension wash-benches, and planed and dressed lumber, Colbyville. 

Collins Elon G., wheelwright and carriage repairer, Main, h S. Main. 



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Collins Henry E., r 35, 400 sugar trees, 10 cows, 100 apple trees, farmer, 

owns with his father, Nathan L., 100. 
Collins Nathan L., r 35, 400 sugar trees, 10 cows, 100 apple trees, farmer, 

owns with his son Henry E. 100. 
CONANT CHARLES S., dealer in flour, feed and groceries, Stowe, h do. 
CON ANT EZRA W., r 31, 300 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 140, served in 

Co. B, loth Vt. Vols. 
Conant Hattie. (Waterbury Center) r ro, widow of Josiah \V., dressmaker. 
Conant William, (Waterbury Center) r 10, farmer. 
Connor John W., farm laborer, emp. J. E. Sheple, h Main. 
Conway Michael, 200 sugar trees, 50 apple trees, breeder of Morgan horses, 

8 cows, farmer 225. 
Cooley Manufacturing Co., William Cooley, pres. and business manager, 

general machinists, manufs. portable water tube boilers, iron and brass 

castings, n railroad track. 
Cooley William, pres. and business manager Cooley Mfg. Co., dealer in Hour, 

feed, grain and groceries, h off Main. 
Cressey Betsey P., (Waterbury Center) widow of Isaac, h and lot Maple. 
Cressey Mary N. Miss, (Waterbury Center) teacher, h Maple. 
Crossett Abraham Lincoln, r 29, farm laborer. \ 

Crossett Burton J., r 29, farmer, h and i^ acres. 
Crossett Edward C, r 35, 20 cows, farmer 200. 
Crossett Garry, r 29, 300 sugar trees, farmer 140. 
Crossett Thaddeus B., carpenter and joiner, h Main. 
Crossett Willis H.. laborer, h Clay. 
Culver Eldridge G., (Waterbury Center) carpenter and joiner, farmer 4, h 

Stowe road. 
Dake Thompson. (Waterbury Center) r 10, farmer 8. 
DALE GEORGE H., photographer, Main. bds. Waterbury Hotel. 
DALE GEORGE H. Mrs., color artist, Main, bds. Waterbury Hotel. 
Dalley Daniel, r 9, 400 sugar trees, farmer 60. 
Daly John, laborer, bds. Winooski. 
Daly Morris, laborer, h Winooski. 
Daly Morris, Jr., brakeman C. V. R. R , h Winooski. 
Davis Andrew P., dealer in spruce gum, h Clay. 
Davis Bradbury C, (Waterbury Center) retired carpenter and builder, aged 

82, h and U)t Stowe road. 
Davis Clarence M., (Marvin Davis &: Co.) bds. Colbyville. 
Davis Hira, (Waterbury Center) r 18, farmer, leases of Horace Merriam 40. 
Davis Levi W., r ^^, 500 sugar trees, 20 cows, breeder of Ethan Allen horses, 

farmer, leases on shares of Luther 200. 
DAVLS LUTHER, 500 sugar trees, 20 cows, stock grower, farmer 170, 

timberland in Bolton, Chittenden Co., 100, owns with Mrs. Davis a 

store in Vergennes, Addison Co., with T. B. Crossett the Davis & Cros- 
sett block, and one tenement house, h and lot Main. 
Davis Marvin, (Marvin Davis & Co.) h Colbyville. 
Davis Marvin & Co., (Clarence M. Davis and Anton Landt) manufs. of 

bobbins. Colbyville. 
DAVIS MERTON J., (Waterbury Center) (O. VV. Davis & Son). 
DAVIS O. W. & SON, (Waterbury Center) (Merton J.^ props, of Davis' 

nurseries, dealers in hardv fruit trees, 80,000 growing trees. 
DAVIS OLIVER W., (Waterbury Center) (O. W. Davis & Son) apiary 17 

colonies, 7 cows, farmer 32. 



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DEAL WILLIAM, architect, contractor and builder, h Main. 

Dearborn Susan E. Miss, (Waterbury Center) dressmaker, h Stowe road. 

DEAVITT BROTHERS, (Daniel P. and John J.) (Roberts & Deavitt 
Bros.) 9 cows, 225 sugar trees, farmers loo, Colbyville. 

DEAVITT DANIEL P., (Deavitt Bros.) (Roberts & Deavitt Bros.) h Col- 
byville. 

DEAVITT JOHN J., (Deavitt Bros.^ (Roberts & Deavitt Bros.) h Colby- 
ville. 

Deavitt William, farmer, h Colbyville. 

Demeritt Arthur, (Waterbury Center) r 1 8, 150 fruit trees, 10 cows, farmer 140. 

Demeritt Frank A., (Waterbury Center) r 17, 500 sugar trees, 20 grade Jer- 
sey cows, farmer 200. 

Demeritt James, (Waterbury Center) r 15, 3,500 sugar trees, 40 cows, farmer 
500, and leases two farms of 230 acres. 

Demeritt Lucius, (Waterbury Center) r 4, 500 sugar trees, 17 cows, grower 
of young cattle, 10 head, breeder of horses, farmer 200. 

Demeritt Newell L., (Waterbury Center) r 15, farmer with his father, James. 

Demeritt Richard, (Waterbury Center) (Lewis & Demeritt, of Pittsburgh, 
N. Y.) 

Demmon George C, carpenter, and farmer 10, h Mill Village. 

Deuel Ephraim, prop, variety store, and dealer in groceries and Yankee 
notions, 5 and 10 cent counters, farmer 20, Colbyville, h do. 

Devine Lizzie Miss, teacher, bds. Winooski. 

Devine Michael, r 30, 400 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 279. 

Devine Patrick, r 30, farmer with his father, Michael. 

Devine Thomas, r 30, farmer with his father, Michael. 

Devine Thomas, section foreman C. V. R. R., h Winooski. 

DILLINGHAM HENRY, manuf. of fork, rake, hoe and broom handles, ash 
doweling and wool-carding for customers, 5 Jersey cows, farmer 20, Mill 
Village, h do. 

Dillingham John M., (Waterbury Center) barber, Stowe road, h Maple. 

Dillingham Martin L., (Waterbury Center) pensioner, served in Co. D, 2d 
Vt. Vols., h Maple. 

DILLINGHAM PAUL Hon., ex governor of Vermont, pres. Waterbury 
National bank, retired lawyer, aged 88. 

Dillingham Vern A., (Waterbury Center) r 18, farm laborer. 

DILLINGHAM WILLIAM P., lav/yer, vice-pres. Waterbury National bank, 
Main, h do. 

Douglass Harry G., laborer, h Mill Village. 

DOUGLASS LYMAN V., emp. Henry Dillingham, h Mill Village. 

Downing Dennis, r 28, 14 cows, grower of young cattle, breeder of fme 
horses, farmer, leases of Vermont National Life Insurance Co. 137. 

Drugg Cliffe, laborer, h Stowe. 

Drugg Samuel, car loader, h Winooski. 

DUMAS EDWIN A., (Colbyville Mfg. Co.) h Colbyville. 

DUMAS GEORGE E., (Colbyville Mfg. Co.) h Main. 

Dvvyer Thomas F., r 42, farmer 57. 

Eddy Cornelius, (Waterbury Center) tanner, h Stowe road. 

Eddy Elizabeth L. Miss, r 3, owns one-half interest in the estate of her 
father, Hiram, 200. 

Eddy George, (Waterbury Center) r 37, retired tanner and currier. 

Eddy Harvey, (Waterbury Center) r 37, 800 sugar trees, 22 grade Jersey 
cows, farmer 100, pasture and timberland 50. 



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Eddy Sanford M., r 3, 500 sugar trees, 25 cows, farmer 400. 

Edwards Adelbert E., truckman, h Mill Village. 

Edwards Byron D., laborer, h Stowe. 

Edwards George L., tanner, emp. C. C. Warren, bds. Mill Village. 

EDWARDS HENRY R., local preacher M. E. church, h Mill Village. 

Edwards Oscar W., tanner, emp. C. C. Warren, bds. Mill Village. 

EGGLESTON DELIA T., (Waterbury Center) r 18, widow of Ethan S., 

250 sugar trees, 7 cows, farm 100. 
Elliot Lester H. Rev., sec'y and agent for Vermont Bible society, h Main. 
Elliott Harriet F. Mrs., laundress, h S. Main. 
ELLIOTT ISAAC H., carpenter, joiner, contractor and builder, h and lot, 

served in Co. I, gth Vt. Vols., S. Main. 
ELLIOTT WILLIAM R., (Waterbury and N. Duxbury) manuf. of and 

dealer in spruce clapboards, dimension timber, and hard wood lumber, 

mills at N. Duxbury, h Main cor. Stowe. 
Ennis Edward J., prop. Trotter House, Main. 
Ether Joseph, r 36, farmer i^. 

Evans Evan E., clerk for his father, Merrill O., bds. do. 
Evans Frank C, traveling salesman for John F. Henry &: Co., of New York 

city, h Stowe. 
EVANS MERRILL O., dealer m drugs, medicines, paints, oils, and country 

produce a specialty, Stowe, h do. 
FALES HENRIETTA A. Mrs, widow of Dr. Horace, h Main. 
Farmer Charles, laborer, h Clay. 

Farmer George, r 29, farmer, and emp. G. W. Randall. 
Farnsworth Finando, farmer 10. 

Farnsworth Henry F., off r 29, lumberman and farmer 60. 
Farrar Edward, foreman of warehouse for Atkins & Haines, h E. Main. 
Farrell Thomas J., notary public and barber. Main, h Colbyville. 
Fife James A., truckman, h Majn. 
Fisk Charles J., (Waterbury Center) hunter and trapper, dealer in spruce 

gum, h and i^ acres. 
Fisk Gracia A., (Waterbury Center) widow of Cyrus C, h and i^ acres 

Maple. 
Flanagan Jeremiah E, (Waterbury Center) r 25, 300 sugar trees, 20 cows, 

farmer, leases of James Demeritt 180. 
Fleury Ira, laborer, h Main. 
Foley James, r 43, laborer, h and lot. 
Forrest R. M. Mrs., widow of Samuel, h Main. 
Fortier Alfred, carpenter, bds. S. Main. 

Fortier Hubert, custom shoemaker. Main cor. Stowe, h S. Main. 
Foster Allen P., turner and wood worker, farmer 45, h Main. 
FOSTER EBENEZER J., M. D., C. S. B., (Waterbury Center) homeo. phy- 
sician and surgeon, "The Little Drummer Boy" of Co. B, loth Vt. 

Vols., enlisted at the age of 15, Maple, h do. 
Foster Edwin U., (Waterbury Center) r 2, dealer in maple sugar, maple syrup 

and honey, farmer 10. 
Foster Erastus, retired farmer, aged 79, h Main. 
Foster Herman R., r 30, 600 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer, leases on shares 

of Solomon Hutchins 125. 
Foster James A., (Waterbury Center) r 2, farmer 13. 
Foster Leonard R., (Waterbury Center) retired farmer, h Maple. 



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Frahill Michael J., gardener, and manager of greenhouse for C. C. Warren, 

bds. Clay. 
Frary Bros., (George H. and Edward S.) manufs. of spools, dowels, organ 

stops, etc., n depot. 
Frary George H., (Frary Bros.) bds. Waterbury Hotel. 
FRKEMAN JOSEPH O., general merchant, served in Co. B, loth Vt. Vols., 

enlisted in 1862, wounded in July, 1864, discharged from hospital May 

r, 1865, Stowe road, h do. 
Fuller Ezra B.. (Waterbury Center) pastor Free Baptist church, h Maple. 
GaNDO CHARLES, tanner, emp. C. C. Warren, h Stowe, Mill Village. 
Gay Theodore D., retired manuf., tuner of and dealer in pianos, aged 83,, 

bds. Main. 
George VVilliam R., job teamster and street sprinkler, h Main. 
Gibson Newell R., prop, barber rooms at Waterbury Hotel, h Stowe. 
Gile David, (Waterbury Center) r 15, 200 sugar trees, and farmer 60. 
Gile George W., (Waterbury Center) r 14, 500 sugar trees, 12 grade Jersey- 
cows, farmer 70. 
GILLETT J. EDVVARD, (Waterbury Center) r 13, t,6oo sugar trees, 46 

cows, farmer, leases on shares of C. F. Clough, Esq., 400. 
Gillett Thomas ]., (Waterbury Center) r 13, farmer with his son Edward. 
Gleason Henry C, r 29, 600 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer 152, and pasture 

land and orchard on Ricker Mountain 30. 
Gleason Henry C. Mrs., r 29, owns two tenements and 4 acres. 
Godfrey Timothy C, (Waterbury Center) h and i acre Stowe road. 
Goldthwaite Wesley D., hostler, emp. Dr. E. G. Hooker, bds. do. 
GOODALE LAURA A. Mrs., r 21, resident. 
Goodell Almeron, r 9, farmer 14. 
Goodell Bertie G., r 9, farmer 10. 
Gould Julia A. Miss, dressmaker, bds. Railroad. 
Gould Sarah, widow of Bartholomew, h P.ailroad. 
Gould William, book-keeper for C. C Warren, h Railroad. 
Gove George N., prop, livery stable. Park Row, h do. 
Grace Andrew, night watchman at C. C. Warren's tannery, h n depot. 
Graves Arad E., retired farmer h and lot, Main. 
GRAVES CECIL, retired hardware merchant, over 30 years in trade, h 

Main. 
Graves George H., r 19, 350 sugar trees, breeder of grade Jersey cattle, 7 

cows, farmer 90. 
Graves Gilman, retired farmer, h Colbyville. 
Crraves Harvey J., r 37, 400 sugar trees, 15 grade Jersey cows, farmer go, 

pasture and woodland 45. 
Graves Levi J., r 37, retired farmer, aged 72. 
Graves Myron H., r 39, breeder of grade Durham cattle and fine horses, 20 

cows, farmer 120. 
Greely George N., (Waterbury Center)'r 11, 400 sugar trees, i3 grade Jersey 

cows, farmer 145. 
Green John, laborer, h Railroad. 
GREEN MOUNTAIN SEMINARY AND MINARD COMMERCIAL 

COLLEGE, (Waterbury Center) Miss Elizabeth Colby, prop, and prin- 
cipal ; Asbury M. Marsh, principal Minard Commercial college. 
Greene DeWitt C, r 39, 25 cows, 10 head young cattle, breeder of fine 

horses, farmer, owns with his mother, Mehitable, and sister, Mrs. Mary 

A. Tyler, igo. 
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Greene Mehitable, r 39, widow of James, owns with her son DeWitt C, and 

daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Tyler, farm igo. 
Grep;2 James, (VVaterbury Center) r 11, 400 sugar trees, 9 cows, farmer 104. 
GRIFFIN ALMON D., r 2, 1,000 sugar trees, 4 cows, 8 head young cattle, 

farmer 154, served 3 years in Co. F, ist U. S. S. S., was twice seriously 

and three times slightly wounded. 
Griffith Azro M.. stone mason and laborer, h Main. 

Griffith Charles D., operator and manager W. U. telegraph office, bds. Main. 
GRIGGS JOHN C, dealer in boots, shoes, leather, shoe findings, and 

agent for the White sewing machine, Stowe, h do. 
Grout Frederick A., machinist, h and lot and 7 acres. Mill Village. 
Grover Eleazer, (VVaterbury Center.) r 24, 450 sugar trees, 9 cows, farm loo. 
GROVER GEORGE W., (Waterbury Center) r 24, 9 cows, farmer 64, and 

leases on shares of Eleazer farm 100. 
Grover Stephen, r 42, 6 cows, and farmer 40. 
Gunn Mary E. Miss, (Waterbury Center) teacher of vocal and instrumental 

music in Green Mountain seminary. 
Guptil Stephen J., r 37, (Stephen J. & Walter E. Guptil). 
Guptil Stephen J. & VValter E., r 37, 500 sugar trees, and breeders of 

grade Jersey cattle, 30 cows, 15 head young cattle, 50 sheep, farmers 

250. 
Guptil Walter E., r 37, (Stephen J. & Walter E. Guptil) farmer. 
Guyette Frank, buttermaker, emp. C. C. Warren, h n depot. 
Haines Charles H., clerk, emp. Atkins & Haines, bds. with L. H. Haines. 
HAINES LEANDER H., (Atkins & Haines) h W. Main. 
Hart Alonzo, (Waterbury Center) disabled soldier and pensioner, served in 

Co. D, 2d Vt. Vols. 
Hart Alphonso A., (Waterbury Center) farm laborer. 
Hart Charles J., sawyer, h Colbyville. 
Hart Leonard, farmer, h and lot Main. 

Harvey David T., r 30, 350 sua;ar trees, 23 cows, breeder of full blood Dur- 
ham cattle and Phil Sheridan horses, 5 head, farmer 350. 
Harvey Timothy, r 30, retired farmer, aged 70. 
Harwood Charles L., (Harwood & Smith) bds. Main. 
Harwood & Smith, (Charles L. H. and Arva H. S.) dealers in hardware, stoves 

and tin. Main head of Stowe. 
Haseltme Howard, lawyer, bds. Main. 
HASELTON MANSEL, switchman and freight handler C. V. R. R., h 

Main. 
Hatch David, (Waterbury Center) r 11, laborer for E. G. Wallace. 
Hayden Roswell, r 42, farmer 100. 

Hayden Steven H., r 42, dealer in eggs, and farmer 50. 
Hayes Charles C, (Waterbury Center) live stock dealer, h and lot. 
Hayes Eber C, (Waterbury Center) prop, saw-mill, and manuf. of cider, 

farmer 17, timberland 97, h Mill. 
Hayes John, (Waterbury Center) retired farmer and merchant, farm 22. 
Hutchinson Joseph, job teamster, h n railroad. 
HENDERSON VAN NESS V., dealer in potatoes, poultry, eggs, maple 

sugar, etc., bds. Main. 
HENRY HARVEY R., r 43, 1,500 sugar trees, 20 cows, farmer 360. 
Henry Laura Mrs., widow of Sylvester, h Main. 
Henry Samuel, off r 29, farmer 100. 
Herbert Patrick, r 6, farm laborer. 



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Herbert Thomas, (Waterbury Center) r 6, 300 sugar trees, farmer 95. 

Herbert Thomas. Jr., r 6, resides with his father, Thomas. 

Hill Frank B., (Waterbury Center) r 13, farmer. 

HILL HENRY F., (Waterbury Center) r 18, dealer in spruce lumber and 

shingles, 350 sugar trees, 20 grade Jersey cows, breeder of Lambert 

horses, farmer 250, owns with C. H. Stevens timberland 250. 
Hill Irving N., (Waterbury Center) wheelwright and blacksmith, Slowe road, 

h do. 
HILLS VAN D., r 40, 300 sugar trees, breeder of grade Durham cattle, 6 

cows, farmer loo. 
Hodge J. Frank, (Waterbury Center) r r6 cor. 28, breeder of Morgan horses, 

2 broodmares, prop, stock horse " Ethan Allen," farmer on the estate of 

Artemas Newhall. 
Hodge Nora J. Mrs.. (Waterbury Center) owns i share of the estate of her 

father, Artemas. 
Hodge Stephen, r 36. 10 cows, and farmer 60. 
HOOKER EMORY G., physician and surgeon, Park, h do. 
Hopkins Charles L., (Waterbury Center) (Daniel Hopkins cSe: Son). 
Hopkins Daniel, (Waterbury Center) (Daniel Hopkins & Son) justice of 

peace, town agent, dealer in farm produce, 300 sugar trees, 28 cows, 

farmer 125, pasture and timber-land with Chancey Lyons 250. 
Hopkins Daniel & Son, (Waterbury Center) (Charles S.) 300 sugar trees, 

28 cows, 20 head young cattle, i yoke oxen, 9 horses, farmers 125, 

pasture and timberland with Chancey Lyons 250. 
HUMPHREY CHARLES O., r 23, 400 sugar trees, 15 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer 90. 
Humphrey Horace W., (Waterbury Center) disabled soldier of Co. H, 26th 

Mass. Vols., h Maple. 
HUMPHREY IRA W., r 28, manager town poor farm and keeper of the 

town poor, 300 sugar trees, 8 cows, farm 100. 
Humphrey William, r 29, emp. G. W. Randall, h and i acre. 
Hunter Cora B. Miss, (Waterbury Center) r 16, teacher. 
Hunter George, (Waterbury Center) r 25, farm laborer, h and 7 acres. 
Hunter H. E. Mrs., (Waterbury Center) r 16, nurse. 
Huntley Clarence L., (Waterbury Center) farmer. 
HUNTLEY LEOxNARD, (Waterbury Center) prop. Waterbury nurseries, 

dealer in hardy varieties of fruit trees, wheelwright, blacksmith, and 

farmer 36. 
Huse Eben B., (Waterbury Center) retired farmer, h and 5 acres. 
Huse Louis M., (Waterbury Center) r 27, farmer with his father, S. R. 
HUSE S. RAYMOND, (Waterbury Center) r 27, 600 sugar trees, 30 grade 

Jersey cows, grower of young cattle, 20 head, farmer 265, and wood and 

timberland 50. 
Hutchins B. Corliss, (Waterbury Center) carpenter, h and lot, agent for his 

brother H. H., and manager of the estate of E. Eaton Hutchins 76. 
Hutchins Charlotte, widow of George W., h Stowe cor. Railroad. 
HUTCHINS FRANCIS B., (Moscow, Lamoille Co.) r i, 300 sugar trees, 

farmer 100. 
HUTCHINS HENRY D., (Moscow, Lamoille Co.) r i, retired farmer, aged 

82, served in Co. D, 2d Vt. Vols. 
Hutchins Mercy J., (Waterbury Center) widow of E. Eaton, 10 cows, farmer, 

owns the estate of her husband 76. 
Irish J. Parmer, laborer, emp. L. Roberts, h Mill Village. 



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JACKMAN JOHN, (VVaterbury Center) retired farmer, h and 6 acres. 
Jackman Timothy A., r 19^, 1,000 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer, owns with 

his son William S. 87. 
Jackman William S., r rg^^, 1,000 sugar trees, 12 cows, farmer, owns with his 

father, Timothy A., 87. 
Johnson Edgar L., r 42, farmer. 
Johnson Healy H.. (VVaterbury Center) carpenter. 
Johnson Lois D., r 42, widow of Elijah, farm 60. 
Jones Dan, (VVaterbury Center) r ri, 400 sugar trees, 10 grade Jersey cows, 

farmer about 160. 
Jones Henry, physician and surgeon, 30 years in practice in VVaterbury, W. 

Main, h do. 
Jones Sarah R., r 40, widow of James W., 500 sugar trees, 12 cows, 8 head 

young cattle, farm 150. 
Joslyn Francis W., 4 grade Jersey cows and farmer 16. 
Joslyn George D., 200 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer 65, h Colbyville. 
Joslyn Luke, retired farmer, aged 85, owns 25 acres land, bds. with his 

daughter, Mrs. F. A. Grout, Mill Village. 
Keefe David, r 40, 300 sugar trees, 24 cows, farmer 180. 
Keefe James, r 40, farmer with his father, David, i8o. 
Keefe John, r 40, farmer with his father, David, 180. 

KEENE CHARLES, dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, silver and silver- 
ware, etc., prop, livery stable, Stowe, h do. 
Kellogg Sophronia R., widow of John D., resident, h Stowe. 
Kelty Patrick, r 7. 500 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer 260. 
Kendall Albert, (Waterbury Center) rig, farmer. 
Kennedy George W., lawyer, N. Main, h do. 

Kerin Patrick, bridge builder C. V. R. R., farm in Moretown 150, h Main. 
KILBURN ADALINE C, r 23, widow of Luke W., 10 cows, owns farm 

with her daughter Laura J. 125. 
KILBURN LAURA J. Miss, r 23, book-keeper, and owns farm with her 

mother, Mrs. Adaline C, 125. 
KING ASAPH, r 21, 400 sugar trees, 17 cows, farmer, leases on shares 

of Luke J. Roberts 100. 
King John, laborer, h Winooski. 
King John J., dealer in groceries, ^boots, shoes and rubbers. Park Rovv, h W. 

Main. 
King Olin, laborer, bds. Winooski. 
King Patrick, blacksmith, Stowe, h do. 
Kirby Joseph, laborer, bds. off Winooski. 
Kirby Leander, hostler, emp. G. N. (yove, h Winooski. 
Kirby Leander, laborer, h off Winooski. 
Kirby Peter, retired, aged 85, h off Winooski. 

Knapp Charles D., (VVaterbury Center) r 4, 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 127. 
Knapp John, blacksmith, h Railroad. 

KNEELAND LUCIUS R., r 19! farmer with his father, William. 
KNEELAND WILLIAM, r 19^, 8 cows and farmer 40. 
Knight Benjamin F., (VVaterbury Center) r 12, retired mechanic, aged 71. 
Knight Dennison M., clerk, emp. Atkins & Haines, h E. Main. 
Knight Frank L., clerk, emp. Moses M. 
Knight Moses M., dealer in dry goods, ready-made clothing, hats,' caps,. 

gents' furnishing goods, etc., Stowe, h do. 
Labelle Joseph, r 34, laborer. 



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213 



Labelle Joseph Mrs., r 34, washer and ironer. 

LaCrosse Paul, laborer, h Clay. 

LaCrosse Paul, Jr., laborer, h Clay. 

Ladd John F., r i, lumberman, lo cows, farmer 150. 

LADD WALTER VV., (Waterbury Center) r 4, owns jointly with Lewis J. 

and Horace L. White farm 124. 
Lamb Marshall D., physician and surgeon, Main cor. Winooski, h do. 
Landt Anton, (Marvin Davis & Co.) farmer 12, h Colbyville. 
Larkin Christopher C. W., (Waterbury Center) r 12, farmer with his son 

Carey A. 
Larkin Carey A., (Waterbury Center) r 12, 200 sugar trees, 15 cows, farmer, 

leases on shares of Frank O. Burt, of Stowe, Lamoille Co., 150. 
Lease Charles H., harnessmaker, emp. George H., h Stowe. 
Lease Fred B., barber at Trotter House, bds. do. 
Lease George H., justice of the peace, manuf. of harnesses, and dealer in 

saddles, whips, trunks, traveling bags, fly-nets, etc.. Main, h Union. 
Loomis Bessie A., (Waterbury Center) r t8, owns with her mother, Mrs. Ju- 
dith, 80 acres. 
Loomis Judith A. Mrs., (Waterbury Center) r 18, widow of Elam, owns 

with her daughter Bessie A. 80 acres of the homestead. 
Lovely Mary E , widow of Frank, washer and ironer, h n railroad. 
LUCE ALPHEUS B., (Waterbury Center) r 36, 300 sugar trees, 15 cows, 

farmer 125. 
Lucia Medor, (Waterbury Center) r 11, farmer. 

Lyon Frank C, r 33, farmer, leases on shares of Joel Remington 175. 
Lyons Chancey, (Waterbury Center) r 26, 700 sugar trees, breeder of and 

dealer in fine horses, 9 head, 15 cows, farmer 140, owns on Loomis 

hill 2,000 sugar trees, 14 cows, farm 140, and pasture land 82. 
Mack John, laborer, h Clay. 
Manning Michael, butcher, and dealer in fresh and salt meats, poultry and 

farm produce. Park Row, h Main. 
Mansfield Seth A., (Waterbury Center) r 18, 300 sugar trees, farmer 53. 
Margison Albion, tinsmith, emp. J. E. Sheple, h Clay. 
Margison Thomas, tinsmith, emp. J. E. Sheple, h Clay. 
Marsh Asbury M., (Waterbury Center) prmcipal Minard Commercial college 

and teacher of natural sciences; 
MARSHALL CLARENCE D., r 36, carpenter and joiner, farmer 15. 
MARSHALL CLARENCE D. Mrs., r 36, dressmaker. 
Marshall Daniel A., (Waterbury Center) carpenter. 
Marshall Emily P., widow of James W., h and lot off Main. 
Marshall Fernando C, stock raiser, dealer in live stock and calf skins, farmer 

70, h Mill Village. 
Marshall Henry A., painter, bds. Union. 
Marshall Ira A., custom tailor. Trotter House, h Union. 
Marshall John, r 20, carpenter and farmer 7. 
MARSHALL LORENZO B., (Waterbury Center) r 11, 800 sugar trees, 9 

grade Jersey cows, farmer 125. 
Marshall VVillie W., r 20. farmer with his father, John. 
MARSHALL WH.LIS E, (Waterbury Center) liveryman, 350 sugar trees, 

7 grade Jersey cows, farmer 35, pasture and timberland 25. 
Martin Alinon, r 43. carpenter. 

Martin Franklin, off r 29, laborer, emp. G. W. Randall. 
Martin Mary J. Miss, (Waterbury Center) dressmaker. 



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MATHER ROSWELL H., (Waterbury Center) dealer in family groceries, 
dry goods, boots, shoes, Yankee notions, crockery, hardware, flour, and 
feed. 

MAY OSCAR W., (Waterbury Center) constable, 450 sugar trees, 20 cows,, 
breeder of grade Jersey cattle and Morgan horses, farmer 214. 

Mayo Edward, laborer, h and lot Stowe. 

McCaffrey Christopher, (Waterbury Center) r 19, farmer 11. 

McCOY ARTHUR, r 6, farm laborer and lumberman. 

McCoy D'jminic, r 6, 200 sugar trees, farmer 62. 

McCoy Francis T., r 6, farm laborer and lumberman. 

McCoy William H., r 6, farm laborer. 

McGrath Thomas, track hand, h off Main. 

Mcintosh John A., resides with his father, Martin. 

Mcintosh Martin, retired iron worker, h Main. 

McMahon James, (Stowe, Lamoille Co.) r 11, farm laborer. 

McMahon John. (Stowe, Lamoille Co.) r 11, 500 sugar trees, 7 cows, 
farmer 100. 

McManas Barney, r 2, farmer, leases of G. W. Randall about 300. 

McMann Michael, track hand, h off Main. 

Mercury Alic, farm laborer, emp. C. C. Warren, h n railroad. 

Merriam Hannah Mrs., widow of Samuel, h Main. 

Merrill James H., (Waterbury Center) laborer, emp. D. P. Smith. 

Merrill Samuel, janitor M. E. church, bds. Clay. 

Messer Joseph, (Waterbury Center) general blacksmith. 

Messer Joseph, Jr., (Waterbury Center) blacksm.ith with his father. 

Millen John, r 3 i, laborer. 

Miller Bertha (Ober) Mrs., teacher of vocal and instrumental music. 

Minard Will F., homeo. physician and surgeon, office and residence Water- 
bury Hotel. 

MINOR JOSEPH, (Waterbury Center) r 12, farmer 7, pensioner, soldier in> 
Co. B, 3d R. I. Cav. in which he lost a limb. 

Minor Willie B., (VVaterbury Center) r 12, farm laborer. 

Minott Betsey, (Waterbury Center) r 10, widow of Howard, h and i acre. 

Minott Orrin H., (VVaterbury Center) r 11, 350 sugar trees, breeder of Mor- 
gan horses, 10 grade Jersey cows, farmer and manager with F. S. Noble 
95, and pasture and timberland 120. 

Montgomery C. Curtis, (Waterbury Center) r 4, 200 sugar trees, farmer on 
the estate of his father, John. 

Montgomery George R., (Waterbury Center) r 9, 300 sugar trees, 14 cows, 
grower of young cattle, farmer 300. 

Moody Edwin B., (Waterbury Center) r 36, 400 sugar trees, dealer in live 

stock, grower of young cattle, 21 head, 15 cows, farmer 150. 
Moody Elisha, dealer in horses, cattle, sheep, and real estate, 4 houses, 
breeder of grade Jersey cattle, 10 cows, farmer 80, h Main. 

MOODY G. EUGENE, dealer in horses, cattle, sheep, swine, wool and 
farmers' produce, manuf. of and dealer in lumber, mills at Hyde Park, 
1,800 sugar trees, 70 cows, 13 horses, 100 sheep, owns four farms con- 
taining 600 acres, h Main cor. Stowe. 

Moody George W., dealer in live stock, real estate, and farmer 60. 

Moody John G, »■ 35, dealer in live stock, 10 grade Jersey cows, farmer 85. 

MOODY JUSTIN W., 400 sugar trees, 22 cows, farmer 125, h and village 
farm 20, h Union. 



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MOODY NATHANIEL, director VVaterbury National bank, retired drover, 

farmer, aged 83, h Union. 
Moody Rachael Mrs., resident, h Mill Village. 
Morrissey Ann C, r 40, widow of John, farm 76. 
Morrissey Charles, r 40, 200 sugar trees, 8 cows, farmer 76. 
Morse Clifford L , r 33, 12 cows and farmer. 
Morse Daniel J., (Waterbury Center) r 13, 500 sugar trees, 14 cows, farmer 

164. 
Morse Flora D.. widow of Heman, li Winooski. 

MORSE GEORGE W., lawyer, postmaster, and dealer in books and sta- 
tionery, postoffice, h Stowe. 
Morse Ida E. Miss, (VVaterbury Center) r 13, teacher, daughter of Daniel J. 
Morse Ina N., teacher, h Winooski. 
Morse Lewis O . (Waterbury Center) r 13, carpenter. 
MORSE LUCIUS P., farmer and owner of Bjlton falls, h Union. 
Morse Mae J. Miss, (Waterbury Center) r 13, teacher, daughter of Daniel J. 
Morse Mary Mrs., r 40, widow of Truman, resides on the estate of her hus- 
band. 
MORSE WILLIS A., r 40, 8 grade Jersey cows, farmer 70, leased on shares- 

of the estate of Truman 350 sugar trees, and farm 140. 
Morway Thomas, laborer, h Railroad. 

Moulton Calvin. (VVaterbury Center) retired farmer, h and 4 acres. 
Murray Burt, (Waterbury Center) rig, farmer. 
Murray Henry O., (Waterbury Center) r 19, farmer. 
Murray Truman A., (Waterbury Center) rig, 500 sugar trees, 6 cows, farmer 

100. 
Murray Walter W., r 23, farmer with William W. 
Murray Warren, r 40, resident. 

Murray VVilliam W., r 23, 1,000 sugar trees, 20 grade Durham and Jersey 
cows, farmer 50, owns an undivided half of farm ri6, and timberland 
65 on the estate of his father, Alonzo G. 
Mussey Parker L., grocer. Main, h E. Main. 
Neenan Michael, laborer, h off Union. 
Newcomb Arthur A., (Waterbury Center) clerk. 

Nevvcomb E. Allen, (Waterbury Center) painter, and farmer 3^, h Maple. 
Newcomb Frances A., (Waterbury Center) teacher, daughter of E. A. Nevv- 
comb, Maple. 
Newhall Luceba, (VVaterbury Center) r 16 cor. 18, owns one-third of the estate 

of her husband, Artemas. 
Newhall Ruth Miss, (VVaterbury Center) r 16 cor. 18, teacher, 400 sugar trees, 

owns 2 shares of the estate of her father, Artemas. 
Nichols Williim C, drug clerk, h Winooski. 
NILES SOLOMON T., r 8, lumberman, 600 sugar trees, 11 cows, farmer 

200, soldier in Co. H, 3d Vt. Vols. 
Noble Francis S., (Waterbury Center) 300 sugar trees, breeder of horses, 8 
grade Jersey cows, 15 grade Cotswold sheep, farmer 80, pasture and 
timberland 120. 
Norton George, foreman currier for C. C. Warren, h Stowe, Mill Village. 
OAKLAMD GEORGE, (Waterbury Center) r 25, farm laborer, h and r 

acre. 
Ober Edwin R., teacher of vocal and instrumental music, inventor and prop, 
of Ober's revolving piano hammer and Waterbury wagon-jack, h Main. 
O'Brien Thomas, laborer, h Stowe. 



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O'Brien Timothy, laborer, h and lot Stowe. 

O'Connor John, farm laborer, emp. J. E. Sheple, h Main. 

O'Day Michael, blind soldier and pensioner, bds. Stowe. 

Ormsby Eliza A., widow of Francis, reident, h Union. 

Palmer Edwin F., lawyer, reporter for the Supreme Court of Vermont, Union, 

h do. 
Parcher Josiah T., (Waterbury Center) r 12, wheelwright, 250 sugar trees, 

farmer 85, in Stowe, Lamoille Co., 250 sugar trees and farm 19. 
Parcher Nathaniel E., laborer, h Union. 
Parcher Samuel, job teamster, h Winooski. 
Parker John A., r 23, farmer 60. 
PARICER JOHN B, r 23, 25 grade Jersey cows, breeder of young cattle, 

farmer 150. 
Patterson Alexander, (Waterbury Center) r g, (Alexander & Alexander E. 

Patterson). 
Patterson Alexander E., (Waterbury Center) r 9, (Alexander & Alexander 

E. Patterson). 
Patterson Alexander & Alexander E., (Waterbury Center) r 9, 500 sugar 

trees, 15 cows, farmers 280. 
Patterson George J., bridge builder C. V. R. R., h Main. 
Phillips Henry C, teamster, emp. H. M. Bruce. 
Pike Alice C. Miss, (Waterbury Center) r 26, teacher. 

Pike E. Ralph, (Waterbury Center) r 26, stone mason, butcher, and farmer 30. 
Pike Estella M. Miss, (Waterbury Center) r 26, teacher. 
Pike Jesse R., r ^^, 300 sugar trees, and farmer 64. 
Pixley Henry W., r 9, farmer 100. 

Pixley Julius E., r 33, 700 sugar trees, 200 apple trees, 15 cows, farmer 170. 
Plait Edward, wood turner, emp. Frary Bros., bds. Central House. 
Pratt Divid, (VVaterburv Center) retired farmer, aged 85, h and ib acres. 
Prescott George W., (Waterbury Center) r 12, farmer 15. 
Prescott Hannah, (Waterbury Center) r 12, widow of Harvey, 200 sugar 

trees, 7 cows, farm 75. 
Prescott I. Jewett, (VVaterbury Center) r 15, 350 sugar trees, 18 cows, farmer 

140. 
Prescott Lyman, (Waterbury Center) r 36, 14 grade Jersey cows, and farmer 

100. 
Pride Polly, widow of Amasa, resident, h Main. 
Pinneo Bulah A., widow of Heman, h Main. 
Proctor Ann, r 33, widow of Asa, carpet weaver, h and lot. 
RANDALL GEORGE W., manuf. of dimension timber, shingles, hard wood 

lumber, 100 cows, breeder of young cattle and horses, interval land 200, 

other farming land 800, timberland 3,000, h Main. 
Ravelin Josejjh, r 29, farm laborer, emp. H. C. Gleason. 
Ravey Henry, r 40, farmer 7. 

Redmond William, engineer, emp. Frary Bros., h Main. 
Remington Joel, r ^;^, 500 sugar trees, breeder of grade Jersey cattle, 20 

cows, farmer 175. 
Remington Martha M., widow of Azariah B., resident. 
Rhoads Nathaniel A , manuf. of cider and cider vinegar, and meat tubs. Mill 

Village, h Stowe cor. Union. 
RICHARDSON CARLOS E., dealer in dry goods, ready-made clothing, 

boot'', shoes, hats and caps, Stowe cor. Main, h Union. 
Ricker Diliy, r 9, widow of Jackson, h and 7 acres. 



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Ricker Gideon, r 6, i,ooo sugar trees, 17 cows, farmer, owns the Ricker 

hon:estead 250. 
Ricker Henry J., (Waterbury Center) r 12, farmer. 
Ricker Simon, r 6, 1,000 sugar trees, 17 cows, farmer 124, and leases of 

Gideon the Ricker homestead 250. 
Ring David P., railroad baggage master, h Main. 
Ring John, r 20, farmer for his father, Thomas. 
Ring Thomas, r 20, 500 sugar trees. 10 cows, farmer 125. 
ROBERTS LUKE J., (Roberts & Deavitt Bros.) 400 sugar trees, 16 grade 

Jersey cows, breeder of Chester white swine, and farmer 100. 
ROBERTS & DEAVITT BROS., (Luke J. R., and John J. and Daniel 

P. D.) manufs. of spruce, hemlock and hard wood lumber, clapboards 

and shingles, props, dry-house, planing and dressing-mills, timberland 

II 2, Colbyville. 
Robinson Alvah U., wood turner, emp. Frary Bros., bds. Trotter House. 
ROBLVSON AMOS, (Moscow, Lamoille Co.) r 12, 300 sugar trees, breeder 

of fine horses, 5 head, 4 head young cattle, farmer no. 
Robinson Carrie E. Miss, (Waterbury Center) off r 12, teacher, daughter of 

Charles C. 
ROBINSO.V CHARLES C, (Waterbury Center) otT r 12, 400 sugar trees, 

15 grade Durham cows, 15 head youn? cattle, 50 sheep, farmer 200. 
Robinson Charles D., (Batchelder & Robinson) h Mam. 
Robinson Ernest, (Moscow, Lamoille Co.) r 12, farmer with his father, Amos. 
Robinson Ethel C. Miss, (Waterbury Center) r 12, teacher, daughter of 

Charles C. 
Robinson Harvey P., (Waterbury Canter) off r 12, farmer with his father, 

Charles C. 
Robinson Julia A., (Waterbury Center) widow of Noah, h Stowe road. 
Root John, laborer, h and lot Main. 
Root M. J. Mrs., dressmaker, h Main. 

ROWELL SILAS J., supt. dairy farm of C. C. Warren, h Main. 
Ruggles Rhoda M. Mrs., widow of George L. F., dressmaker, h Main. 
Russell Ethan A, (Waterbury Center) 700 sugar trees, 12 grade Durham 

cows, farmer 120, h Maple. 
Russell Lewie W., (Waterbury Center) farmer with his father, Ethan, h Maple. 
Ryan John, r 32, 20 cows, breeder of horses, farmer 150. 
Ryan John, Jr., r 32, 20 cows, breeder of horses, farmer 150. 
Ryan Nellie E. Miss, r 32, teacher, daughter of John. 
Ryan Patrick, r 32, farmer with his father, John. 
Safford Frank, laborer, £mp. C. C. Warren, h n depot. 
Safford Henry, foreman tanner and stationary engineer for C. C. Warren, 

h Stowe, Mill Village. 
SAMPSON S. CHARLES, tanner, emp. C. C. Warren, h Stowe, Mill Village. 
Sanborn Thomas T., retired deputy collector of customs, and one-armed vet- 
eran, served in Co. I, 17th Vt. Vols., h Main. 
Sawyer George R., (Waterbury Center) r 18, r,ooo sugar trees, 15 cows, 

farmer, leases on shares of Joseph Wheeler 200. 
Scagel Flora Miss, teacher, bds. with Miss H. E. Waldo, Main. 
Scott Orril E., dealer in watches, jewelry, spectacles and silverware, Stowe, 

h do. 
SEABURY EDWARD T., prop. Seabury's grist mill, and dealer m gram, 

corn meal, flour and feed, Mill Village, h do. 



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Selleck James, (Waterbury Center) retired wool-carder and cloth dresser, h 
and 2 acres. 

SHAW BRADLEY W., r 19^, 300 sugar trees, breeder of grade Jersey cat- 
tle, 14 cows, farmer 130, and timberland 40. 

SHELDON CHARLES M., pastor Cong, church, bds. Waterbury Hotel. 

Sheple Elliot W., retired stage driver, h and lot Main. 

Sheple Holl's S , town liquor agent, retired harnessmaker and carrriage trim- 
mer, h Main. 

SHEPLE JAMES E., dealer in general hardware, stoves, ran':;es, iron, steel, 
tinware, sugar tools, farm implements, etc., 15 grade Jersey cows, prop, 
of a line of village water works, owns Sheple homestead 64 acres, farm 
adjoining 94, Stowe, h Main. 

Sherman Cornelius P., retired blacksmith, h Stowe, resides with F. B. Tay- 
lor, Stowe. 

Shores Andrew, laborer, h Clay. 

Sleeper George E., teacher of penmanship in Green Mountain seminary. 

Sleeper James W., r 34, 600 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 100. 

Sleeper Orlana, (Waterbury Center) widow of Hiram M., h Stowe road. 

Sraalley Aaron K., (Waterbury Center) r 16, carpenter. 

Smalley George B., (Waterbury Center) r 15, 400 sugar trees, 14 cows,, 
farmer, leases of James Demeritt 150. 

SMLLH A. E. Mr«., dressmaker, h Main. 

Smith Arva H., (Harwood & Smith) bds. Main. 

Smith Betsey C, widow of Joseph G., h Main. 

Smith Carrie A. Miss, (VVaterbury Center) daughter of Harvey P., teacher. 

Smith Charles, r 29, sawyer and farmer 17. 

Smith Charles L., resident, h Colbyville. 

Smith Charles L. Mrs., dressmaker, h Colbyville. 

SMITH D.\N P., (Waterbury Center) r 36, 500 sugar trees, breeder and 
dealer in horses, 9 head, prop, of stock horse " Abram, Jr.," 12 cows, 
farmer 4x0. 

Smith Emery H., (VVaterbury Center) r 12, 400 sugar trees, farmer 23. 

SMITH FRANK N., (Waterbury Center) town clerk, lister, justice of the 
peace, postmaster, fire insurance agent, and conveyancer. 

Smith George E., pastor M. E. church, parsonage Winooski. 

SMITH GEORGE R, (Waterbury Center) r 1 1, farmer with his father, H. F. 

Smith Harvev P., (Waterbury Center) carpenter and wheelwright. 

SMITH HORSCHEL F., (Waterbury Center) r 1 1, land surveyor, 250 sugar 
trees, 150 apple trees, 6 cows, grower of young cattle, farmer 53. 

Smith Thomas E., milk dealer, h Main. 

Somerville Joseph, 50 cows, and farmer, h Main. 

Spicer Wdliam H., r 35, 400 sugar trees, 200 grafted apple trees, breeder of 
pure blood Jersey cattle, reg., 20 grade and full blood Jersey cows, 
farmer 140. 

Stearns Aurora, r 28, widow of George, farm 130. 

Stearns Jonas, r 40, 300 sugar trees, 10 grade Jersey cows, farmer 75. 

STEARNS ORREN W.., (Waterbury Center) r 17, 250 sugar trees, 20 cows, 
breeder of grade Jersey cattle and fine horses, farmer 250. 

STEARNS SAMUEL F., (Waterbury Center) 250 sugar trees, 7 cows, 
firmer 50, h Maple. 

STEVENS CHARLES H., (Waterbury Center) r 18, 1,000 sugar trees, 10 
cows, farmer 175, owns with H. F. Hill timberland 250. 

Stewart Milo C, retired, h and lot Main. 



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Stockwell Hiram, r 23 cor. 24, 50 apple trees, farmer 15. 

Stone Albert, r 29, ic cows, farmer 120. 

Stowell Samuel H. Mrs., h Union. 

STRANAHAM MILLARD F., merchant tailor. Main head of Stowe, h do. 

Straw A. T. & Co., (Hiram F. VVrisley) dealers in farniture. Main. 

Straw Alvinzy T., (A. T. Straw & Co.) house painter, h Main. 

STRAW CALVIN, house painter and paper hanger, h Mill Village. 

Straw Etta A. Miss, teacher, resides iMain. 

Sulham Walter S., violinist and member of Waterbury citizens' cornet band,. 

h ofif Main. 
Talbert Avon J., r 9, farmer. 

Tate Joseph, (Waterbury Center) r 18, 700 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 150. 
TATRO JERRY A., r 40, 300 sugar trees, 9 cows, farmer 190. 
Tatro Peter, r 38, farmer 18. 
Taylor Frank B., dealer in groceries, provisions, confectionery, fruits, nuts. 

tobacco, agricultural implements, tin^^are, etc., Stowe, h Union. 
Templeton Fred E., (Waterbury Center) farm laborer, h Stowe road. 
Templeton Nancv J., (VVaterbury Center) widow of Frank, h Stowe road. 
TENNEY LEONARD, retired Cong, clergyman, aged 73, h Winooski. 
Thompson Charles B., r 43, farm 160. 
Thompson Emily, widow of Alvinzy, aged 82, h Main. 
Thompson George H., r 43, 300 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer, leases on 

shares of Charles B. i6q. 
Thompson Harriet A. Miss, resident, h Main. 
Thompson Joseph, r 33, 400 sugar trees, breeder of pure blood Jersey and 

Holstein cattle, 25 cows, farmer 218. 
Thompson Joseph, Jr., r 33, farmer for his father. 
Thurston James T., (VVaterbury Center) r 12, farmer 4. 
Town Albert J., r 9, mason. 500 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Town Chancy, (Waterbury Center) r 12, 400 sugar trees and farmer 50. 
Town Chancy G , (Waterbury Center) r 11, 200 sugar trees and farmer 55. 
Town Daniel, r 29, 300 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 60. 
Town Frank E., (Waterbury Center) farm laborer, h Mill. 
Town Fred E., (Waterbury Center) farm laborer, h Mill. 
TOWN GEORGE, r 29, farmer with his father, Daniel. 
Town Ira A., (Waterbury Center) farm laborer, h Mill. 
Town Leon A.. (Waterbury Center) farm laborer, h Mill. 
Town Lucia, (Waterbury Center) widow of Ira, resident, h Mill. 
TOWN LUKE S., r 40, 350 sugar trees, breeder of grade Jersey cattle, 21 

cows, farmer 180. 
Town Luther C, r 28, 400 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer, leases on shares of 

Mrs. Aurora Stearns 130. 
Town Martha A. Mrs., r 15, 30 cows, farm 300. 
Town Seth, r 34, retired farmer. 
Town Silas C., r 35, 350 sugar trees, 22 cows, farmer, leases on shares of 

Justin W. Moody about 135. 
TOWNE CHARLES C, (Waterbury Center) r 13, 400 sugar trees, 20 cows, 

farmer, leases on shares of C. F. Clough. 
Towne Eugene R., r 23, 300 sugar trees, breeder of Jersey cattle, reg., 4? 

grade and full blood Jersey cows, 30 head other stock, and farmer. 
Townsend Lizzie E. Miss, (Waterbury Center) milliner. 
TROTTER HOUSE, E. J. Ennis, prop., Main. 
Turner Augustus, laborer, h Stowe. 



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Turner Carlos W., farm laborer, resides Winooski. 

Turner Edward L., carpenter, owns timberland 30, h Winooski. 

Turner Levi C, photographer, resides Winooski. 

Turner Orson C, retired farmer and book canvasser, h Main. 

Turney John, r 41 cor. 40, breeder of horses, 400 sugar trees, 15 cows, 

farmer 300. 
Turney Martin, r 40, 400 sugar trees, 10 cows, farmer 210. 
Turney Thomas, r 21, 250 sugar trees, 16 cows, farmer 100. 
Tyler Mary A., r 39, widow of Payson, owns with her mother, Mehitable 

Greene, and her brother, DeWitt C. Greene, farm 190. 
Vorce Sophia, (Waterbury Center) r 11, widow of Henry, resides with her 

son William H. 
Vorce William H., (Waterbury Center) r 11, farmer with his wife's father, 

James Gregg. 
Wade William M., retired farmer, aged 67, h Main. 
Waldo Harriet E. Miss, dressmaker, h Main. 

Wallace Edwin G., (Waterbury Center) r 11, prop, threshing and wood saw- 
ing machine, 1,400 sugar trees, 22 grade Jersey cows, farmer about 250. 
Wallace George VV., r 33, 20 cows, farmer, leases on shares of G. W. Ran- 
dall 180. 
WALLACE SIDNEY, r 28, 400 sugar trees, breeder of full blood and grade 

Jersey cattle, 20 cows, 100 apple trees, 60 pear trees, 12 plum trees, 

farmer 170. 
WARREM GEORGE W., (Waterbury Center) r 29, 800 sugar trees, 16 

cows, farmer 214. 
Warren Horace A., (Waterbury Center) blacksmith, Stowe road, h do. 
Warren Hortensia, (Waterbury Center) r 29, widow of George W., resides 

on the estate of her husband. 
Warren Jay H., (Waterbury Center) r 29, butcher, administrator and mana- 
ger of the estate of his father, George W., 214. 
WASHBURNE GEORGE C, physician and surgeon, Railroad n cor. Stowe, 

h do. 
WATERBURY HOTEL, B. Barrett & Son, props., open all the year, and 

for summer boarders. Main n R. R. depot, 
Waterbury National Bank, capital, $100,000; surplus, $30,000 ; Hon. Paul 

DilUngnam, pres.; William P. Dillingham, vice-pres.; Charles Wells, 

cashier. Main. 
WATERBURY NEWS, C. C. Clough, editor and prop., issued every 

Thursday. 
WATTS AARON W., (Waterbury Center) r 26, farmer with his father^ 

Oscar F. 
Watts Loren D.. r 20, 10 cows and farmer 105. 
Watts Louise S., widow of Zenas, h and lot Stowe. 
Watts Oscar P., (Waterbury Center) r 26, 1,000 sugar trees, grower of young 

cattle and horses, 10 cows, farmer 225. 
Watts Pamelia L., widow of Alfred, h Stowe. 
WATTS RUFUS A., (Waterbury Center) r 36, (Watts Bros., of Waltham, 

Mass.) carpenter. 
Way Ormond B., retired mechanic, h Stowe. 
Webster Harvey Rev., (Waterbury Center) pastor M. E. church, parsonage 

Stowe road. 
Wells Charles, cashier Waterbury National bank, and town treasurer, h and 

lot, h Union. 



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Wells Charles E., r 43, painter. 

Wells Edwin H., r 43, carriage and sign painter, farmer 8. 

WHEELER JOSEPH S., (VVaterbury Center) r 24. justice of the peace, 

lister, 350 sugar trees, 8 grade Jersey cows, breeder of fine horses, grower 

of young cattle, farmer 60, owns on Loomis hill 14 cows, i yoke oxen, 

farm 260, and mountain land 62. 
WHEELER TIMOTHY, (Waterbury Center) r 24, correspondent of the 

American Cultivator. Nexv England Homestead, Mirror and Farmer, 

St. Johnsbury Republican, and Rural Vennonter, grower of strawberries 

and garden vegetables, woodland 7. 
Wheelock James T., dentist, Taylor block, Stowe, h do. 
White Charles F., r 31, farm laborer. 

White Cornelius A., (Waterbury Center) r 17, farmer 10. 
White Horace L., (Waterbury Center) r 4. farmer with his father, Lewis J. 
White Lewis J., (Waterbury Center) 300 sugar trees, 16 Southdown sheep, 

15 cows, 10 head young cattle, farmer 124, and timberland in Stowe, 

Lamoille Co.. 50. 
WHrrE & LADD, (Waterbury Center) r 4, (L. J. and H. L. W., and Walter 

W. L.) dealers in live stock, props, of threshmg and wood sawing ma- 
chine, 300 sugar trees, 15 cows, 16 Southdown sheep, 6 horses, 10 head 

young cattle, farmers 124, and timberland 50. 
Whitney Julius H., r 4, carpenter, and farmer 75. 
Whitney Riley, (Waterbury Center) retired farmer, h and 5 acres. 
Wild Laura L., widow of Rev. Daniel, h Main. 
Wilkins Charles V., r 21, 250 sugar trees, 16 cows, farmer, leases of Thomas 

Turney 100. 
Willey Martin, (Waterbury Center) r i r, 200 sugar trees, farmer 90. 
Wood«rd Phinney H., 700 sugar trees, farmer 175, h Main. 
Williams John, gunsmith, Stowe, h do. 
Williams Sarah J., (Waterbury Center) widow of Hiram, dressmaker, h Stowe 

road. 
Wood Matthewson J., r 19, lumberman, 400 sugar trees, 20 cows, farmer 175. 
Woodward Edgar, r g, lumberman, and farmer 48. 
Woodward Edwin T., farm laborer, h Main. 
Woodward Eugene O., r 34, laborer. 
Woodward L. S. Miss, administratrix of the estate of D. D., 500 sugar trees, 

and farm 140, h Main. 
Woodward Lyman, r 33, retired farmer. 
Woodward William, (Waterbury Center) off r 9, farmer 16. 
Woodworth Edwin M., (Waterbury Center) carpenter, contractor and builder. 
Wooster James F., stone mason, h Railroad. 

Wright Carroll A., r 29, 200 sugar trees. 13 cows, i yoke oxen, farmer 100. 
WRISLEY ALVIN S., dental surgeon, h and i acre Stowe. 
Wrisley Charles S., stone mason, h Main. 

Wrisley Hiram F., (A. T. Straw & Co.) h at Duxbury Center. 
Wrisley John E , resident, bds. Union. 

Wrisley Lester C, salesman, emp. William Cooley, bds. Main. 
Wrisley Russel, blacksmith, h Union. 
Wrisley Warner W., (Waterbury Center) grower of strawberries, and dealer in 

wood, h and ^ acre. 
Wyman Charles E., dealer in dry goods, clothing, carpets, oil cloths, boots- 

and shoes, Stowe cor. Main, h Winooski. 
York Alfred, retired, aged 80, h Stowe. 



TOWN OF WOODBURY. 



V/OODBURY. 

( For explanations, etc., see page impart second.) 
(Postoffice address is Woodbury, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Ainsworth Allen N., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 8, qiiarrynian and farmer 
So. 

Ainsworth Ernest A., quarryman. 

Ainsworth Ethan N., off r 17, auditor, 700 sugar trees, breeder of grade 
Jersey and Holstein cattle, 9 cows, 5 head young cattle, farmer 140. 

Ainsworth Homer, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 8, laborer. 

Ainsworth Jefferson, (N. Calais) r 36, 200 sugar trees, farmer 35. 

Ainsworth Jeremiah B., r 16, 250 sugar trees, farmer 80. 

Ainsworth Joseph, r 32, retired farmer, aged 85. 

Ainsworth Nathan, r 16, retired farmer, resides with his son, Jeremiah B., 
aged 80. 

Ainsworth Orville, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) quarryman. 

Ainsworth Sidney E., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co) r 8, laborer. 

AMSDEN MINNETTIE E. Mrs., (S. Woodbury) r 24, resident. 

Anderson John, laborer. 

Angell George \V., (S. Woodbury) r 40, farmer 60. 

Angell W. F., (S. Woodbury) r 40, (W. F. & Willie H. Angell). 

Angell W. F. & Willie H., (S. Woodbury) r 40, breeders of horses, apiarists 
1 1 colonies, cjo fowls, farmers, lease of their father, George W., 60. 

Angell Willie H.,\S Woodbury) r 40. (W. F. & Willie H. Angell). 

Balentine George, teacher and quarryman. 

BALL EDMUND E., (S. Woodbury) (Ball & Daniels) town treasurer, 
manuf. of heavy wagons and sleighs, general repairer, owns half of 150 
acres of pasture and timberland. 

Ball & Daniels. (S. Woodbury) (Edmund E. B. and Samuel D.) props, saw- 
mill. 

Barrett Charles A. J., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 7, farmer 60. 

Barrett EUner E., quarryman. 

BATCHELDER FRANK L, (S. Woodbury) granite worker, pensioner, 
enlisted in 4th Regt., in 1864, at the age of 14 years, was wounded April 
2, 1865, at Petersburg, and discharged from service on account of 
wound, in June, 1865. 

Batchelder Nathan G., r 30. soldier in Co. H, 4th Vt. Vols. 

Benjamin Alton M., (S. Woodbury) r 44, lister, 400 sugar trees, farmer 75. 

Benj imin Hervy S., laborer. 

BENJAMIN JOSEPH, (S. Woodbury) r 42, prop, threshing and wood saw- 
ing machine, farmer 17. 

BENJAMIN LEVERN J., (S. Woodbury) justice of the peace, teacher, 200 
sugar trees, breeder of horses, farmer 37. 

BENJAMIN SAMUEL W., (S. Woodbury) r 49 cor. 48, prop, summer 
boarding-house, 350 sugar trees, 14 cows, farmer 100. 

BIGELOW RUFUS, (S. Woodbury) r 36, farmer 5^, served in Co. E, 8th 
Vt. Vols. [Removed to Cabot.J 

BILL CLARENCE B., r 16, 3 cows, and farmer 80. 



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BILL OILMAN, r i8, breeder of fine horses, 3 colts and i brood mare, i 

yoke oxen, farmer 40. 
Bill O. Wesley, r 16, machinist. 
Bill Silas, r 16, farmer. 
Blair Elmer L., (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 12, 17 cows, farmer, leases of 

Isaac Davis 400. 
BLAKE STEPHEN D., (S. Woodbury) r 30, pensioner and claim agent, 

1,200 sugar trees, farmer 118, served in Co. I and Co. D, nth Vt. Vols., 

enlisted in 1863, and served to the close of the war. 
Bruce Delia A. Miss, r 32, teacher, daughter of Roswell W. 
Bruce Edwin, r 23, dealer in horses, and grower of young cattle, 19 head, 

farmer 200, timberland and granite quarry 100. 
Bruce Lucius, brother of Edwin. 

Bruce Roswell \V., r 23, 500 sugar trees, 6 cows, farmer 100. 
BURNHAM ALBERT, r 32, 600 sugar trees. 6 cows, farmer 125, served in 

Co. H, 4th Vt. Vols., enlisted in Sept., 1861, and served to the close of 

the war. 
Burnham Elsina H., widow of Reuben G., resident. 
Burnham Frederick W., r3i, 500 sugar trees, farmer 59. 
BURNHAM GIDEON, (Hard wick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, 800 sugar trees, 41 

grade Durham and Jersey cows, 10 head young cattle, i yoke oxen, 

breeder of horses and full blood Chester white swine, farmer 450. 
Burnham Gideon, Jr., ( Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, farmer with his father, 

Gideon. 
Burnham Horace, r 45, 250 sugar trees, farmer roo. 
Burnham L. 0.,(S. Woodbury) r 30, 6 cows, 400 sugar trees, farmer 85. 
Burnham Lucius P., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 7, manager Crystal Brook 

trout ponds, and farm 100 for Emerson Brush, of Hardwick, and 

Walter S. Curtis, of W. Randolph, Orange Co. 
Burnham Luke P., laborer. 
Burnham Thomas, h and lot, aged 76. 
Burnham Willie, 15 cows, farmer 94. 
BURNHAM WILLIE A.,(E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 6, 12 cows, breeder of 

horses, 7 head, farmer 121. 
Bushey Fred, r 18, 600 sugar trees, 6 head cattle, farmer 100. 
CAMERON S. KI VIBALL, (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 6, 350 sugar trees, 

17 cows, breeder of bright red native cattle and Fearnaught horses, 6 

head, 20 sheep, farmer 100. 
Carr Aaron, laborer, h and i acre. 

Carr Austin E , (N. Calais) r 38, 400 sugar trees, farmer 70. 
Carr Heiry A., (N. Calais) r 38, farmer, son of Austin E. 
CARR HERMAN H., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 19, carpenter, prop. 

Nichols pond saw-mill, manuf. of and dealer in hard wood, spruce, hem- 
lock, and dimension liimber, farmer 75. 
Carr Hiel, farmer 40. 

Carr Jeremiah, (N. Calais) r 38, 500 sugar tree?, farmer ^^. 
Carr Jewett A., (N. Calais) r 36. Advent clergyman. 
Carr Lemuel B , (N. Calais) r 36, 500 sugar trees, farmer 44. 
Carr Milo, quarryman. 

Carr Prentice A., (N. Calais) r 38, farmer with his father, Jeremiah. 
Carr Will, laborer. 
Celley Chester W., (N. Calais) r 25, 200 sugar trees, farmer 100. 



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CELLEY CORTIZ F., (S. Woodbury) r 24, carpenter, joiner, and building 

mover, h and 2 acres. 
Celley Cynthia E., (N. Calais) r 25, dressmaker. 
Celley Edwin H., (N. Calais) r 36, farmer 40. 
Celley John T., (S. Woodbury) r 24, lumberman and farmer. 
Celley Willie A., (N. Calais) r 25, farmer, son of Chester W. 
Chase Chester, (S. Woodbury) 115, farmer 40. 
CHASE ERASTUS T., (S. Woodbury) r 30, cooper, manuf. of butter tubs 

a specialty, prop, shingle and siw-mill at the outlet of Martin pond, in 

Calais. 
Chase Lyman H., r 18, quarrymm, 500 sugar trees, breeder of horses, i 

brood mare, farmer 160. 
Cheney Moses W., (S. VVoodbury) r 15, shoemaker, and farmer 25. 
Christy James E.. (S. Woodbury) r 35, 300 sugar trees, farmer 125. 
CLAPP FREUIE H., r 32, farmer w.th his father, Oliver. 
CLAPP OLIVER, r 32, 1,000 sugar trees, breeder of horses, farmer 235, 

served in Co. h. nth Vt. Vols. 
Clark Alonzo A., (S. Woodbury) r 23, prop, saw-mill, 500 sugar trees, breeder 

of full blood and grade Durham cattle, 12 cows, farmer 175. 
Clark Ernest H. K., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 20, 400 sugar trees, 

farmer 112. 
Cleveland Hiram, (Cabot) r 34, r,ooo sugar trees, 6 cows, farmer, leases of 

E. T. Hopkins 225. 
Coolbeth Sidney, r 32, farmer 60. 

Cutler Erasmus D., (Hardwick, Caledonia^Co.) r 2, laborer. 
Cutler Laura A. Mrs., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, farm 65. 
Dailey Luke D., (Hardwick, Caledoiia Co.) r 19, 300 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Dana Charles H., (S. Woodbury) r 10 cor. 15, farmer, manager for his mother, 

Clarissa C , 75. 
Dana Clarissa C , (S. Woodbury) r 10 cor. 15, widow of Joshua M., farm 75. 
Daniels B. M., (S. Woodbury) r 47, farmer. 
Daniels Charles, (S. Woodbury) son of Samuel, miller, and prop. Morgan 

stock horse *" Ranger." 
Daniels Eddie M., (S. Woodbury) r 47, auditor, 300 sugar trees, 6 cows, 

farmer 125. 
Daniels Frank, (S. Woodbury) r 30, son of O. Alanson. 
Daniels George W., (S. Woodbury) r 24, auditor and grand juror, 21 head 

cattle, farmer 175. 
Daniels O. Alanson, (S. Woodbury) r 30, 15 cows, grower of young cattle, 

farmer 16 5. 
DANIELS SAMUEL, (S. Woodbury) (Ball & Daniels) prop, custom grist- 
mill, dealer in ilour, meal, feed, and plows, 200 sugar trees, 16 cows, 

farmer 200, and Green Mountain place 140. 
Daniels Willie, (S. Woodbury) r 30, son of O. Alanson. 
Davison James C, (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 12, 500 sugar trees, farmer 

102. 
DRENAN RYLAND F, constable and collector, prop, hotel, 1,000 sugar 

trees, grower of young cattle, 25 head, 9 cows, breeder of horses, farmer 

300. 
Drown Addison P., (N. Calais) Advent clergyman, and farmer 80. 
Dudley Joseph D., (S. Woodbury) resident. 
DUGAR ALBERT B., (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 12, traveling salesman, 

emp. Lydon Carriage Co., dealer in agricultural implements, 500 sugar 

trees, 6 cows, farmer 140. [Removed to Wolcott, Lamoille Co.] 



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225 



Dugar Aurilla L. Miss, (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 12, teacher, daughter of 

Albert B. 
DUKE E. HARRISON, general merchant. 

Button David C, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 20, farmer 80. [Deceased.] 
Fair John M., (N. Calais) r 27, shoemaker, farmer 45, and on r 10 farm 90. 
Farnsworth Lucinda A., (S. Woodbury) widow of Nathaniel L., h and lot.. 
Farr Roswell E., r 32, farmer with his father, William H. 
Farr Wavey S., r 32, farmer. 
FARR WILLIAM H., r 32, 550 sugar trees, breeder of horses, 20 pure 

blood Wyandotte fowls, farmer 85, served in Co. G, 3d Vt. Vols. 
Fay Wallace G., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 8, jobber m hauling granite,, 

200 sugar trees, Chester white swine and bronze turkeys, farmer 120. 
FISK ALICE S. Miss, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, teacher. 
Fisk George A., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, 400 sugar trees, 12 cows 

farmer on the estate of his father, Elisha C, 125. 
Fisk Josephine S., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, widow of Elisha C.^ 

administratrix, and resides on the estate of her husband. 
Fisk Josephine S. Miss, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, teacher. 
Fisk Julia L. Miss, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, teacher. 
FISK WILLIAM E., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, town supt. of schools. 
FOSTER GEORGE W., r 18, teacher of vocal and instrumental music, 

1,000 sugar trees, breeder of thoroughbred Jersey cattle, 12 head, 2 

brood mares, prop. Maple hill farm 123, served in Co. A, 173d N. Y. 

Vols ; 1st Lieut. Co. G, 174th U. S C. I , and aid-de-camp on the staff 

of General Banks, assistant P. V. M. for the parish of Orleans, La., 

and of the state of Louisiana. 
Fuller Emily, widow of Samuel, h and lot. 

George .Milo P., (Calais) r 13, farmer, leases of Ira Kent, of Calais. 100. 
Goodell Alfred M., (N. Calais) r 14, farmer, son of Eli. 
Goodell Charles C, (S. Woodbury) r 37, 6 cows, farmer 100. 
Goodell Daniel, laborer. 

Goodell Eli, (N. Calais) r 14, 400 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
GOODELL MARK P., (S. Woodbury) r 37, selectman, prop, cider mill, 400 

sugar trees, 12 cows, breeder of horses, farmer 125, served in Co. G, 

15th Vt. Vols., and was present at battle of Gettysburg. 
Goodell Warren B., (S. VVoodbury) r 28, lister, 300 sugar trees, 7 grade 

Jersey cows, breeder of horses, farmer 100. 
GOODNO MARTIN, r 17, carpenter, joiner, contractor and builder, soldier 

in Co. I. iith Vt. Vols. [Removed to Hardwick, Caledonia Co.] 
GREEN FOREST L., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r i, 1,000 sugar trees, 10 

cows, I brood mare, 2 yoke oxen, farmer 100. 
Cireen Horace (r., (Harciwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, farmer 4c. 
Harvey Hiland B , (Cabot) r 32, farmer with his father, Thomas, and lum- 
berman. i)asture and timberland 18. 
HARVEY THOMAS, (Cabot) r 32, i,ioo sugar trees, 10 cows, breeder of 

horses, farmer 190. 
Harvey William F., (Cabot) r 32, 300 sugar trees, farmer 60, and leases of 

George F. Harvev, of Saratoga, N. Y., 180. 
HASKELL CHAUNCEY C, (S. Woodbury) 500 sugar trees, 6 full blood 

Jersey cows, 50 sheep, farmer 141. [Removed to N. Calais.] 
HASKELL LONDUS W., (S. VVoodbury) r 43, trustee of surplus revenue, 

300 sugar trees, 9 cows, breeder of and dealer in horses, farmer 203. 

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2 26 ■ TOWN OF WOODBURY. 



Hatch Alfred E , (E. Calais) r 51, 800 sugar trees, 10 cows, grower of young 

cattle, 13 head, farmer, leases of Lewis O. Leonard 125. 
Heidenreich Martin, (Calais) r 13, emp. S. Elvena Jennings. 
Hill Isaac W., (S. Woodbury) r 28, (VViUiam A. & Isaac W. Hill). 
HILL WILLIAM A., (S. Woodbury) r 28, (William A. & Isaac W. Hill). 
HILL WILLIAM A. & ISAAC W., (S. Woodbury) r 28, too sugar trees, 
12 cows, farmers 150, own half interest in pasture and timberland 150, 
also farm in Hardwick, Caledonia Co., 116. 
HOLT ABRAHAM H., (S. Woodbury) r 49, prop. Lake View House, open 
for summer boarders, 700 sugar trees. 25 cows, breeder of full blood 
and grade Durham cattle, and full blood Chester white swine, farmer 181. 
HOLT CHARLES A., (N. Calais) r 36, 400 sugar trees, farmer 46. 
HOPKINS DANIEL E., (Cabot) r 34, 300 sugar trees, farmer 25, served in 

2d Vt. Bat. Lt. Art. 
Hurlbur.t John, laborer. 

JACKSON ORRA W., r 9, 300 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Jackson Weston E., r 30, 400 sugar trees, 7 cows, farmer 160. 
JENNINGS S. ELVENA, (Calais) r 13, widow of Nathan, 300 sugar trees, 

10 cows, farmer 231. 
Jennings Sylvester, off r 32, farmer, leases of William Harvey 60. 
Jewell Ira G., (S. Woodbury) r 30, notary public, and farmer 60. [Deceased.] 
Jewell Miranda, (S. Woodbury) r 30, widow of Hiram, aged 85. 
Johnson Calvin, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, farmer. 
Johnson Stevens J., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co ^ r 2, 10 cows, farmer 200. 
Keeler G. A., laborer. 

Kenaston Sarah, (E. Clais) r 50, widow of Ezra, farm 90. 
King Warren H., (S. Woodbury) r 40, farmer 50. 
Laird Charles A.. (Cabot) r 34, 400 sugar trees, farmer 75. 
LAKE VIEW HOUSE, (S. Woodbury) r 49, A. H. Holt, prop., open for 

summer boarders. 
LANCE GEORGE, (S. Woodbury) town clerk, postmaster, dealer in and 
breeder of fine Morgan horses, prop, stock horse " Fearnaught," general 
merchant, owns h, store, barns and 4 acres, house open for travelers. 
LANCE ROBERT W., M. D. (S. Wuodbury) homeo. physician and sur- 
geon, h, lot and 12 acres. 
Lawson Daniel, (S. Woodbury) r 39, retired blacksmith, and farmer, aged 71. 
Lawson Freeman, (S. Woodbury) r 39, breeder of horses, farmer 150. 
Lawson George B., (S. Woodbury) r 39, 225 sugar trees, 10 cows, prop. 

Morgan stock horse " Honest John," farmer 180. 
LAWSON NORMAN C, r 18, stonecutter, emp. Buck Lake Prospect 

Granite Co., served in Co. H, 2d Vt. Vols. 
LAWSON TRUMAN, (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 6. 500 sugar trees, 12 

cows, farmer 120, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols. 
Lawson Willard R., (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) off r 6, farmer no. 
Leach Hery W., (S. Woodbury) r 36, farmer 45. 
Leach L. Willis, (S. Woodbury) emp. Dr. R W. Lance. 
Le Baron Lafayette, (Lower Cabot) farmer 25. 
LEWIS EBEN N.,(S. Woodbury) r 42, 900 sugar trees, 12 full blood and high 

grade Jersey cows, farmer, leases of Charles H. Heath, of Montpelier. 
Lillie Charles D., (S. Woodbury) r 31, farmer 100. 
Lillie Patrick, (S. Woodbury) r 31, farmer. 
Lowell Willis T., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, 300 sugar trees, farmer, 

leases of the estate of A. E. Jeudevine 40. 
Lyford Andrew J., (S. Woodbury) r 23, hop grower, 14 cows, and farmer 250. 



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LYFORD MARTIN, (Lower Cabot) r 44, 200 sugar trees, 40 apple trees, 

farmer 70. 
LYFORD MONROE. (Lower Cibot) r 45, selectman, 300 sugar trees, 100 

apple trees, fruit grower, 6 cows, farmer 100, served in Co. C, 1st Vt. Cav. 
LYFORD PETER R., (Cabot) r 32, 400 sugar trees, 10 sheep, 3 yoke of 

cattle, 3 horses, farmer 1 12. 
Lyford Sherman H., (Cabot) r 32, farmer. 
Mack Justus W., stonecutter. 
Mack Orson M., carjienter. 
Mack Pauline, widow of Justus W. 

McKenstry Morris G , r 10, farmer, leases of A. E. Jeudevine 50. 
McKinstry Mary E. Miss, r 9, farm 15. 
McKinstry Morton, laborer. 

Mcknight CARROLL a., justice of the peace, carpenter, joiner, con- 
tractor and builder, farmer 40. 
Mcknight Nathaniel C, (N. Calais) r 26, 500 sugar trees, 6 cows, 

farmer 80. 
Minard Abbie O. Miss, (S. Woodbury) dressmaker. 
Minard Daniel, (S Woodbury) laborer, h and i acre. 
MORSE ANDREW J., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 6, 800 sugar trees, 20 

cows, breeder of horses, farmer 130, served in Co. E, 8th Vt. Vols., 3 

years, and received a gunshot wound in the head. 
Morse Ira, (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 6, 10 cows, and farmer 65. 
Morse J. A., (S. Woodbury) lives on his father's farm 100. 
Nelson Allen W., farmer. 

Nelson Duron B., postmaster. 1,000 sugar trees, farmer 165. 
NELSON WILLIAM T., (S. Woodbury) farmer, emp. A. H. Holt. 
Nichols Alpheus H, r 17, (Nichols &: Smith) prop, saw-mill, manuf. of and 

dealer in hard wood, spruce and hemlock lumber, timberland 200. 
Nichols John D., (N. Calais) r 36, farmer 50. 
Nichols & Smith, r 17, (Alpheus H. N. and Ashley E. S.) dealers in lumber, 

400 sugar trees, farmers 300. 
Osgood Leroy, laborer. 
PAINE AMASA A., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 7, breeder of and dealer 

in fast trotting horses, 5 head, farmer 100. 
Pierce Calvin, (E. Calais) r 44, farmer 90. 
Pierce Joseph B., (Lower Cabot) r 45. 6 cows, and farmer. 
POWERS AMOS W., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, 1,000 sugar trees, 13 

grade Durham cows, breeder of horses, 7 head, farmer 120. 
Powers I^avid, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, firmer 90. 
Powers PVank B , (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, farmer with his father, 

David. 
Powers Leslie L., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2, farmer. 
PRAY RUFUS M., (S. Woodbury) carpenter and joiner, h and 2 acres, 

cripple and pensioner, enlisted in 2d N. H. Regt., April 24, 1861, served 

3 months, reenlisted in 3d Vt. Vols., July 15, 186 t, discharged May 27, 

1865, participated in the battles of the Army of the Potomac, and was 

severely wounded in left foot and right hip. 
Putnam Fernando C. Hon., r 30, ex-county judge, justice of the peace, agent 

Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co., retired farmer, aged 72. 
PUTNAM HIRAM, (Cabot) r 32, 650 sugar trees, breeder of grade Durham 

cattle, 10 cows, farmer no, pasture and timberland 150. 
Rickard Henry A., pasture and timberland 26, and farmer, h and lot. 



2 28 TOWN OF WOODBURY. 



Rideout Clark, (Cabot) r 32, farmer 65, pasture and woodland 58. 
RIDEOUT HERBERT P., (E. Woodbury) r 32, general merchant, fire 

msurance agent, prop, saw-mill, manuf. of lumber and chair stock, and; 

dealer in furniture and all kinds of wood working machinery. 
Rockwood F. B,, Congregational clergyman. 
ROLLINS WINSLOW C, (S. Woodbury) r 35, 200 sugar trees, 5 cows, 

farmer 153, served in Co. D, 2d Vt. Vols., was at the battles of the 

Wilderness and Spottsylvania, and in Andersonvilje prison 10 months. 
Sabin Caleb, (S. Woodbury) r 43, 600 sugar trees, farmer 100. 
Sabin Gideon, (S. Woodbury) r 47, retired farmer, aged 79. 
Sabin Rawson A., (S. Woodbury) r 43, 800 sugar trees, 7 cows, fanner 100. 
Shatney Henry, (Cabot) r 32, laborer, emp. H. P. Rideout. 
Slayton Newell, (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 13. farmer 75, timberland 35. 
SMITH ASHLEY E., r 17, (Nichols & Smith) job teamster. 
Smith Daniel N., (N. Calais) r 36, farmer 50. 
Smith Edwin, laborer. 
Smith H. H., laborer. 
Smith Nelson, laborer. 
Smith Nathan, (N. Calais) r 36, resident. 
Southwick Fred E., laborer. 

Sprague Cyrus, (E. Calais) r 44, 300 sugar trees, farmer 62. 
Sprague Frank L., (S. Woodbury) r 44, son of Cyrus, laborer. 
Star Frank, laborer. 
Sulham A. B., laborer. 

Sulham Gustavus A., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 1, farmer 26. 
Tebbetts Elswcrth H., (S. Woodbury) r 43, 16 grade Cotswold sheep, grower 

of young cattle, farmer 20. 
TEBBETTS HENRY L., (S. Woodbury) r 43, (Tebbetts & Son). 
TEBBETTS JOHN Rev., (S Woodbury) r 43, (Tebbetts & Son) pastor 

Second Advent church. 
TEBBETTS & SON. (S. Woodbury) r 43, (John and Henry L.) 1,000 sugar 

trees, breeders of Morgan horses and Cotswold sheep, 17 head, growers 

of young cattle, farmers 180, apiarists 12 colonies, props, boat livejy, 

house open for summer boarders. 
Thomas Aimer B., r 22, lawyer, prop, granite quarry, 1,000 sugar trees, 7 

cows, farmer 140, and wild land 50. 
Thomas Oscar, r 22. overseer of the poor, manager of farm for his son 140. 
Thomas Warner, manuf. of bobbins. 
Town Jason W., (S. Woodbury) inventor, prop, summer boarding house, 

farmer 20, pasture and woodland 60, 200 apple trees, and 10 varieties 

of grapes. 
TROW (tEORGE C, (S. VVoodbury) r 23, carpenter, contractor and builder, 

breeder of horses, farmer 50, served in Co. H, 2d Vt. Vols. 
Trow Mary E., (S. Woodbury) r 23, teacher, daughter of George C. 
Trow Rose J. Miss, (S. Woodbury) r 23, teacher, daughter of George C. 
VOODRY LEWIS W., manager Woodbury (Iranite Co. 
Waite William H., (E. Calais) r 50, selectman, 250 sugar trees, breeder of 

horses, farmer 50. 
Walton James W., r 16, stonecutter, 300 sugar trees, farmer 53. 
Way Phdander, laborer. 

Way William. (E. Elmore, Lamoille Co.) r 13, laborer. 
Wells Leonard, r 16, 400 sugar trees, farmer, leases of Edwin Bruce 100. 
Wheeler Burt W , (S. Woodbury) farmer with A. J. Lyford. 
Wheeler Elisha B., (Lower Cabot) r 44, breeder of horses, farmer 65. 



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229 



Wheeler F. J., laborer. 

Wheeler Henry H., (Lower Cabot) r 44, 10 cows, farmer 100, and leases of 

Horace Biirnharn 100. 
Wheeler John F., (Cabot) r 34, farmer 10. 
Wheeler Nathan, (S. Woodbury) farmer, h and 4 acres. 
Wheeler William C., (S Woodbury) r 44, farmer, leases of Calvin Pierce 90. 
WHEELER ZIMRI B. Rev., (S. Woodbury) r 11 cor. 14, pastor M. E. 

church of Woodbury, selectman, 1,000 sugar trees, 11 head cattle, farmer 

160, served in Co. I, nth Vt. Vols., 3 years, and was discharged at the 

close of the war with rank of sergeant. 
WHITEN HENRV A., (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 2. justice of the peace, 

400 sugar trees, 16 cows, farmer 120. 
Whiten Thomas, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co ) r 2, aged 86. 
Wilber Daniel C, (S. Woodbury) r 44, farmer with his father, Orange A. 
Wilber Orange A., (S. Woodbury) r 44, 2,000 sugar trees, breeder of horses, 

farmer 200. 
Witham Aaron, (Hardwick, Caledonia Co.) r 8, lumberman, owns a farm in 

Hardwick, Caledonia Co. 
WOODBURY GRANITE CO., THE, (L. W. Voodry and H. W. Town) 

props. Woodbury granite (quarry, and dealers in rough granite. 



YIOKCKSTKK. 

(For explanations, etc., see page t,, part second.) 
(Postoffice address is Worcester, unless otherwise designated in parenthesis.) 

Abbott Charles W., r 6, laborer. 

Abbott Laura B. Mrs., r 26, milliner and dressmaker, and fancy goods. 

Abbott Maria E., r 25, widow of C. C, postmaster, and dealer in stationery, 

h and lot. 
Alden Ralph H., off r 21, lumberman and farm laborer. 
Alexander Fred B., r 26, sawyer, and foreman in C. M. Ladd's mill. 
Andrews Charles L., off r 21, 8 cows, farmer 125. 
Avery Asa, r 29, 7 cows, farmer 100. 
Bagley George A., r 26, laborer. 

Bagley James W., r 26, farmer, leases of Leonard Stone 6. 
Bailey Marsal J., r 24, 6 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Batchelder Royal K., r 20, 13 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Beardsley Charles W., r 15, traveling salesman, and farmer 6. 
Beardsley Willie H., r 16, laborer. 
Black Samuel, r 27, farmer 100, leases of L. Hutchinson, on r 25, 22 head 

cattle and farm 360. 
Brigham Marshall W , r 10, 9 head cattle, farmer 120. 
BROWN AARON I., off r 8, farm laborer, owns wild land 62. 
Brown Clark H., off r 8, 6 head cattle, farmer 75. 
BROWN ELMER E., r 26, h and lot. 
Brown George W., off r 8, farm laborer. 
Brown Ira W., off r 8. 13 head cattle, farmer 60. 



230 TOWN OF WORCESTER. 



Brown Phoebe A., r 26, widow of M. C, resident. 

Bruce Hiram, r 25, laborer. 

Bruce Lawrence, r 17, (William Bruce, Jr., & Sons). 

Bruce Leonard D., r 17, (William Bruce, Jr., & Sons). 

Bruce William E., r 17, (William Bruce, Jr., & Sons). 

Bruce William, Jr., & Sons, r 17, (William E., Leonard D., and Lawrence) 

lumbermen, lo'cows, 10 horses, farmers 213, and wild land 200. 
Buck Eugene M., r 11, farmer, leases of J. G. Richardson 50. 
Buck Francis E., r 18, gealer in groceries, flour and feed, h and lot. 
Burell William C, r 25, laborer. 
Cameron Aseph P., r 25, farmer. 
Cameron Fred, r 25, invalid. 

Camp Arthur H., r 2, prop, saw-mill, and dealer in hard and soft wood lumber. 
Carpenter Philo H., r 19, pastor Cong, church. 
Carr Erwin A., off r 8, sawyer for M. P. Wheeler. 
Carr Mary A. Mrs., r 7, resident, farmer 18^. 
Chandler Edmond E., r 7, farmer 30. 
Chase Amos J., r 25, carpenter and joiner, farmer 7. 
Cheeney Frederic E., r 8, laborer. 
Clark Daniel L., r 6, blacksmith, and farmer 6. 
Clark Harriet W., r 6, widow of L. C, resident, aged 74. 
Clark Robert, r 7, farmer 50. 
Coller Jacob E, r g, farmer 6. 
Collier Harvey W., r 5^, 8 cows, farmer 140. 
Connor Francis B, r 10 cor. g, 8 cows, farmer 150, served as soldier in the 

St. Albans raid. 
Copp Sevvell G., r 25, teamster and horse dealer. 
Corey Amos A., r 8, 11 head cattle, farmer igo. 
Corey Charles C. C, r 8, laborer. 
Corey Frank H., r 8, laborer. 
Corey Roswell, r 8, retired farmer, aged 88. 
Curry David, r 5, teamster, 10 cows, farmer 150. 
Darby James F., r 15, 6 cows, farmer, leases of C. Glymer 100. 
Darling Horace P., r 17, ist selectman and justice of peace, carpenter and 

joiner, farmer 25. 
Davison Eri, r 16, farmer 50. 
Dodge Ormel S., r 7, farmer 100. 
DRmKWATER TIMOTHY, r 28, 6 head cattle, farmer 60, served in Co. 

F, 13th Vt. Vols. 
Dugar Abner, off r 26, blind, farmer, aged 83. 
Dugar Albert B., off r 26, 20 head cattle, farmer 170, salesman for Lyndon 

Carriage Co. 
Dunham George W., r 25, blacksmith and horseshoer. 
Dunham Laura B., r 18, widow of B. F., farmer 180, resides in Barre. 
Durbey Alonzo, r 5|-, laborer. 
Eastman Joel C, r 18, teamster and laborer. 
Eastman Merton J., r 18, laborer. 

Eastman Ormill L., r 9 cor. 6, teamster for C. C. Putnam & Son. 
Ellis George H., r 2g, 125 apple trees, farmer 130. 

Ellis Warren, r 26, 100 apple trees, 12 cows, 13 head other cattle, farmer 100. 
Emerson Asel H., r 3, farmer 35. 
Emerson Oscar S., r 3, laborer. 
Emerson William, r 7, farmer. 



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231 



Emery Alpheiis H., r 18, teamster, and farmer 16. 

Farnsworth Alden E., r 3, farmer, leases of C. C. Putnam & Son 100. 

FENN GEORGE E., r 10, 9 head cattle, farmer 60. 

Fifield William, r 7, farmer 50. 

Frost Alvin L , r 5, 100 apple trees, 1 1 cows, farmer 150. 

Gimmer William, r 23, 10 head young cattle, farmer T25. 

Gould Chauncey H., off r 26, cjo apple trees, farmer 50. 

GOULD ELLEN E., r 2, widow of A. A., domestic. 

Gould James M., r 27, farmer 60. 

Gould Willis P., r 24, 7 head cattle, farmer 75. 

Gray Erastus P., r 12, 7 head cattle, farmer 47, on r 12^ farm 300, and owns 

3 farms in Middlesex. 
Hall Harry, r 20, 35 head cattle, farmer 187. 
Hall Murry J., r 17, laborer. 

Hall Wilber A., r 20, 6 head cattle, farmer 100. 

Hamblet Edward M., r 25, overseer of the poor, 16 head cattle, farmer 80. 
Hamblet Leonard, r 25, retired farmer, aged 86. 
Hancock Heman S.. r 15, 6 cwws, farmer 130. 
Hanscock Heman B., r 15, board sawyer. 
HARRIS CHAUNCY E , r 6, sawyer for C. C. Putnam & Son for 17 years, 

served in Co. K, 3d Vt. Vols. 
Harris Daphne, r 8, resident, lives with her brother Elijah B. 
Harris Elijah B., r 8, 200 apple trees, 8 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Harris Erwin C., r 8^, farmer with his mother, Mrs. J. S. 
HARRIS FRANK "L., r 6, sawyer for C. C. Putnam & Son, owns wild 

land 100. 
Harris Jenette S., r 8^, widow of M. M., 150 apple trees, 14 head cattle. 

farmer 150. 
Harris Ned M., r 8^, laborer. 
Hatch Carlos, r 1 1, farmer 65. 
Hatch Simeon, r 5, farmer 100. 

Hatch William H., r 25, blacksmith and horseshoer. 
Hathaway Frank A., r 23, farmer 50. 
Hayford Lucius W.. r 5^, laborer in Russell's mill. 
Heath William, r 26, laborer. 

Herriman Francis C, r 25, farmer 8, and on r 23 farm 100. 
Hinkson George H., r 8^, laborer. 
HINKSON LYMAN B^, r 8^, retired carpenter and joiner, aged 72, served 

in Co. H, 13th Vt. Vols.' 
Hinkson Mary J. Mrs., r 8^, owns farm 27. 
Hobbs Lewis E., r 10. 7 head cattle, farmer 65. 
Hobart James, off r 8^, farmer 100, aged 80. 
Holden Lemon J., r 8, laborer. 
Holmes Almond, r 8, farmer 10. 
Holmes Alvm H., r 26, farmer 7. 
Holmes Clark J., r 29, 11 head cattle, farmer 150. 
HOLMES IR.\, r 8, 19 head cattle, 400 sugar trees, 100 apple trees, farmer 

100, served in Co. E, 8th Vt. Vols. 
Holmes Lucy, r 8, widow of Stephen, resident, aged 76. 
Hovey Frederick W., r 11, laborer. 

Hovey Roger, r 1 1, lumberman, 14 head cattle, farmer 80. 
Hull Lvman M., r 25, laborer. 
Hull Will, r 25, laborer. 



232 TOWN OF WORCESTER. 



HUNT CHAUNCEY N., M. D., physician and surgeon. 

Hunt Chauncy, r 18, 500 sugar trees, 14 head cattle, 81 sheep, farmer 215. 

Hunt Dean (t. K., r 18, farmer with his father, Chauncy. 

Hurlbert Jeremiah H., r 20, farmer 20. 

Hurlbert Luther H., r 20, farm laborer. 

Hursey Edward, r 19, laborer. 

Jackson Charles H., r 1, laborer. 

Johnson Arthur L., r 13, farmer with his father. 

Johnson Henry S., r 13, 250 sugar trees, 12 head cattle, farmer 150. 

Johnson James, r 26, retired merchant, aged 76. 

JOHNSON SOLON F., r 12, laborer. 

Johnson Sumner F., r 13, laborer. 

Jones Henry P., r 26 cor. 27, farmer 50. 

KEITH LUCIAN H., r 25. prop. Worcester House, butcher, runs a cart 
to Calais, Montpelier and Worcester, served in Co. G, i6th Vt. Vols. 

Kelley Fanny P., r 6, farm ;oo. 

Kelley Nathaniel A., r 6, 16 grade Jersey cows, farmer 300. 

Kellogg Horatio T., r 19, laborer. 

Kellogg William H., r 10, 19 head cattle, farmer 140. 

Kellogg William H., Jr., r 20, 20 cows, 10 head young cattle, farmer, leases 
on shares of H. Templeton 300. 

Kemp Phineas A., r 18, 9 covs, farmer too. 

KIMBALL JOHN W., r 18, teamster and lumberman. 

Kimmis Austin, r 26, laborer. 

King Frank R., r 25 cor. 19, sawyer and laborer. 

King Henry M., r 19, 100 apple trees, 10 head cittle, farmer 80. 

King Sophia B , r 12, widow of D. G., farm 30. 

LADD CHESTER M., r 22, prop, saw, planing and grist-mill, dealer in all 
kinds of lumber, flour, feed, etc. 

Lafayette James B., r 12, laborer. 

Lathrop Clarissa, r 12, widow of B. G.. aged 81. 

Lawless William H., r 11, laborer. 

Lawrence Luke, r 14, 10 cows, farmer 388. 

Longe Jeremiah, r 7, laborer. 

Macy Joseph, r 14, 18 head cattle, farmer 100. 

Massey Daniel H.. r 18, teamster and farmer 28. 

Maxham George, r 18, teamster. 

Mayo Lewis F., r 5.^^, lumberman, stocks Russell's saw-mill. 

McAvoy John, off r 20, 10 cows, farmer 700. 

McFarden John, r 25, laborer. 

Miles Adin, r 20 cor. 21, 6 grade Jersey cows, farmer 120, aged 81. 

Moore George P., r 2, 8 grade Jersey cows, 200 sugar trees, farmer 106^. 

Moore William P., r 2, retired farmer, aged 79. 

Morse C. L. & E. M., r 6, props, saw and shmgle-mill, dealers in hard and 
soft wood lumber and shingles. 

Morse Charles L., r 6, (C. L. & E. M. Morse). 

Morse Ella M., r 6, (C. L. & E. M. Morse) widow of F. P., farm 36. 

Noble George E., ofif r 26, laborer. 

Nurse Calvin A., r 7, laborer. 

Olmsted Andrew E., r 12, 9 cows, 12^ apple trees, farmer 150. 

OWENS FLORENZO D., r 18, lumberman for C. C. Putnam, of Middle- 
sex, and salesman for O. W. Davis, of Waterbury. 

PAR.SONS ALONZO B., r i, (Alonzo B. & William Parsons). 



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233 



PARSONS ALONZO B. & WILLIAM, r 1, 14 head cattle, 6 horses, 600 

sugar trees, farmers 240. 
PARSONS WILLIAM, (Alonzo B. & William Parsons) served in Co. M, 

irth Vt. Vols. 
Pilbin John J., r 26, 7 head cattle, farmer 70. 

Porter Lewis W., r 25, dealer in West India goods and groceries, farmer 7. 
Pratt Charles A., r 11, laborer. 
Pratt Frank S., r 11, laborer. 
Pratt Samuel, r 11, farmer 75. 
Prentiss Isaac ("., r 8, farmer i^. 
Rawson Ella E., r 25, dressmaker. 

Rawson Sarah W., r 25, widow of A. L , dressmaker, h and lot. 
Reed Benjamin B., r 6, g cows, and farmer 200. 
Richardson Alonzo L., r ir, 10 head cattle, farmer 200. 
Richardson Calvin VV., r 12, farmer 10. 
Richardson George M , r 11, farmer 75. 
Richardson Joel S., off r 19, farmer 70. 
Richardson John H., r 25, laborer. 
Richardson Lydia A., r 7, resident, aged 8r. 
Richardson Melvin H., r 12, laborer. 
Richardson Nathan S., r 12, cooper, and farmer 16. 
Richardson Plumer H., r 7, 17 head cattle, farmer 100. 
Richardson Walter A., r 11, laborer. 
Rivers Henry, r 6, laborer. 
Rollins Ezra H., r 17, shoemaker, aged 77. 
Rowell Charles G., r 28. farmer 40. 
Russ Chauncey, r 8, retired farmer, aged 75. 
Russell Lewis D., r 5^, prop, steam saw and dressing-mill. 
Seaver Samuel M., r 25, 24 head cattle, farmer 140. 

Slayton Susan Mrs., r 3, resident, owns h and lot and 75 acres in Elmore. 
Slayton Thomas J., r 7, retired farmer, aged 80. 
Slocum Betsey E. Mrs., r 19, farmer 135. 
Slocum S.inford, rig, 250 sugar trees, farmer 135. 
Smith Charles S., r 20, farmer 50. 

SMITH DANIEL H.. r 24, farmer 2, served in Co. G, nth Vt. Vols. 
Smith James, r 25, farmer for M. L. Hamblet, 10 cows, farmer 107. 
Stevens Asa J., r 19, farmer 40. 
STONE ADONIRAM J., r 22, town representative 1888, 3d selectman, road 

commissioner, 12 head cattle, farmer 100, served in Co. H, 6th, and Co. 

H, 13th Vt. Vols. 
Stone George H., r 18, prop, saw-mill, owns h and lot. 
Stone George L., r 18, farmer 130, owns h and lot in village, and on r 23 

farm 28. 
Stone Jerome L., r 25, prop, steam saw-mill, nianuf and dealer in lumber. 
SYMONDS THOMAS, r 10, stationary engineer, and farmer 56. 
Templeton Fred E., r 25, town clerk, 2d lister, h and lot in vdlage, farmer 

and wild land 300. 
Templeton Horatio, constable, collector and law agent, dealer in lumber, 

timberland 800, 20 cows, and farm 300. 
Templeton James A., r 24, farm laborer, served in the Mexican war and m 

the ist Vt. Cav., in the civil war. 
Tewksbury Charles, r 6, retired physician and surgeon, aged 74. 
Tewksbury Charles C, r 18, town treasurer, carpenter and joiner. 



234 TOWN OF WORCESTER. 

Tewksbury F. P., r 6, 2d selectman, 10 cows, farmer 240. 

Tewksbury George D., r 6, retired farmer, aged 76. 

Thatcher David C, r 25, pastor M. E. church. 

Town Joseph, r 10, retired farmer, aged 73. 

Utton Edmund, r 2, 14 head cattle, farmer 175. 

Utton John W., r 9, farmer 50. 

Utton Oscar E., off r 2, farmer 50, on r 2 farm 100, and on r 3 farm 50. 

Utton Thomas E., r 5, 800 sugar trees, 20 head cattle, farmer, leases of J. A. 
Kelton 350. 

UTTON WILLIAM, r 6 cor. 9, 300 su'2;ar trees, 75 apple trees, 5 horses, 
13 grade Jersey cows, 6 head young cattle, 18 sheep, farmer 225. 

Vail Allen L., r 25, retired merchant, aged 77. 

Vail Harry D., general merchant. 

VAIL VV. ELDRIDGE, salesman, emp. Shepard & Norwell, of Boston. 

Vero Joseph, t 12^, q head cattle, farmer, leases of E. P. Gray 7 head cattle 
and farm 300. 

Ward William W., r 15, laborer. 

Warren Elmer E., r 12, laborer. 

Webster George L., r 26, lumberman, and owns wild land 300. 

Weeks Herbert A., r ri, laborer. 

Wheeler Clarence F., off r 17. farmer 150, and owns wild land. 

Wheeler Eri A., r 17, farm laborer. 

WHEELER ISAAC E., off r 17, 14 head cattle, 3 horses, 75 apple trees, 
farmer 140, and on r 3 farm 100. 

WHEELER MOSES P., r 8, prop, saw-mill, dealer in dressed hard and soft 
wood lumber, and groceries, provisions, flour, feed, boots and shoes, tele- 
phone in house, farmer 230, and owns wild land 200. 

WHEELOCK ALBERT, r 27, 220 sugar trees, 6 head cattle, farmer go. 

Wheelock Sophronia Mrs , r 27, resident, aged 78. 

Willey Ruth Mrs., r 26, housekeeper for VV. Ellis 15 years. 

WILLEY SELDEN, r 15, 6 grade Jersey cows, and farmer 125. 

Wilson Anna E., r 25, teacher, daughter of John R. 

Wilson James S., r 17, dealer in farm 'wagons, farming tools, sleighs, and car- 
riages, 10 head cattle, farmer 65. 

WILSON JOHN R, r 25, commercial traveler, served in Co. I, nth Vt. 
Vols.; enlisted as a private and discharged as rst lieutenant. 

Wilson Maud E., r 25, teacher, daughter of John R. 

Witham Moses, r 19, 6 cows, farmer, leases of Mrs. E. Scribner 60. 

Witham Willie, r 19, laborer. 

WORCESTER HOUSE, r 25, Lucian H. Keith, prop. 

Young Amanda, r 25, resident. 

Young Charles H., r 17, 28 head cattle, farmer, leases of E. Hubbard, of 
Montpelier, 200. 

Young Philander D., r 17, farmer 100, aged 74. 




\ESS D1RECT01(Y 



OF 



WASHINGTON COUNTY, VT. 



The towns are alphabetically arranged at the end of the line, under the butiineps classitica- 
tions. The postofBce address of each individual or firm follows after the name, except in 
cases where the name of the postofBce and the township is the same. In the villages the name 
of the street is generally given, and precedes that of the postoffice. The classification of 
farmers is omitted in this list, as they can readily be found in the general list, by noting the 
figures at the end of the line, which indicate the number of acres owned or leased by each. 
Road numbers signify the same as in the general list. 



Academies and Schools. 

(Not including Town Schools.) 

GODDARD SEMINARY, D. L. Maulsby, 
principal ; Mrs. M. B. Aitcheson, 
pi'eceptress ; A. W. Peirce, first 
asst. ; Grace B. Aitcheson, second 
asst. ; Miss L. M. Kendall, teacher 
instrumental music ; George W. 
Foster, teacher vocal music ; Mar- 
tha E. Calef, teacher painting and 
drawing ; J. M. Kent, teacher pen- 
manship, Barre 

Wheelock Carrie M. , (Kindergarten) 95 
N. Main st., '• 

risk Amy B. Miss, (Kindergarten) 149 

Main st., Montpelier 

St. Michael's Parochial School, Miss 
Honora Eagan, principal, oft' Court 

St., " 

VERMONT METHODIST SEMINARY 
AND P EM ALE COLLEGE, Rev. J. 
D. Becman, pres. ; Rev. E. A. Bish- 
op, piincipul, 1 to 17 Arsenal ave., " 

Washington Ccmnty Grammar and Mont- 
pelier Union Schools, Joseph A. De 
Boer, principal, " 

Norwich University, Col. Charles H. 
Lewis, pres. ; Hon. George Nichols, 
acting pres. ; P. D. Bradford, A. 
M., sec'v, Central st., Northficld 

GREEN MOUNTAIN SEMINARY AND 
MINARD COMiMElU'IAL COL- 
LEGE, Miss Elizabeth CoUey, prin., 
Waterbury Center. Waterbury 



Agents, Railroad. 

See Raih-oad Agents. 

Agents, Ticket. 

See Railroad Agents. 

Agricultural Implements. 

(See also Hardware, also General Merchants.) 
CARLETON EDWIN, r 6 n 7, Barre 

FIFIELD HORACE, (agent for mowing 

machines, horse rakes, and hay 

tedders) " 

Clark Emory H., E. Cabot, Cabot 

VOODUY SED(iWICK C. & CO.,Main st., " 
WILLARD MATTHEW D., East Montpelier 
FLINT LEROYA.. (agent Vermont Farm 

Mac^hine Co.) r 3, Middlesex 

Barrows cfe Peck, M IMain st., Montpelier 

Blanchard Fred, CM Main st., " 

Brooks .Johu V., 15 State st.. " 

FULLER D. L. & SON, Main cor. E. 

State St., 
ROBINSON L D. & SON, (mannfs. of 

comljined roller, seeder, and harrow. 

and hand grass seed sower) Main .st., 

Moretown 
Davis .John P., Northlield 

FIELD MOSES L., (Palmer horse hoes). 

r 1. 
Jones Fred A., S. Northfiekl, " 

Thayer Eber H., (mowers a)id horse 

rakes) r 15, 
Tilden Charles B,. " 

Ryan John, r 3, Plainfleld 



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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS — BARBERS AND HAIR-DRESSERS. 



ORCOTT OEIN W., Roxbnry 

THAYER IRA O., (plows;) r ;!(!. Braintrce, 

Orange Co., "' 

EATON O. G. & CO., VVaitsfiekl 

Eaton Orville M., Water st.. " 

Taylor Frank B , Stowe st., Waterbury 

Daniels Samnel, ( plows) S.Woodbury, 

Woodbnry 
Wilson .Tames S., r 17, Worcester 

Apiarists. 

BLANCHARD OLIVER E.. r 56, S. Barre, 

Barre 
COOK JAMES, r 13, Montpelier. Berlin 

DEWEY WILLIAM H., r 19. \V. Berlin. •' 
Hall Dean S., r V,7, S. Cabot. Cabot 

Hopkins Lewis A., r 55. " 

Hawkins Almon W., r 3, Calais 

Hawkins David F., r 3 cor. 4, " 

Hawkins .lohn W., r 3. '" 

ANDREWS GILBEBT R., r 33, Northfield 

BRIGHAM GEORGE W., r 33 n 30, Rox- 

l)nrv. " 

LOOMIS EDMUND A., r 12 cor. 13. Ber- 
lin, 
Spaulding Lovewell, Plaintield 

Cram Monroe F., r id, Braintree, Or- 
ange Co., Roxbnry 
Webster Aaron, r 33, E. Roxbury, '• 
DAVIS OLIVER W., Waterbury Cen- 
ter. Waterbury 
Angell W. F. & Willie H.. r 40, S. Wood- 
bury, Woodbury 
TEBBETTS & SON, r 43, S. Woodbury, " 

Apothecaries. 

See Druses and Medicines. 

Architects. 

•(See also Carpenters and Builders, also Con- 
tractors and Builders, also Masons 
and Builders.) 
BRADFORD WILBUR F., Barre 

Hawse Beiijanun B., " 

HUTCHINSON JERRY M., " 

LANE ALFRED W.. S. Barre, 
York Jobn E., " 

Woodward Hiram B., r 28, Montpelier. 

East Montpelier 
PRESTON CHARLES I.. Marslifield 

WOOD CHESTER J., r 38 cor. 37, Plaintield 
Gurnsey George H.. 68 E. State st., Montpelier 
Robinson Charles F., " 

Bellinger Lvle F., Northfield 

DEAL WILLIAM. Waterbury 

Artists, Portrait, Laiidscape, Etc. 

(See also Photographers.) 
Benjamin Emma J., (teacher) Barre 

Warren Elsie Miss, (oil painting) r 37, 

N. Montpelier, East Montpelier 

Corse Seth W., (crayon) 38 State st., 

Montpelier 
Oilman James b\, (portrait and laud- 
scape) Union block, " 
Gurnsey Mary A. Miss, (teacher of oil 

painting) " 

Towle Jessie J., (crayon) Main st., More town 
DOWNING FRED B., (crayon) Northfield 
Hurley Alwilda P., (teacher of drawing) 

Northfield 
Spaulding Lizzie I., " 

DALE GEOR(iE H. Mrs., Main st., 

Waterbury 



Auctioneers. 

RUGG HERBERT A., Washington st., Barre 
Slay ton Alonzo C. " 

Kent Murray A., r 40, Montpelier 

Howland George, r 58, East Montpelier 

Atherton Frank H., Waterbury 

Bakers and Confectioners. 

(See also Confectionery, Fruits, etc.) 

Jones William Coburn, 1 Central place, Barj-e 
CROSS C. H. A SON, 101 Mam st., Montpelier 
Kennej' George M., 223 Main st., '■ 

Stratton Susan H., (cake maker) 6 Sum- 
mer St., ■• 

Banks. 

GRANITE SAVINGS BANK AND 
TRUST CO., John Trow, pres,; H. 
O. Worthen, vice-pres. ; H. W. 
Blodgett, treas., Granite block, 
Main st., Barre 

NATIONAL BANK OF BARRE. L. F. 
Aldrich, pres.; Dr. B. W. Braley, 
vice-pres. ; Frank G. Howland, cash- 
ier; F. F. Cave, teller, " 

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONT- 
PELIER, John A. Page, pres.:F. 
L. Eaton, cashier, 41 State st., Montpelier 

M(mtpelier National Bank, .James R. 
Langdon, pres.; E. D. Blackwell, 
cashier, 13 State st., " 

MONTPELIER SAVINGS BANK AND 
TRUST CO., Homer W. Heaton, 
pres.; James W. Brock, vice-pres.: 
Albert W. Ferrin, treas.', 16 State st., '• 

Northfield National Bank, Geo. Nichols, 
pres.; C. A. Edgerton, Jr., cashier. 
Depot block, Northfield 

Northfield Savings Bank, George H. 
Crane, pres.; J. C. B. Thayer, treas.. 
Central square. " 

WATERBURY NATIONAL BANK, Hon. 
Paul Dillingham, pres.; Charles 
Wells, cashier, Main st., Waterbury 

Barbers and Hair-Dressers. 

CAYHUE JESSE, N. Main st.. Barre 

Chaussey Ernest, " 

French Albert, Jackson block, '• 

HUBBARD & WHEELER, 78 N. Mam st., " 
Perns Napoleon, Granite st.. " 

De Lottinville Francis X., Pavilion 

House. Montpelier 

Desoleau Charles, 24 State st., " 

Evans Charles G., " 

Field James. " 

Jangraw Oghtney, 36 Stale st., " 

Limoges Charles, " 

Paro Frank, " 

Pratt Felix, 52 Main st., " 

Smith Henry C, 46 State st., '• 

Talbot Henry H., 124 Main st., " 

Carpenter Frank N., Eagle block, Northfield 
Downing Arthur E., over Nichols's dimg 

store, " 

Wheat George, Plainfield 

Marshall William H., r 28, Waitsfield 

Burnham George J.. Park Row, Waterbury 
Dillingham John M., Waterbury Center, " 
Farrell Thomas J., Main st., " 

Gil^son Newell R., at Waterbury Hotel, " 
Lease Fred B.. at Trotter House, " 



BEE KEEPERS — BUARDLNG-HOUSES. 



237 



Bee Keepers. 

See Apiarists. 

Billiards. 

HOPKINS IJALPH E.. 55 N. Main st.. Bane 
MURPHY PATRICK J.. 105 N. Main st., " 
STEVENS CHARLES F., 59 N. Main st., " 
Campbell Umphrey, 80 State st., Montpelier 
Marron Charles W., 44 S. Main st., '■ 

Carpenter Frank N.. Eagle block. Nortlitiold 
Fletcher James C, Main St.. " 

HAMEL NELSON. Main St.. Plaintield 

Burnham George .J.. Park Row, Waterbury 



Bill Poster. 



Pratt Jerome J., 



Montpelier 



Blacksiiiitlis and Horseslioers. 

Baldwin HoUis, Barre 

Barney Lonis, r 74. " 

Benedict Carlos N.. " 

Boomhower Dick \V., " 

BRICiGS EGBERT C, Bridge st.. '• 

Conlon John F., " 

Connor Thomas, S. ]Main st., '' 

Corliss Alvah E., r 70, " 

Dawson David. •* 

EMERSON WALTER M.. 
Fletcher James T., " 

Ciearwar Frank \., E. Barre, '* 

Gerwaid Henry H., S. Barre. '•' 

Harroun Clayton P , " 

Harroun Isaac C, " 

Holmes Benjamin A.. 
MINARD CHARLES, Bnniliams Mead- 
ow road, '' 
Morgan Robert, " 
Morris George, " 
Rich Clarence L., r 70, " 
Ricker Fred B.. r 56, S. Barre. '•' 
Walsh William, 202 N. 3Iain St., " 
Barney Fiank, r 30. Berlin 
LEONARD CHARLES P., r 34, W. Berlin, " 
Morey Moses P , Montpelier. " 
Normandin Louis, Berlin st., Montpeliei', " 
Perrin Julius, Montpelier, *' 
Chandler Geoi-ge D., W. Danville, Cabot 
Davis Frank. Lower Cabot, " 
Duncan Frank J. , '* 
Hall Dean S., rf)7, 8. Cabot, " 
Miers Lafayette, Main st., " 
Brown Adm A., r 62. ^Montpelier. Ca-lais 
Lamberton Moses R.. Main st.. E, Calais, " 
Putnam Orson, Main st., N. Calais, '• 
Van Ormaii Jerome B., r 31), 
Perkins William, r 3, N. Dnxbiu-y, Duxbury 
Smalley Alfred B., r IK, Watta-biu-y, '• 
Leslie Frank. Jr., East Montpelier 
Cole Frank W., Marshfield 
Whitehill .James L., 

Leonard John R.., Middlesex 

Allard Telesphore, Main st., Montpelier 

Badord Peter, Elm st., " 

Barney Joseph, " 

Barney Lewis A Son, rear 51 Main st., '• 
Bruce Jett'erson, rear French block, 
Dannnian Matthieu, Elm st.. " 

GREEN ALBEliT A., r 1, '• | 

Jangraw Frank, " 

Leslie Fi'ancis, Elm st., " 

Lewis William C. 25 Main st.. •' 

Mooney John, 29 Elm st., " : 

Shin'ey Al])honzo, " | 



Davis Myron C., Main st., Moretown 

Freeman Melvin L., Main st., " 

Spaulding Franklin E., Main st.. '• 

Al>l>ott Franklin L.. Nortlitield. 
ANDREWS GILBERT R.. r 33. 
Brigys Warren C, S. Northtield. 
Cady George W., 

Colby Elhanan W., East st.. »< 

Davis .Joseph R.. East st., " 

Denny (reoige IL, S. Northtield. " 

George Henry M., r 43, S. Nortlitield. " 

Gokey Charles (/.. Main St., " 

(iosley Frank, Main cor. Water st.. " 

Greenwood Lew is, Gouldsville, " 

Knapj) liUtlier. '• 

Rock Louis, '• 

Smith Ai O,, " 

Smitii Vernon W., v 35. " 

Waterman George R., r 333^. •• 

Brufiee Fred H.. I'laintield? 

Fowler John W.. r 3. " 

KISER HARVEY O., '• 

Kiiapi) Lucius L.. " 
PAGE WALTER B.. 

BEAN ALBERT M.. Main st.. Roxbnry 
MILLER SIDNEY N., r 15 cor. 11. 

Stone Levi, r 27, " 

Barber John A: Son, Mnin st., Waitstield' 

McAllister william w.. r 28. 

Persons Edmund C., r 23, •• 

RUSSELL LUTHER J.. Main St.. 
Whitcoml) AbiJHh B., r 28. 
' *BANI-^TER <tEORGE, Water st.. Warren. 
BLAKE FRANK G., 

Drew (ieorge W., Main st.. " 

Drew .Joseph H., r 22, E Wainn. 
Shaw Benjamin F., 

CARPENTER HENRY H.. Wiitrrbury-- 

Ciirmll William H., Main st , 
Hill Irving N.. Wateibnrv Center, " 

HUNTLEY LEONARD. Waterbury 

iJeiiter, •' 

King Patrick. Stowest., " 

Knapp .John. •• 

Messer Joseph, Waterbury Center, •■ 

Warren Horace A., Stowe road, Watci-- 

liury Center, 
Wiisley Russel!, •• 

Clark Daniel L., r 6, Worcester 

Dunham Cieoige W.. r 25. '• 

Hatch William H., r 2.5, 

Boarding- If oiiscs. 

Burnham JTmiv N. Mrs.. 59 S. Main st., Barro 
Cngswcl Alfred V. B.. r 74. 
Cromwell Robert, S. Barre, 
Fias> r Daniel A., •' 

Hunt Henrv E. Mrs., 17 Hooker ave., " 

Hunter Sylvia .L Mrs., 198 N. Main sf.. 
Marrion Ann Mrs.. 8 Pearl St., " 

Scott lii/zie Mrs.. 45 S. Main st., "- 

SHEPAHD WILBUR, r 47'^. 
Simons Charles, Pleasant cor. Suinnier st., " 
SMITH HENRY L.. r 60 n 59, 
Suthtrland Catherine Mrs , ISIJrancJi st., "■ 
Taplin Ann S. Mrs.. 144 N. Main st., 
VINCENT JOSIE E. Mns.. Summer st., " 
Warliy Saiali, r 15, N. .Main st.. 
Woodward Horace P.. r 61, '• 

Woodwanl Justin P., r 74, '^'• 

I'earson Moses, r 13, >lontpelier. Berlin., 

Simmons Catherine Mrs., Northtield st., 
Montpelier. 



238 BOARDING-HOUSES — BROKERS AND DEALERS IN INVESTMENT SECURITIES. 



STEWABT CLARK H., (summer board- 
ing) r 43, Berlin 
Stone Harvey, (summer boarding) Main 

St., Cabot 

Leland Rufus, r 45, Middlesex 

Busweil Laura A. Mrs., 25 E. State st., 

Montpelier 
Camp Dian K. & Emma, 29 School st., " 
Fullertou Henry, 18 Barre st., " 

Havward Herbert A., 4 Loomis st.. " 

Hibbard Amy P. Mrs., 5 St. Paul st., " 

Hillside Boardnig-House, Mrs. Jennie 
G. Frost and Nancy R. Lougln'ey, 
props., 9 Court st., " 

Mead Frank L.. 32 School cor. St. Paul st., " 
Norris Melissa L. Mrs., 32 Main st., " 

Patterson Hannah H. Miss, 31 E. State st., " 
Sterlnig .^lartha E. Mrs., 12 St. Paul st., " 
Buttcrlifld Ruth H., Gouldsville, Northfield 
Houston x\aron B., Wall st. cor. Water, " 
BENJAMIN SAMUEL W., (summer) S. 

Woodlmrv. Woodbury 

TEBBETTS & SON, (summer) r 43, S. 

Woodbury. " 

Town Jason W., (summer) S. Woodbury, " 

Boat Ijivery. 

STEWART CLARK H., r 43, Berlin 

TEBBETTS & SON, r 43, S. Woodbury, 

Woodbury 
Book Binderies. 

Clark James D., 38 State st., Montpelier 

Wheelock Martin W., Willard block, " 

Boolcs and Stationery. 

(See also News Dealers.) 
Clark Daniel H.. 58 N. Main st., Barre 

EMER>;ON BROTHERS, N. Main st., " 

SMrrH CHARLES A., 44 N. Main st., " 

Long Daniel F., 32 State st.. Montpelier 

Wilder George W., 83 Main st.. 
Snow Albert E., Plaintield 

Joslyn Louie W., Main st., Waitsfield 

MORSE GEORGE W., Watcrbury 

Abbott Maria E., r 25, Worcester 

Boots and Shoes, Dealers and Shoe- 
makers. 

(See also General Merchants.) 
Bemis Silas B., Barre 

Bovce George P., 54 N. Main st., 
Ellis William. 

Emond John B., " 

Martin Fred, S. Barre, '' 

MARVIN \' WILSON, Averill block, 
McWHORTER FRANK & CO., 40 N. 

Jlain St., " 

MILES D. M. .'k CO., N. Main st., 
Morse Walter F.. 45 N. Main st., " 

PERRY & CAMP, 61 N. Main st., 
Shurtleff Otis D., 57 N. Main st., " 

Devine John, (custom slioemaker) Mont- 
pelier, Berlin 
Simmons James C, Montpelier, " 
AVERILL HENRY L., r 67, S. Cabot, Cabot 
FAIR SHUBAELB.. Main st., N. Calais, Calais 
Wheelock Russell, Main st., E. Calais, " 
Lawson Stillman, r 67, East Montpelier 
DAVIS GEORGE O., (wholesale maiauf. 
of hand-made kip and calf boots) 
Main St., Marshfield 
English George W., " 
Parks William, " 
Robinson Charles H., " 



Shepard Alvah M., Marshfield 

Shepard Chai-les E.. " 

CAMERON ANDREW J., Middlesex 

WythHoUisN., " 

Al'drich Edward H., 20 State st., Montpeher 
Brown John D., 7 Lane place, " 

Bullock Calvin L., " 

Dewing John A. 51 Main st., " 

DODGE OILMAN B., 107 Main st., 
Hall Francis, rear 124 Main st., " 

Long Abraham, 21 State st.. " 

Marvin .t Wilson, 20 State St., " 

Morairitv Thomas. 1 School st., " 

O'Grady John. 10 E. State st., " 

Shipman Charles H., 106 Main st., " 

Weeks William W., " 

Yatter Joseph. 12 E. State st., " 

Moulton Stedman D., r 28, Moretown 

Braman Dewitt C, Gouldsville, Northfield 
Grow Solon P., Central block, " 

Holt David P., Union block, " 

Patterson Tliomas C, near the depot, " 

PEARSONS LEONARD, 
PRATT GEORGE S., 1 Eagle block, " 

REED CHARLES E., 1 Eagle block, 
Sanborn Eben G., Depot building, '• 

Emerson Andrew, Main st., Plainfield 

Hill Freedom, r 27. Roxbury 

Dale James R.. Main st.. Waitsfield 

FULLERTON GEORGE H., Main st., •• 

Joslyn Louis W , Main st., " 

Ainsworth Leonard W., Warren 

Bruce George E., Main st., " 

Kennedy Henry R., Main st., " 

Fortier Herbert, Main cor. Stowe 

St., Waterbury 

GRIGGS JOHN C, Stowe st., '• 

King John J., Park Row, " 

Cheney Moses W., r 15, S. Wood- 
bury, Woodbury 
Fair John M.. r 27, N. Calais, •' 
Rollins Ezra H., r 17, Worcester 

Bottling Works. 

Burnham George J., Park Row, Waterbury 
Box Factories. 

Levison Si Lamb Mfg. Co., (druggists" 

wooden boxes) E. Calais, Calais 

Wheelock Martin W., (paper boxes) Wil- 
lard block, Montpelier 

Ward Hiram O., r 37, Waterbury, Moretown 

Bridge Builders. 

BATCHELDER O. B. & J. M., Banc 
White Ira L., N. Calais, Calais 
FARRAND DAVID E., r 19, Water- 
bury, Duxbury 
Edgerly Parker D., Middlesex 
Smith Silas S., Montpelier 

Brokers and Dealers in Investment 
Securities. 

Sprague John V., (loans and mortgages) Barre 
Smith Edward F., (stock and produce) 

r 39, Lower Cabot, Cabot 

Agency of the Public Grain and Stock 
Exchange, F. E. Spaulding, man- 
ager. State St., Montpelier 
Donovan John P.. 59 Main st.. " 
Farmers' Trust Co., The, F. A. Dwinell, 

pres., Union block, '' 

Shedd Lorenzo W., (investment securi- 
ties) " 



BROOM MANUFACTURER — CARPKNTERS AND BUILDERS. 



239 



Calls the attention of Mill and Lumbermen to his 



STEEL OX-SHOES AND NEW STYLE SLIDE OX-YOKE, 

very best in the n 
Also his New Si 

CANT-DOGS, 



The verv best in the mar- 
ket. Also his New Style 



Admitted by all that have 
used them that they have 
no eiiual. I also manu- 
facture all kinds of Clap- 
board Gouges and 
Chucks, Chill Picks, 
Small Machines Knives, &c 




All at Lowest Prices. Geo. Banister, AVARREN, VT. 



Broom ]>Iaiiufactiirer. 

Salter David N.. S. Barre, Baire 

Building JIateriuIs. 

Woodward Hiram B., (agent) r 28, 

Moutpelier, East Montpelier 

Building 3Iovers. 

BATCHELDER O. B. & J. M., - Barre 

BENNETT GEORGE H., 9 Court st., 

Montpelier 
Cavline George. " 

CELLEY CORTIZ F., r 24, S. Wood- 
bury, Woodbury 
Butter Tub 3Ianufacturers. 
(See also Coopers.) 
FORD FOWLER S.. r GO, Lower Cabot, Cabot 



White Jacob, r 52, E. Calais, 
BEMIS MARTIN D.. 
STEVENS CHARLES A 



f 17 cor 



Calais 
MarshlieJd 
. 15, 

More town 
Northtield 
Plaintield 
Waitstield 



Nelson Curtis W., r 29, 
TILL0T80N OLIN L., 
Marshall George C, r 28. 
OLMSTEAD GEORGE W., 
Lvford Horace W., 
COLBYVILLE MANUF'G. CO 

byville, 
CHASE ERASTUS T., r 30, 
bury. 

Cabinet Makers. 
(See also Furniture Manufacturers and 
Dealers.) 
Varney Charles C, 
Wheeler Oliver, Montpelier, 
Newton Henry H., E. Calais, 
Label Joseph, 
Loml)ard Nathaniel C, 

<'alei miners. 
AVERII-L CADY O.. Bridge st., 
Gabree Edward H., Montpelier, 
CLARK DAYTON P., Willard block, 

IMontpelier 
Cant- Dogs. 
Hall Dean S., r 67, S. Caljot, Cabot 

*BANISTER GEORGE, Water st., Warren 

Canvassers. 

Smith George C, (book) r 15, Cabot 

Turner Orson C, r 19, Waterbury, Duxbury 
Gould Herbert, r 16, Montpelier, 

East Montpelier 
Roberts Charles L., Montpelier 



Warren 
, of Col- 

Waterbury 
S. V/ood- 

Woodbui^' 



Barre 

Berlin 

Calais 

Montpelier 

Plaintield 

Barre 
Berlin 



Graves John, (book) Northfield 

YAW EMERALD E., (book) Plaintield 

Turner Orson C, (book) Waterbury 

Carpenters and Builders. 
(See also Architects, also Co7itractors and 

Builders, also Masons and Builders.) 
ARBUCKLE HOWARD B.. S. Barre, Barre 
AVERILL LINLY A., 

Avery John W., " 

Ayer Virgil E., " 

Baldwin Alger J., r 46, " 

BALL CHARLES W., " 

Ball George F.. " 

Batchclder Hiram T., " 

Batchelder Juhus C, " 

Bates Cliapin K., r 46, " 

Benjamin David T., " 

Bickford Daniel G., " 

Bugbee Clinton L., " 

Cady Leon C, Bridge st., " 

Camp Herbert O., '• 

Cheever Lewis A., " 

Clark George F., 57 S. Main st., " 

Corlis Nathan. " 

CURRIER CHARLES L.. " 
Cutis Allen E.. r 35, 

Daley George C, " 

Daniels Orville I., " 

Drown George W., " 

Duclos Dolphus, " 
GRANGER CH.\RLES B., 

Gregwair Oriie E., " 
Griswold Luther E., ' " 

Grosveuor Edgar, " 

Harrington Albert B., " 

Hawes Asa, " 

Hawes William E., " 

Hill George A., " 
HOOKER LOREN H., 

Houstcn George, " 

Hubbaid Abner P., " 

Hubbard Walter P., r 59, S. Barre, " 

Huse David R.. " 

Jones Horace H., " 

Kellv William. " 

KIRia^AND DAVID A., " 

Martin Thomas, " 

Maxtield Heman A., " 

Murchie John VV.. " 

Nnte James R.. " 

Paine Nathan R.. r 22, " 

PATTERSON AI, S. Barre, " 

Patterson John D., " 

I'atterson Merrill, r 58, " 



240 



CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS. 



Perley Heber S. , Barre 

Riley Martin. " 
Sargent Fred L.. r 63, 
SPEAR WILRERT M.. r 56, S. Barre, 

WATERS FREDERICK, " 

WILLEY LEONARD E., " 

Alexander Aniasa W., r 10, Montpelier, Berlin 

Bancroft Leonard, r 48, " 
Cass Tad H., r 18, 

Dudley George T., r 14, Barre, " 

Gironx Louis N., r 14, Montpelier, " 

Gove Winthrop, r 45, W. Berlin, " 

Jacobs Elmer E., Montpelier, ' '• 

March Abel, r 29, " 

Preston Philip, Montpelier, " 

Sanders David L., r 19, W. Berlin, " 
STEWART ROLLIN D., r 43, 

West George S., Montpelier, '' 
WILLEY GEORGE J., r 49, 

Y'oung J. Albert, r 13, Montjjelier, " 

Batchelder Ira, r 58, Plaintield, Cabot 

Elmer Palmer B., r 60, Lower Cabot. " 

FRENCH EUGENE M., r 63, S. Cabot. " 

Hall Eugene E., E. Cabot, " 

Osgood Herman, r 60, Lower Cabot, " 

Preston William, r 60, Lower Cabot. " 

Wilson Joseph, r 68, Marshfield, " 

Woodard Thomas E., S. Cabot, " 

Y'orlv Edson, '•• 

Bennett Chai'les S.. r 76, N. Montpelier. Calais 

Bidder Watson, r 20, N. Calais, " 

Chase Faridau N., r 57, " 

Dodge Don H., r 64. Montpelier. " 
Fay Willard, r 21, N. Calais. 
Freeman Harvey F.. r 66. N. ]\Iontpeliev. •' 

Hersev Nathaniel S., r 45, '• 
Jack Alfred F., r 29, N. Calais, 

Martin Louis K., N. Calais, " 

Nye Melvin, N. Calais. " 

Sabin John C. r 9. " 

WELLS ALVAH N., r 27. " 

White Elijah E., E. Calais, " 
White Ira h.. N. Calais. 

Amies Jesse W., r 19, Waterbury. Duxbury 
Farrand David E.. r 19, Waterbury, " " 
Fo-ter Samuel S., r 19, Waterbury, " 
Morse HazeTi C., r 19, Waterbury, " 
ARBUCKLE FRED N.. East Montpelier 
Arbuckie Pldlander. " 
BACON HORACE F., r 5. MoutpeUer. '• 
Choate Edwin R.. N. Montpelier, " 
Davis Oscar L., r 13, Montpelier, '• 
DINGWALL ALEXANDER, r 28, Mont- 
pelier, " 
Dodge William H., r 37, N. Montpelier, " 
Woodward William B.. r 28, Montpelier, " 
BOYCE JACOB S., r 4, N. Fayston. Fayaton 
Bruce Ethan A., r 31, Waitslield, 
DANA SAMUEL J.. r3()WV, Waitstield, 
JOHNSON STEPHEN, r 3, N. Fayston, '• 
Beniis Elias S , i" 15. Marshfield 
Brown Frank H., " 
Huntley Fraidv G., r 51, Plainfield, " 
KISERMILFORD N.. off r 36, Plainfield. " 
PITKIN WILLIAM W.. otf r 36, Plain- 
field, 
Preston Henry C, r 9, , " 
Robinson Christopher, r 22, " 
Sanborn J. Freeman, " 
Severance John L., " 
TOWNSEND HERMAN F.. r41, Plain- 
field, 
Francis Edgar A., r 18, Montpelier, Middlesex 
Kent Melvin P.. r 7. Pntnamsville " 



Middlesex 



Montj)elier 



Knapp RoUand, r 43, 
Long Myron G., r 28, 
McMurpliy Cornelius, 
Adams Anson, 
Alexander Ambrose J., 

Alexander Frank, •' 

Alexander Jabez, " 

Andrus A. Charles, " 

Aubin John, •' 

Bard George W., " 

Barnes Christopher O., •' 
BROWN GEORGE O., 

Butte rriy George, " 

CatieEli, " 

Chennette Phillias, " 
Clark Charles W., 

Cram Erastns, " 
Dodge Fred E., r 1, 

Dunham Dennis C, " 

Fisher Theodore. " 

Fox George W., " 

Freeman Harvey F., " 

Goodrich Heman W., "• 

Goodwin Lucius S., " 

Goodwin William W, " 
GOSS GEORGE M., 

Gould Gustavus, " 

Gould Joseph. " 

Hall Marvin J., " 

Harran Charles, " 

Hopkins Homer C, " 

Howland Jamew M., r 12, " 

Hoyt Franklin, " 
HUTCHINS EDWIN F.. 

Kerin Daniel P., " 

Knapp Julius P., " 

Label Joseph, '^ 

Lusha Frank. " 

McClure Frank H., " 

Mead Fjank L., *• 
Mills Horace, 

Murphy William, »' 

Noyes W. Wallace, " 

Noyes William, '- 

Owen Amariah A., r 1, '• 

Perkins Jonathan, r 12, •'• 

Perkins Elkins (I, r 12, " 

Rivers John ri., '• 

Sanders Charles A., , " 

Scribner Benjamin F., " 

Silloway Joseph B., •' 

Smith Andrew J., " 

Smith Tliomas C, '• 

Stickney Charles A., " 

Svvasey John W., " 

Wakefield Christopher C. '• 

WHITNEY ROBERT H., " 

Willard John T.. " 

Wood Charles L., " 
Brownson Augustus C.. r 11, Middlesex. 

Moretowii 

Casey Thomas, r 8, Middlesex, " 
CHILD HENKY F., r 24 cor. 25, 

Harrington Oscar A., Main st., '• 

Haseltine Walter, r 3, Waterbury, •' 

Haseltine Albert H., r 3, Waterburj', •' 

JOSLYN EUGENE E., Main st., " 

Silloway David C, r 22. Montpelier, " 

Thomas Ernest S., r 24, •' 

Thornton George A., Main st., " 

Towle John C, Main st., " 

Town Emerv, r 3, Middlesex. " 
Whittlesey Calvin B., oft' r 15, 
Austin Julius T , Northfield 



CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS — CARRIAGES, SLEIGHS AND WHEELWRIGHTS. 241 



Benedict Charles M., Goiildsville, Northfield i 

<natiin William H. H., " | 

Cook Arthur C, r 33^.;. " j 

Cook David A,, r 3. Gouldsville, '• ! 

CUTLER HARVEY M., r 9 n 8, " j 

Denny George H., S. Northtield, " 

Eastman Frank J., " 

Hassam Nelson, r 9. a ^ 

Hedges James B., off r 5, " 

Houston T. Jefferson, " 

Howe T. Emmons, •' 

Kellev Edwin P., r 9, " 

Lawton Willis D., r 33}.2' cor. 30. " 

Loveland Josiah S., " 

Mac(xillivray Allan, off" r 9, " 

Newton Franklin S., " 

PERKINS HIRAM H., r 14, Berlin, " 

Pervier Chailes L., r 9, " 

Pervier William M., r 9, " 

Rich Hollis L., Gouldsville, " 

Rich Luther, r 3, (louldsville, " 

Richardson Joseph 15. , •' 

Silsby Eben M.. . " 

Thompson Samuel F.. Goulilsville, " 

White Charles A., " 

Willev John. " 
Winch Ozro P., 

Woodbury Natlian K., '• 

Wright Francis, S. Northtield. •' 
Batchelder Ira, Plainiield 

Duke Edward V., r 3, " 

Mansfield Jolin, •' 
PEARSONS LEROY J., r 32, 

Spauldiug Lovewell, " 
Buck Dwight L., r 35, E. Roxbnry, Roxbury 

Smith Hiram P., '' 

Spauldiug Marshall S.. r 10, " 

Wiley Rodney A., r 7, *' 
Atherton John B., r 28, Waitsfield 

Gleason David, " 

Harris Jarvis C, r 19, " 
La Bell Peter, r 19, 

Long Moses J., r 29, " 

OLMSTEAD (JEORGE W.. •' 

Richardson Albert F., r 21 cor. 23. " 
SAVAGE CHARLES E., r 31, 

Strong Albert W., r 28, " 

Strong William, r 28, '• 

WILDEli WILLIAM F., r 21, " 
Bagl.v Minlter F., r 13. Warren 
Billings Clarke E., r 31, 

Carpenter Frank A., " 

Clark Oliver L . r 39, " 
Clough Orris H., 

Goodspead Myron R.. r 21, " 

Martin Carlos, r 31, " 

Martin Oscar E., " 

McAllister willia:\[ v.. 

Miller Edward W., 

Shaw Benjamin, " 

Sumner (iodfrey, " 
Ayers Azro L., r 9. Waterbury ('enter, 

Waterbury 

Blais Joseph, " 

Bryant Lorenzo. " 

Coiffrin John, " 

CrossettThaddens B.. " 
Culver Elbri<lgf G., Waterbury Center, " 

Demmon Geoige C, '' 
ELLIOTT ISAAC H., S. Main St.. 

Fortier Alfred, " 
Hutchins B. Corliss, Waterbury Center, " 
Johnson Healey H., Waterbury Center, " 
Marshall Clarence D., r 36, " 

16 



Marshall David A., Waterbury Center, 

Waterbury 
Marshall John, r 20, •' 

Martin Almon, r 43, " 

Morse Lewis O., r 13, Waterbury Center, " 
Smalley Aaron K., r 10. Waterbury Center. '• 
Smith Harvey P., Waterbury Center, " 

Tanner Edwin L., " 

Whitney Julius H., r 4, " 

Woodworth Edwin M., Waterbury Center. " 



r 19, Hardwick. 

Woodbury 
r 24, S. Woodbury, " 



CARR HERMAN H. 

Caledonia Co., 
CELLEY CORTIZ F. 
Mack Orson M., 

Mcknight carroll a., 

PRAY RUFUS M., S. Woodburv, 

TROW GEORGE C, r 23, S. Woodbury, '• 

Chase Amos J., r 25, Worcester 

Darling Horace P., r 17, " 

HINKSON LYMAN B., r 8.U, 

Tewksbury (Uiarles C, r 18, " " 

Csirpet Weavers. 

Abbott Lemira A. Miss. Union st., Northtield 
Cressv Sophronia L., r 3. Gouldsville, " 

WILLIAMS ALICE P., r 8. 



je Triniiiier. 



Waterbury 



M(uitpclier 



riase, Wajioii, anrl Slciijli ]>Iaiiii 
t'ac'turers, and Wlleei^v^if•ilts. 



Proctor Ann, r 33, 
Carria 

Selinas (Charles W., 

Carr 
fac 

BLANCHARD HIRAM, S. Bane. Bane 

BURNHAM MARCUS N.. " 

Cady Gay I., (repairing) Ci-idgc st.. '' 

Cadv Leon C. Bridge st.. 
MORSE JAMES, S. Main st. . 
Walker Otis F., 

Preston Philij), Montpelier, Berlin 

Richardson Lafayette, r 30, " 

Wade Ciiarles, Montpelier, " 

Collins Ormaii R., Cabot 

Everette Hngli M., " 

AINSWORTH OSCAR W.. Calais. 

BANCROFT IMALLOliY M.. 
Nve Melvin, N. Calais. " 

WATSON CHARLES A., r 24, 
Balding W. Edwin, i- 43, Moretowu, Duxbury 
Perry Jesse T., r 19, Waterl)ury, '" 

Clifford Anii)lyus B., East Montpelier 

Heaton Frcil S., r 12, N. Fayston. Fayston 

Davis J. \Vhitney, Marshfield 

Pitkin Daniel B., (repairer) "' 

W'oodward 1-oomis. (repairer) " 

Hamlilett Newell C, Middlesex 

HILLS JUSTIN B.. r 43, 
1 HOWARD SEAVER, (agent H. H. Bab- 
I cock Buggy Co., of Watertown, N.Y.) " 

! Catie Eli. Jr., 1 Elm st., Montpelier 

CATIE ELIE A.. 

GUPTIL DANIEL A., 2 Hazen place. 
Mayo David, 29 Elm st., '• 

Novcs Storrs T., rear JIain St., " 

I YOUNG BARD P., rear Montpelier House. " 
I Lovejov A, Towle. Main st., Moretown 

Mead Silas O., r 10, Middlesex, " 

' Andrews (iilbcrt R., r 33, Northtield 

CHASE ALBERT C, Eastst., opp. depot, " 
Cliase Alfred O., Mam st.. " 

Dennv George H., S. Northtield, 
EASTMAN IIODOLPIIUST., 
FISHER GEORGE H.,r 44 n 38, S. North- 
field, 
1 Mead Frank S., Union n Main st., 



242 CARRIAGES, WAGONS, SLEIGHS AND WHEELWRIGHTS CLERGYMEN. 



DonRlass Arthur J., Water st., Plainfield 

Buck Dwiglit L . r 35, E. Roxburv, " 

MILLER SIDNEY N.. r 15 cor. li, " 

ISIEWCOMB JAMES S. H., r 28, Waitsfield 
WILDER WILLIAM F., r 21, 
<xeer Don Carliis, Main st., Warren 

Sterling Maurice, " 

Adams Joseph, r 10, Waterbury Center, 

Waterbury 
AYERS ORLO L., off Main st.. 
BARBER MARTIN C, r 29, Waterbury 

Center, " 

Collins Elon G., Main st., " 

Hill Irving N., Waterbury Center, " 

Parcher Josiah F., r 12, Waterbury 

Center, " 

Smith Harvev P., Waterbury Center, " 

BALL EDMUND E., S. Woodbury, Woodbury 
Wilson James S., r 17, Worcester 

Chair Manufacturer. 

.SMITH STEPHEN B., (reed and rattan) 

76 State st., Montpelier 

Chair Seating. 

Taft Lyman A., Barre 

Cliair Stock 3Ianufacturers. 

Graves Jonathan C, r 69, Marshfield, Cabot 
Graham Frank E.. Montpelier 

ROBINSON L D. & SON, Main st., Moretown 
BATCHELDER J. M. & SON, Plaintield 

Laird H. S. & Son, *' 

Cheese Dealer. 

Pray Ephraim N., Montpelier, East Montpelier 

Cheese Factory. 

HILL EDSON K., r 47, Plainfield, Marshfield 

Cider- 3Iills. 

BASSETT GEORGE W., r 28, Barre 

BROWN WILBUR, r 10, Montpelier, Beiiin 
Chase Wareham A., N. Calais, Calais 

Lewis Abel A., r 6, Waterbury, Duxbury 

Newhall Joseph, r 10, Middlesex, Moretown 
STEVENS CHARLES A., r 17 cor. 15, 
■Stetson John W., r 47. Warren 

Stetson .Jonathan A. R., r 47, " 

Hayes Eber C, Waterbury Center, Waterbury 
Rhoads Nathaniel A., " 

OOODELL MARK P., r 37, S. Wood- 
bury, Woodbury 
Cigar Manufacturers. 
(See also Tobacco and Cigars.) 
MARRION PETER P., Miles block, Barre 
Allen Artluir, 38 State st., Montpeher 
STANDISH FRED A., 42 State st., " 

Cigars and Tobacco. 

See Cigar Manufacturers, also Tobacco and 

Cigars, also Grocers, also Drugs, also 

General Merchants. 

Civil Engineers and Surveyors. 

WHEELOCK D. BROOKS, r 50, Barre 
PITKIN ELI S., Marshfield 
FOSTER JOEL, 58 Main st., Montpelier 
HOLT DAVID C, r 27, Moretown 
Belhnger Lvie F., Northfield 
SMITH HORSCHEL F., r 11, Water- 
bury Center, Waterbury 



Claim Agents. 

See Pension and Claim Agents. 



Clairvoyant. 

AINSWORTH GEORGE W., 



Montpelier 



Clapboard-Mills. 

(See also Saw-Mills, also Lumber Manufact- 
urers and Dealers.) 
Baird Hugh, r 26. Waitsfield, Fayston 

BILLINGS C. D. & SON, r 32, Waitsfield, " 
DAVIS EDGAR A., r 13, N. Fayston. " 

GRANDFIELD JOHN A., r 3, N. Fayston, " 

Clergymen. 

Beeman Leonard L., (M. E.) Barre 

McMillan peter, (Cong.) Eastern 

ave., " 

Rhoads J. Frank, (Universalist) 1 S. 

Main st., " 

Wheeler Abraham M., (M. E.) 17 E. Park 

St., " 

Crane Hubbard K., (Free Baptist) W. 

B-rlin, Berlin 

Hall John J., (Cong.) r 30, " 

Worthing Waldo B., (M. E.) W. Berlin, " 
Knapp James E., (Methodist) Elm st., Cabot 
Russell Henry A., (Cmig.) Main st., " 

Bliss Albert N., r 36, E. Calais, Calais 

Davis Orin, (Christian) r 28, " 

Wheeler Benjamin F., (Christian) r 26, 

Worcester, " 

Warren Lester, (superannuated Univer- 
salist) r S7. N. Montpelier, East Montpelier 
Bailey Jeiome D., (Cong.) Marshfield 

ClHpp Orville D., (M. E.) " 

B.uney Milo li., (M. E.) Middlesex 

Currier John, (superannuated M. E.) 45 

Arsenal ave., Montpelier 

Havford Sylvester C, (Universalist) 89 

'E. State St., ' " 

Hill Howard F., (Episcopal) 64 State 

St., " 

O'Siillivan William J., (Catholic) 51 

Court St.. " 

SHERBURNE JOEL O., (M. E.) 162 

Mam St., " 

Smith Charles S., (Cong.) 20 Bailey ave., " 

Stone John F., (retired Cong.) 164 Main 

St., " 

Truax A. B., (presiding elder M. E. 

churcli) Arsenal ave., " 

WRIGHT J. EDWARD, (Unitarian) 19 

Baldwin st., " 

Beard Ira, (superannuated M. E.) Northfield 
BEMIS JEREMIAH W., (M. E.) " 

Booth Isaac P., (Universalist) " 

Brelivet J., (Roman Catholic) " 

Hazen William S., (Cong.) " 

Hitchcock Alonzo, (superannuated M. E.) '' 
Kidder William J., (superannuated M. E.) " 
Pratt Horace, (retired Cong. ) " 

SIMONDS JOEL, (retired Christian) " 

Webb Alfred H., (M.E.) " 

White Homer, (EiJiscopal) " 

Farnsworth Charles H.. (M. E.) Plainfield 
Fortney LeRoy F., (Universalist) " 

Swinnerton William T., (Cong.) " 

HOWARD HENRY C, (Cong.) Roxbury 

Fisk Elisha, (Cong.) Waitsfield 

Howe George O., (M. E.) " 

Brigliam Leander H., (Advent) r 20, E. 

Warren, Warren 



:LERGYMEN — COOPERS. 



243 



Cahee CharleB E., (W. M.) r 34, E. Warren, 

Warren 
Butler Fitzalard H., (Free Baj^tist) Water- 
bury Center, Water bury 
Coffrin Joslnia. (retired Free Baptist) " 
EDWARDS HENRY R., (local M. E.) 
Fuller Ezra B., (Free Baptist) Water- 

bnrv Center, " 

SHELDON CHARLES M., (Cong.) 
Smith George E.. (M. E.) " 

TENNEY LEONARD, (retired Cong.) 
Webster Harvey, (M. E.) Waterbury 

Center, " 

Carr Jewett A., (Advent) r 36, N. Calais, 

Woodbury 
Drown Addison P.. (Advent) N. Calais, " 
Bock wood T. B.. (Cong.) " 

Tibbetts John, (Second Advent) r 43, S. 

Woodburv, " 

WHEELER ZIMRI B., (M. E.) r 11 cor. 

14, S. Woodbury, " 

Carpenter Philo H., (Cong.) r 19, Worcester 
Thatcher David C. (M. E.) r 25, " 

Cloth- Dressing. , 

See Wool-Carding and Cloth-Dressing. 
Clothes-Pin 3Iiinufa<'tiirers. 

United States Clothes-Pi u Co., Stephen 
Thomas, pres.; S. T. Newcomb, vice- 
pres. ; W. K. Sanderson, sec'y and 
treas.. Main st., Blontpclier 

•Clothiers, Merchant Tailors, and 
Tailors, 

(See also General Merchants.J 
Boyce George P., 54 N. Main st., Barre 

Guilev Sarah Mrs., (tailoress) " 

McWHOUTER FRANK & CO., 40 N. 

Main st., " 

MILES D. M. & CO., N. Main st., " 

MILLS HENRY Z., 36 N. Main st., 
Rice Eli T., 80 N. Main st., " 

Adams William E., 60 State st., Montpelier 
DENNY GEORGE B B., 14 State st., " 

Farwell Arthur D.. 75 Main st., " 

Nichols George L., 69 Main st., " 

Riker Rufus R.. " 

WOOLSON BROS., 26 State st., " 

Clancy Aiice B., (tailoress) Pleasant st., 

Northfield 
REED CHARLES E.. 1 Eagle block, 
Tall)()t J. H. h Co., Central st., " 

BOYCE NATHAN, r 3, Waitsfield 

Cutler Marv A., (tailoress) " 

FULLERTON GEORGE H., Main st., " 
Collriu Lucrecia H., (tailoress) Waterbury 
Knight Moses M., Stowe st.. " 

Marsh 11 Ira A., " 

STRANAHAN MILLARD F., Main, 

head of Stowe st., " 

Coal Dealers. 
(See also Wood Dealers.) 
BURNHAM MARCUS N., Barre 

Hawes Charles M., " 

Blanchard Asa, Montpelier 

PIERCE HIRAM M., 

Shambo Aughtney, " 

Sanborn Eben G.", Depot building, Northfield 
BROWN ANDREW J., Waterbury 

Coffins and Caskets, 

(See also Undertakers.) 
Geer Don Carlos, Main st., Warren 



Commission Merchants. 

Jackson GilmaTi I., 42 N. Main st., Barr© 

Slocum Ward A.. 42 Main st., Montpelier 

Concrete Walks. 

West George S., Montpelier, Berlin 

Confectionery, Frnits, Ice Cream, 

Ktc. 

(See also Bakers and Confectioners, also Gro- 
cers, also Fruit Dealers.) 
Clark Daniel H., 58 N. Main St., Barre 

Glynn William, (manuf.) 10 Elm and 

49 N. Main sts., " 

Huntington & Son, 5 and 7 State st., 

Montpelier 
Jackson William, " 

Snow Albert E., Plainfleld 

WELLS ERNEST C, " 

Joslyn Louie W., Main st.. Waitsfield 

Contractors and Builders. 

(See also Ai'chitccts, also Carpenters and 

Builders, also Masons and Builders . ) 
BRADFORD WILBUR F., Barre 

CUTLER CASSIUS H., " 

Gal agher Richard. " 

HUTCHINSON .JERRY M., '• 

SCOTT LUCIUS VV., " 

Ward Joseph H., (railroad) " 

Crossett James, Montpelier, Berlin 

Davis Langdon J., Montpelier 

Gurnsev George H., 68 E. State at., " 

Clafiin William H. H., Northfield 

Thompson Samuel F., Gouldsville, " 

Williiuns Simon C, " 

BATCHELDER JAY M . r 24, Barre, Plainfleld 
BATCHELDER SEWELL A., " 

Gove Natt B., " 

ELLIOTT ISAAC H., Waterbury 

Woodworth Edwin M., Waterbury 

Center, " 

McKNIGHT CARROLL A., Woodbury 

Conveyancer, 
(Sc;e also Lawyers.) 

SMITH FRANK N., Waterbury Center, 

Waterbury 
Coopers, 
(See also Butter Tub Manufacturers, also 

Woodenware.) 
Thwing James, Barre 

Cummings J. L. & Son, r 11, Montpelier, 

Berlin 
Currier Charles P., r 10, Montpelier, •' 

Dodge N. Brown, r 28, " 

AVERILL HENRY L.. r 67, S. Cabot, Cabot 
Batchelder Joshua, r 39 cor. 55, Lower 

Cabot, " 

Dow Winslow, r 48. E. Cabot, " 

White Elijah E., E. (Calais, Calais 

Shouio Sewell P., r43. Moretown, Duxbury 
Templeton C. Clark, r 12, Montpelier, 

East Montpelier 
Boyce Dan, r 23, Waitsfield, Fayston 

Grandy Dan, r 301^, Waitsfield, " 

EDSON ELI, ^shaved butter, sugar, and 

sap tubs) Marshfield 

Daniels William A., r 22 cor. 23, Middlesex 
Steinbcrge George W., r 43, •' 

Clark Ai, r 40, Gouldsville, Moretown 

Hilllrvin W., r 27, 
Hill William, r 27, " 



244 



COOPERS DRUGS AND MEDICINES. 



Northfield 



Plainfleld 



Emerson Samuel 0., r 9. 

Field Dana D., 

Perkins Walter E., 

Skinner William, " 

Rovs Ira. r 10. Roxbury 

BUSHNELL PARDON. Waitsfield 

BAGLEY WALTER A., r 17 cor. 24. Warren 

Blair Nathaniels., r 31. 

Martin Royal F., r 4.7, *' 

RichaidHou Nathan S.. r 12, Worcester 

Country Stores. 

See General Merchants. 

Creameries. 

West Berlin Creamery Association, Rev. 

W. B. Worthing, manager, W. 

Berlin, Berlin 

Peck WiUiam N., Montpelier 

Crockery anrt Glassware. 

(See also General Merchants ) 
CHAMBERLIN JOSEPH B., Ill N. 

Main st.. Bane 

MILES D. M. <t CO., N. Main st.. 
Miles W. H. & Co., Miles block, " 

PERRY & CAMP, 6 N. Main st., 
TOWNE .1. G. it CO., 8 N. Main st., 
DUTTON ORLO, Middlesex 

Dewey D. & Son. 104 State st., Montpelier 
Fales'H. Marshall, 19 State st., '• 

Webster Henry C, 18 State st., 
Athcrton Albert G., Stowe st., Waterbury 

Curriers. 

See Tanners and Curriers. 

Dairy xVpparatns. 

(See alw General Merchants, also Stoves and 

and Tinware, also Hardware.) 
FULLER DAVID L., (Sanborn churn 

and butter worker) Montpelier 

Wooster Daniel B., (manuf. ) Northtield 

Dentists. 

BRIG(iS .lASON C. 11 Bridge st., Barre 

REED OlJAMEL H.. over National bank, " 
Huse Jauiis ^L, v 54, Berlin 

Williams Herbeit G., Cabot 

CLARK ALFRED, 24 Main st ., Montpeher 
Forbush Orlando P., 12 State st., '' 

Gilbert Norman W., " 

HUNT GEORGE E., room 6 Union block, " 
Newton Richard H.. 1 Hubbard block, 
Whitney Hiram T., 32 S. Main st.. 
Minott A. A., over Nichols's drug store. 

Northfield 
Wheelock James T., Stowe st., Waterbury 

WRISLEY ALVINS., 

Distilleries. 

AINSWORTH DANIEL Dr., (oils and 

medical extracts) r 14, Montpelier, Berlin 

Dressmakers. 



Bates Ella J. Mrs., 

Conway M. Jennie, 

Foster Lucy A. Mrs., S. Barre, 

Gregwair Lizzie, 

Hutchinson Fannie N., 14 Elm st. 

Page J. O. Mrs., 76 N. Main st., 

Robinson Aurora S.. 

Stevens Misses. 30 N. Main st.. 



Barre 



Austin Maria L. Miss, r 19. W. Berlin, Berlin 
Harrigan Nellie, 18 Northtield st.,3Iont- 

pelier, '" 

Lawson W. E, Mrs., Montpelier, " 

Sargent E. G. Mis., r 54. 
Sbambo Francis Mrs., Montpelier, '' 

PEARCE INEZ M., E. Calais. Calais 

Gray Ruth W. Miss, r 37, N. Montpelier. 

East Montpelier 
Hathaway Ellen Miss, " 

Jones Alice G. Mrs., " 

MORSE KATE Mrs., r 39, N. Montpe- 
lier, ' ' 
Alexander Addie Mrs., 38 S. Main st., 

Montpelier 
Barnes Mary Miss, " 

Davis Harriet C. Mrs., 67 Main st.. 
Donahue Katie Miss, 

Everett Bridget Miss, 14 French block, " 
Fort Emma Miss, 9 Summer st., " 

Glinney Nellie Miss, " 

Glysson A. J. Mrs.. 

Harrington Katie E., " 

Hatch Matilda A. Mrs., 83 Court st.. " 

Huntington Florence Mrs., Clogston 

block. " 

Laird W. E. Mrs.. 

Lanier Raphael Mrs., 27 State st., " 

Leland Marv A. Mrs., 100 Main st.. •' 

Pratt Mary E. Miss, " 

Rivers Caroline Miss, 141 Elm st.. '" 

Scribner Lillian M Miss, 18 Spring st.. 
Snow Ira Mrs., "' 

Staples Harriet, 223 Jlain st., 
Stimson Lizzie M , 7 First ave., •' 

Thaver Lemira, r 1, " 

Walton Eliza Mrs., 

Sawver Plumea, Main st., Moretown 

Brigham Ettie F.. oft" r 33, Roxlmry, Northfield 
Case Ida A., " 

Curtis Mary ]\I.. '' 

Eaton Mai-ia M., Gouldsvillc. '• 

Howes Maria M., '' 

Rich Ald^n. Gouldsville, " 

Russell Polly D., " 

Sheldon Edola J., '" 

Batchelder Eugenia R., Plaiutield 

Lombard Viola S., " 

.Toslyn Alice W., Main st., Waitsfield 

Van"Deusen Hattie A, Mrs., r 19, Warren 

Burt Frances O., Waterbury 

Conant Hattie, r 10, Waterbury Center, " 
Dearborn Susan E., Waterbury Center. " 
Gould Julia A., " 

Marshall Clarence D. Mrs., r 36, " 

Martin Mary J., Waterbury Center. " 

Rooi M. J. Mrs.. " " 

Ruggles Rlioda M. Mrs.. 
Smith A. E. Mrs.. " 

Smith Charles S. Mrs., " 

Waldo HyrrietE., 

Minar<l Abbie O , S. Woodljury. Woodbury 
Celley Cynthia E.. r 25, N. Calais, " 

Abbott Laura B.. r 2G, Worcester 

Rawson Ella E., r 25. " 

Rawson Sarah W., r 25, 

Drugs and 3Iedielncs. 

(See also General Merchants, also Proprietary 

Medicines.) 
Glad<ling William H., 57 N. Main St.. Barre 
SMITH CHARLES A., 44 N. Main st., 
VOODRY SEDGWICK C. & CO.. Main 

St., ('abot 



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245 



PAIR SHUBAEL B., Main st.. N. Calais, 

Calais 
Holden William A., Middlesex 

Babcock Jerry V., 9 State St., Montpelier 

Bascom Frank H., 25 State st.. " 

Bixby H. Roger, 10 State st., " 

Blakely Collins, 3 State st., " 

Bradford Oscar V., 63 Main st., •' 

Nichols George, M. D., Central block. 

Northfield 
PERKINS CHARLES H., 
PORTER EDWIN. Central block. " 

Snow Albert E., Plainlield 

Carpenter William E., Main st., Waterbiiry 
EVANS MERRILL O., Stowe St., 
Dry Goods. 
(See also General Merchants.; 
BLAIR & CURRIER. 6 N. Main St., Barre 

MORRISON & FITTS. 51 N. Main st.. 
PERRY & CAMP, 61 N. Main st., " 

FAIR SHUBAEL B., Main st., N. Calais, Calais 
GLEASON L, P. & Co., 27 and 31 State 



St., 



Montpelier 



Howe Andrew J., 22 State St., 

Loomis Horatio S., 100 Main st.. " 

Skinner Eliab R., 'JO State st., " 

Taphn George E.. 2 State st.. " 

Temple D. W. & Co., 77 Main st., 

Webster Henrv C, 18 State st., 

JVheatley Daniel S., 29 State st.. 

Crane George H., Central block. Northfield 

Knight Moses M., Stowe st., Waterbury 

RICHARDSON CARLOS E., Stowe cor. 

Main st., '' 

Wyman Charles E., Stowe cor. Main st., " 

Dyer. 

Parkhurst Daniel L.. 14 Spring st., Montpelier 

Kgg Dealers. 

(See also Produoe Dealers.) 

Freeman Leonard W., r 19, Warren 

Hayden Steven H., r 42. Waterbnry 

Electric rjij;ht Company. 
Standard Light and Power Co., The, 
C. P. Pitkin, pres. ; E. D. Blackwell, 
treas., 13 State st., Monti)elier 

Express Agents. 

BURNHAM MARCUS N., (baggage) BarrB 
Connpl John W.. (Am.) " 

KEITH BERT .M.. (baggage) 
TRACY ELMER L., (baggage) " 

McELROY FRANKLIN M., Middlesex 

NUTE LUCIUS D., Marshfield 

Drew Henry W., (Am.) C. V. R. R. 

depot, Montpelier 

Nichols Willie E., Northfield 

BUTTERFIELD STEPHEN Ci.. Roxbury 

BROWN ANDREW J., Waterbnry 



Extracts, Essences, Etc. 



BANCROFT D. W., 
PERKINS CHARLES H. 



Marshfield 
Northfield 



Fancy Fowls. 

(See also Poultry Dealei-s.; 
WARD JAMES M., (bronze turkeys) 

r 54, Barre 

Davis George, (light Brahmas) r 35, 

East Montpelier 
Snow Fred M., (Wyandotteo and Brown 

Leghorns) r 22, N. Montpelier. " 



Snow Hciirv J., (Wyandottes) Montpelier 

AVERY LEWIS W., (Plymouth Rocks) 

Northfield 

QUIMBY CHARLES E., (White Leg- 
horns, Light Brahmas. Wyandottes, 
Silver Spangled Haniburgs, Silver 
Gray Dorkings, and Plymouth 
Rocks) Gouldsville, " 

Ellis Hira G., r 10, Roxbury 

HOUSE EDWIN, (Brown Leghorns and 

Wvandottes) r 29, Waitsfield 

FARR' WILLIAM H., (Wyandottes) r 32, 

Woodbury 

Fay Wallace G., (bronze turkeys) r 8, 

Hardwick, Caledonia Co., " 

Farm Implements. 

See Agricultural Implements. 

Fertilizers. 

AVERILL LUTHER M., 28, 30, and 32 

N. Main st.. Barre 

CABLETON EDWIN, r 6 n 7, 
lleed Levi H., (phosphates) r 35, Cabot 

Lamphere Theron T., r 27, Calais 

PECK & DUDLEY, (manufs. of odorless 

fertilizers) E. Calais, " 

WHITE & PIERCE, (agents soluble 

Pacific guano) E. Calais, " 

Huntington George A., (phosphates) 

East Montpelier 
Willard Frank P.. (phosphates) r 60. 
NUTE LUCIUS D., (^Bradley's and Buf- 
falo) Marshfield 
FULLER D. L. & SON, Main cor. E. 

State St., Montpelier 

Davis John P., Northfield 

DOLE CHARLES, (Bowker's fertilizers) •' 
Jones Fred A., S. Northfield, '• 

Ryan John, r 3, Plainfield 

House Norton D., r 29, Waitsfield 

KELTY JOHN J., r 29. " 

BARBER MARTIN C, r 29, Waterbury 

Center, Waterbury 

Fish and Oysters. 

(See also Restaurants, also Groceries, also 

Meat Markets.) 
AVERILL CHARLES W., 46 N. Main st., Barre 
Mudgett & Co., 46 Main st., " 

Bowman Herbert A., Montpelier 

Cony Frank M., 128 Main st.. " 

Geer Charles, 23 Main st., " 

Mee Luke, " 

Jonathan James P., Union block. Northfield 
WELLS ERNEST ('., Plainfield 

Florists antl Seedsmen. 
CLARK WILLIAM, Prospect coi-. Clark 

St.. Barre 

Reed Levi H.. r 35, Cabot 

Baker Jabez Mrs., 5Iontpelier 

Flour, Feed, and Grain. 

(See also Grist and Flouring-iMills, also Gen- 
eral Jlcrcliaiits. also (irocers.) 
AVERILL LUTHEU M., 28, 30, and 32 

N. Main st., Barre 

CLARK REUBEN L.. 41 N. Main st., 
Kimball Charles, r 30, Berhn 

Hatch Gonsalvo C, Main st., Lower Cabot, 

Cabot 
ATHERTON CHARLES W . r 28, Wator- 

burv. Duxbury 



246 FLOUR, FEED, AND GRAIN — GRANITE MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS. 



Herrick Nathaniel K., r 43, Middlesex 

Hyde Edward D., 11 and 13 Main st., 

Montpelier 
ANDREWS GILBERT R., r 33, Northfield 

Flouring-Mills. 

See Grist and Flouring-Mills. 

Freight Agents. 

See Rradroad Agents. 
Fruit Dealer. 

(See also Confectionery, Fruits, etc., also Gro- 
cers, also General Merchants.) 
KIMBALL C. SUMNER, Under Metcalf 

block, Northfield 

Fruits, Oysters, Etc. 

See Fish and Oysters, also Grocers, also Res- 
taurants. 

Furniture Manufacturers and Dealers 

(See also Chair Manufacturers, also Cabinet 

Makers.) 
COLBY W. F. & CO., 10 Opera House 

block, Barre 

SHEPLEE OLIVER C, 107 N. Main St., " 
GLEASON & CO.,E. State cor. Main st., 

Montpelier 
Graham Frank E., " 

SMITH STEPHEN B.. 76 State st., 
Towner S. S. & S(m, Main st., " 

Stevens VVilHam W., (chairs) r 37, S. North- 
field, Northfield 
Geer Don Carlos, Main st., Warren 
Caldwell Don C, Paik st., Waterbury 
Straw A. T. & Co.. Main st., " 
RIDEOUT HERBERT P., r 32, E. Wood- 
bury, Woodbury 

Gas Company. 

Montpelier Gas Light Co., Main st., 

Montpelier 

General Merchants. 

(Who keep a general assortment of Dry Goods, 
Groceries, Hardware, etc. See also Dry 
Goods, also Groceries.) 
Bolster Levi J., Depot square, Barre 

MILLS HENRY Z., 36 N. Main st., 
FABKINGTON JOHN A., Cabot 

McDaiiiels M. W. Mrs., Lower Cabot, 
Wells it Rcers " 

DWINELl" CLARENCE R., Main st., 

E. Calais, Calais 

HASKELL EDWIN D., Main st., N. 

Calais, " 

Kent Leroy A., " 

WHITE <t' PIERCE. E. Calais, 
Nye William G., N. Montpelier, 

East Montpelier 
Adams Charles S., Main st., Marshfield 

•Mears Mark, Main st., " 

WOOSTER G. & F., Main st., " 

Herrick Nathaniel K., r 43. Middlesex 

HOLDEN JAMES H., 
PUTNUM C. C. & SON, r 27. Putnams- 

ville, " 

Fletcher George M., Main st., Moretown 

Wilcox Launes, Main st., " 

Andrews Abial F., Gouldsville, Northfield 

Davis John P., " 

Dutton & Richmond, Central block, " 

Edgerton Orvis D., Union block, " 



Jones Fred A., S. Northfield, Northfield 

BATCHELDER & FOSS, 
DEWEY H. H. & CO., Main st., " 

PERRIN FRED, Main st., " 

NICHOLS DAYTON L., Main st., Roxbury 
TILDEN .fe SON, Main st., 
BOYCE FRANK A.. Main st., Waitsfield 

Chipman Henry H.. r 2, " 

GLEASON RICHARDSON J., Main st., " 
JONES WALTER A., Water st., '• 

Richardson Meriden L., r 28, " 

Cardell .James, Main st., Warren 

Ford Charles A., Main st., " 

SLAYTON EDWIN W., Main st., " 

ARMS CURTIS N., Waterbury 

FREEMAN JOSEPH O., Stowe road, " 

Mather Roswell H., Waterbury Center, " 
DUKE E. HARRISON, Woodbury 

LANCE GEORGE, S. Woodbury, " 

RIUEOUT HERBERT P., r 32, E. Wood- 

burv, '' 

Vail Hairy D., " 

Gents' Furnishing Goods. 

(See also Clothing, also Dry Goods, also Gen- 
eral Merchants.) 
Boyce George P., 54 N. Main st., Barre 

Farwell Arthur D.. 75 Main st., Montpeher 
REED CHARLES E., 1 Eagle block, 

Northfield 
BOYCE NATHAN, r 6, Waitsfield 

Glass\vare. 

See Crockery and Glassware, also General 

Merchants. 

Goldsmith. 

Knights James B., Cabot 

Grain Dealers. 

See Flour, Feed, and Grain, also Grist-Mills. 

Granite and Stonecutters' Tools. 

AHERN JAMES, foot of Granite st., Barre 
HOBBS & McDonald, foot of Granite 

St., " 

Granite Manufacturers and Dealers. 

BARRE GRANITE WORKS, H. A. Dufty 

and W. S. George, props., Barre 
BATCHELDER J. H. & CO., (polishing) 

8. Barre and " 

CARNES it KANE, E. Barre, •• 
CORDINER JAMES, 

Davis & Cutler, Summer st., " 

Doten Cassius M., 79 S. Main st., " 

DUNHAM &GOHDON, " 

EMSLIE & COBURN, " 
FORSYTH & INGRAM, 

ERASER & CASSIE, " 

FRENCH EDWIN C. S. Main st., " 

George & Kent, Seminary st., '• 

HEULIHY & WILLIAMS, " 
JONES BROTHERS, 

Kiml)all Sumner, " 
LITTLEJOHN & BARCLAY, 

Lohr Cliarles & Co., " 

Mann Brothers, " 
MAHR & GORDON, foot of Granite st., " 

Mcdonald & buchan, " 

McLEOD DONALD, " 

MILNE & CONNAN, 

MILNE & WYLLIE, 

Moore C. H. & Co., " 

Morse Azro D., (dealer) *' 



GRANITE MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS — GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS. 247 



MURPHY & McDonald, Ban-e 

NATIONAL GRANITE CO., William 
Morse, pres.; James S. Haley, vice- 
pres.; C. B. Martin, treas., " 

NORTON EDGAR, " 

Nve William W., r 70, " 

QUINLEN & MURPHY. S. Main st.. " 

SMITH E. L. & CO., 

Smith James J., r 53, S. Barre, " 

SMITH JOHN E , 
SMITH & HOPKINS, 
STAF FORDS & BATCHELDER, (gran- 
ite column cutting) " 
Sullivan John E., " 
YERMONT GRANITE CO., S. C. White, 
pres.; A. E.Bruce, vice-pres.; H. 
K. Bush, sec'y, opp. C. V. passen- 
ger station, " 
WARLEY WILLIAM M., 
WELLS, LAMSON& CO., Depot square, " 
WETMORE & MORSE GRANITE CO., 

foot of Middle st., " 

WHEATON PLINY O., r 45, 
WHITCOMB L. W. & SON. (polishing) " 
WILKINSON EDWIN A. , S. Main st., " 

Williams & McLean, (polishing) " 

YOUNG CHARLES. Jr.. S. Main st., " 

Excelsior Granite Co., Montpelier, Berlin 

REED BENJAMIN J., at Pioneer Mills, 

Montpelier, " 

Bowers R. C. Granite Co., R. C. Bowers, 
pres. ; F. E. Smith, vice-prea. ; F. 
L. Eaton, treas.; H. A. Bowers, 
sec'y, Montpelier 

CAPITAL GRANITE CO., THE, 
Cross Hiram B., near M. & W. R. R. R. 

depot, " 

Edwards, White & Co., 79 Barre st., " 

Kelleher T. J. & Co., E. Main st., 
Roberts P. it Son. Taylor st., " 

RUSSELL MERRILL, near C. V. R. R. 

depot. " 

Stafford, Lynch & Co., '' 

WESTON & SMITH, 22 Main st., " 

Wetmore & Morse Granite Co., The, A. 
Johonnott, pres. ; W. E. Adams, 
vice-pres. ; F. A. Dwinell, sec'y ; F. 
L. Eaton, ti'eas., "' 

WOODBURY GRANITE CO , L. W. 
Voodry and H. W. Town, props.. 

Woodbury 

Grist and FIouring-Milis. 

(See also Flour, Feed, and Grain, also General 

Merchants.) 
SMITH, WHITCOMB & COOK, N.Main 

St., Barre 

BROWN WILBUR, r 10, Montpelier, Berhn 
Cole Levi P., Cabot 

BANCROFT MAJ.LORY M., Calais 

Robinson Samuel O., r 45, 
Webb Simeon, E. Calais, " 

Wilber Simeon, E. Calais, " 

Lewis Abel A., r G, Waterbury, Duxbury 

HOLLISTER MARTIN V. B., N. Mont- 
pelier. East Montpelier 
NOYES JOHN L., 
WHEELOCK JULIUS S., 
Page Frank S., Marshfield 
Denison Adorno, Middlesex 
BAILEY E. W. <fc CO., 94 Main st., Montpeher 
Paine (rroviier B., Branch road, " 
ROBINSON I. D. & SON, Main st., Moretown 
Ward Hiram O., r 37, Waterbury, " 



ANDREWS GILBERT R.. r 33, Northfield 

HARRIS L. PAGE, Paine factory, " 

HOUSTON FERDINAND J., Eagle block, " 
Slade Thomas, S. Northtield, " 

CUTLER HERMAN E., Main st., Plainfield 
PALMER BROTHERS, Waitsfield 

B-n\vav Edward, r 48, Warren 

SEABURY EDWARD T., at Mill Village, 

Waterburv 
DANIELS SAMEUL, S. Woodbury, Woodbury 
LADD CHESTER M., r 22, Worcester 

Groceries and Provisions. 

(See also General Merchants.) 
Allen S. N., Depot square, Barre- 

AVEIIILL LUTHER M., 28, 30, and 32 

N. Main st., " 

CHAMBERLIN JOSEPH B., Ill N. 

Main st.. " 

CLARK REUBEN L., 41 N. Main st., 
Eastman A Whitney, 121 N. Main st., " 

HARRINGTON ASA, 4 Granite st., 
Martin Fred, S. Barre, " 

Miles W. H. & Co., Miles block, 
MILLS HENRY Z., 36 N. Main st., " 

STAR RESTAURANT, H. J. Colby, 

prop., N. Main st., " 

TOWNE G. J. & CO., 8 N. Main st., " 

Wheeler & Ketchum, Stillman Wood 

block, ' ' 

Kimball Charles, r 30, Berlin 

AVERILL HENRY L., r 67, S. Cabot, Cabot 
Hatch Gonsalvo C, Main st., Lower 

Cabot, 
VOODRY SEDGWICK C. & CO., Main 

St.. " 

FAIR SHUBAEL B., Main st., N. Calais, 

ATHERTON CHARLES W., r 28, Water- 
bury, Dnxbury 
Clifford Amplvus B., East Montpelier 
DUTTON ORLO, Middlesex 
Butler George D., 36 Main st., Montpelier 
Dewey Peter G., 3 School st., " 
Downing Clinton G., 48 Main st., " 
Feriin Charles H.. 89 Main st., " 
JANGRAW ALEXANDER, 116 Main st., '• 
LOCKLIN ERASTUS M.. .^0 S. Jhiin st., " 
MARVIN & SHERBURNE. 42 Jlain st., " 
McClure William F.. 102 Main st., " 
Miller WiUiam, 120 Main st., " 
Park Warren W., 71 Main st., " 
ROBERTS CLARK B., 2 School st., " 
Blake William A., Eagle block, Northfield 
Dennv Andrew E.. Central block, " 
HURLEY C. FRANK, at Northtield Falls, " 
Jolinston James P., Union block, " 
Judd Simon F., Emerson block, " 
Pierce Elbridge G., Union block, " 
Smith Henrv E., Union cor. Water st., " 
Temiile .Tohii M., Metcalf block, " 
BALCHELDER J. M. >V SON, Plainfield 

i HAMEL NELSON. :Main st., 
Bennett Izett A. Mrs., r 33 cor. 35, E. 

I Koxburv, Roxbury 

FULLERTON GEORGE H., Main st., 

Waitsfield 
JOSLYN LOUIS R., Main st., *' 

Ashley William H.. Stowe st., Waterbury 

ATKINS & HAINES. 1 Park Row, " 

t BOYCE HIRAM E., Randall block, " 

! CON ANT CHARLES S., Stowe st., '^| 

Cooley William, " 

Deuel Ephraim, at Colbyville, " 



248 



GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS HOTELS. 



King John J., Park How, Waterbury 

Mussey Parker L.. Main st. , " 

Taylor Frank B., Stowe st., " 

Buck Francis E., r 18, Worcester 

Porter Lewis W., r 25. " 
WHEELER MOSES P., r 8, 

Ouns, Gun and Tjocksmiths, Aniinu- 
nition. Etc. 

(See also Hardware, also Sporting Goods.) 
Demeritt John, Montpelier 

WHEELOCK & DAWLEY, 26 Main st., 
Williams John, Stowe st., Waterbnry 

Handle Hanutacturers. 

See Woodenware. 

HardAvare Dealers. 

(See also General Merchants, also Stoves and 

Tinware.) 
Phelps Brothers, 69 N. Main st., Barre 

Reynolds George J. A Co., 68, 70, and 72 

N. Main st., 
Drew James T., Cabot 

Hatch Gonsalvo C, Main st., Lower 

Cabot. " 

WOOSTER G. .fe F., Jlain st., Marshfield 

Barrows & Peck, Ol Main st.. Montpelier 

Blanchard Fred, 66 Main st. , " 

Brooks John V., 15 Stale st , " 

FULLER D. L. & SON, Main cor. E. 

State St.. 
Hyde Edward D.. 11 and 13 Main st., " 

DAVIS JULIUS D., Moretown 

Dennv Andrew E.. Central block, Northtield 
EATON O. G. & CO., Waitsiield 

EATON ORVILLE M.. Water st., 
BATCHELDER & ROBINSON, Stowe 

St., Waterbm-y 

Harwood & Smith, Main, head of Stowe 

St.. " 

SHEPLE JAMES E., Stowe St., " 

Harnesses, Trunks, Ktc. 

Carpenter Charles D., 4 Central place, Barre 
Cook Qiiinton, " 

Page J. Orvis, 

Collins Orman R., Cabot 

Ainsworth Warren F.. r 17, N. Calais, Calais 
GEORGE EDWIN R.,E. Calais, 
WATSON CHARLES A., r 24. " 

Bemis Gahisha A.. Marshfield 

THOMAS EDWIN A.. Main st., " 

Farwell Artlmr D., 75 Main st., Montpelier 
Lease John, 55 Main st., " 

Nichols George L., 69 Main st., " 

Pierce Clarence C, 110 Main st.. " 

Roleau Edmund A., 124 V^ Main st.. '• 

Sawyer Joseph H., Main sr. , Moretown 

Brown Albert H., Gouldsville, Northfield 

Gold Corydon B., Stevens block, " 

Snow James D., 12 Paine block, •' 

St. John Clement, Plainfield 

Pearson Benjamin G., r 12 cor. 11, Roxbury 
BIGELOW ANDREW W., Main st., 

Waitsfield 
Han-is Jarvis C, r 19, " 

Turner Leslie B., Main st., Warren 

Lease George H., Main st., Waterbury 

Hats, Caps, and Furs. 

(See also Clothiers, also General Merchants.) 
Adams William E., (iO State st., Montpelier 



Hay and Stra^v Dealers. 

BURNHAM MARCUS N.. Barre 

Lilley Harvey W., r 46, E. Calais, Calais 

Farwell John G., Montpelier 

Glidden Clarence E., Plainfield 

BROWN ANDREW J., Waterbury 

Hay Presses. 

Batchelder Bert, r 62 cor. 67, Marshfield, Cabot 
Lilley Harvey W., r 46, E. Calais, Calais 

Camp Henry W., r 32, Plainfield 

Glidden Clarence E., " 

Hides and Pelts. 

(See also Tanners and Cui-riers.) 
Moulton Stedman D.. r 28, Moretown 

BATCHELDER A. J. & BROS., Main 

St., Plainfield 

Horse Trainers.- 

Hockenberry Harry, Barre 

Kelton Herbert, r 42, East Montpelier 

Dodge William, Montpelier 

Gilman Edwin H., " 

STEELE FREDERICK W.. Northfield 

Bartlett Wilber E., Plainfield 

Hotels. 

Barre Spring House, L. W. Spaulding, 

prop., r 63, Barre 

CENTRAL HOUSE, Fred L. Hayden, 

prop., N. Main st., " 

Granite House, George W. French, 

prop., 43 S. Main St., " 

HOTEL BARRE, H. A, Rugg, prop., 

Washington st., '• 

PARK HOUSE, Kimball Blanchard, 

prop., 16 N. Main st., '• 

Winooski House, Harvey Stone, prop., 

JIain St., Cabot 

Marshfield House, Horace H. Meader, 

pi'op., Marshfield 

VILLAGE HOTEL, William Hudson, 

prop., Middlesex 

WASHINGTON HOUSE, A. R. Fisher, 

prop.. 
Hotel Kempton, Horace W. Kempton, 

prop., 58 State st., Montpelier 

MONTPELIER HOUSE. George Wheeler, 

piop.. 100 State st., " 

PAVILION HOTEL, J. S. Viles, prop.. 

113 State St., " 

Union House, John A. Kelton, prop., 132 

Main coi-. School st., " 

CENTRAL HOUSE, B. N. & D. S. 

Phillips, props.. Moretown 

AVERY HOTEL, L. W. Avery, prop.. 

Main st., Northfield 

Mori-is House, W. H. Morris, prop.. 

Central st., " 

Nortlifleld House, J. C. Fletcher, prop.. 

Main st., '• 

PLAINFIELD HOUSE, Geo. F. Nutting, 

prop., Plainfield 

Summit House, Merrill E. Yerringtoii, 

prop.. Main st., Roxbury 

WAITSFIELD HOTEL, Andrew W. 

Bigelow, prop., Waitsfield 

Warren House, Horace W. Lyford, prop., 

Warren 
TROTTER HOUSE, E. J. Ennis, prop.. 

Main st.. Waterbury 

WATERBURY HOTEL, B. Barrett & 

Son, props.. Main st., '• 



HOTELS — LAUNDRIES. 



249 



LAKE VIEW HOUSE, A. H. Holt, prop.. 

r 49. S. Woodbiirv, Woodbiirv 

WOllCESTER HOUSE, L. H. Keith, 

prop., r 25, Worcester 

Hulled Corn Dealers. 

Marsh .Jedediah B. , r (53, Barre 

Owen Sullivan D., r 67, E. Calais, Calais 

Human Hair Goods. 

Witt Lenora E., (! Witt st., Montpelier 

Hunter and Trapper. 

Fisk Charles J., Waterbury Center, Waterbury 
IfC Cream. 

See Confectionery, Ice Cream, etc. 



loe Dealers. 



Barre 



BLANCHARD GEAEY W., 
McFAKLAND GEORGE E., r 48, 
Kempton Horace W., Montpelier 

Parmenter George W., 6 State St., " 



lusuranoe Agents. 



Barre 



BISBEE EDWARD W., 
BOYCE & BOYCE, French block, '• 

BROWX A. C. & SON, (tire, life, and ac- 
cident) Granite block, " 
Sprague John V., " 
tjamphere Theron T., r27, Calais 
Goodwin George, (fire) r 28, Montpelier. 

East Montpelier 
HOWARD SEAVER, (Vermont Mutual 
and Union Fire Ins. Companies) 

Middlesex 
Blakelv Edward E.. (life) Montpelier 

BROWN A. C. it SON. (tire, life, and ac- 
cident) Main cor. State st., " 
Chase Myron F., (life) Willard block, 
Curran James E., (general agent New 

England Life Ins. Co.) " 

Fullerton James K.. (general agent Ver- 
mont Mutual Fire Ins. Co.) " 
Hinklev I'ringle H.. " 
Putter Frank H., (New York Life Ins. Co.) " 
SEAVER JOHN R., (district agent Con- 
necticut Mutual Life Ins. Co.) 12 
State St.. '■ 
SENTER & KEMP, 47 State st.. 
Wilkins George L., (life) "- 
Wilkins.John S, (hfe) " 
Averill David T., Northfield 
Edgerton Cliavles A., Jr., (life) " 
EGERTON JOSEPH K., (general) Main 

St.. " 

HOYT O. L. & E. C, Main st.. Plainfield 

McCRILLIS C. EDWARD, (life) 
ORCOTT ORIN W., ( tire ) Roxbury 

GREGORY JOHN W., Main st., Waitsfield 
Jones Charles F... (fire) r 8, " 

Lyford Horace W., (fire) Warren 

Smith Frank N., Waterbury Center, Waterlmvy 
Putnam Fernando C. Hon., (fire) r 30, 

Woodbury 
RIDEOUT HERBERT P., (fire) r 32, E. 
Woodbury, 

Insurance Companies. 

NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., 
Charles Dewey, pres.; Edward Dewey, 
vice-pres.; J. C. Houghton, tieas. ; 
George W. Reed, scc'y, 114 State st., 

Montpelier 



UNION MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE 
CO., W. G. Ferrin, pres. ; Hon. C. H. 
Heath, vice-pres.: J. H. Senter, sec'y: 
H. W. Kemp, treas., 47 State st., 

Montpelier 

\'ERMONT MUTUAL FIRE INSUR- 
ANCE CO., F. E. Smith, pres.: H. N. 
Taplin, treas. and vice-j)res. ; James 
T. Sabin, sec'y, State St., 

Iron Founders and Machinists. 

(See also Machinists.) 

BARRE IRON WORKS, Smith, Whitcomb 

& Cook, props., N. Main St., Barre 

LANE MFG. CO., Dennis Lane (deceased), 
pres. ; Gen. P. P. Pitkin, vice-pres. : 
C. P. Pitkin, sec'y and treas., 25 
Franklin st., Montpelier 

Sabin Machine Co., George Cook, jn-es.; 

C. T. Sabin. ireas.. Berlin st.. " 

WRIGHT M. & SON, 

Cooley Manuf'g Co.. Waterbtiry 

.Jewelry, Watches, Etc. 

CHANDLER PERLEY, 73 N. Main St.. Bane 
KING FRED, 130 N. IMain st , 
NICHOLS J. G. & SON, 123 N. Main st., " 
Knights James B., Cabot 

Ainsworth Merrick, E. Calais. Calais 

Hawkins Darius E., r 2, " 

Cross Luther B., 97 Elm st., Montpelier 

Philliiis Charles N., 28 State st., " 

Skinner Charles W.. 8 State st., " 

Skinner Eliab R., 90 State st., " 

Stone Arthur G., Jlain cor. State st , " 

Kew Charles E.. (repairer) Main st., 

Moretowu 
Andrews Charles F., Emerson lilock, 

Northfield 
ANDREWS GILBERT R., r 33. (dealer 

in watches^ " 

DOWNING FRED B.. (antique clocks) '• 
Downing William P.. (antique clocks) " 

Thurston Ell O.. Huntley block, " 

Moses Daniel W., Main st.. Plainfield 

Goss George W., Roxbury 

Cardell Frank L.. r 39, Warren 

Dana WeskvE., " 

KEENE CHARLES, Stowe st.. Waterbury 

Scott Orril E., Stowe st., 

Kalsominers. 

See Calciminers. 
Ladies' Furnishings. ' 

See Dry Goods, also General Merchants, also 

Millinery and Fancy Goods. 

Lath 3Ianufacturers. 

I See Saw-:Mills, also Shingle-Mills, alfio Lumber 
Manufacturers. 

i Laundries. 

! O'Gorman Frank Mrs., oft' N. .Main st., Barre 
I Watson L. W., 7 ami 9 Central i)laco. •' 

Blav Laura M. Mrs., r 14, Barre. Berlin 

Sanders Jane P. Mrs.. M(>nti)e]ier. " 

1 Simmons Catherine Mrs., Montpelier. " 

I (lampbell Rosalia E. Mrs., 9 Lane place. 
I Montpelier 

I Montpelier Steam Laundry, 11. W. Whit- 
I ('omb. i)ro])., 31 E!m st., 
Naphine Peter Mrs.. 05 Elm st , " 

1 Stacy Betsey Mrs.. 



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LAUNDRIES— LIVE STOCK BREEDERS AND DEALERS. 



Wheat Fletcher D., 53 Main st., Montpelier 

Brvant Lorenzo Mrs., Waterbiiry 
ElHott Harriet F., 

Labelle Joseph Mrs., r 34, " 

Lovely Mary E., " 

liaAvyers. 

BISBEE EDWARD W., Barre 

BOYCE & BOYCE, French block. 
Sprague John V.. " 

LAMSON JOSEPH P., r 25, Cabot 

Fay David B., East Calais, Calais 

Bennett Chailes M., Postoffice block, 

Montpelier 
CARLETON HIRAM, court-house, 
Deavitt Thomas J., 50 State st., " 

Donahue Frank E., " 

Fifield Benjamin F., 3 Union block, " 

Gleason Carlisle J.. 128 State st., " 

GORDON TRUMAN R., Willard block, 
Heath & Fav, 56 Main st., " 

Heaton Homer W., 12 State st., " 

King Carroll C, " 

Livingston Josiah O. Maj., " 

Lord William, " 

LUCIA JOEL H. Gen.. Postoffice block, " 
Pitkin & Huse, Postotiice block, " 

PORTER CHARLES W. Hon., Post- 

oftice block, " 

SENTER & KEJIP, 47 State st., 
Shnrtleff Stt-phen C, 12 State st., " 

SMILIE MELVILLE E., " 

WING GEORGE W., Union block, " 

WING JOHN G., 4 Statu St., " ' 

Wing Joseph A., 4 State st., " 

HEATH EPHRAIM A., Main st.. Moretown 
EDGERTON CD., Northfleld 

Johnson James N., Central block, " 

PLUMLEY FRANK, Central block, 
HOYr O. L. & E. C, Main st., Plainfield 

STANTON ZED S., Main st., Roxbury 

GREGORY JOHN W.. Main st.. Waitsfleld 
CLOUGH COLUMBUS F., Main cor. 

Stowe St., Waterbury 

DILLINGHAM WILLIAM P., Main st., ' ' 
MORSE GEORGE W., " 

Palmer Edwin F., Union st., " 

Thomas Aimer B., r 22, Woodbury 

Leather and Findings. 

(See also Tatners and Curriers.) 
Johonnott A. & F., near M. & W. R. R. 

R. depot, Montpelier 

Pecks & Cummins, 60 Main st., " 

Libraries. 

Barre Library Association, Mrs. O. B. 

Boyce, sec'y, Barre 

East Calais Circulating Library, Inez M. 

Pearce, librarian, E. Calais, Calais 

Montpelier Public Library Association, 

JMiss Mary Willard, librarian. Opera 

House block, Montpelier 

Vermont State Library, Hon. H. A. 

Huse, librarian, State House, " 

Northfleld Library Association. C. E. 

Richardson, sec'y. Northfleld 

Waterbury Public Librarv Association, 

W. P. Dillingham, pres.; C. N. 

Arms, treas., Waterbury 

Lime, Cement, Plaster, Etc. 

AVERILL LUTHER M., 28, 30, and 32 

N. Main st., Barre 



Hyde Edward D., 11 and 13 Main st., 

Montpelier 

Live Stoclf Breeders and Dealers. 

BANCROFT HARRISON, (horse breed- 
er) r 56. Barre 
CAMP D. AZRO. (stock horse and horse 

breeder) r 58, " 

CURRIER CHARLES L., (Jersey cattle) 
Hall Carlos W., (dealer) " 

JONES JOHN H , (Lambert and Ham- 

bletonian horses) " 

KELLEY JOHN H., (Jersey cattle) r 32, " 
LAVVSON GEORGE W., (Jersey cattle) 

r 12, « 

OLDS EZEKIEL P., (Chester White 

swine) r 5, " 

PAGE NAT D., (horses) r 25, " 

PAYNE J. WARREN, (Devon cattle) r 23, " 
SHEPARD A. CLARK, (horses and 

Chester White swine) r 76, " 

SHEPARD WILBUR, (stock horse) r 74}^, " 
TOWN JUDE, (CJhester White swine) 

ofl' r 31, "■ 

Trow John, (Hamble+onian horses) 

r 45 cor. 23, 't 

WARD JAMES M., (Jersey cows and 

Chester White swine) r 54, " 

WHEATON JOHN, (Yorkshire swine) 

r 52 "^ 

WINCH ' C. MAYNARD, (Hambletonian 

and Lambert horses) r 45, " 

Wolcott Elias H., (breeder of sheep) E. 

Barre. r 65, " 

WOOD ISRAEL, (Chester White and 

Poland swine) r 17. " 

ALEXANDER HARRISON, (Chester 

White swine) r 10, Montpelier, Berlirt 

ANDREWS EDMUND E., (high grade 

Jersey cattle) r 54, " 

Bailey Levi W., (horse breeder) r 16. 

Montpelier, " 

BENJAMIN JOHN E., (Chester White 

swine) oft" r 35, Montpelier, '* 

BEN.IAMIN T. WEBSTER, (grade 

Jersev cattle) r 24. Montpelier, " 

BOSWORTH GARDNER L., (Morgan 

and Hambletonian horses) r 48, " 

Brown William, (horses) r 40, " 

CAMERON IRA C, (horses) r 55, " 

Celley Charles N., (stock horse) r 8, 

Montpelier, " 

Chandler George C, (Jersey cattle) r 10, 

Montpelier. " 

COVELL STEPHEN H., (horses) r 57 
CURRIER PASCHAL W., (horses) r 29, " 
DEWEY WILLIAM H., (Devon cattle, 

and grade Merino and Cots wold 

sheep) r 19. W. Berlin, " 

DREW MILTON D., (grade Jersey cattle 

and horses) r 22 n cor. 19, W. Berlin, " 
Ellis L. Nelson, (horses) r 36, W. Berlin. " 
EMERSON OILMAN S., (Jersey cattle)' 

r 31. W. BL^rlin, " 

FOSTER TRUMAN R., (Daniel Lambert 

horses) r 55, " 

Glines Ebenezer A., (grade Holstein cat- 
tle, Morgan horses, and Chester 

White swme) r 10 cor. 8, Montpetier, " 
Gove Winthrop, (Morrill and Morgan 

horses) r 45. W. Berlin, " 

JONES OSCAR D., (grade Holstein cat- 
tle and horses) r 19, Montpelier, " 



LIVE STOCK BREEDERS AND DEALERS. 



251 



Kimball Orrin, (grade Holstein cattle, 
and Chester White and Berkshire 
gwine) r 44, Noithtield, Berlin 

LAWEENCE LEONARD P., (grade Hol- 
stein cattle) r 12, Montpelier, " 

LELAND BROTHERS, (grade Holstein 
and Jersey cattle, and horses) r 6, 
Montpelier, " 

Loveland Louisa Mrs., (horses) r 54, " 

Luce Alanson, (dealer) Moncpelier, " 

MARTIN CHARLES P., (Knox and 

Lambert horses) r 50, '' 

Perrin Amanda C. Mrs., (Morgan horses) 

r 50, " 

Perrin J. Newton, (grade Jersey cattle) 
r 50, " 

Scott John, (horse breeder) r 23, " 

SLOCUM ALANSON M., (Jersey cattle) 

r40, " 

STEWART CLARK H., (stock horses) 

r 43, " 

STEWART ROLLIN D., (grade Jersey 

cattle and Hambletonian horses) r 43, " 

Strong Horace W., (horses) r47, North- 
field, 

SWEENEY DENNIS, (horses) r 22, 

Montpelier, " 

Towner Sewell S., (Jersey cattle) r 6, 

Montpelier, " 

Welch Pierce, (Shropshire sheep) r 3, 

Montpelier, " 

WINSLOW JOHN F., (horses) r 48, 

Woodbury Edwin J., (horses) r 2, Mont- 
pelier, " 

BOLTON JOHN, (stock horse) r 34, W. 

Danville, Cabot 

Coburn Elihu F., (stock horse) r 60, 

Lower Cabot, " 

HOPKINS EASTMAN T., (stock horse) 
r 20, " 

Peck Horace D., (stock horse) r 20, " 

Smith Edward F., (stock horse) r 39, 

Lower Cabot, " 

KENT CHARLES V., (stock horse) r 42. Calais 

MOORE CLIFTON A., (stock horse) 

r 69, E. Calais, " 

MOWER ALBION J., (stock horse) r 13. " 

GRAY DARIUS A., (stock horse) r 4.' 

Waterbury, Duxbury 

Arms Austin D., (grade Jersey cattle) 

r 28 cor. 34, Montpelier, East Montpelier 

Gate Alvin M., (horse breeder) r 40, N. 

Montpelier, " 

CLARK GEORGE H., (Hambletonian 

horses) r 68, " 

CLARK ORLANDO, (horse breeder) 

r 27, Montpelier, " 

CUMMINGS TIMOTHY S., (Cotswold 

sheep) r 1, Montpelier, " 

DODGE IRA C, (Jersey cattle) r 28, 

Montpelier, " 

FOSTER AUSTIN S., (Hambletonian 

horses) r 48, " 

GRAY EZEKIEL D., (Hambletonian 

hor.ses) r 36, N. Montpelier, "' 

Gusha Alonzo B., (stock horse) r 49, " 

Hamblin Charles W., (dealer) r 42, " 

HAMMETT GEORGE H., (Hambleton- 
ian liorses) " 

HAMMETT STOCK FARM, L. C. Ham- 
met, manager, (horses) r 36, N. 
Montpelier, " 

Hersey Calvin, (Morgan horses) r 33, 

Montpelier, " 



Hill Lorenzo D., (horse breeder) r 3i]^, 

East Montpelier 
HILL S. WESLEY. (Morgan horseb) r 57, " 
KELTON FRANCIS P., (Jersey cattle) 

r 52, " 

LITTLE WALTER S., (Hambletonian 

and Fearnaught horses) N. Mont- 
pelier, " 
MALLORY LEVI T., (dealer) r 58, 
MALOY WILLIAJI H., (horse breeder) 

r 54 cor. 44, M<intpelier, " 

Mcknight EDWIN p., (Hambletonian 

horses) r 25 cor. 36, "• 

Morgan John H., (grade Jersey cattle) 

r 4. Montpelier, •' 

MORSE ERI, (horses) r 5, Montpelier, "■ 
Parker Frank J., (Jersey cattle) r 35, " 

PARKER REUBEN C, (Fearnaught 

horses) r 3 cor. 2, Montpelier, " 

PRATT AZRO A., (grade Jersey cattle 

and Morgan horses'! r 50. Plaintield, " 
ROBBINS JAMES H., (horse breeder) 

r 27. 
SHORTT GEORGE LEWIS, (Yorkshire 

swine and Jersev cattle) r 59, Plain- 
tield, ' " 
Slayton Aro P., 2d, (horse breeder) r 21, 

N. Montpelier, " 

Sparrow Hiram L., (dealer in horses) 

r 25 "■ ' 

STEVENS ENOS F., (dealer and breeder 

of Morgan horses) r 41, " 

TOWN LUTHER G., (Shorthorn Dur- 
ham cattle) r 50, " 
WILLARD CHARLES C, (horses, and 

Shropshire and Southdown sheep) 

rSl, •' 

Willard Frank P., (Chester White swine) 

r 60. 
WILLEY JULIAN D.. (grade Holstein 

cattle j r 18. Montpelier, " 

HASKINS WEBSTER H., (dealer) r 34, 

Marshfield 
Lamberton Wallace E., (stock horse) " 

MARTIN BENJAMIN F., (stock horse) 

r 45, Plaintield, " 

MARTIN CASSIUS L., (stock horse and 

dealer) r 40, Plaintield, " 

NUTE LUCIUS D.. (road horses) " 

BADGER HENRY E., (dealer) r 26, Middlesex 
Chandler it Kirklaiid, (stock horse) r 26, " 
FLINT JESSE & SON, (Jersey cattle ) 

r 5, " 

Hobert John Q., (Lambert horses) r 40, " 
Whitney George M., (Jersey cattle) 

r 7, Putnanisville, " 

WRIGHT NORRIS, (Chester White 

Hwine) r 44, " 

Bout well Harry S., (Auctioneer horses) 

Montpelier 
BOYCE GEORGE O., (Lambert and 

Wilkes horses) r 5, " 

Chase Stilhiian, (ilealer in horses) " 

C'litlcr Mai-cus M., (horsrs) '• 

Gray Charles K., (Auctioneer horses) oft' 

1- 3, •' 

Grout Frank E., (Jersey cattle) " 

Hunt Frank J., (horse dealer) " 

HUNT WILLIAM H., (horse dealer) 189 

Main st.. " 

LOWE HARRY, " 

MARVIN MOR rOX, (Devon cattle) " 

SEAVER LATHAM T., (Cheshire swine 

and grade Jersey cattle) r 7, " 



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LIVE STOCK BREEDERS AND DEALERS. 



TABOR NATHANIEL C, (horses and 

Jersey fattle) r 13 cor. 14. Montpelier 

Towne Henry S., (Hambletonian horses. 

Shropshire sheep, and stock horses) 

r 12. 
Towner Sewell S., (Jersey cattle) " 

Wilkins George L.. (dealer in horses) " 

Bulkeley George W., (dealer) r 38, Moretown 
Hennesey Bartholomew, (Hambletonian 

and Lambert horses) r IG, " 

Holt Orrln C, (horses) r 27, " 

MURRAY ANDREW, (Durham cattle 

and Hambletonian horses) r 17, " 

PALMER JONATHAN H., (Durham 

cattle) r 14. Middlesex, '' 

AVERY LEWIS W., (blooded horses) 

r 15, Northfleld 

Clough M. James, (dealer) " 

Davis Orris O., (horses) " 

DENNY GEORGE & SON. (Jersey cattle 

and Berkshire swine) r 38 n 37, S. 

Northtield. " 

Dole French M., (horses) oil' r 26, " 

Dunsmore Willie E., (Morgan and Ham- 
bletonian horses) r 23 cor. 22, " 
Farnsworth Calvin, (dealer) r 26 cor. 28, " 
George Henrv M., (stock horse) r 43, S. 

Northfieid. " 

Hill Natlianiel, (Chester White swine) 

r 6, " 

Holden William "W., (grade Jersey cattle) 

r 15. S. Nortlifield. 
JONES HENRY A., (Lambert horses) 
Kimball Edison A., (dealer) " 

Morse James (Lambert horses) r 27 n 

35, 
Pervier William M., (Oxforddown 

sheep) r 9, " 

WRIGHT CHARLES H., (Lambert 

horses) " 

BARTLETT TRUMAN H., (liorses) r 12, 

Plainfield 
MARTIN WILLARD S. Hon., (Durham 

cattle) r 2 cor. 1. " 

PAGE DAN I.. (Jersey cattle) r 11, 
SKINNER EZEKIEL," r 10, 
SMITH DUDLEY B., M. D., (horses) " 

Spaulding Franli B., (horses) r 10, Roxbury 
Barnard R. H. & O. L., (Jersey cattle) 

r 2. Moretown, Waitsfield 

DREW & PALMER, (Durham cattle 

and Blackhawk horses) rS, " 

FISK EDWARD A., (Jersey cattle) r 7. " 
Folsora George W., (Durham cattle) r 2, 

Moretown and " 

HOUSE EDWIN, (Devon cattle) r 29, 
House Jason & Nathan D., (Devon 

cattle) r 29, " 

JOSLIN ORAMEL S.. (Shorthorn cattle) 

r31, " 

JOSLYN LOUIS R., (trotting horses, 

Holstein cattle and Berkshire swine) 

Main st., •' 

LONG ANDREW & SON, (Durham 

cattle) r 15, •' 

McCarthy Florence, (Durham 

cattle and tine horses) r 17. " 

palmer JOSEPH, (Blackliawk and 

Ben. Franklin horses) r 27, " 

PRENTIS chandler a., (Durham 

cattle) r 7. " 

SAVAGE LUCIUS D.. (Durham cattle^ 

r31, 



WAITE HARVEY M., (breeder of grade 
Jersev cattle and Blackhawk 
horses) r 41, Waitsfield 

WATERMAN JOHN, (Durham cattle) 

r 32, " 

WILDER ORCAS C, (Cotswold sheep) r 2, " 
Elliott William, (Durham cattle.) r 19, Warren 
BARBER MARTIN C, (horses) r 2 , 

Waterbury Center. Waterbury 

Blaisdell George S., (Morgan horses) r 33, " 
Chase Samuel B., (horses) r 10, Water- 
bury Center, " 
Clough Columbus F., (fine grade sheep) '• 
Conway Michael, (Morgan horses) " 
Davis Levi W.. (Ethan Allen horses) r 33, " 
Demeritt Lucius, (horses) r 4, Water- 
bury Center, " 
Downing Dennis, (fine horses) r 28, " 
Graves Myron H., (horses) r39, " 
Greene De Witt C, (horses) r 39, 
Harvey David T., (Durham cattle and 

Phil Shei'idan horses) r 30, " 

Hayes Charles C, (dealer) Waterbury 

Center, " 

Hill Henry F., (Lambert horses) r 18, 

Waterburv Center, " 

HILLS VAN b., (grade Durham cattle) 

r40, 
Hodge J. Frank, (Morgan horses) r 16 

cor. 18, Waterbury Center, " 

Marshall Fernando C, (dealer) " 

MAY OSCAR W., (grade Jersey cattle 
and Morgan horses) Waterbury 
Center, " 

Minott Orrin H., (Morgan horses) r 11, 

Waterburv Center, '■ 

Moody Edwin B., (dealer) r 30, Water- 
bury Center, " 
Moody Elisha. (dealer) " 
MOODY G. EUGENE, (dealer) 
Moody George W., (dealer) " 
Moody John G., (dealer) r 35, " 
Noble Francis S., (horses) Waterbury 

Center, " 

ROBERTS LUKE J. , (Chester White swine) ' ' 
Ryan John, (horses) r 32, " 

Rv'an Jolm. Jr , (horses) r 32, " 

SHAW BRADLEY W., (grade Jersey 

cattle) r 19}^, '• 

SMITH DAN P.", (horses) r 36, Water- 
burv Center, " 
Spicer William H.. (Jersey cattle) r 35, " 
STEARNS ORREN W., rl7, Waterbury 

Center, " 

Thompson Joseph, (Jersey and Holstein 

cattle 1 r 33. '• 

TOWN LUKE S., (grade Jersey cattle) 

r 40, 
Towne Eugene R., (Jersey cattle) r 23, " 
Tnrnev John, (liorses) r 41 cor. 40, " 

WALLACE SIDNEY, (Jersey cattle) r 28, " 
Wheeler Joseph S., (horses) Waterbury 

Center, " 

White Lewis J.. (Southdown sheep) 

Waterbury Center, '• 

WHITE & LADD, (dealers) r 4, Water- 
burv Center, " 
Angell W. F. & Willie H., (horses) r 40, 

S. Woodburv. Woodbury 

BENJAMIN SEVERN J., (horses) 

S. Woodburv. '• 

BILL OILMAN." (horses) r 18, " 

Bruce Edwin, (dealer in horses) r 23, '• 



LIVE STOCK BREEDERS AND DEALERS — MARIJLE DEALERS AND WORKERS. 



253 



BURNHAM GIDEON, (grade catH°, 

horses, and Oliester White swine) 

r 2, Hardwick, Caledonia Co., Woodbury 
BURNHAil WILLIE A., (horses) r6, E. 

Elmore, Lamoille Co., '• 

CAMERON S. KIMBALL, (cattle and 

Fearnaught horses) r 6, E. Elmore, 

Lamoille Co., " 

Chase Lvman H., (horses) r 18. " 

CLAPP OLIVER, (horses) r 32, 
('lark Alonzo A., (Durham cattle) r 23, 

S. Woodbury, '• 

Daniels Charles, (stock horse) S. Wood- 

burv, " 

Farr Wi'lliam H., (horses) r 32, " 

Fay Wallace G.. (Chester White swine) 

r 8. Hardwick, Caledonia Co., '• 

FOSTER GEORGE Vf., (Jersey cattle) 

r 18, 
GOODELL MARK P.. (horses) r 37, S. 

Woodbury. '' 

Goodell W'arren B.. (horses) r 28, S. 

Woodbury, '• 

HARVEY THOMAS, (horses) r 32, Cabot, " 
HASKELL LONDUS W., (horses) r 43, 

S. Woodbury, " 

HOLT ABRAHAM H., (Durham cattle 

and Chester White swine) r 49, S. 

Woodbury, " 

LANCE GEORGE, (Morgan and Fear- 
naught horses) S. Woodbury. 
Lawson Freeman, (horses) r 39, S. 

Woodbury, '• 

LaAvson George B., (stock horse) r 39. 

S. Woodbury, 
Le^yis Eben N., (Jersey cattle) r 42, S. 

Woodbury. " 

MORSE ANDREW J., (horses) r 6, 

Hardwick, Caledonia Co., '" 

PAINE AMASA A., (trotting; horses) 

r 7, Hardwick, Caledonit Co., " 

POWERS AMOS W., (horses) Hardwick. 

Caledonia Co., " 

TEBBETTS .t SON, (Morgan horses and 

Cots wold sheep) r 43. S. Woodbury. " 
THOW GEORGE C, (horses) r 23, "S. 

Woodbury, " 

Waite Wiiliain H., (horses) r 50, E. 

Calais, " 

Wheeler Elisha B., (horses) r 44, Lower 

Cabot, " 

Wilbur Orange A., (horses) r 44, S. 

Woodbury, " 

Copp Sewell G., (horses) r 25, Worcester 

Liivery, Sale, and Boarding Stables. 

CURTIS & KEITH, Depot square. Barre 

HAYDEN FRED L., N. Main st., 

JACKSON CRAWFORD H., 

QUIMBY HENRYJ., 

SHEPARD WILBUR, r 74i^, 

SLAYTON FRED A., S. Main st., 

SLAYTON HERBERT J., S. Barre, 

Stone Harvey, ;Main st., Cabot 

Laniberton Wallace E., Mai-shtield 

FISHER ALVINA R. xMks., JIain cor. 

Railroad st., Middlesex 

HUDSON WILLIAM, 

ADAMS JOHN Q., Montpelier 

Downing Clinton G.. 48 Main st , " 

DUDLEY D. \VILLARD> E. State st., 
GORDON TRUMAN R., Main cor. E. 

State St., " 

HUNT WILLIAM H., 189 Main st., 



VILES JESSE S.. 113 State st., Montpelier 
YOUNG BARD P., rear Montpelier House. " 
PHILLIPS B. N. A D. S., at Central 

House. Moretown 

AVERY LEWIS W.. Main st., Northtield 

Fletcher James (;., ^lain st., " 

Morris William H., Central st.. " 

HAMEL NELSON. Main st., I'lainlield 

NUTTING GEOR(}E F., 

DICKINSON CHARLES L , r IC. Roxbiny 
BIGELOW ANDREW W.. Main st., Waitstield 
Canerdy Alvin T.. Park st , Waterbury 

Goye George N., Park Row. " 

MARSHALL WILLIS E., Waterbury 

Center, ' " 

Locksniiths. 

See Guns, Gunsmiths, etc. 
Lumber Manuraciurer.s and Dealcr.s. 

(See also Saw-Mills.) 

BATCHELDER ADDISON E.. Barre 

CLAHK REUBEN L., 41 N. Main st.. 

Hill Ernest E.. 

LANE & JIOORE. 

ROBINSON JUSTUS S., r 4!). S. Barre. •• 

Clark Haryey N.. r 67. S. Cabot, Cabot 

*CKOSSETT JAMES E., |sec card) r 22. 

Waterbury, Duxbury 

WARD HIRAM O.. r 27, Wateibury, 
Jackson Edwin, r 7, Montpelier." 

East Montpelier 
WHEELOCK JULIUS S., (mauuf. ) 
RICHARDSON O. H.. (manuf.) INIiddlcscx 
CLOGSTON O. Cl'RTIS, :\Ioiitpelier 

GISBORNE THOMAS, Berlin st.. 
Graham Ednumd £., 41 Hui)l)ard st.. "' 

HUNT WILLIAM H., 18!) Main st., 
RICHARDSON ORVILLE H., (manuf.i " 
Clough JI. James. Northtield 

BATCHELDER J. M. .t SON, Plaintield 

DICKINSON CHARLES L., r 16. Roxbury 
Joslin Alexander A., " 

Oreott William B.. 
Roys George A.. 

HEATH EATON A.. Main st., Warren 

HEATH LYSANDER M., 

Ambler Orvis M.. (manuf.) r 36. Waterbury 
COLBYVILLE MANUF'G CO., at Colby- 

yille, 
HILL HENRY F.. r 18. Waterbuiy Cen- 
ter, 
RANDALL GEORGE W.. ( manuf.) 
R0J5ERTS iV: DEAVITT BROS., at C'olbv- 

ville, 
Nichols A Smith, r 17. Woodbury 

Templeton Horatio. Worcester 

3Ia<-hinists. 

(See also Iron Founders and Machinists. ) 
Hall Abijali. r 46, Montpelier, East .Mimtpelier 
Lane Albert D., Montpelier 

Bean Henry D., Northtield 

Beard Charles F.. " 

Harris Frank I.. Paine factory, " 

SPAULDING ALFRED F.. Paine factory, " 
Hall James (J., r 10, Roxbury 

Grout Frederick A., Waterbury 

Bill O. Wesley, r 16, Woodbury 

^Isirblc noalors and Workers. 

(See alsoGranitc .Manufacturers and Dealers.) 
*GO0DELL J. W., (see card] Hnrlingtou 

Weir John, MidilleHcx 



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MARBLE DEALERS AND WORKERS MILLINERS, MILLINERY, FANCY GOODS. 



HOWE F. L. & CO.. Main st., Northfield 

SAWYER CHARLES D., Main st., " 

Masons and Builders. 

<See also Architects, also Carpenters and 
Builders, also Contractors and Builders.) 

Averv William V., Barre 

BATCHELDER O. B. & J. M., 
KIRKLAND DAVID A., " 

Long Alfred, (stone) " 

Quillinan Edward W., (stone) " 

Whitney Curtis B., " 

Shambo Francis, (stone) Montpelier, Berlin 
Strong Levi, r 30, " 

Hopkins Samuel L., r 21, Cabot 

Yoik Ell son, " 

Avery James, r 46, E. Calais, Calais 

Bailey Sargent F., r 7, N. Calais. " 

Cobarn Henry R., (brick) r 6, Waterbury, 

Duxbury 
Ai'buckle Philander, (stone) East Montpelier 
Bruee Gustavus A., r 13, Montpelier, " 

CORLISS .JOHN E., (brick and plaster) " 
PHELPS ALLEN, (stone) r 24, Marshfleld 
Swann J. Lewis, (stone) " 

Crapo Israel, Montpelier 

Crapo Peter, Jr., " 

Doby Edward, " 

Ewing James, " 

Ewing John, (stone) " 

Ewing John. Jr., (stone) " 

Gautier Peter, " 

Goodnature Louis, (stone) " 

Gravelin Francis, (stone) " 

Hirdigan John, (stone) " 

Lamb William J., " 

Lamora Joseph, (stone) " 

Mattliieu Joseph, " 

Ripley George W., " 

Robinson Guerdon, " 

Robinson Jacob (stone) " 

Tanner Lathrop L., " 

Thayer Francis M., (stone) " 

Towne Barnard, r 9, " 

Young .James J., (stone) " 

Aveiy Benjamin, Moretown 

Heatoii Horace, r 1. Waterbury, " 

THOMAS NORMAN H., (stone) r 11, 

Middlesex, " 

Burdoe Peter, (stone) r 18, Northfield 

Case Alfred L., (brick) " 

Cook Ogilvia S., (stone) r 33>^, " 

Davis John C, (l)rick) " 

Dole George M.. (biiek) r 26. . " 

DOLE JASON E , (brick) r 28 n 26, " 

Hedges .Tames B., oft' r 5, " 

PEARSONS LEONARD, 
Rich Elmer W., " 

Russell Charles F., (brick and plaster) " 
Williams Simon C, " 

Fowler .John W.. (stone) r 3, Plainfield 

GREELEY AMBROSE N.. (stone) " 

PARKER ANDREW, r 13, " 

Rich Charles J., r 40, Roxbury 

Ather'on John B., r 28, Waitslield 

Greensli--. Allen C. r 31 cor. 39, Warren 

Hanks Charles A., " 

McClaliin James, r 20 cor. 2 2, E. Warren, " 
McLaughlin Will J., r 36, E. Warren, " 

Griffirh Azro M., Waterbury 

Pike E. Ralph, r 26, Waterbury Center, " 
Town Albert J., r 9, " 



Wooster James F., (stone) Waterbury 

Wrisley Charles S., (stone) " 

3Ieat Markets and Butchers. 

BLANCHARD ADELBERT C, 50 N. 

Main st., Barre 

HARRINGTON ASA, 4 Granite st., '• 

SMITH H. J. & CO.. 63 N. Main st., " 

SMITH HENRY L., ' r 60 n 59, " 

Eastman Charles W., (butcher) r 35, 

Gouldsville, Berlin 

Huse John F., r 54. " 

Smith Eben C, r 24, Lower Cabot, Cabot 

AinsworthLavake. (butcher) N. Calais, Calais 
SLAYTON GEORGE C, (butcher) r 48, 

E. Calais. " 

Hall Albert C, r 10, Montpelier, 

East Montpelier 
Jacobs Fred H., (butcher) r 5, Mont- 
pelier, " 
JACOBS HARVEY W., r 5, Montpelier, 
Jones M. Walter, r 14, Montpelier, " 
Steward Iloiace O., r 33, Montpelier, " 
Tabor George C, (butcher) N. Montpelier, " 
Bell Joseph M., (butcher) Montpelier 
Gould Wilbur F., (butcher) " 
Holmes Henry C. 108 Main st.. " 
Hornbiook William, 126 Msi'in st., " 
MILLER IfRANK B.. 79 Main st., 
Milo George, (Imtcher) " 
Scribner Oscar D., Main cor. State st., " 
Smith Carlos S., (dried beef and hams) 

9 Barre st.. " 

8TANDISH WILLIAM O., 95 Main st.. 
Will 'tier Clarence S.. 6 State st., " 

HAZELTON JAMES H.. (butcher) Northfield 
KIMBALL C. SUMNER, under Metcalf 

block. " 

Moselev John L.. Main st.. " 

BATCHELDER A. J. & BROS., Main st., 

Plainfield 
Sanborn Orin, (butcher) " 

BOYCE AZRO J., (butcher) r 34, E. Rox- 
bury, Roxbury 
Blair Andrew, (butcher) r 28, Waitstield 
Waterman Melvin J., (butclier) r 19, Warren 
BOYCE HIRAM E.. Randall block, Waterbury 
Manning Michael, Park Row, " 
Pike E. Ralph, (butcher) r 26, Waterbury 

Uenter, " 

Warren Jay H., (butcher) r 29, Waterbury 

Center. " 

KEITH LUCIAN H., (butcher) r 25, Worcester 

Milliners, Millinery and Fancy Goods. 

(See also Dry Goods, also General Merchants, 

also Ladies' Furnishings.) 
Bond J. M. Mrs., 48 N. Main st., Barre 

French C. A. Mrs. & Co., 49 N. Main st., " 
Hutchinson Fannie N., 14 Elm st., " 

Jones Susan J. Mrs., 74 N. Main st., " 

Shepard W. F. Mrs. & Co., Averill block, " 
Elmer Ella Mrs.. Cabot 

Wilbur Eva L. Mrs., E. Calais, Calais 

WELLS MARY L. Mrs., r 19, Waterbury, 

Duxbury 
Best Cliarles A.. 54 State st., Montpelier 

Fisk Misses, 27 State st., " 

Glinney Nellie Miss, " 

Meinecke G. W. Miss, Opera House block, " 
Scribner Polly Mrs., 174 Main st., " 

Standish Phylura A. Mrs., 40 State st., " 
Foster Ann M., Central st., Northfield 

Gilchrist MarciaE.& Co., " 



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SMITH MINNIE E., Postoffice block, 

Northfield 
Wilmot Jennie J., Union block. " 

REED R. Mrs., Plainfiekl 

Joslvn Alice W., Main st., Waitsfield 

Willard Annette D., " 

Allen Louisa E.. Warren 

CAMERON J. M. Mrs.. Main st., Waterbury 
Townaeud Lizzie E.. Waterbury Center, " 
Abbott Laura B. , r 26, Worcester 

Millwrights. 
Dalev George C, Barre 

Tliurston Albert R., " 

WHITCOMB LYMAN W., N. Main cor. 

Brook St., '• 

Hanson Warren, r 67. S. Cabot, Cabot 

AINSWORTH OSCAR W., Calais 

Martiu Andrew J., r 14, N. Calais, " 

Hall Abijah, r 46, Montpelier, East Montpelier 
Harrington Oscar A.. Main st.. Moretown 

CUTLER HARVEY M., r 9 n 8, Nortbtield 
Rumrill Winslow W., " 

3Ioniiinental Worlcs. 

See Granite Manufacturers and Dealers, also 
Marble Dealers and Workers. 

3Ionniiieiits. 

{See also Granite Manufacturers and Dealers, 

also Marble Dealers and Workers.) 
Bancroft Aaron, (agent white bronze 

monuments) Montpelier, Berlin 

MoAvers and Reapers. 

See Agricultural Implements. 
3Iiisic and 3Iusical Instruments. 

EMERSON BROTHERS, N. Main st., Barre 
Phillips Nelson L., " 

Nye Ezekiel D., (repairer) N. Mont- 
pelier'. East Montpelier 
Donovan John P., (organs) 59 Main st., 

Montpelier 
WATERM.\N JULIUS F., (pianos and 

oi'gans) " 

Wilder George W., 83 Main St., " 

Whitmarsh Nelson O., Northfield 

Music Teachers., 

Dudley Charles F., (vocal) East Montpelier 
Goodwin Harriet Miss, r 37, N. Mcmt- 

pelier. " 

Gould Julia E. Miss, (piano, organ, and 

vocal) r 13, Montpelier, '• 

Buzzell George W., r 35, Waitsfield, Fayston 
Bancroft Frederick W., (vocal) Montpelier 
CUSHMAN CHARLES M., (band iu- 

sti'ucto)-) " 

Mead Belle Miss, " 

Phinney Mary, (vocal) 4 Spring st., " 

Scribner Horace H., (piano and organ) 

186 Main st., '• 

Troml)lee Nellie, " 

WATERMAN J. F. Mrs., (piano and 

organ) " 

Wilder George H., " 

Langdon Anna C, Northfield 

CHAMBERLAIN BERTHA E., r 34, Plainfiekl 
Williams Bert, r 15, Roxbury 

Guuu Mary E. Miss, Waterbury Center, 

Waterbury 
Miller Bertha Mrs., " 

Ober Edwin R., " 

FOSTER GEORGE W., r 18, Woodbury 



News Dealers. 

(See also Books and Stationery.) 
Averill Harlev L., 24 Main st., Barre 

SLAYTON HERMON E., 15 State st., 

Montpelier 
Newspapers. 
See Printing Offices. 
Notions. 
Barron Sarah IMrs.. Averill block, Barre 

Clark Daniel H., 58 N. Main st.. " 

Baker Jabez Mrs., (5 and 10 cent goods) 

Montpelier 
Huntley Erastus, Main st., Northfield 

Nurseries. 

FAIRMOUNT NURSERY, Edmund E. 

Andrews, prop., r 54, Berlin 

DAVIS O. W. & SON, Waterbury 

Center, Waterbury 

HUNTLEY LEONARD, Waterbury 

Center, " 

Nurses. 

Keeler Adelia Miss, Barre 

Watson Nettie C. " 

WiUis Lucelia Mrs., " 

Dillon Belle Miss, r 8, Montpelier, 

East Montpelier 
Chamberlin Philura A., " 

Hatch J. Mrs., 2 Barre st., " 

Hayward Herbert A., 4 Loomis St., " 

Lartd Martha, " 

Adams Carrie L., Union st,, Northfield 

Smith Maria D. C, " 

Stratton Melinda, S. Northfield, •' 

Hunter H. E. Mrs., r 16, Waterbury 

Center, Waterbury 

Opera Houses. 

Barre Opera House, W. A. Perry, mana- 
ger, Main cor. I3iidge sts., Barre 

Blanchard Opera House, Asa Blanchard, 

prop.. Main st., Blontpelier 

Painters, Glaziers, and Paper 
Hangers. 

(See also Artists.) 
ARBUCKLE HOWARD B.. S. Barre, Barre 
AVERILL CADY O., (carriage and sign) 

Bridge St., " 

Aveiill O. William, 93 S. Main st., " 

Blaisdell Justin H., r 46, " 

Burnham Hcrl)ert F., " 

Clark Alvin W., " 

COLBY BENJAMIN F., (house) " 

Coll)V Harrv T., " 

(JROCKETt GEORGE W., " 

(,'utler Eli, (carriage) " 
DICKINSON & STAFFORD, Central 

place, " 

Foster Henry M., S. Barre, " 

French Randall, *' 

Heath Cliarles W., S. Barre, " 

Kidder Edwin W., (liouse) " 
Lang Georgt! W., (sign and ornamental) " 

Lunt John E., " 

Peck Leslie F., " 

Pierce Levi L., " 

Pike Daniel P., r 70, " 

Tierny Michael J., " 

Straw Charles, " 

Wiley Albert B., " 



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PAINTERS, GLAZIERS, AND PAPER HANGERS — PHOTOGRAPHERS. 



Alexander Cliaiies W., Moiitpelier, Berlin 

Andrews William, 17 Berlin St., Moutpe- 

lier, ■' 

Barrows Alfred J., Montpelier, " 

Gabree Edward H., Montpelier. " 

Preston Philip, Montpelier, " 

Sanders Charlie J.. Montpelier, " 

West George S., (tire-proof roof) Mont- 
pelier, '■ 
Clark Harry W.. (house, sign, and car- 
riage) " C^abot 
Heath Clarence, r 10, " 
McLean Samuel E., r 39, Lower Cabot, " 
Meader George E., (roof) '' 
Meader Samuel, (roof) " 
Harwood Willis T., r 33, E. Calias. Calais 
NYE BURT W., (house, sign, and car- 
riage) N. Calais, " 
Roberts Jerome H., (carriage) r 69, E. 

Calais, " 

Spencer George W., (roof) r 17, N. Calais, " 
Stoddard William E., r 32. E Calais, 
Freeman George W., r 39. Moretown, 

Duxburv 
ARBUCKLE FRED N., East Montpelier 

Bean Cliarles N., r 49, Plaintield, Marshfield 
Grav Ezekiel D., (carriage) r 45, Plain- 
tield, 
Guyette Daniel, ott' r 48, Plaintield, '• 

Hill Joseph B., Middlesex 

Britton Frank A.. Montpelier 

Brooks A. Walrer, " 

Bugbee Clarence. " 

CLARK DAYTON P., Willanl block, 
Coffrin Henry E., 

Colby George W., •' 

Dodge Richard, " 

Dudley Charles C, (house and carriage) 

25 Elm St., ' " 

Fallon Ed. J., . " 

Gabree John W., " 

Galaise Antoine. " 

Goss Aaron W., " 

Grav Fred L.. " 

GUPTIL DANIEL A., (carriage and sign) 

2 Hazi'n place, 
Lillie Rol)ert B.. 

Marble Calvin B., " 

Miller Charles A., " . 

Peck Norman C. " 

Pratt Jerome J., (carriage) "' 

Quinn Peter F., " 

Randall James F., •' 

Russell Marble, '• 

Severance Albert J., " 

Strathers James C, " 

Washburn Charles H.. " 

Whitiiev George H.. " 

Wing Frank B.. " 

Woodward Frederick H.. " 

Harrington Oscar A.. Main st., Moretown 

Bsan William R.. (carriage and sign) 

East St., Northtield 

Chase Alfred O., Main st.. " 

COBURN BENJAMIN F.. (lionse) 
Coburn Washington, " 

Ingalls Edward, ('house) " 

Marble Arthur O . " 

Mead Frank S., Union n Main st.. " 

Martin James H., (house) Plaintield 

HOYT A DOW, 
Howe Asa E., (housel r 33, E. Roxbury, 

R>xlniry 
MANSFIELD ISIARTIN. '• 



McAllister Ziba H., r 24, Waitsfieid 

NEWCOMB CHARLES H.. r 28, 

Shaw Benjamin F., Warren 

Marshall Henry A., Watei'bury 

Newcomb E. Allen, Waterbury Center, " 

Straw Alvinzy T., (house) " 

STRAW CALVIN, (house) " 

Wells Charles E., r 43, 

Wells Edwin H., (carriage and sign) r 43. ,*' 

Painters, Portrait, Etc. 

See Artists, Portrait, Landscape, etc. 
Paints, Oils, and <xlass. 

(See also Druggists, also General Merchants, 
also Hardware.) 

AVERILL LUTHER M., 28, 30, and 32 

N. Main st., Barre 

CLARK REUBEN L.. 41 N. Main st.. 

Reynolds George J. & Co., 68, 70. and 

72 Main st., •' 

SHEPLEE OLIVER C, 107 N. Main st.. " 

]Meader George E., (Metcalf's fire-proof 

paint) Cabot 

Spencer George W.. (Metcalf's fire-proof 

roof paint) r 17. N. Calais. Calais 

Meader Horace H.. (Metcalf's water- 
proof roof paint) Marshfield 

McCRILLIS C. EDWARD, (fire-proof) 

Plainfield 

Paper Hanj>in<»s, ^Vindo^v Shades, 
Ktc. 

(See also General Merchants, also Books, 

Stationery, etc.) 
SHEPLEE OLIVER C, 107 N Main st., Barre 
Towner S. S. & Son, Main st., Montpelier 

Huntley Erastus, Main st., Northtield 

Adams Abrani S., r 16, Waterbury Cen- 
ter, Waterbury 
Atherton Albert G., Stowe st„ " 

Peddlers. 

Batchelder Chester, r 13. Barre 

Litan John, (tin) r 68, Marshfield, Cabot 

Morse Horace H., (tin) 5^^ •' 

KING ARZA W., r 36. Plainfield, Marshfield 
Benjamin Benjamin, (dry goods) Montpelier 
Gero Geoi'ge, (tin) " 

Newby Joseph. " 

Annis George N., r 9, Northtield 

Johnston M. J., __, " 

Thayer Joseph, r 9, "^ "' 

Winters Christopher, (notions) Goulds- 

ville, ' • 

Adams George, r 10, Waterbury ( 'enter, 

Waterbury 

Pension and Claim Ajients. 

WALDO ERAS]MUS D., Cabot 

EDSON ELI, Marshfield 

Deavitt Thomas J., 50 State st., Montpelier 
HEATH EPHRAIM A., Main st., Moretown 
Hovt Eugene C, Z2 Plainfield 

ORCOTT OR IN W.. Wf? "t;;^ Roxbury 

SPAULDING CHARLES E.; AVater st., 

Warren 
BLAKE STEPHEN D., r 30, S. Wood- 
bury, Woodbury 

Photographers. 

CHASE OLIN W.. 32 Main st., Barre 

PhiHips WiUiani E., 



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257 



SHERBURNE FRED W., over National 

bank, Barre 

LAMB JACOB C, E. Calais, Calais 

Blanchaid Azel N., 15 State st., Montpelier 
Corse Seth W., 38 State St., " 

Harlow Alouzo C, 21 State st., " 

Mcintosh Reuben M.. Mcintosh block. 

Northiielcl 
CADY HENRY B., Main st., Waitsfield 

DALE GEORGE H., Main st., Waterbury 

Turner Levi C, " " 

Physicians and Surgeons. 

BIGELOW AMOS E.. 15 H. Main st., Barre 

Bralev Buther W., 171 N. Main st., 

CA]\IP CLAYTON P., \Vasbington st., 

FIELD ANDREW E., 

Gale Herbert L.. 101 N. Main st., " 

JACKSON J. HENRY, A. M., M. D., 19 

S. Main St., " 

NICHOLS GEORGE B., head of Church 

St., '• 

PACKER HENRY E., (homeo.) 11 High 

St., " 

Reid William. M. D., fallo.) 18 S. Main st., " 
WORTHEN HIRAM O., 87 N. Main st., " 
Huse James M.. r 54. Berlin 

PEARSON ARTEMASN., M. D., (eclec- 
tic) r 43 cor. 30, " 
GALE FRED P., Main st., Cabot 
GOOD ALE WILL L,, " 
WARREN MIAL D.. Main st., " 
WISWELL SHERBURNE L., Main st.. " 
Farnsworth Cj'rus, M. D., (eclectic) r 69, 

E. Calais, Calais 

GEORGE OSCAR F., E. Calais, 
Gray George H., M. D., (eclectic) E. Calais, " 
Carver Herbert S., Marshtield 

PACKER J. Q. A., r 9, 

TOWN GEORGE M., " 

Bailey Charles A., Willard block, Montpelier 
Bisbee Arthur B., " 

Boardman Harland S., M. D., (homeo.) 

56 State st.. " 

CHANDLER CHARLES E., M, D., Main 

cor. State st., " 

CHANDLER CHARLES M., M. D., 

Main cor. State st., " 

KEMP DEAN G., M. D., 79 Main st.. 
Lance J(jhn B., (homeo.) 11 Union block, " 
Macomber Job E,, M. D., room 9 Union 

block. 
Templeton Hiram E., M. D., 37 Loomis 

St., " 

TEMPLETON JAMES M., M. D., 20 

Loomis St., " 

HAYLETT JAMES, (homeo.) Main st., 

Moretown 
Provost L. L. J., r 3, Waterbury, " 

BRADFORD PHILANDER D., A. M., 

Ph. D., Northfield 

Davis Orris 0., " 

Irish George N., r 15, " 

Johnson Daniel, Paine block, " 

MAYO WILLIAM B., (homeo.) " 

McClearn Matthew, (analytical) Boston, 

Mass., and " 

PORTER EDWIN, Central block, 
Rogers Jeremiah, (botanical) Gouldsville, " 
WINCH JOHN H., 

LAZELLE WILLIAM F., Main st., Plainfield 
SMITH DUDLEY B., " 

FISKE IRA H,, (homeo.) Roxbury 



ALLEN CLARENCE JEAN, Main st., 

Waitstield 
HOWE HERMON T. .L, Main st., 
VAN DEUSEN JAMES M., (homeo.) 

Blain st., " 

GREENE OLIN D.. Main st.. Warren 

FOSTER EBENEZEH J., (homeo.) Main 

St.. Watcrlmrv Center, Waterbury 

HOOKER EMORY G., Park st., 
Jones Henry, Main st.. 
Lamb Mars'hall D., Main cor. Winooski 

St., " 

Miuard Will F., (homeo.) " 

WASHBURNE GEORGE C, Railroad st., " 
LANCE ROBERT W., (homeo.) S. Wood- 
bury, Woodbury 
HUNT CHAUNCEY N., Worcester 

Pianos and Organs. 

See Music and Musical Instruments. 

Picture Frames. 

(See also Books and Stationery, also Furniture 

Dealers, also Photographers.) 
WHEELOCK .t DAWLEY, 26 Main st., 

Montpelier 
Mcintosh Reiiben M., {_manuf.) Mcintosh 

block, Northfield 

Atherton George H., Waterbury 

Caldwell Don C., (manuf.) Park st.. " 

Planing-Mills. 

(See also Saw-Mills, also Sash, Dooi-s, and 

Blinds) 
LANE & MOORE, Barre 

PHELPS J. WALTER, r 46, 
DWINELL ALBERT, E. Calais, Calais 

HUNTLEY EBER W., r 19, Waterbury, 

Duxbury 
aOLLISTER MARTIN V. B.. N. Mont- 
pelier. East Montpelier 
NOYES JOHN L., 

DOW JOHN D., r 35, Plainfield, Marshfield 
Durant Alexander T., " 

Dennison Adorno, Middlesex 

Putnam C. C. & Son, r 7, Putnamsville, " 
WRIGHT M. & SON, Montpelier 

Brown Joseph M. & Son, r 33, Montpo- 

lier, Moretown 

Parker & Gillett, Main st., " 

HOUSTON FREDINAND J.. Eagle block. 

Northfield 
Laird H. S. .t Son, Plainfield 

ROBERTS & DEAVITT BROS., at Colby- 

ville, W'aterbury 

LADD CHARLES M., r 22, Worcester 

Plaster. 

See Lime, Plaster, etc. 
Plating. 
JOHNSON & COLTON, (gold, silver, 

nickle. and brass) 109 Main st., Montpelier 
McCLUSKEY CHARLES A., (silver) 

Plow Manufacturers. 

BARRE IRON WORKS, Smith. Whitcomb 
& Cook, props., (North American 
swivel plow) N. Main st., Barro 

Plows, Harrows, Etc. 

See Agricultural Implements. 



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258 



PLUMBERS OUARRIES. 



1 Vegetable Balsamic 

ELIXIR 

^^~ Is a sure cure for Coughs, Colds, M hooping 
Cough, and ail Lung Diseases, when taken in season. 

People die of consumption simply because of neg- 
lect, when the timely use of this remedy would have 
cured them at once, 

FIFTY-FIVE YEARS of constant use proves the 
fact that no cough remedy has stood the test like 
Downs' Klixir. 

Price 35c., 50c. and $1.00 per bottle. 

%W~J''o>- Sale Everywherc.,:,^^ 



Dr. Baxter's Mandrake 

\Vill cure Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, 
Indigestion, and all diseases arising from Biliousness. 
Price 25 cents per bottle. For sale everywhere. 



HHiNRY & JOHNSON'S 

AKNICA AND OIL, 

LINIMENT, 

X^oi' 3l£*ia a.n<i Oea^t. 

The most perfect liniment ever compounded. 
Price 25c. and 50c. For Sale Everywhere. 



Plumbers. 

(See also Steam and Gas Fitting.) 
Phelps Bi'others, 69 N. Main st., Barre 

Barrows & Peck, 6i Main st.. Moiitpelier 

*LYONS PATRICK L.. 5 Elm st., [see 

adv.] " 

PECK JOHN W., 58 Main st., 

Portrait Painters. 

See Artists, Portrait, Landscape, etc. 
Poultry Dealers and GroAvers. 

(See also Fancy Fowls.) 
KEED ALBERT C, r 38, Barre 

Kimball Edson A , Northlield 

Maxham Galen C, r 15, " 

Blanchard Luther, r 33 cor. 35, E. Rox- 

bury, Roxbiiry 

Webster Aaron, r 33, E. Roxbury, " 

Printing Ollices. 

BARRE ENTERPRISE, THE, W. F. Scott, 

editor and prop.. 6 Central place, Barre 
Cave Thomas H., 59 N. Main St., " 

HASKELL EDWIN D., Main st., N. 

Calais. Calais 

EDSON DEAN W., Marshfield 

ARGUS AND PATRIOT, Hiram Atkins. 

editor and prop., 112 Main St., Montpelier 
UNION CARD CO., 30 Main st., " 

VERMONT CHRONICLE, Rev. Charles 
S. Smith editor ; Arthur Ropes, pub- 
lisher, Main st., " 
WATCHMAN PUBLISHING CO., THE, 

52 and 54 Main st., " 

WHE BLOCK & DAWLEY, 26 Main st., 
NORTHFIELD NEWS, E Gerry & Co., 

props.. Main st., Northficld 

Poole Hyman V. R., " 

Whitmarsh Chailes N., iV'ews block, " 

EATON ORVILLE M. Water st.. Waitstield 
WATERBURY NEWS, C. C. Clough, 

prop., Waterbury 

Produce (Country) Dealers. 

(See also General Merchants.) 
BLANCHARD ADELBERT C, 50 N. 

Main St.. Barre 

FIFIELD HORACE, (maple sugar) " 

GEORGE JAMES II., 30 and 32 Elm st., '• 
Lance The ion H., Cabot 

PERRY ALLEN, " 

McCrillis Harry D., Marshfield 

FLINT LEROY A., r 3, Middlesex 



Bosworth Samuel H. O., (butter, cheese, 

and maple sugar) Montpelier 

Bowman Herbert A., " 

Butler George D.. (eggs, butter, and 

cheese) 36 Main st., " 

Dewey Peter G., 3 School st.. " 

King Clark, (butter) " 

MARVIN MORTON, " 

MARVIN & SHERBURNE, 42 Main st., 

(adv.) 
PARMENTER GEORGE W.. (butter 

and maple sugar) 6 State st., " 

Kimball Edson A.. Northfleld 

Maxham Galen C, r 15. " 

Thayer Eber H., r 15, " 

Kidder Geoige I)., Plainfleld 

Eddy Charlie F., r 3, More town, Waitsfield 
Burleigh James A., Waterburv 

EVANS MERRILL O., Stowe st., " 

HENDERSON VAN NESS v., 
Hopkins Daniel. Waterbury Center, " 

MOODY G. EUGENE, 

Proprietary 3Iedicines. 

(See also Drugs and Medicines, also General 

Mercliants.) 
HENRY, JOHNSON & LORD, Burlington 

BANCROFT D. W., (Bancroft's lini- 
ment, aud lung and liver syrups) 

Marshfield 
Faunce George T., Cagent Davis remedy) " 
PACKER J. Q. A. Dr., (Packer's rheu- 
matic and catarrh remedy) r 9, " 
English Pile Remedy Co., (English pile 

remedy) 29 State st.. Montpelier 

Pratt A. F. Co., The, (Pratt's French 

hair tonic) 52 State st., " 

Farrar Lvman F., Northfleld 

WELLS ERNEST C, Plainfield 

Grant Fred R., (Kittredge's liniment) 

r 43, Warren 

Bates Thomas S. , Waterbury 

Pumps. 
See Hardware, also Stoves and Tinware. 
Quarries. 
(Granite.) 
CARNES & KANE, E. Barre, Barre 

Chenev Harlen I., E. Barre, " 

CHENEY LUCIUS L, r 71 cor. 69, E. 

Baire, " 

DUFFY k GEORGE, " 

FORSYTH & INGRAM, " 

Hoar Richard A., r 70 cor. 61, " 

JONES BROTHERS, " 



WASHINGTON COUNTY DIRECTORY. 259 




IN CONNECTION WITH — 



MAINE CENTRAL R. R. ']!,!! 



AKl'.OR TO 
ILANU. 



MAINE CENTRAL R. R. ?- ■— 



Fa I! VANS. 



BOSTON & LOWELL, AND ST. JOHNSBURY & LAKE CHAMPLAIN R. R. '^Z 

iWAXlOX TO , , 

NciKWOOD. "" "~ 



ANS Til 
•\NTON. 



CENTRAL VERMONT R. R. ^^ -- 



R.,W.&0. R. R. 



^otzijls the: 



NoKWOOD TO Sl'SrENSION BRIDGE 
AND NiAGAKA FaLLS. 



Niagara Falls, White Mountains, Portland and Bar Harbor Line. 



-^Westbound -r passengers-^- 

SHOULD NOT FAIL to take the Niagara Falls, White Mountains, Portland and Bar Harbor Line. 
During the Summer season we run AVaglier Bllfl'ett Sleeping Carti, leaving Bar 
Harbor 5 P. ITI., and Portland, Maine, 8:50 A. M., daily, except Sun- 
day, and run to Chicago, III., without change or delay. . . . The passage through the heart of 
the White Mountains and the far-famed White Mountain Notch is made by daylight, and a daylight view 
is obtained of the Green Mountains and Adirondack Mountains. 

Through passengers desiring to visit the Thousand Islands can leave the train at Philadelphia, N. V., 
and obtain at Philadelphia depot side-trip tickets to Clayton or Alexandria Bay, free of <:harge. Or, leave 
the train at Watertown, N. Y., and obtain at Watertown depot side-trip tickets, free of charge, for following 
route: R., W. & O. R. R., Watertown to Cape Vincent; steamer S/. La7V)-cnce, Cape Vincent to Alcxan. 
dria Bay; steamer, Alexandria Bay to Clayton, and at Clayton take the St. Lawrence Steamboat Express, a 
solid train for Niagara Falls. This enables passengers to view the beauties of the entire Thousand Island 
region. To obtain these side-trip tickets free, passengers will be required to exhibit to the depot ticket 
agent their through tickets to Niagara Falls or the West. 

THHO^GH TICKETS TO THE LUEST 

■Can be purchased at Maine Central R. R. ticket offices ; Portland & Ogdensburg R. R. ticket offices in 
Portland, and at principal stations; Boston & Lowell R. R. ticket ollices at Fabyans, and all principal offices 
of B. &. L. R. R. in the White Mountains and New England ; Central Vermont R. R. principal ticket offices. 

If you cannot purchase through tickets at olTices of connecting lines in the East, buy to Norwood only. 
A full line of Western Tickets is on sale at R., W. & O. R. R. depot ticket office in Norwood at low rates. 

Immediate connections are made at Suspension Bridge, Niagara Falls. Buffalo, and Chicago with 
through trains for the West. . . . The only route to the West by which passengers can obtain a full 
and complete view of Nature's greatest wonder, Niagara Falls. For information not obtainable at 
ticket offices, correspond with 

TriEO. 5UTTERFIELD, 

General Passenger Agent B., W. & O. B. B., Os^vego, N. V. 



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QUARRIES — SADDLERY HARDWARE. 



LOCATED ON 

CHOSSETT IQHOOi^, » I^l DUXBUl^Y, 

About two miles Southwest of the Village of Waterbury, where he is always prepared to fill all orders on, 
short notice for Dimension Lumber. He also manufactures and deals in all kinds of 

Hard and soft vs^ood lumber- 

And makes a large quantity of SUPERIOR PURE MAPLE HONEY. Orders received by mail 
will receive prompt attention. Address, 

J. E. CROSSETT, WATERBURY, VT. 



Magoon John W.,r 61, E. Barre, Barre 

Mann Brothers, '' 

MARK & GORDON, foot of Granite st., " 
Martin C. Burton, " 

PARKHUR8T HORATIO N., " 

SMITH E. L. & CO., 
VERMONT GRANITE CO., 
WELLS, LAMSON & CO., 
Wetmore & Morse Granite Co., " 

WHEATON PLINY O., r 45. '• 

WHEELER GEORGE S. & HARVEY P., 

r Gl, 
Kimball Sumner, Montpelier 

Jones & Jones, (slate) Northfield 

Thomas Aimer B., r 22, Woodbury 

WOODBURY GRANITE CO., THE, L. 

W. Vooclry, manage)', " 

Railroad and Ticket Agents. 

Bylow Benjamin A., (freight C. V. 

R. R.) Barre 

Connell John W., (station C. V. R. R.) 

McMahon Patrick, (station) Montpe- 
lier, Berlin 

Sweeney Edward A., (station) r 3, N. 

Duxbury, Duxburv 

WHITE EVAN L., (station) r 1, N. Dux- 
bury, " 

Huntington George A., (station M. & 

W. R. R. R.) East Montpelier 

NUTE LUCIUS D., (station M. & W. R. 

R. R.) Marshfield 

McELROY FRANKLIN M., (freight and 

ticket C. V. R. R.) Middlesex 

Farwell John G., (station M. & W. R. 

R. R.) Montpelier 

HOWE STORRS L., (station C. V. R. R.) " 

Morse Frederick W., (general freight 
and passenger M. & W. R. R. R.) " 

Nicliols Willie E., (ticket) Northfield 

Cutting Harrison C., (station) Plaintield 

BUTTERFIELD STEPHEN G., (station) 

Boxburv 

BROWN ANDREW J., (station) Waterbury 

Rake Manufacturers. 

STAFFORD & HOLDEN" MFG. CO., 
(rakes, forks, and hoes) 31 S. Main 
St., Bai-re 

Reading Room. 

Y. M. C. A. Reading Room, Alex. Buchan, 
pres. ; Charles A. Smith, sec'y. , 
StiUman Wood block, Barre 



Real Estate Dealers. 



Barre 



BATCHELDER ADDISON E., 

BOYCE .fe BOYCE, French block, •' 

PARKER WALLACE G.. 

TEMPLETON CHARLES, " 

Hubbard Erastus, 12 Union block, Montpelier 

EDGERTON C. D., Northfield 

Moody Elisha, Waterbury 

Moody George W., " 

Reed and Rattan Workers and 
Dealers. 

(See also Chair Manufacturers.) 
SMITH STEPHEN B.. State St., Mont- 
pelier, Berlin 
Blake Alfred E. , Montpelier ■ 

Refrigerators. 

Cross Oscar N., 56 E. State st., 
Davis Nathaniel, 



Montpelier 



Restaurants and Saloons. 



Barre- 



Frenier Henry, Granite st., 

McQueenev Timothy, 64 N. Main st., " 

STAR RESTAURANT, Herbert J. Colby, 

prop., 127 Main st.. 
Capital Cafe, Charles W. Locldin, prop., 

34 S. Main st., Montpelier 

DeColaines Juan, 72 State st., " 

Glinney John, Main St., " 

Glysson Andrew J., 3 Main st., " 

Huntington & Son, 5 and 7 State st.. " 

Locklin A. W. & Co., 68 Main st., " 

LOCKLIN ERASTUS M., 50 S. Main St., " 

Smith Henry C, 120 Main st., " 

Stevens Fred R., 40 Main st., " 
VENDOME RESTAURANT, Leon H. 

Lombard, prop., 30 State st., " 

Wade George L., 40 Main st., " 
Preston Oscar F., under Central block, 

Northfield' 
HAMEL NELSON, Main at., Plainfield 

Roofing Manufacturers. 

Montpelier Slate Co., (slate) C. T. Sabin, 

pres. and treas., Barre st., Montpelier 

Jones & Jones, (slate) Northfield- 

Saddlery Hardware. 

JOHNSON & COLTON. (manufs. and 
wholesale dealers) 109 Main st., 

Montpelier- 
LOWE HARRY, 



SASH, DOORS, AND BLIND? — SHINGLE MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS. 26 1 



Sash, Doors, and Blinds. 

CLARK REUBEN L., 41 N. Main st., Banc 
Martin George H., r 49, " 

ROBINSON JUSTUS S., r 49, S. Barre, 
Kingsbury Geoige W., Middlesex 

Brooks John V., 15 State st., Moutpelier 

FULLER D. L. & SON, Main cor. 

E. State St., " 

Cobleigh Martin, S. Northfield, Northfield 

SHORTRIDGE JOSHUA B., Paine 

factory, " 

Saw-Mills. 

'(See also Lumber Manufacturers and Dealers.) 

PHELPS J. WALTER, r 46, Barre 

SMITH, WHITCOMB & COOK, N. Main 

St., " 

BROWN WILBUR, r 10, Montpelier, Berlin 
Pioneer Mills, G. W. Scott, and E. and 

J. G. Scribncr, props., Montj^elier, " 
Batchelder Ira, r 58, Plainfleld, Cabot 

Clark Harvey N., r 67, S. Cabot, 
FARRINGTON JOHN A., Lower Cabot, " 
Graves Jonathan C, r 69, Marshfiela, " 

Noyes & Phelps, " 

STEVENSON JAMES, r 66, S. Cabot, 
Dalev William H., r 63, Montpelier, Calais 

DWINELL ALBERT, E. Calais, '• 

Leonard Lewis O., E. Calais, " 

Wheeler Phineas, r 18, E. Calais. " 

*CROSSETT JABIES E., [see card] r 22, 

Waterbury, Duxbury 

DURKEE J. A. & L. J., r 13>^, N. Dux- 
bury, " 
DURKEE JOHN A., r IS)^, N. Duxbury, " 
HUNTLEY EBER W.. r 19, Waterbury," " 
Phillips John B., r 35, Waterbury, " 
WHITE EVAN L., r 1, N. Duxbuiv, 
HOLLISTER MARTIN V. B., N. Montpe- 
lier, East Montpelier 
Norcross & Perldns, " 
WHEELOCK JULIUS S., " 
GRANDFIELD JOHN A., r 3, N. Fayston, " 

Fayston 
DOW JOHN D., r 35, Plaintield, Marshfield 
Durant Alexander T., " 

KINNEY L. T., r 24, 
LAIRD HENRY S., Plainfleld, 
LANE D. A E., Lauesboro, " 

PERKINS & NORCROSS, off r 50, Plain- 
field, " 
PUTNAM C. C. & SON, r 7, Putnamsville, 

Middlesex 
Roberts James D., r 40, " 

Paine Grovner B.. Branch road, Montpelier 
WRIGHT :^r. & SON, 

Andrews Ira, r 25, Montpelier, Morctown 

Brown Joheph M. & Son, r 33, Montpelier, " 
CHAPMAN (tEORGE S., r 33, Mont- 
pelier, " 
Newhall Joseph, r 10, Middlesex, " 
Parker & fiillett. Main st., 
ROBINSON I. D. i: SON, Main st.. " 
STEVENS CirAKLES A., r 17 cor. 15, " 
ANDREWS GILBERT R., r 33, Northfield 
(,'UTLER HARVEY M., r 9 n 8, " 
Cutting Harvcv I., " 
GLIDDEN GEORGE F., r 19 n 20. " 
HARRIS L. PAGE, Paine factory, " 
Hornbrook John, r 3, (lonldsville, " 
Howes Edward H., r 41, " 
Laird H, S. & Sou. I'lainfield 



Burnham Edwin P., Roxburv 

SPALDING ERASTUS N., " 

TARBELL LUKE, r 15 cor. 10, 

Wardner Jacob, r 34 cor. 33, E. Roxbury " 

PALMER BROTHERS, Waitsfield 

TRASK ELMER O., r 2, 

Ric'liardson Meriden L., r 28, " 

ALLEN FRANCIS A., r 15 cor. 16, Warren 

Austin Daniel A., r 47, " 

Cardell Edwin, « 

PARKER PLYNA, r 19, 

PEARSONS AZRO A., 

Stetson John W., r 47, " 

Stetson Jonathan A. R., r 47. " 

ELLIOTT WILLIAM R., Waterbury 

and N. Duxbuiy, Waterbury 

Hayes Eber C, Waterbury Center, " " 

Ball & Daniels, S. Woodbury, Woodburv 

CARR HERMAN H., r 19, Hardwick, 

Caledonia Co., " 

CHASE ERASTUS T., r 30, S. Wood- 
bury, ' ' 
Nichols Alpheus H., r 17, " 
RIDEOUT HERBERT P., r 32, E. Wood- 
bury, " 
Camp Arthur H., r 2, Worcester 
LADD CHESTER M., r 22, 
Morse C. L. & E. M., r 6, " 
Russell Lewis D., r 53^, " 
Stone George H., r 18, " 
Stone Jerome L., r 25, " 
WHEELER MOSES P., r 8, " 

Schools. 

See Academies and Schools. 

Sculptors and Designers. 

GRANT ALEX. & CO., Barre 

Second-Hand Goods. 

Boisselle Joseph, Main st., Waterbury 

Sewing Machines. 

Donovan John P., 59 Main st., Montpelier 
Lucas James A., (Singer) 26 State st., " 

Talbot J. H. & Co., Central st., Northfield 

WRIGHT CHARLES H., (New Home) 
BATCHELDER ctFOSS, I'lainfield 

MANSFIELD MARTIN, (White) Roxbury 
GRIGGS JOHN (White) Stowe st., Waterbury 

Shingle Manufacturers and Dealers. 

(See also Lumber Blanufacturers and Dealers, 

also Saw-Mills.) 
BROWN WILBUR, r 10. Montpelier, Berlin 
LANCE BYRON J., r 38, jCabot 

BANCROFT MALLORY M., Calais 

Chase Warehani A., N. Calais, " 

DWINELL ALBERT, E. Calais, 
DURKEE J. A. & L. J., r 13J^, N. Dux- 
bury, Duxbury 
DANA SAMUEL J., r 30>^, Waitsfield, 

Fayston 
EDSON ELI, Marsiifield 

Parker <V Gillett, Main st., Moretown 

ROBINSON I. D. A SON, Main St., " 

CUTLER HAUVEY M., r 9 n 8, Northfield 
FISHER CJEORGE H., r 44 n 38, 

S. Northfield, " 

GLIDDEN (iEORGE F., r 19 n 20, " 

BATCHELDER J. M. & SON, Plainfleld 

Parker Fred, r 28, Waitsfield 

TRASK ELMER O., r 2, 
Bradley Brotliers, Warren 



262 



SHINGLE MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS — TINSMITHS. 



HILL HENRYF., r 18, Wateibury Center, 

Waterbury 
HAND ALL GEORGE W., 
CHASE ERASTUS T , r 30, S. Wood- 
bury, Woodbury 
Morae C. L. & E. M., r 6, Worcester 

Silverware. 

See Jewelry, Watches, etc. 

Slate Manufacturers. 

See Roofing Manufacturers, 

Soap Manufacturer and Dealer. 

LOMBARD WILLIAM H., r 5, Montpelier 

Speculators. 
Bailey Burnside B., Montpelier 

Best William, " 

Parizo E. J., " 

Sporting Goods. 
(See also Hardware, also Guns, etc.) 
Averill Harlcv L., 24 Main st., Barre 

NICHOLS J.'^G. & SON, 123 N. Main st., " 
Knights James B., Cabot 

WHEELOCK & DAWLEY, 26 Main st., 

Montpelier 
Downing Arthur E., (dealer in guns) 

over Nichols's store, Northfield 

Spring Bed Manufacturers. 

HOUSTON FERDINAND J., Eagle 

block, Northfield 

MARBLE JOSEPH D., Gouldsville. 
Stage Routes. 
See Star Mail Routes and Stage Lines. 
Stamping and Stamping Outfits. 
JONES CARRIE E. Mrs., 16 Barre st., 

Montpelier 
Stave Slanufacturers. 
DURKEE J. A. & L. J., r 13>^, N. Dux- 
bury, Duxbury 
Steam and Gas Fitting. 
(See also Plumbers.) 
*LYONS PATRICK L., 5 Elm st., Montpelier 
PECK JOHN W., 58 Main st.. 

Stoves and Tinware. 
(See also Hardware.) 
Durkee Giles B., 62 N. Main st., Barre 

Smith Coridan D., Marshtield 

Dewey D. & Son, 104 State st.. Montpelier 
SCRIBNER GEORGE M. & SON, 21 

Main st., " 

DAVIS JULIUS D., Moretown 

Huntley Newcomb, Paine blo('k, Northfield 
Steele S. Warren, 13 and 14 Paine block, " 
TILLOTSON GEORGE W., under Eagle 

block, " 

Richardson Roxa D. Mrs., Main st., Plainfield 
EATON O. G. & CO., Waitsfield 

EATON ORVILLE M., Water st., " 

Straw Worker. 
Baker Jabez Mrs., Montpelier 

Sugar Makers' Supplies. 
(See also Hardware, also Stoves and Ticware.) 
ROBINSON I. D. & SON, (adjustable 

sap yokes) Main st.. Moretown 

TILLOTSON GEORGE W., (syrup cans) 

under Eagle block, Northfield 



Surveyors. 

See Civil Engineers and Surveyors. 
Tailors. 

See Clothiers, also General Merchants, 

Tanners and Curriers. 

(See also Leather Dealers.) 
Johonnott A. & F., n M. & W. R. R. R. 

depot, Montpelier 

Pecks A Cummins. 60 Main st., "' 

Smith & Brown, Main st., Northfield 

WARREN C. C, Waterbury 

Teas, Coftees, and Spices. 

(See also Groceries, also General Merchants.) 
WELLS ERNEST C, Plainfield 



Telegraph Operators. 



Barre 



Connell John W., (W. U.) 
WHEELOCK ALBERT A., •' 

Rogers Beauman G., Cabot 

Huntington George A., (M. & W. R. 

R. R.) East Montpelier 

Hooker Alfred C, r 22}^, Marshfield 

NUTE LUCIUS D., (station M. & W. R. 

MoELROY FRANKLIN M., Middlesex 

McNamara Daniel, r 12, '' 

Drew Henry W., (manager W. U.) C. V. 

R. R. depot, Montpelier 

Trulan Alfred G., " 

Grittith Charles D., (W. U.) Waterbury 

Telephone Exchanges. 

Chandler Perley, manager, 73 N. Main 

St., Barre 

DWINELL CLARENCE R., Main st., 

E. Calais. Calais 

MONTPELIER TELEPHONE EX- 
CHANGE, A. C. Brown, prop, and 
manager. Main cor. State st., Montpelier 

HURLEY C. FRANK, manager, Northfield 

Threshers and Wood Sa^vyers. 

Ayers Charles M., r 45, Northfield, Berlin 

Gould Lucius B., r 16, Montpelier, 

East Montpelier 
Paine Herbert M., r 45, Montpelier, " 

Prav Ephraim, Jr., N. Montpelier^ " 

Slay ton Aro P., r 21, N. Montpelier, " 

Johnson James H., r 16, N. Fayston. Fayston 
Maxwell William J., r 301-^, Waitsfield, 
Pembroke James, r 13, Middlesex 

Pembroke Martin, r 13, " 

Ladd Andrew J., r 31, E. Roxbury, Roxbury 
Ferris Charles H., r 33, Waitsfield 

Turner David E., r 28, " 

Stearns Gilbert P., r 35, E. Warren, Warren 
Wallace Edwin G., r 11, Waterbury 

Centcu-, Waterburv 

BENJAMIN JOSEPH, r 42, S. Woodbury, 

Woodbury 

Tinsmiths. 

(See also Stoves and Tinware, also Hai-dware. ) 
Chandler Henry L., Barre 

Durfey George W., " 

Durkee William R.. " 

WING CHARLES A., r 49, E. Calais, Calais 
Steele Horace, Middlesex 

Barrows & Peck, 64 Main st., Montpelier 

Emerson George, 5 Kinsman place, " 



WASHINGTON COUNTY DIRECTORY. 



265 



ISSS. 



1880» 



TV^ONTPELIER 

Mw^, Steppi m Ehs Fittiki} Works, 



-DKALIiUS IN- 



liead and Iron Pipes, Cast and UUPought-"lPon Fittings, 

Bath Tubs, UUateP Closets, Sinks of all Kinds, 

Pumps, both Coppef and Ipon. 




■f^'^i 



FT7Z.Z. Z.ZITS OF STSiiM GOODS^ 




ENGINEERS' x SDPPLIES. 

In fact everything to be found in 

A FIRST-CLASS ESTABLISHMENT, 

For the execution of the above branches in Private UweUing^ 
liuildings, Hotels, and Factories. 



ALL WORK WARRANTED, 

P. L. LYONS, - - Proprietor, 

(Siictessor to Si'kak \ I.Viin>,) 

ELM STREET, - MONTPELIER, VT. 



■2t)4 



TOBACCO AND CIGARS — WOODENWARE MANUFACTURERS. 



Tobacco and Cigars. 

•(See also Groceries, also Drugs, also General 

Merchants.) 
MURPHY PATRICK J.. 105 N. Main st., Barre 
STAR RESTAURANT, H. J. Colby, prop., 

N. lMai.1 8t., " 

BUTTON ORLO, Middlesex 

Bascom Frank H., 25 State St.. Montpelier 
CROSS C. H. & SON, (wholesale and re- 
tail) 101 Main st., " 
JANGRAW ALEXANDER, 116 Main st., " 
Marron Charles W., ii S. Main st., " 
Miller William, 120 Main St., " 
Carpenter Frank N., Eagle block, Northfteld 
PORTER EDWIN, Central block, 
Preston Oscar F., Central block, " 
WELLS ERNEST C, Plainfield 

Tools. 

Barre Novelty Co., (patent tools manufs.) 

Granite st., Barre 

*BANISTER GEORGE, (lumbermen's, 
stonecutters', and joiners' tools, etc.) 

Warren 
Trout Pond. 
Drew Levi B., r 19, E. Calais, Calais 

Trunks. 

See Harnesses, Trunks, etc., also Cloth- 
iers, also General Merchants. 

Tub j>Ianufacturers. 

See Butter Tub Manufacturers, also Coopers. 

TypcAvriters. 

SENTER & KEMP, (Remington) 47 

State St., Montpelier 

Undertakers. 

Bisnett Louis A., Barre 

COLBY W. F. & CO., 10 Opera House 

block. 
SHEPLEE OLIVER C. 107 N. Main st.. " 
GliEASON & CO., E. State cor. Main 

St., Montpelier 

Towner S. S. & Son, Main st., " 

Love joy & Towle, Main st., Moretown 

Abbott Josiah L., 8 Paine block, Northfield 
NEWCOMB JAMES S.. r 28, Waitstield 

Sterling Henry A., r 13 cor. 18, Warren 

Atherton Geoi-ge H.. Waterbury 

Ciark Charles 13., Waterbury Center 

Upholsterers. 

(See also Furniture Dealers.) 
Bisnett Louis A., Barre 

Boutwell Eli G., r 14 cor. 12, " 

Sterling Walter H., Montpelier 

White Charles A.. Nortlitield 

Caldwell Don C, Park st., Waterbury 

Variety Stores. 

Slade Sai-ah S. Mrs., 59 Main st., Montpelier 
Deuel Epliraim, at Colby ville, Waterbury 

Veterinary Surgeons. 

BARBER CHARLES N., oil' r 12, Barre 

PAGE JOSEPH P.. 

Martin Campbell B., r 7, Montpelier, Berlin 
Baker Addison W.. (dentist) r 39, Cabot 

Peck Horace D., r 20, " 

Peck Oren D., r25, " 

VVaketield Lewis C, Montpelier 

SKINNER EZEKIEL, r 10, Plainfield 



Vinegar 3Ianufacturer. 

Rhoads Nathaniel A., Waterbury 

Wagon Makers. 

See Carriage Manufacturers. 

WaU Paper. 

See Paper Hangings, etc. 

Watch Key Manufacturers. 

ACME WATCH KEY CO., rear Main st., 

Montpelier 

Watches. 

See Jewelry, Watches, etc. 
Water Heaters. 

Ward Chester L., (agent for H. A. Keir's 

water heaters) Middlesex 

Water- Wheels. 

BARRE IRON WORKS, Smith, Whit- 
comb & Cook, props., (Barre turbine 
water-wheel) N. Nain st., Barre 

AVeavers. 

See Carpet Weavers, also Woolen-Mills. 
Whetstone Manufacturer. 

Richards George S., Pioneer shops, Montpelier 

Wood Dealers. 

(See also Coal Dealers.) 
BLANCH ARD GEARY W., Barre 

MARTIN HIRAM S., r 33 cor. 49, •' 

Moses William B., " 

Dewey Orville, Montpelier 

Farwell John G.. " 

Gould Moses W., " 

Wheeler HoseaL., " 

Clough M. James, Northfield 

DICKINSON CHARLES L., r 16, Roxbury 

Joslin Alexander, " 

Orcutt William B . " 

Roys George A., 
Wrisley Warner W., Waterbury Center, 

Waterbury 
Wood Turning. 
Denison Adorno, Middlesex 

Wooden^va^e Manufacturers. 

Reynolds George J. .fe Co., (dealers) 68_ 

70, and 72 N. Main st., Barre 

Slay ton Otis, (fork, rake, and hoe 

liandles, and crutches) E. Calais, Calais 

Davis J. Whitney, (ox-yokes) Marshfield 

Morgan Newton, (mannf.) r 24, " 

ALLEN & VAN DEUSEN (ash barrels 

and chair stock) Moretown 

ROBINSON L D. &SON, (wheelbarrows, 

wagon jacks, etc.) Main st., " 

BERRY JEREMIAH, (fire kindlers) 

Gouldsville, Northfield 

Huntley Newcomb, Paine block, " 

NEWELL CHARLES H., (fork, hoe, 

and broom handles) Paine factory. " 

*BANISTER GEORGE, (os-yokes) 

Water st.j Warren 

Bradley Brothers, (bobbins) " 

Ambler Orvis M., (piano sounding 

boards) r 36, Waterbury 

Boker August, (children's reed and wil- 
low carriages) at Colby ville, " 



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COLBYVILLE MANUFG. CO., (wash- 
ing machines) a^ Colby ville, Watoi-biiry 

Davis Mai-vin & Co., (bobbins) at Colbv- 
viUe. 

DILLINiGtHAM HENRY, (fork, rake, 
lioe, and broom handles) at Mill Vil- 
lage, " 

Frary Bros., (spools, dowels, and organ 

stops) " 

Thomas Warner, (bobbins) Woodbnry 

Wool-Carding. 

HAINES IRA F., r 41, Lower Cabot, Cabot 
JONES EDWIN K.. S. Northfield. Northfield 
DILLINGHAM HENRY, at Mill Village, 

Waterbnry 



Wool Dealers. 

Lance Theron H., Cabot 

Perrin Charles E.. Montpelier 

EGERTON JOSEPH K., Main st., Northfield 
MOODY G. EUGENE, Waterbury 

Woolen-Mills. 

MOORCROFT WILLIAM. S. Main st., Barre 
SIBLEY GEORGE F., (flannels) 

N. Montpelier, East Montpelier 

GOULD J. & SON, Gouldsville. Northfield 

Wringer Manufaotiirei-s. 

Colby Wringer Co., Montpelier 



SOCIETIES. 

Masonic Fraternity. 

Barre. — Granite Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., organized January 11, 1855 ; meets in Masonic 
hall. Tilden Ijlock, on Friday on or before the moon fulls. B. H. Wells, W. M. ; G. W. 
Tilden, Sec'y. 

Cabot. — Green Mountain Lodge, No. 68, F. & A. M., chartered January 12, 1865 ; meets 
Tuesday evening in the week in which the moon fulls. F. P. Gale, W. M. 

Montpelier. — Aurora Lodge, No. 22. F. & A. M., chartered January 9, 1851 ; stated communica- 
tions Monday evening of the week in which the moon fulls. C. Blakely, W. M. ; F. D. 
Dewey, Sec'y. 
Gamaliel Washburn Lodge of Perfection, 14°, A. A. S. R., organized August 18, 

1875 ; meets in JIasonic hall on Tuesdav of the week in which the moon fulls. Charles 
A. Barnard, T. P. G. BL; G. L. Lane, D. G. M.; Charles H. Hcaton, Gr. Sec'y. 

King Solomon Chapter, No. 7, R. A. M., meets in Masonic hall on Thursday of the 
week in which the moon fulls. J. T. Sabin, M. E. H. P. ; F. D. Dewey, Sec'y. 

Montpelier Council, No. 4, R. it S. M., meets in Masonic hall on Thursday of the 
week in which the moon fulls. George W. Wing, T. I. j\I.; James T. Sabin, Rec. 

Mount Calvary Council, Princes of Jerusalem, 16°. A. A. S. R., organized September 
22, 18S0 ; meets" in Masonic hall on Tuesdav of the week in whicli the moon fulls. 
James E. Curran, M. E. S. P. G. M.; Charles H. Heaton, Val. Gr. Sec'y. 

Mount Sinai Temple, A. A. O., Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, organized November 23, 

1876 ; chartered February 6, 1877 ; stated sessions are held iu Masonic hall on the 
second Friday in March, Jane. September, and December ; annual session iu 
Decemljer. Charter members : Frank H. Bascom, Geoi-ge O.Tyler, Charles 11. Heaton, 
Albert C. Dewey, William C. Bradbury, Artemas N. Pearson, Horace L. Jolionnott, 
George W. Tilden, John Henry Jackson" Hial O. Heath, Henry D. Bean, and Moses O. 
Pingree. Past Grand Potent'ates :" Frank H. Bascom, George W. Wing, Albert C. 
Dewev, J. W. F. Washburn, Howard F. Hill, George O. Tyler, and C. H. Hcaton. Present 
officers : William A. Briggs, G. P. ; William H. Herrick, Rec. Present membership. 152. 

Mount Zion Commanderv, No. 9, Knights Templar, meets in Masonic liall first 
Thursday in each lUJUlh. J. W. F. Washliurn, E. C. ; Charles H. Heaton, Rec. 

Rob Morris Chapter, No. 24, Order of the Eastern Star, or Adoptive Masonry, insti- 
tuted September 16. 1887 ; meets on Tuesday of the week following Blue Lodge, week 
after full moon. James E. Curran, W. P.; Jennie B. Webster, W. M.; C. Louise 
Curran, Se(;"y. 
MORETOWN.— Mad River Lodge, No. 77, F. & A. M., chartered June 10, 1868 ; meets Tuesday 

of the week in which the moon fulls. C. A. Prentis, W. M. 
Northfield.— De Witt Clinton Lodge, No. 15, F. & A. M., organized January 10, 1849 ; '"eets 
Wednesday evening of the week in which the moon fulls. Dr. W. B. Mayo, W. M.; 
H. L. Kenyon, Sec'y. 

Masonic Relief Association, organized in February, 1875 ; annual meeting first Wed- 
nesday in June. J. K. Egerton, Sec'y. 

Naomi Chapter. No. 18, Order of tlie Eastern Star, instituted May 3, 1884 ; meets 
Tuesday before the moon fulls, in Masonic hall. I. P. Booth, W. P.; G. C. Bates, 
Sec'y. 
PLAINFIELD.-Wvoming Lodge, No. 80. F. & A. M., instituted June 1.1, i«6S ; ';eK"lar <^«™™"- 
nications Thursdiy evening of the week in which the moon tnlls. W. H. Gove. W. M.; 
Arch M. Batchelder, Sec'y. 



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Independent Order of Odd Fello\vs. 

Bakbk. — Hiawatha Lodge, No. 30, I. O. O. F., organized in 1883 ; meets in Odd Fellows hall, 

Nichols block, every Thursday evening. I. O. Wales, N. G. ; George W. Tilden. Sec'y. 
MoNTPELiEK.— Vermont Lodge, No. 2, L O. 0. F., meets in Blanqhard Opera House block every 

Wednesday. F. H. Baseom, N. G. , F. A. Sherburne, Sec'y. 
Thomas Wildey Encampment, No. 11, I. O. O. F., meets in Blanchard Opera House 

block the first and third Fridays in each month. Edson O. Cheney, C. P. ; George 

Trembly, H. P. ; Charles O. Foster, Scribe. 

NoRTHFiELT). — Eureka Encampment, No. 10, I. O. O. F. , instituted January 6, 1874 ; meets 
first and third Mondays in each month, at Odd Fellows hall. J. K. Egerton, C. P.; 
J. L. Abbott, Sec'y. 

Grand Encampment of Vermont, instituted June 20, 1871 ; annual meeting on 
Tuesday before the tirst Wednesday in February. J. H. Jones, of Bradfoid, G. P. ; 
J. K. Egerton, G. S. 

Northfield Lodge, No. 19, I. O. O. F., instituted Mard. 25, 1850 ; meets second and 
fourth Thursdays in each month, in Odd Fellows hall. L. P. Harris, N. G.; E. E. 
Campbell, Sec'y. 

Odd Fellows Mutual Belief Association, organized in March, 1875 ; annual meeting 
third Wednesday in January. P. D. Bi'adford, Pres. ; J. K. Egerton, Sec'y. 

Social Lodge, No. 10, Daughters of Kebekah, instituted December 1, 1884 ; meets 
Wednesdays of the week previous to and after the full moon, in Odd Fellows hall. 
Mrs. S. E." Morris, N. G.; Mrs. L. A.Abbott, Sec'y. 
Waitsfield. — Valley Lodge, No. 16, I. O. O. F., instituted Januai-y 15, 1883, meets every Mon- 
day evening. O. M. Eaton, N. G. ; O. G. Eaton, Sec'y. 

Royal Arcanum. 

Barbe. — Green Mountain Council, No. 736, K. A., organized in 1883 ; meets in Koyal Arcanum 
hall, Jackman block, first and third Wednesdays of each mouth. N. T. Latham, 
Regent ; Homer Fitts, Sec'y. 

Improved Order of Red Men. 

Montpelier. — Waban Tribe, No. 3, I. O. R M., of Montpelier Reservation of Massachusetts, 
was organized on the ninth sun. Flower Moon, G. S. D. 395, (May 9, 1888.) The 
Wigwam is situated on the corner of State and Main streets, and council tire is kindled 
every fourth sun of seven suns (Wednesday evening). John P. Donovan, Sachem : 
Charles Locklin, Chief of Records. 

Liegioii of Honor. 

Montpelier. — Green Mountain Council, L. of H., meets first and third Friday evenings of 
each month. H. M. Pierce, Commander ; E. D. Blackwell, Sec'y. 

Knights of Honor. 

Barre. — Barre Lodge, No. 929, K. of H., organized in 1878 ; meets in Jackman block first and 
third Mondays of each month. W. L. Huntington, Dictator ; O. H. Reed, Reporter. 

Montpelier. — Capital Lodge, No. 917, K. of H., organized February 26, 1878, meets in G. A. 
R. hall second and fourth Fridays of each month. S. S. Towner, Dictator ; D. S. 
Wheatley, Reporter. 

United Friends. 

Barre. — Green Mountain Council, No. 239, Order of United Friends, organized in 1887 ; meets 
in G. A. R. hall first and third Tuesdavs in each niontJi. Mrs. Emma A. La Point, 
W, C. C. ; Edward C. Poole, F. R. 

Patrons of Husbandry. 

Berlin.— Eagle Grange, P. of H., R. D. Stewart, Master ; Mrs. DoraLoomis, Sec'y. 

Middlesex.— Grange No. 80, P. of H., meets last Saturday of each month. John W. Maxham. 
Master : Arthur Maxham, Sec'y. 

EoXBURY. — Dog River Valley Pomona Grange, P. of H.. changed from Washington County 
Council in 1880, meets first Wednesday in June, last Wednesdays in August and Octo- 
ber, and second Wednesday in Fel)ruar\\ H. A.'i Richardson, Master : H. P. Abbott, 
Sec'y. 

Summit Grange, No. 79, P. of H , chartered February 16, 1874, meets every fourth 
Friday ; present membership, 19. Joseph Gold, Master (11 years) ; Celia J. G. Wiley, 
Sec'y. 

Worcester.— North Branch Grange, No. 87, P. of H., F. C, Herriman, Master ; Mrs. W. P. 
Gould, Sec'y and Treas. Thirty members. 



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Grand Army of the Republic. 

Baure.— K. B. Crandall Pdsfc, No. 56, G. A. R., organized in 1883, meets in G. A. R. hail fii-Ht 
and third Wednesdays of each month. W. A. Strong, Com. 

Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to R. B. Chandler Post, G. A. R., Jlrs. JIaria 
Nichols, Pres. ; Mrs. Itlarcella Sheplee, Sec'y. 

Cabot.— Morrill Post, No. 71, G. A. R., organized March 25, 1884, meets first (luarter of tlm 
moon. Herman Osgood, Com. 

Morrill Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to Morrill Post, No. 71, G. A. R., organized 
August 26, 1887, meets twice each month. Mrs. Oscar F. Morrill, Pres. 

Gen. Sedgwick Camp, Sons of Veterans, organized April 6, 1887, meets monthly. 
S. C. Voodry, Captain. 
Calais.— Stow Post, No. 29. G. A. R., of North Calais, meets Saturday evening preceding the 
full of tde moon. Warren E. Bliss, Com. 

Stow Woman's Relief Corps, No. 36, of North Calais, auxiliary to Stow Post, No. 29, 
G. A. R., Miss Nervie Foster, Pres.; Mrs. Flora M. Nelson, Sec'y. 
Wyman R. Burnap Camp, No. 39, Sons of Veterans, L. T. Lamphere, Captain. 
MoNTPELiER. — Brooks Post, No. 13, G. A. R., meets first and third Tuesdays in the month, in 
G. A. R. hall. B. A. McKenna, Com.; N. W. Peck, Adjutant. 

Brooks Woman's Relief Corps, No. 18, auxiliary to Brooks Post. No. 13, G. A. R., 
was organized March -1, 1886, and meets in G. A. R. hall second and fourth Fj-idaysin 
each month. Mrs. Ellen M. Seaver, Pres.; Alice M. Hunt, Sec'y. 

Gen. Stephen Thomas Camp, No. 31, Sons of Veterans, organized in December, 
1886, meets third Friday in each month in G. A. R. hall. O. D. Clark, Captain. 
NoRTHFiELD. — William H. Boynton Post, No. 94, G. A. R., organized in March, 1886, meets 
first and third Saturdays in each month, in G. A. R. hall. Homer Denny, Com. 

Johnson Post, No. 23, G. A. R., organized May 8, 1873, meets second and fourth 
Saturdays in each month, in G. A. R. hall. A. F. Spauldiug, Com. 
Camp, Sons of Veterans, F. O. Townson, Captain. 
Plainfield.— W. E. Martin Post. No. 101, G. A. R., instituted March 11, 1887, meets every 
Saturday evening in G. A. R. hall. Ezekiel Skinner, Com.; W. R. Gove, Adjutant. 

The Woman's Relief Corps was organized February 25, 1889. Mrs. 0. L. Hoyt, 
Pres.; Mrs. H. H. Dewey, Sec'y. 
Waitsfield. — Ainsworth Post, No. 36, G. A. R., named in honor of Capt. Luther Ainsworth, 
meets first and second Saturday evenings in each month. L. D. Savage, Com. ; E. A. 
Fisk, Adjutant, 
Warren.— Joseph Eldridge Post, No. 36, G. A R., meets first and third Thursdays in each 
month. Hiram Goodspeed, Com.; George E. Bruce, Adjutant. 

Camp, Sons of Veterans, organized in 1886, meets first and third Tuesdays in each 
month. 
Waterbury.— Edwin Dillingham Post, No. 22, G. A. R., organized February 2, 1881, with 28 
members, in honor of Major Edwin Dillingham, meets second and fourth Mondays in 
each month, in G. A. R. hall. Dr. G. C. Washburne, Com.; Edwin H. Wells, Adjutant. 
Ezra Stetson Post, No. 72, G. A; R., of Waterbury Center, organizetl May 3, 1884, 
meets first and third Saturdays in eacli month, in the basement of the M. E. cliurch. 
J. O. Freeman, Com. 

Dillingham Woman's Relief Corps, No. 32, auxiliary to Edwin Dillingham Post, No. 
22, G. A. R., organized in Mav, 1887, meets in G. A. R. hall every alternate Wednes- 
day evening. Mrs. Hannah P. Wells, Pres. ; Mrs. Charlotte L. Washburne, Sec'y. 
Gen. W. W. Henry Camp, No. 41, Sons of Veterans, P. Shonio, Captain. 
Worcester.— Hall Post, No. 39, G. A. R., meets regularly on the Saturday nearest the full 
moon. Samuel Pratt, Com.; John R. Wilson, Adjutant. 

liabor Organizations. 

Barre.— Barre Branch Granite Cutters National Union meets first ^londay after the second 
Saturday in each month, in Thonipson's hall. William McDonald, Pres.; George 
Gray, Sec'y. 

Washington Assembly, No. 7693; Knights of Labor, was organized in :May. 1886. 
James H. Albin, Master Workman ; Thomas E. Baird, Sec'y. 

Fire Companies. 

Barre.— Torrent Hose and Engine Co., No. 1 ; E. F. Smith. Foreman ; Henry Frenier, Clerk 
and Treas. Bridge street. 

Torrent Hose Co., No. 2 ; George Troup, Foreman ; 'J'homas Cable, Clerk and 
Treas. 



268 SOCIETIES. 



Hook and Ladder Co.; William Scott, Foreman ; John McKinzie, Clerk and 
Treas. 
MoNTPELiEE. — Volunteer Hose Co., No. 1 ; James M. Boutwell, Foreman ; William T. Dewey, 
Pres. ; Osmam D. Clark, Sec'y. 

Capital Hose Co. , No. 2 ; Charles De F. Bancroft, Foreman ; Patrick Slattery, Clerk 
and Treas. 

Farrasut Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1 ; W. W. Hayes, Foreman. 

Fire Engine and Hose Co., No. 4; Joseph Galaise, Foreman ; Thomas J. Keegan. 
Clerk ; Hiram Atkins, Treas. 
NoKTHFiELD. — Water Witch Engine Co., No. 1 ; Henry E. Smith, Foreman ; Dr. A. A. Minott, 
Clerk and Treas. Central street. 

Torrent Engine Co., No. 2 ; Louis Rock, Foreman ; Dr. John H. Winch, Clerk and 
Treas. Vine street. 

Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1 ; E. W. Howe, Foreman ; Frank L. Howe, Sec'y and 
Treas. Central street. 
WATERBURY.^Seth Warner Engine Co., No. 2 ; Edward Farrar, Foreman. 

Military Companies. 

Barre. — Spencer Rifles, Co. E, V. N. G., Burt H. Wells, Captain. Sixty members. Armory, 

rear 95 North Main street. 
MoNTPELiER. — Capital Guards, Co. H, First Regt., V. N. G., O. D. Clark, Captain. Fifty-one 

members. Headquarters, Armory block. 
NoRTHriELD. — Company F, New England Guards, G. C. Bates, Captain. Fifty-one members. 

Armory, Paine block. 

Baiitls and 3Iusical Societies. 

Barre. ^Barre Cornet Band, Joseph McDonald, Leader; William Dickey, Pres.; Frank W. 
Jackson, Sec'y ; C. N. Field, Treas. 

Sortwell Military Band ; address O. F. Davis. 

Marshfield.— Marshfield Cornet Band, Albert E. Lamberton, Pres. and Leader ; G. A. Bemis, 

Sec'y and Treas. 
NoRTHFiELD. — Nortlifield Cornet Band, organized about sixteen vears ago, has twenty pieces. 
Frederick N. Cook, Leader; W. L. Tilden, Pres.; W. G. Huntley, Clerk; Charles 
Cofrin, Business Manager and Treas. 

Cadet Band of Norwich University ; P. G. Smith, Leader ; A. R. Shaw, Pres.; H. S. 
Dane, Sec'y. 

Gouldsville Cornet Band, of Gouldsville, organized in 18S4 ; Albert C. Chase, 
Instructor. 

Plainfield. — Plamfield Cornet Band, organized Febriiary 8, 1886, has seventeen pieces. 
Charles B. Perry, Pres. and Leader ; Eugene C. Hoyt, Sec'y. 

Temperance Societies. 

Barre.— W. C. T. U. meets in Y. M. C. A. rooms. Mrs. J. F. Rhoads, Pres. : Mrs. D. Minard, 
Treas.; Mrs. Fred E. Chase, Sec'y ; Mrs. J. R. George, Cor. Sec'y. 

Granite Division, No. 30, Sons of Temperance, organized iu 1884, meets in Royal 
Arcanum hall every Tuesday. J. P. Marr, W. P. 

Cabot. — Winooski Lodge, No. 85, L O. G. T., organized November 5, 1885, has a membership 
of 56. 

W. C. T. U.,>rganized in July, 1881 ; Mrs. S. L. Wiswell, Pres. ; Mrs. Mary L. Atkins, 
Sec'y. 

Calais.— Moscow Lodge. I. O. G. T., of East Calais, George H. Gray, C. T.; Vinnie Pierce, 
Sec'y. 

Marshfield.— W. C. T. U., Mrs. E. B. Dwinell, Pres.;";Mrs. Evans McCrillis, Cor. Sec'y. 

Northfield. — Northfield Lodge, No. 175, I. O. G. T., organized April 7, 1873. meets every 
Friday evening ; present membershii), 130. Prof. J. B. Johnson, C. T. ; Mrs. R. N. 
Johnson, Sec'y. 

Plainfield. — Shepard Lodge, No. 21, I. O. G. T.. instituted March 2, 1888, meets every Fri- 
day evening in G. A. R. hall. H. Cutting, W. C. T.; Julia Shorey, Sec'j'. 

W. C. T. U., organized in March, 1887 ; Mrs. C. H. Farnsworth, Pres.; Nellie Batch- 
elder, Sec'y ; May Huntoon, Treas. 

RoxBURY. — Roxbury Lodge, No. 108, L O. G. T., organized in April, 1869, with 17 charter 
members, meets ever Thursday evening. Rev. Henry Howard, W. C. T. 

Waitsfield. — Waitsfield Lodge, No. 96, I. O. G. T., meets every Friday evening. William 
Palmer, C. T. ; George Lewis, Sec'y ; Ella McAllister, Treas. 



SOCIETIES. 260. 

Warren.— Mad River Lodge, No. 91, I. O. G. T.. organized November 25, 1868. meets everv 

Saturday evening ; membership, 70. H. Colby, C. T. 
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. (No particulars.) 
Waterbury.— Temperance Home Lodge, No. 130, I. O. G. T., was organized October 15 1888 

with 25 members. J. S. Batchelder, W. C. T.; W. B. Gould, Sec'y ; Miss Hattie Elliott' 

Treas. 

Young Women's Christian Temperance Union. (No particulars.) 

3Iist'ellaneoiis Societies. 

Bauue.— Clan Gordon, No. 12, 0. S. C, organized in 1884, meets second and fourth Tuesdays 

in each month, at G. A. K. hall. John Parks, Chief ; William Dunbar, Sec'y. 

Barre Lecture Association, L. F. Aldrich, Pres.; Charles A. Smith, Sec'y. 

Barre Toboggan Club, W. L. Stafford, Pres.: H. L. Averill, Sec'y ; F. W. Jackson 
Treas. 

Order of the Iron Hall, E. C. French, J. C. J.; E. A. Wilkinson, C. J.; E. H. Glid- 
den, V. J.; F. G. Howland, A.; John Rabbins, C; F. B. Mudgett. H. : Eh T. Rice. P • 
A. M. Stafford, W.: G. W. Barnard, V. 

Granite Court Lodge of the Equitable League of America, organized January 30, 
1889. E. H. Glidden, Justice ; W. E. Barney, Clerk ; O. C. Sheplee, Treas. 

Barre C. L. S. C, Mrs. L. Averill, Pres.; Mrs. B. W. Braley, Sec'y ; Mrs. F. McWhor- 
ter, Treas. 

Business Men's Association of Barre was organized February 12, 1889. Dr. G. B. 
Nichols, Pres.; Frank McWhorter, Rec. Sec'y ; Charles A. Smith, Cor. Sec'y. 

Ladies' Union of the Universalist church, Mrs. Fred Chase, Pres.; Jennie Temple- 
ton, Sec'y and Treas. 

Ladies' Aid Society of the Congregational church, Mrs. J. B. Chamberlin, Pres.;. 
Mrs. J. G. Nichols, Sec'y and Treas. 

Y. P. S. C. E., connected with the Congregational church, .Austin Hazen, Pres.;. 
Helen Stafford, Cor. Sec'y ; James Adie, Treas. 
MoNTPELiER. — Vermont Historical Society, Hon. E. P. Walton, Pres.; Col. J. H. Lncia, Rec. 
Sec'y ; E. W. Scott and Prof. Charles Dole, Cor. Secretaries ; Hon. Hiram Carleton, 
Treas.; H. A. Huse, Esq., Librarian. 

Apollo Club, A. J. Sibley. Pres.; H. W. Kemp, Vice-Pres. ; James T. Sabin, Sec'y ;. 
Joseph G. Brown, Treas. 

Local Branch King's Daughters, organized December 16, 1888, Mrs. Sibyl E. Coch- 
rane, Pres, ; Miss Gertrude M. Dewey, Sec'3' and Treas. 

Ladies' Society of Bethany church, Mrs. J. E. Macomber, Pres.; Mrs. H. C. Colton, 
Sec'y and Treas. 

Bethany Society of Christian Endeavor, Miss Fannie Knapp, Pres.; H. D. Hopkins, 
Jr., Rec. Sec'y ; Miss Lizzie Stimson, Treas. 

St. John the Baptist Society meets first and third Sundays in each month, in Post- 
office block. 

Young Men's Catholic Union meets in Postoffice block once a week. 

Young Ladies' Sodality meets once in two weeks in St. Michael's Parochial School. 
NoRTHFiELD.— C. L. S. C, Rev. L P. Booth, Pres.; Mrs. C. S. Richmond, Sec'y. 

Y. P. S. C. E., organized in January, 1889, G. H. Frary, Pres.; Mrs. A. H. Baker, 
Sec'y ; Alibie Haines, Treas. 

Elmwood Cemetery Association, chartered in 1854, J. K. Egerton, Pres. : J. L. Ab- 
bott, Sec'y. 
Plainsield. — Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle ; 18 members. 
KoxBUEY. — Dog River Valley Fair Association meets annually on the last Tuesday in October;. 

Cassius Peck, of Brookfield, Pres.; W. W. Holden. of Northfield, Sec'y. 
Watbbbdry.— Mad River Valley Agiicultural Society, J. I. Palmer, Pres. ; J. W. Ramsar, Sec'y :. 
O. M. Eaton, Treas. 



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POSTOFFICES AND POSTMASTERS — THE RATES OF POSTAGE. 



POSTOFFICES AND POSTMASTERS. 



POSTOFFICE. 

*Barre, 

Berlin, 

*Cabot., 

Calais, 

East Barre, 

East Cabot, 

East Calais, 

East Montpelier, 

East Roxbury, 

East Warren, 

Goulclsville, 

Lane-ibDro,- 

Lowei- Cabot, 

Marshtield, 

MiflfUesex, 

*Montpelier, 

*Moretown, 

North Calais, 

North Duxbury, 

North Favstou, 

*Northtieid, 

North Montpelier, 

Plainfield, 

Putnarasville, 

*Roxbnry. 

South Barre, 

South Cabot, 

South Northtield, 

South Woodbury, 

*Waitslield, 

*Warren, 

*Waterliury, 

*Waterbury Center, 

West Berlin, 

Woodbury, 

W^orcester, 



TOWN. 

Barre, 

Berlin, 

Cabot, 

Calais, 

Barre, 

Cabot, 

Calais, 

East Montpelier, 

Eosbury, 

Warren, 

Northtield, 

Marshtield, 

Cabot, 

Maishtield, 

Middlesex, 

Montpelier, 

Moretown, 

Calais, 

Duxbury, 

Favstou, 

Northtield, 

Montpelier, 

Plaintield, 

Middlesex, 

Eoxbury, 

Barre, 

Cabot, 

Northtield, 

Woodbury, 

Waitsfield, 

Warren, 

Waterbury, 

Waterbury, 

Berlin, 

Woodbury, 

Worcester, 



I'OSTiMASTEU. 

Clark Holden. 
Dr. Arteuias N. Pearson. 
Henry L. Averill. 
Leroy A. Kent. 
Nathaniel Carnes. 
Emory H. Clark. 
Benjamin P. White. 
Matthew D. Willard. 
Dwight L. Buck. 
Lelah Drew. 
Lewis S. Hutchins. 
Edwin Lane. 
Helen M. Hatch. 
George Wooster. 
Orlo Dutton. 
Frederick W. Morse. 
George M. Fletcher. 
Shubacl B. Fair. 
Evan L. White. 
Catharine F. Pasnett. 
Henry L. Kenyon. 
William G. Nye. 
George D. Kidder. 
John W. Dillon. 
Fred W. Roys. 

Henry L. Averill. 
Fred A. Jones. 
George Lance. 
Richardson J. Gleason. 
Edwin W. Slayton. 
George W. Morse. 
Frank N. Smith. 
Crismon Hancock, Ass't. 
Duron B. Nelson. 
Maria E. Abbott. 



Rates of Commission Charged for Bloney Orders. 

On orders not exceeding $5, tive cents ; over $5, and not exceeding $10, eight cents ; over 
#10, and not exceeding S15. ten cents ; over $15, and not exceeding $30, tifteen cents ; over 
$30, and not exceeding $40, twenty cents ; over $40, and not exceediug $50, twenty-five cents ; 
over $50, and not exceeding $60, thirty cents ; over $60, and not exceeding $70, thirty-five 
cents ; over $70, and not exceeding $80, forty cents ; over $80, and not exceeding $100, forty- 
five cents. No single order issued for a greater sum than $100. 



THE RATES OF POSTAGE. 

Postal cards one cent each, to all parts of the United States and Canada. 

FIRST-CLASS MATTER — TWO CENTS PER OUNCE OR FRACTION THEREOF. 

Letters and all other mailable matter of other classes subject to letter postage by reason of 
a violation of the postal laws, two cents per ounce to all parts of the United States and Canada. 

REGISTRATION, DROP-LETTERS, ETC. 

On registered domestic letters and third and fourth-class matter an additional fee of ten 
cents is required. 

Local or " drop"-letters, that is for the city and town where deposited, two cents if de- 
livered by carriers, and one cent if there is no carrier system, per ounce. 

Manuscript for publication in books, (except when accompanied bj' proof-sheets,) newspapers, 
and magazines chargeable as letters. 



* Money order offices. 



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FREE. 

Newspapers to each actual subscriber in the eouuty where puliHshetl, free of cliarge. 

SECOND-CLASS MATTER — ONE CENT PER POUN]). 

Newspapers and periodicals, transient excepted, to be prepaid at the office of publication, at 
one cent per i)ound, or fraction thereof. 

TRANSIENT NEWSPAPERS OR PERIODICALS. 

One cent for four ounces, or fraction thereof. 

THIRD-CLASS JIATTEU— ONE CENT FOR TWO OUNCES. 

(Must not be sealed.) 

Mail-matter of the third class embraces printed books, (except transient newspapers, four 
ounces for one cent.) and periodicals, circulais, proof-sheets and corrected proof-sheets, manu- 
script copy accompanying the same, and all matter of the same general character, as above 
enumerated, the printing npou which is designed to instruct, amuse, cultivate the mind or 
taste, or impart general information, and postage shall be paid thereon at the rate of ono 
cent for each two ounces, or fractional part thereof. 

FOURTH-CLASS MATTER — ONE CENT FOR EACH OUNCE. 

Mailable matter of the fourth-class embraces labels, patterns, photographs, playing cards, 
"visiting cards, address tags, paper sacks, wrapping paper and blotting pads with or without 
printed addresses thereon, ornamental paper, and all other matter of the same general char- 
acter, the p.-inting npon which is not designed to instruct, amuse, cultivate tlie mind or 
taste, or impart general information. The class also includes merchandise and samples of 
merchandise, models, samples of ores, metals, mineral'^, seeds, &c., and any other matter not 
included in the tirst. second, or third-class, and which is not in its form or nature liable to 
destroy, deface, or otherwise damage the contents of the mail-bag, or harm the person of any 
one engaged in the postal service. Postage rate thereon, one cent for each ounce, or 
fractional part thereof. 

Packages of mail-matter must not exceed four pounds each in weight, except in cases of 
single volumes of books. 

Undelivered letters and postal cards can be resent to a new address without additional 
charge. 

Senders may write their names on transient newspapers, books, or any package in either 
class, preceded by tlie word " from." 

Stamps cut from the stamped envelopes are rejected by thepostoftice. 

Stamped envelopes and wrappers, postal cards, and stamps of diftercnt denominations for 
sale at the postofhces. 

Stamped envelopes accidentally spoiled redeemed for the value of stamps at the postoffioe 
where bought. 



STAR MAIL ROUTES AND STAGE LINES. 

2192. Berlin to Montpelier, 4)^ miles and back, daily, except Sunday. Leave Berhn at 2 
p. m , arive at Montpelier by 3 p. m.; leave Montpelier at 4:40 p. m., arrive at Berha 
by 5 p. 111. 



2109. 



Cabot, by Lower Cabot, to Marshfield, 5 miles and back, twelve times a week. Leave 
Cabot at 7:30 a. ni. and 3:30 p. 111., arrive at Marshlield by 8:30 a. m. and 4:30 p. m.; 
leave Marshlield at 10 a. m. and 6 p. m., arrive at (.'abot by 11 a. in. and 7 p. m. 
Passenger fare 50 events. E. W. Haines, mail carrier. 

2200. Cabot to Walden Railroad Station, 5 miles and back, daily, except Sunday. Leayo 
Cabot at 12 m.. or in season to connect with train, arrive at Walden Jtailroad Station in 
IV hours ; leave Walden Railroad Station at 5:45 p. m., or on arrival ot train, arrive 
at Cabot in l"^ hours. Passenger fare 50 cents. Moses Barnett, mail carrier. 

2193, Calais, by Worcester and Putnamsville, to Montpelier, daily, except Sui'day- 
Leave Calais at 8:45 a m., arrive at Montpelier by 11 a. 111.; leave Montpelier at 4:40 
p. m., arrive at Calais bv 7:15 p. m. Two-horse conveyance ; passenger tare to Wor- 
cester 25 cents, to Putnamsville 40 cents, to Montpelier 50 cents. Alonzo L. ^^ heeler, 
of Calais, mail carrier. 

2162. East Roxbury, by South Northfield, to Northfield, 5'^ miles and l)aek daily, except 
Sundav. Leave East Roxburv at 2:15 p. m.. arrive at Northheld by 3:30 p. m.; leave 
Northheld at 4 p. m., arrive at East Roxbury by 5:15 p. m. pne-horse conveyance ; 
passengers carried. R. T. Blanchard, of Brooklield, mail carrier. 



272 STAR MAIL ROUTES AND STAGE LINES VERMONT CONGRESSMEN. 

2198. Hardwick, by 'Woodbuey, South Woodbury, North Calais, East Calais, and North 
MoNTPELiER, to Plainfield, 20 iiiiles and back, daily, except Sundaj'. Leave Hard- 
wick at 6:30 a. m., or in season to connect with train, arrive at Plainfield in ■i}4 bours : 
leave Plainfield at 5:15 p. m., or on arrival of train from Wells River, arrive at Hard- 
wick in 43.2 hours. Two-horse conveyance. E. E. Leavitt, mail carrier. 

2195. MoRRisviLLE. by Elmore, to Worcester, 16 miles and back, daily, except Sunday. 

Leave Morrisville at 8 a. m., arrive at Worcester by 12 m. ; leave Worcester at 1 p. m., 
arrive at Morrisville by 5 p. m. Passenger fare 75 cents J. W. Phelps, of Morrisville, 
mail carrier. 

2196. Morrisville, by Stowe and Waterbury Center, to Wateebury, 18 miles and back. 

From July 1 to September 30. leave Morrisville, daily, except Sunday, at 5 a. m. and 1 
p. m., arrive at Waterbury by 8:30 a. m. and 4:30 p. m.; leave Waterbury at 9:30 
a. m. and 4:45 p. m., arrive at Morrisville by 1 p. m. and 8:15 p. m. From October 1 
to June 30. leave Morrisville at 5 a. m., arrive at Waterbury by 9 a. m. ; leave Water- 
bui'y at 4:30 p. m., arrive at Morrisville by 8:30 p. m. 

2191. North Fayston to Moretown, 6 miles and back, three times a week. Leave North 
Fayston Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 4:30 p. m., arrive at Moretown by 6 
p. m.; leave Moretown Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 6:15 p. m., arrive at North 
Fayston by 7:45 p. m. One-horse conveyance : passenger fare 25 cents for round 
trip. 

2179. Oranoe to Barre, 6 miles and back, daily, except Sunday. Leave Orange at 9 a. m., 
arrive at Barre by 10:30 a. m. ; leave Barre at 11:30 a. m., arrive at Orange by 1 p.m. 

2190. Waitsfield, by Moretown, to Middlesex, 13 miles and back, daily, except Sunday. 
Leave Waitsfield at 6 a. m., arrive at Middlesex by 9 a. m.; leave Middlesex at 4:45 
p. m., arrive at Waitsfield by 7:45 p. m. 

2161. Warren, by East Wakren, to Roxbury, 8 miles and back, daily, except Sunday. Leave 
Warren at 7:30 a. m., arrive at Roxbury by 9:30 a. m. : leave Roxbury at 3:45 p. m., or 
on arrival of ti'ain, arrive at Warren in two hours. Two-horse conveyance ; passen- 
ger fare, to East Warren, 25 cents ; to Roxbury, 75 cents. O. W. Hudson, of War- 
ren, mail carrier. 

2178. Washinciton to Barre, 8 miles and Imck, daily, except Sunday. Leave Washington at 
9:30 a. m., arrive at Barre by 11 a.m.; leave Barre at 5:30 p. m., arrive at Washing- 
ton by 7:15 p. m. Three-horse conveyance ; passenger fare 50 cents. John Corliss, 
of Chelsea, mail carrier. 

2201. West Danville, by East Cabot and South Cabot, to Marshfield, 103^ miles and 
back, three times a week. Leave West Danville Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 
8:20 a. m., arrive at Marshfield by 10:20 a. m.; leave Marshfield Tuesday, Thursday, 
and Saturday at 1 p. m., arrive at West Danville liy 3 p. m. Two-horse conveyance ; 
passenger fare 75 cents. George W. Heath, mail carrier. 
West Topsham, by Orange, to Barre and return, daily, except Sunday. Leave West Top- 
sham in tlie morning, passing Orange at 9 a. m., and arrive at Barre in time to connect 
with train; leave Barre before 7 p. m., passing Orange at 7:30 p.m., and arrive at West 
Topsham in the evening. Two-horse conveyance ; passenger fare 25 cents. William 
Cragy, mail carrier. 



VERMONT CONGRESSMEN. 

United States Senators. 

expiration of office. 

Justin S. Morrill 1891 

George F. Edmunds 1893 

Representatives in Congress. 

John W. Stewart of Middlebury 

Wilham W. Grout of Barton 



COUNTY OFFICERS. 



273 



COUNTY OFFICERS. 

Judge of County Court. 

POSTOFFICE ADDRK8S. 

Jonathan Ross— (September term, 1889.) St. Johnsbury 

Assistant Judges of the County Court. 

Ira S. Dwinell East Calaia 

Horace W. Lyford Warren 

Judge of Probate. 

Hiram Carleton Montpelier 

State's Attorney. 

Edward W. Bisbee .Barre 

Sheriff. 

Frank H. Atherton Waterbury 

Hlfeh Bailiff. 

John L. Moseley Northfield 

State Senators. 

Fred E. Smith Montpelier 

Walter A. Jones : Waitsfield 

Justices of the Peace. 

Babre. — William A. Perry, Nathan Harrington, Warren C. Nye, Benjamin B. Hawse, C. B. 

Townsend, E. L. Smith, A. E. Field, C. N. Barber, George W. Tilden, Clarenc» 

Wheaton. 
Berlin. — Martin W. Wheelock, J. N. Perrin, Arthur L. Hewitt, George W. Dodge, A.B.Bailey, 

Lemuel Chandler, Hiram C. Hayward. 
Gabot.— T. H. Lance, I. F. Haines, N. K. Abbott, John M. Fisher, Herbert G. Williafns, R. B. 

Bruce, Henry Smith. 
Calais. — A. P. Slayton, J. V. R. Kent, George H. Gray, John Thomas, C. S. Bennett, Orson 

Putnam, Charles R. White. 
DcxBURY. — E. W. Huntley, J. D. Andrews, W. R. Strickland, Willard Atkins, B. J. Stockwell. 
East Montpelier. — George G. Nye, T. C. Kelton, George H. Dix, A. A. Tracy. E. W. Ormsbee. 
Fayston. — Samuel J. Dana, A. D. Biagg, J. P. Boyce, Seth Boyce, S. Johnson. 
Mabshfield. — J. H. Carpenter, William R. Gove, Ira H. Edson, L. W. Pitkin, M. D. Bemis, 

H. S. Laird, Cooledge Lamberton. 
Middlesex.— Rufus W. Warren, Seaver Howard, Leroy A. Flint, Myron W. Miles, John W. 

Dillon, George O. Hale, Isacher R. Densmore. 
Montpelier.— Charles De F. Bancroft, Peter Badord. Osman D. Clark, Daniel C. Carey, 

Hiram A. Huse, Pringle H. Hinkley, William A. Lord, Joel H. Lucia, Itoswell K. Peck, 

Melville E. Smilie, George G. Grout, Gi!orge W. Wing. 
MoRETowN.— Barnabas Mayo, George Bulkley, Freeman Parker, T. B. Sleeper, Holden E. 

Haseltine, John Lynch, George E. Tanlin. 
Northfield.— Thomas Slade, Ira A. Holton, Cliauncey Dcnney, Charles A. Tracy. Martin 
, Cobleigh, Chester H. Dutton, Truman B. R. Hildreth, William M. Davis, Walter J. 

Plastridge, Edmund A. Loomis. 
Plainfield.- W. S. Martin, Nathan Skinner, Fred Perrin, H. G. Moore, J. S. Chamberlain. 

18 



374 COUNTY OFFICERS — PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 

RoxBUBY. — William K. Eoyce, George A. Young, Azro A. Simonds, George Ordway, G. A. 
Roys. 

"Wattsfield. — J. H. Hastings, Josiah Holden, Charles E. Jones, Henry N. Bushnell, Herman 
T. J. Howe. 

"Warben. — James Cardell, Charles W. Bragg, Lysander M. Heath, Philander Riford, E. W. 
Slayton. 

"Watebbury. — James A. Burleigh, George H. Lease, C. N. Arms, Frank N. Smith, Daniel Hop- 
kins, R. J. Barber, Charles B. Clark, J. S. Wheeler, C. C. Robinson, T. T. Sanborn. 

WOODB0BT.— F. C. Putnam, L. J. Benjamin, C. A. McKnight, H. E. Whiten, W. H. Wait. 

WoBCESTER. — H. p. Darling, C. C. Tewksbury, Horatio Templeton, J. A. Kelton, Roger Hovey. 

Representatives. 

POBTOFFICE ADDBESB. 

"Babbe. — H. O. Worthen Barre 

Berlin. — W. A. Leland Montpelier 

Cabot. — J. A. Farrington Cabot 

Calais. — C. R. DwineU East Calais 

DuxBURY. — H. O. Ward Waterbury 

East Montpelieb. — O. G. Steward Montpelier 

Fayston. — J. B. Thompson Waitsfield 

Marshfield.— D. R. Loveland Marshfield 

MiDDLESEX.^George H. Ladd Middlesex 

Montpelier. — C. P. Pitkin Montpelier 

Moretown. — James Haylett Moretown 

NoBTHFiELD. — Charles Dole Northfield 

Plainfield. — H.Q.Perry Plainfield 

RoxBURY. — I. H. Fiske Roxbury 

Waitsfield. — C. M. Richardson Waitsfield 

Warren. — O. D. Greene Warren 

Waterbury. — E. F. Palmer Waterbury 

WooDBUBY.— W. E. risk Hardwick 

Wobcestkb. — A. J. Stone Worcester 



PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



George Banister, of Warren, on page 239, calls the attention of lumber- 
men to his steel ox-shoes, new style slide ox-yokes, and unexcelled cant-dogs, 
which he manufactures and sells at reasonable prices. He makes a specialty 
of the latter. Mr. Banister also makes a large variety of raillmen's tools 
•which have attained a high reputation. 

James E. Crossett, of Duxbury, (postoffice address Waterbury,) issues a 
(neat card on page 260, which will interest those who have timber to saw or 
lumber to buy. Special attention is given to orders by mail. Mr. Crossett 
will be found perfectly reliable in all his dealings, and his goods and prices 
cannot fail to give satisfaction. We cordially recommend him to our patrons 
and others. 

J. W. GooDELL, of Burhngton, advertises his extensive business as a manu- 
facturer of and dealer in marble and granite goods, on the fly-leaf, opposite 
back cover. Mr. Goodell has superior facilities, employing, as he does, artists 
of known skill and experience, and having abundant capital he is ready to 



publisher's notes — GENERAL CONTENTS. 275 

undertake a job of any magnitude desired, and is enabled to offer very lib- 
eral terras. 

Henry, Johnson & Lord, an enterprising firm of Burlington, Vt., offer 
nepenthe to their suffering brethren, in the several proprietary medicines they 
manufacture, mentioned in their card on page 258, We would advise all 
afflicted ones to heed their proclamation and receive a respite from the ills 
flesh is heir to. 

P. L. Lyons, of Montpelier, successor to Spear & Lyons, is the enterpris- 
ing proprietor of the Montpelier plumbing, steam, and gas fitting works, 
located on Elm street of that village, as advertised on page 263. He carries 
a full stock of first-class goods, and is prepared to execute satisfactorily any 
work in his line entrusted to him. Having an experience of thirty-one years 
Mr. Lyons knows what his customers desire, and assiduously endeavors to 
meet their wants. We cheerfully commend him to the patronage of our 
readers. 

The Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg R. R. — From the original short 
line from Rome to Watertown and Cape Vincent, this road has acquired 
other lines, until it is now one of the great trunk lines of the state. Passen- 
gers for pleasure, business, or emigration will find this route, which connects 
at Norwood and Ogdensburg with the Central Vermont line, one of the most 
interesting of all the western routes. Traversing a rich agricultural region, 
the road passes through several cities, and in many places gives the traveler 
glimpses of Lake Ontario, with its white-winged vessels, and at Niagara Falls 
offers one of the best views to be obtained by railroad travelers. See card oa 
page 259. 



GENERAL CONTENTS. 

FAQK. 

Almanac or Calendar for 20 years, part 1 2 

Business Directory, by towns, part 2 3 

Census Table, 1791 to 1880, part 1 644 

Classified Business Directory, part 2 235 

County Officers, part 2 27S 

Courts, part 2 17V 

Distance Table, part 2 2 

Errata, part 2 17t> 

Gazetteer of Orange County, part 1 6 

Gazetteer of Towns, part 2 129 

Mail Routes and Stage Lines, part 2 271 

Map of Washington County, part 2 inaide back cover. 

Postal Rates and Regulations, part 2 270 

PoatofBces and Postmasters, part 2 270 

Publisher's Notes, part 2 174 

Societies, part 2 265 

Vermont Congressmen 272 



276 INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS, BUSINESS DIRECTORY, ADVERTISEMENTS. 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Portraits. 

PAGE. 

Babrk.— Altliich L. F 168 

Currier R. S 176 

Fifield Horace 174 

French E. E 94 

Jacksou J. Henry Dr 178 

Tilden Harvey. .'. 122 

Trow Dexter 162 

Calais.— Dwinell Albert 232 

East Montpelier. — Coburn J. Leander Maj 272' 

Wheeler Eoyal 260 

Middlesex.— Pntn am C. C 308 

Montpelier. — Lane Dennis 392 

Heath Charles H 106 

Heaton H. W 88 

Redlield T. P 82 

Wright Medad 376 

Plainfield. — Martin Willard S , 440 

Views. 

PAGE. 

Montpelier. — Argus and Patriot Building 19 

Baptist Church 351 

Bethany Church 349 

Christ Church 353 

St. Augustine's Church 354 

State House 345 

Trinity Church 352 

Union Graded School 339 

Unitarian Church 350 

United States Court-House and Postoffice 347 

Vermont Methodist Seminary 341 

Washington County Court-House 346 

Watchynan Building 18 



INDEX TO BUSINESS DIRECTORY. (PART II.) 



PAGE. 

Barre 3 

Berlin 40 

Cabot 51 

Calais 60 

Duxbury 71 

East Montpelier 77 

Favston 86 

Marshfield 89 

Middlesex 99 

Montpelier 106 



PAGE. 

Moretoven 143 

Northtield 149 

Plainfield 175 

Rosburv 182 

Waitsfield 189 

Warren 195 

Waterlmrv 202 

Woodbury 222 

Worcester 229 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. (PART II) 

PAGE. 

Banister George, cant-dogs, etc., Warren 239 

Crosse tt James E.. lumber, Duxburv 260 

Goodell J. W., marble and granite, "Burhngton facing back cover. 

Henry, Johnson & Lord, pi-oprietary medicines, Bui-lington 258 

Lyons P. L., plumbing and steam fitting, Montpelier - • • 263 

Eome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad 259 



COURTS — INDEX TO BIOGRAPHIES. 



277 



COURTS. 

At Moutpelier. 
Supreme Court. 

Third Tuesday in May. General Sassion in October or November— fised by the Court. 

County Court. 
Second Tuesdays in March and September. 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHIES. 



BENCH AND BAR 

Adams, 03, 105 
Bailey, 92, 106 
Baker, 119 
Baldwin, 105 
Barney, 120 
Barrett, 116 
Barry, 108 
Bates, 117, 121 
Baylies, 67, 6!i 
Bennett, 119 
Bingham, 91 
Bisbec, 117 
Blaisdell, 70, 113 
Bliss, log 
Bouchette, 93 
Boyce, 113 
Briggs, 103 
Brown, 101, no, 120 
Buck, 80, 81 
Bulkeley, 56, 57 
Bulkley, 68 
Burke, 86 
Burnham, 97, 103, 

104, 121 
Butler, 58, 84 
Carleton, in 
Carpenter, 64, 91, 92, 

98, 99, 108 
Chamberlain, 86, 97 
Chandler, 87 
Churchill, 93 
Clark, 117 
Clarke, 109 
Clifford, 118 
Clough, 104 
Colby, S2, 86 
Collins, 55 
Cottrill, loi 
Culver, 11^ 
Curtis, 93 
Cushman, 85 
Dale, 104 
Dana, 108 
Dean, 97 
Deavitt, in 
De Forrest, 112 
Demmon, 98 
Dewing, 115 
Dillingham, 75, 77 
Dodge, 100 
Durant, 100, loi 
Dutton, 120 
Eaton, 86 
Edgerton, 120 
Ellis, 57 
Fay, 100, 1 19 
Field, H4 



• Fifield, 105 
Fisk, 59, 104 
Ferrin, 96 
Fletcher, 91 
Flint. 86 
Freeiuan, 68 
French, 94 
Gale, 94 . 
Garey, 119 
Oilman, 97 
Gleason, 106 
Goodrich, 118 
Gordon, 116 
Gould, 114 
Gregory, 116 
Harris, 117 
Harvey, no 
Haseltine, 120 
Hazen, 121 
Heald, 69 
Heath, 106, 113 
Henry, 99 
Holdmg, 69 
Howard, 84 
Howes, 57 
Hoyt, 97, 114 
Hunlon, 92 
Huse, 115 
Janes, 70 
Johnson, 97, 104 
Johnston, 116 
Jones, 87, 121 
Joslyn, 115 
Joyce, loi 
Keith, 81 
Kemp, 118 
Kennedy, 109 
Kinne, 55 
Kinney, 118 
Kinsman, 73, 121 
Knapp, 78 
Laird, 120 
Lamson, 108 
Livingston, 114 
Loorais, 64, 70 
Lord, 103, 116 
Lucia, 112 
Lund, 108 
Lyman, 112 
Lyndc, 70 
Manser, 93 
Marsh, 84 
Marston, 86 
May, 100 
Mayo, 86 
Mclntyre, 97 
McWain, 114 
Merrill, 65, 66 
Miller, 8j, 94 



Moore, 106 
Morse, 105, 118 
Newcomb, 103 
Nichols, no 
Ormsbee, 86 
Oviatt, 115 
Paddock, 73 
Page, 86, 115 
Paln-";r, no 
Partridge, 103 
Pe'ck, 78, 81, 112 
Pierce, 57 
Pingry, 85 
Pitkin, 57, 114 
Plumle^', 113 
Porter, 115 
Prentiss, 60, 61, 62 
Putnam, 57 
Randall, 99 
Redfield, 82 
Reed, 71, 72, 89 
Reynolds, 92 
Rice, 9S 

Richardson, 71, 92 
Robinson, 70, 120 
Royce, 86 
Safford, 99 
Sampson, 97 
Samson, 121 
.Sargent, 86, 121 
Savage, 115 
Senter, 117 
Sessions, 100 
Sherburne, 100 
.Shurtleff, 109 
Silver, 100 
Smilie, in 
Smith, 57, 64, 65, 70. 
78, 79, 80, 92, 98, 117 
.Spalding, 118 
Spaulding, 84, 93,98, 

109 
Sprague, 102, 120 
Sprout, 105 
Stanton, 117 
Steele, 78 
Stevens, 55 
Stone, 93 
Story, 73 
Stow, 1 16 
.Strong, 58 
Swasey, 118 
Swazey, 109 
'I'aplin, 84 
Taylor, 105 
Templcton, 118 
Thomas, 119 
Thompson, 79,80, 120 
Tilden, 94, 122 



Town, in 
Tucker, 104 
Tuttle, 119 
Lip ham, 69 
Upton, 98 
Vail, 66, 67, 109 
Walbridge, 98 
Ware, 59 
Watkins, 80 . 
Webster, 84 
Wells, 92 
Wheeler, 70, 72, 8c 

116 
Wheelock, 85, loi 
Willard, 102, 103 
Winch, 105 
Wing, 90, 91 

BARRE. 

Aldrich, 166, 167 
Avenll, 164 
Barber, 164 
Bassett, 169 
Heckley, 160 
Bigelow, 173 
Bradford, 157 
Braley, lio 
Browning, 151 
Carleton, 149 
Chubb, 181 
Clatlin, 158 
Clark, 166 
Cook, 152 
Currier, 176 
Day, 155 
Dodge, 149, 171 
Farwell, 159 
Field, 180 
Filield, 173, 174 
Fuller, 165 
Gale, 153, 162 
Goldsbury, 148, 152 
Holden, 172 
Jackman, 171 
Jackson, 178 
Keith, 155, 158, 159 
Ketchum, 169 
Lawson, 166 
Morrison, 170 
Mower, 154 
Nichols, 161 
Nye, 173 
Patterson, 151 
Peck, 165 
Sherburne, 156 
Sherman, 149, 153 
Smith, 154 
Taft, 163 



Templeton, 177 
Thompson, 149, 172 
Thwing, 151 
Tilden, 170, 171 
Towne, 156 
Trow, 162 
Wheaton, 150 
Wheeler, 157 
Willard, 152 
Wood, 151, 153, 154, 
160, 163 
, Worthen, 154 

BERLIN. 

Andrews, 194 
Bailey, 191 
Benjamin, 193 
Black, 191 
Bosworth, 196 
Chandler, 196 
Collins, 192 
Cummings, 192 
Eastman, 198 
Flagg, 191 
Hobart, 189 
Hubbard, 191 
Knapp, 192 
Loveland, 198 
Marsh, 198 
Martin, 197 
Nye, 191 
Pc'rrin, 190 
Sawyer, 189 
Slocum, 199 
Townsend, 196 
Warren, 195 
Winslow, 197 

CAHOT. 

Abbott, 218 
Atkins, 210 
Barr, -Mg 

Blanchard, 207, 209 
Bruce, t\j 
Cate, 216 
Clark, 212 
Coburn, 210 
Colburn, 212 " 
Cunningham, 211 
Damon, 214 
Dana, 21 1 
Farrington, a to 
Fisher, 208 
Gale, 220 
Goodwin, ai8 
Gould, 217 
Haines, 217 



278 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHIES. 



Hopkins, 216 
Hoyt, 308 
Knapp, 218 
Lance, 213 
Lyford, 207, 208 
Marsh, 211 
Mason, 217 
McLean, 208 
Merrill, 215 
Osgood, 208 
Patterson, 214 
Perry, 215 
Scott, 208 
Smith, 214 
Stevenson, 216 
Stone, 208, 211, 218 
Walbridge, 215 
Waldo, 219 
Wallace, 217 
Warren, 219 
Weister, 207 
Whittier, ai6 
Wiswell, 219 

CALAIS. 

Ainsworth, 230 
Bailey, 239 
Bennett, 238 
Burnap, 240 
Chapin, 237, 238 
Converse, 238 
Curtis, 228 
Davis, 334 
Dwinell, 232, 233 
Eastman, 241 
Fair, 231 
Foster, 231 
George, 236, 241 
Gray, 238 
Guernsey, 239 
Hall, 235 
Haskell, 227, 240 
Hersey, 234 
Hicks, 230 
Jack, 238 
Kent, 228, 229 
Leonard, 235 
• McKnight, 236 
Morse, 233 
Mower, 230 
Pearce, 237 
Peck, 239 
Pierce, 236 
Robinson, 230 
Sanders, 239 
Shortt, 226 
Slayton, 227, 228 

234, 240 
Toby, 239 
Wheelock, 226, 227 
White, 236 

DUXBURY. 

Arms, 250 
Atherton, 252 
Casey, 255 
Crosby, 253 
Crossett, 251 
Durkee, 254 
Huntley, 251, 252 
Lewis, 253 
Morse, 253 
Shonio, 254 
Wallace, 251 
Ward, 254 

E. MONTPELIER 

Clark, 267, 270, 273 
Coburn, 272-1 
Corliss, 272-4 
Cummins, 265 
Cutler, 258 
Davis, 257, 260, 277 



Daggett, 272-4 
Dodge, 258, 272 
Ellis, 274 
Foster, 273 
Hill, 274 
Holmes, 269 
Howland, 273 
Kclton, 271, 272 
Mallory, 275 
McKnight, 268 
Morse, 270 
Nye, 268 

Peck, 261, 262, 263 
Rich, 267 
Snow, 260 
Stevens, 265 
Templeton, 258, 259 
Vincent, 275 
Warren, 276 
Wheeler, 261 
Willard, 275, 276 

FAYSTON. 

Boyce, 283 
Bragg, 284 
Brigham, 283 
Johnson, 283 
Marble, 282 
Newcomb, 282 
Porter, 283 

MARSHFIELD. 

Adams, 300 
Austin, 295 
Batchelder, 300 
Bemis, 294 
BoUes, »99 
Colburn, 298 
Dodge, 293 
Dwinell, 293 
Eaton, 298 
Eddy, 299 
Flood, 288 
Oilman,, 292 
Gove, 298 
Hills, 293 
HoUistcr, 296, 297 
Jack, 294 
Jacobs, 295 
Lamberton, 294 
Loveland, 296 
Martin, 290, 291 
Mcars, 298 
Packer, 300 
Pike, 295 
I Pitkin, 291, 29a 
Putnam, 297 
Rich, 292 
Smith, 296 
Spencer, 290, 296 
Town, 300 
Towne, 301 
Wood, 299 
Wooster, 299, 300 

MIDDLESEX. 

Cameron, 316 
Carpenter, 315 
Chamberlin,. 314 
Chapin, 312, 313 
Chase, 318 
Culver, 315 
Cummings, 318 
Daniels, 315 
Densmore, 317 
Ellis, 318 
Flint, 317 
Herrick, 315 
Hill, 314 
Hills, 316 
Holden, 310, 311, 312 

316 
Kirkland, 317 



Ladd, 316 
Leland, 310, 316 
Maxham, 318 
McElroy, 314 
Mead, 306, 308 
Montagu, 315 
Nelson, 317 
Nichols, 316 
Putnam, 309 
Scott, 317 
Taylor, 315 
Ward, 316 
Warren, 310 
WellSj, 317 
Wiggins, 317 

MONTPELIER. 

Adams, 383 
Atkins, 395 
bailey, 392 
Baldwin, 357 
Brown, 390 
Carlton, 390 
Chandler, 392, 393, 

^,399 
Clark, 36D 
Cottrill, 372 
Cross, 373 
Cutler, 356 
Davis, 355 
Dewey, 385, 386, 387, 

388 
Fifield, 395 
Fuller, 388 
Goss, 363 
Howe, 391 
Howes, 366 
Hubbard, 360, 368 
Jewett, 365 
Kemp, 397 
Lamb, 358 
Lane, 393 
Langdon, 370 
Macomber, 364, 365 
Morrow, 397 
Newcomb, 380 
Page, 389 
Peck, 383 
Pitkin, 374 
Poland. 381 
Putnam, 398 
^"d, 373 
Sabin, 375 
Spaulding, 371 
Taplin, 361, 362 
Templeton, 358, 359 
Thompson, 363 
Walton, 363, 368 
Waterman, 372 
Wing, 357 
Woodworth, 356 
Worthington, 366 
Wright, 366, 367,377 

MORETOWN. 

Balding, 403 
Bulkeley, 403 
Child, 403 
Evans, 403 
Foster, 402 
Haseltine, 402 
Holt, 403 
Haylett, 404 
Heath, 403 
Kingsley, 404 
Mayo, 403 
Stowell, 402 

NORTHFIELD. 

Adams, 423 
Allen, 415 
Bates, 418 



Belknap, 429 
Bourns, 429 
Boynton, 432 
Bradford, 430 
Brown, 417 
Cass, 428 
Coburn, 421 
Cochrane, 416 
Cressy, 428 
Denny, 416 
Dole, 422 
Dunsmoor, 421 
Dutton, 42» 
Egerton, 420 
Felch, 426 
Fisk, 432 
Glidden, 426 
Green, 433 
Gregg, 430 
Gregory, 430 
Guild, 436 
Hadley, 419 
Henry, 423 
Hildreth, 418 
Hitt, 433 
Hopkins, 427 
Howes, 423 
Jackman, 426 
Johnson, 424 
Jones, 429 
Keyes, 415 
Kinsman, 433 
Leavitt, 425 
Loomis, 419 
Martin, 416, 432 
Mayo, 432 
Miller, 425 
Morton, 438 
Nichols, 431 
Paine, 415, 417 
Pearsons, 428 
Putney, 426 
Quimby, 428 
Randall, 435 
Rice, 450 
Rich, 423 
Richmond, 423 
Roberts, 425 
Ryan, 417 
Simonds, 421 
Simons, 424 
Steele, 424 
Stone, 430 
Thresher, 425 
Tracy, 432 
Wardner, 428 
Williams, 418, 419 
Winch, 424 

PLAINFIELD. 

Bartlett, 438, 439 
Cutler, 442 
Gale, 442 
Greeley, 441 
Martin, 440 
Page, 441 
Perry, 439 
Skinner, 441 
Stone, 439 

ROXBURY. 

Boyce, 458 
Brigham, 457 
Burnham, 461 
Crane, 450, 451 
Edwards, 457 
Ellis, 456 
Fiske, 459 
Flint, 461 
Gold, 4^3 
Hildreth, 450 
Miller, 461 
Orcott, 454, 455 



Rich, 461 
Richardson, 449, 450,. 

■453 
Robertson, 452 
Roys, 456 
Samson, 453 
Simonds, 455 
Smith, 455 
Spalding, 451, 459 
Stanton, 456, 457 
Thayre, 458 
Tilden, 460 
Waterman, 459 
Wardner, 453 
Webster, 451 
Wiley, 458 
Willianvs, 453 

WAITSFIELD, 

Barnard, 470 
Berry, 472 
Bushnell, 467 
Campbell, 469 
Dana, 470 
Drew, 472 
Fiskf 466, 468 
Gleason, 469 
Hadley, 472 
Hastings, 472 
House, 468 
Jones, 465, 466 
Joslyn, 468, 469 
McAllister, 473 
Olmstead, 473 
Palmer, 467 
Poland, 471 
Prentis, 47a 
Richardson, 471 
Savage, 468 
Smith, 470 
Van Deusen, 473. 
Waite, 46'/ 
Waterman, 47J 
Wilder, 466 
Willis, 470 

WARREN, 

Allen, 480 
Bagley, 483 
Billings, 484 
Blake, 485 
Cardell, 481, 48* 
Eldredge, 480 
Fuller, 484 
Gleason, 483 
Miller, 483 
Page, 484 
Riford, 484 
Sargent, 482 
Slayton, 485 
Sterling, 482 
Stetson, 483 
Thayre, 486 
Town, 485 
Whitney, 484 
Young, 479 

WATERBURY. 

Allen, 495, 496, 497 
Arms, 510 
Butler, 494 
Bryan, 504 
Carpenter, 500, 501 
Clough, 505, 506 
Deal, 512 
Downer, 511 
Eddy, 505 
Fales, 513 
Foster, 515 
Hooker, 514 
Huse, 507 
Janes, 507 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHIES — ERRATA. 



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Kneeland, 499 
Loomis, 497 
May, 509 
Minard, 515 
Montgomery, 509 
Moody, 508, 512 
Newcomb, 504 
Pride, 498 
Randall, 504 
Ricker, 510 
Robinson, 513 
Sheple, 510 
Smith, 502, 503 
Stearni, 501, 502 
Tenney, 514 



Washburne, 513 
Wells, 510 
Wheeler, 495 
Wrisley, 498 

WOODBURY. 

Ball, 521 
Benjamin, 521 
Bill, 530 
Burnham, 522 
Cameron, 528, 529 
Christy, 525 
Daniels, 525 
Drenan, 529 



Goodeli, 522 
Holt, 525 
Lance, 525 
Lawson, 523 
Lyford, 523, 524 
- McKnitht, 528 
Nelson, 526 
Powers, 523 
Putnam, 526, 

Wheeler, 523 
Wilber. 519 



WORCESTER. 

Abbott, 541 
Andrews, 535 
Closson, 539 
Dugar, 536 
Ellii, 539 
Gould, 541 
, Hamblet, 538 
Harris, 537 
Hinkson, 538 
Holmes, 542 
Hunt, 540 
Hutchinson, 539 
Johnson, 537 



Kellogg, 535 
Kemp, 540 
Ladd, 541 
Miles, 538 
Morse, 539 
Rice, 536 
Richardson, 535 
Stone, 542 
Town, 54» 
Utton, 539 
Vail, 536 
Watson, 535 
Wheeler, 537, 541 
Wheeloclc, 540 
Whitney, 538 
Willey, 541 



KRRATA. 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



PART FIRST. 

BARRE. — Among the prominent early physicians was Dr. Robert Paddock, who settled in 
town at a very early day. His son, Dr. Lyman Paddock, succeed3d his father in 
practice, and passed the most of a long life in his profession here. Dr. J. Henry Jack- 
son, so well known in Barre at the present time, — and known, too, throughout the 
state, — has given research into the facts relating to early physicians of Barre, which in 
his own good time he may give to the public. His well-known practice of doing things 
in the proper time, and thoroughly, will insure a production, when completed, of 
much value as a historical record.* 

^ The Fu'st Universalist church of Barre was organized October 27, 1796, by Rev. 
William FarweU. At its organization it consisted of sixteen members, Mr. Farwell 
being the first pastor. The society built a substantial brick church (the first one) at 
South Barre in 1821. Through the efi'ortsof Rev. Joseph Sargent the church prospered, 
and a new church was built of wood at Barre village, in 1852. This buildiiig has 
since been remodeled, repaired, and rededicated. The house has a seating capacity of 
500, and the society a membership of 300. At present (April, 1889) the society is 
without a pastor, though expecting to settle one soon. The original cost of the pres- 
ent church edifice was $10,000, and the present valuation of church property, in- 
cluding buildings and grounds, $15,000. The Sunday-school, in session at 12 M. 
every Sunday of the year, has now 200 members, and a library of 1,000 volumes. 
MONTPEIjIER. — In addition to the newspapers mentioned on pages 17, 18, 19, 20, and 
21, the following publications have been issued at Moutpelier : — 

The Botanic Advocate, a monthly, about two years, from 1837, by Drs. Wright and 
F. A. McDowell. The Vermont Faiinly Visitor, first issued in 1845, was continued about 
a year. The Watchword, a temperance paper commenced February 14, 1874, was dis- 
continued after the issue of a few numbers. Rev. J. C. W. Coxe, Rev. J. E. Wright, 
H. D. Hopkins, and H. A. Huse composed the editorial committee. The V'rmont Tem- 
perance Banner was issued once in the fall of 1879, by W. F. Scott and J. P. Eddy. 
About 1875 Edward Clark issued one or two numbers of the Era, and Charles F. Burn- 
ham one or two numbers of the Echo. Both editors were at the time apprentices in the 
Argus office. Young America, of Lebanon, N. H., was issued here in 1874 by W. M. 
Kendall, Jr., while attending school. It was an eight-page pajier. The Postage Stamp 

*In this connection we cannot refrain from advising that in each town a /<vrt/ /;/.v/('//V<»/ Jor/V/j' be 
formed. Let each member search for facts upon a certain subject delegated especially to him or her. If 
possible verify from records the information obtained, lie sure that names and dates be .accurate. Have 
the papers so prepared, read before the society, commented upon, and errors noted, which, if they be errors, 
should be corrected if possible. Such work is somewhat onerous it is true, but it becomes (acinating as some 
lost fact is developed— unearthed from its hiding-place— and in the aggregate a-town history will be de- 
veloped that will prove of great value for local reference and to the future historian— matter enough for 
several volumes, valuable material, too, may be thus saved to fulunty, in most any town, if the people take 
the proper steps to secure it. The ignorance of some people regarding local history is lamentable, and 
against that we have often 10 contend and not always with success. On one occasion the writer visited a 
house built more than four-score years ago in one of the mountain towns of \'ermont, where dwelt a man 
forty years or more of age and of ordinary intelligence. This man was unable to tell from ;('//«/ tDivn or 
iv/iiit staff his grandfather— the third settler in the town, and who built and lived through life on the spot 
\There the grandson had always lived — came from. — Pub. 



28o ERRATA. 

Reporter, by C. F. Buswell, was issued a few times, monthly, in 1877. The Green 
Mountain Boys was issued montiily, in 1877, by Tuttle & Dewey. The Winooski 
Impetxis — Metropolis of Vermont was issued monthly from April 15, 1835, to March, 
1836, by a society of young men. The MontpeUerian has been issued for several^lyearB 
by the Library society of the Vermont Methodist Seminary. 

ROXBIIRY. — On pages 454, 455. and 462 read Orcutt, where this word occurs, instead of 
" Orcott," as printed. 

PART SECOND, 

BARRE.— Barre Steam Laundry, L. W. Watson, prop. 

Bates Chapin K., instead of " Chapink,"'as printed. 

BROWN A. C. & SON. (Barre) (Joseph G.) lire, life, and accident insurance agents,. 
Granite block ; also Main cor. State st., Montpelier. 

Goddard Seminary, (Barre) D. L. Maulsby, principal ; Mrs. M. B. Aitcheson, precep- 
tress ; A. W. Peiree, tirst assistant ; Grace B. Aitcheson, second assistant. 

HATCH HIAL O., died March 11, 1889. 

HAGAN JAMES J., instead of "James A.," as printed. 

HOTEL BARRE, (Barre) H. A. Rugg, prop., Washington st. 

MARVIN HORACE G., rooms Currier park instead of " Courier" park, as printed. 

PARK HOUSE, (Barre) Kimball Blanchard, prop., 16 N. Main. 

PARMENTER FRED E.. is a patron of this work. 

PECK OTIS v., instead of -'Otis A.," as printed. 

BERLIN.— BENJAMIN JOHN E., is a patron of this work and is a breeder of Chester 
white swine. 
BOLEZ DAVID, instead of " Boles," as printed. 
PEARSON ARTEMAS N., instead of " Artemus," as printed. 
MARSH FRED M., instead of "Alfred M.," as printed. 

CALAIS.— FAIR SHUBAEL B., instead of "Shubel B.," as printed. 
HASKELL RECTA C. Mrs., is a patron of this work. 
LILLEY MILLARD, instead of " Willard," as printed. 
SUMNER L W., instead of " S. W.," as printed. 

DUXBURY.— GRAY DARIUS A., instead of " Grey." as printed. 
LABELL EMERY M.. (Waterbury ) is a patron of this work. 
MORSE LUCAS, instead of "Lucius," as printed. 
O'BRIEN JAMES, instead of "O'Brian," as printed. 
SHONIO ARNOLD B., served in Co. G, instead of " Co. B," as printed. 

FAYSTON.—MEHURON ALLEN E., instead of " Mahuron," as printed. 

MONTPELIER.— ADAMS WILLIAM E., is a patron of this work. 

KENT MURRAY A., auctioneer, farmer in Calais, h 46 Barre st. Removed from Calais. 
MORROW JOHN V., is a patron of this work. 
VERMONT STATE LIBRARY, is a patron of this work. 

ROXBURY.— BUTTERFIELD STEPHEN, instead of " Batterfield Stephen G.," as printed. 
COBURN ANSON P., instead of "Anson," as printed. 
EDDY MAMIE Miss, instead of " Eddie," as printed. 
FISKE IRA H. Dr.. instead of " Fisk," as printed, 
ORCUTT ORRIN W., instead of " Orcott Orin W.," as printed. 
ROYCE WILLIAM K.. instead of "Boyce." as prnited on page 183. 
THAYER IRA O.. instead of " Thayre," as printed. 
VAN DEUSEM HENRY H., instead" of " Van Deusan," as printed. 
WARNER MELISSA Mrs., instead of '• Malissa," as printed. 
WILEY LOREN J., instead of "Loran," as printed. 

WAITSFIKLD.— BARNARD ORLANDO L., is a patron of this work. 
HOLDEN JOSIAH, is a patron of this work. 
JONES CHARLES E., is a patron of this work. 

WARREN.— deer Don Carlos C, instead of "Doncarlos," as printed. 
HEWITT JAMES T., instead of " Hewett," as printed. 
Hudson Duane D.. instead of " Duain," as printed. 
THAYER NATHAN, instead of "Thayre," as printed. 

WATERBURY.— COLLEY ELIZABETH Miss, instead of "Colby," as printed. 
Janes Henrv. instead of "Jones," as printed. 
MINARD WILL F., is a patron of tliis work. 
TOWN CHAELES C, instead of "Towne," as printed. 

WARREN C. C, prop, tannery and creamery, 100 cows, and farmer, Mill Village, h 
Main. 



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